section_path: Human sensation/Internal
section_name: Internal
paragraph_text: Internal
  
  An internal sensation and perception also known as interoception is "any sense that is normally stimulated from within the body". These involve numerous sensory receptors in internal organs. Interoception is thought to be atypical in clinical conditions such as alexithymia. Specific receptors include:
  
  The perception of time is also sometimes called a sense, though not tied to a specific receptor.