An odd sensory overload question...

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I read a lot of people on here talk about sensory overload and one of there senses either lessening or shutting down. Most people talk about either their vision or hearing, or sometimes verbal abilities. I'm curious what other senses or functions that people start having problems with when overloaded?

When I get overloaded I get much more sensitive to touches and sometimes to smells but being sensitive to smell is not as often for me.

Actually I am more sensitive when overloaded, especially to noise. Every single noise is almost physically painful when I start to melt down. The only sense that shuts down is reason...

I guess I should have included why I'm asking.

When I get over loaded, or stressed, my balance starts to go in much the same fashion as many have described their hearing or vision going. If I keep pushing myself, it goes almost completely, and I start falling. Because there are more than the 5 classic senses we were taught in grade school, I am theorizing that my loss of balance is related to what others describe with their hearing or vision.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

When I get really overloaded or really exhausted I get clumsy. Sometimes I have even fallen over. I also walk into things and drop things. It does not happen super often but it has happened often enough to notice. I even fell and hit the back of my head really hard walking from the bedroom to the bathroom once because I was tired and overloaded. We have a wood floor upstairs. That was pretty scary. My physical therapist told me that I was lucky because a fall like that could have killed me. I got a lot of teasing from at at the BMX track too. My racing friends told me that I needed to wear my full face BMX helmet in the house. :0)

I don't feel hardly any pain when overloaded just nausea and its not even that bad, my verbal abilities go, I agree with Halfmadgenius about the sense of reason thing as well

I usually lose complete tactile/pain/temperature senses (pain as in 'hit me in the gut' pain rather than 'too much noise'). I also tend to lose rationality and balance. My world just becomes 'noise' and 'light.'

My balance, or at least my knowledge of exactly where my body is in space and in relation to my surroundings, gets difficult sometimes when overloaded too.

Well, I've fainted a couple of times from sensory overload.

Touch, taste and smell for me. I've never lost vision or hearing during a shutdown or a meltdown.