[talaxandra]

It sounds as though you're talking about altered proprioception (the ability to tell where parts of your body are in space without looking), which happens in some kinds of stroke and other acquired brain injury. Is this correct?

[Dirk]

hmm .. just a little more ...

Not only some patients after a stroke feel like this.

Try following :
You have to be with another (perhaps your friend or collegue)
Take place on a chair
sit on your hands, and stay sitting.
This is like staying in bed - without moving.
After some minutes, you loose your hands !
Now close your eyes, and hold your hands in front of you.
Let your friend or collegue give one of your hands a form by holding and pressing.
Now try to describe both of your hands - you will see, that you will have such a feeling without having a stroke.
If you stay lying in your bed, without moving, you will loose your body-feeling.

I hope, I told it the right way (and you can understand, what I mean)

Greetings

Dirk

[talaxandra]

Yes, what you describe sounds like altered proprioception. So is basic stimulation a way to help patients regain normal proprioception?