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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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eli5: How do we experience Temperature?
gpt
For the most part, you don't really feel temperature, your senses feel the flow of heat. 

If you touch something cold, you feel the heat leaving your hands, if you touch something hot you feel the heat enter your hands

This sounds similar, but explains some of the quirks and flaws in the way we experience temperature. 

Metals feel colder and warmer than ceramics at similar temperatures cause they are are thermally conductive.

Also, if you cool your hands with ice water, then pick up something cold, it will feel warmer than it should be, because the temperature of your hands means less heat can leave your hands.