I don't claim to understand how "telepathy", "imagination" etc works scientifically but as an arts student I can see the logic of it.
I have no idea what being an arts student or logic has to do with that. BTW, since you brought logic into it, we haven't established that telepathy exists yet :)
However I'm willing to put imagination, telepathy etc in inverted commas to suggest that there is more to those faculties than a precise dictionary definition of what the words mean.
Well, if you can't define what you are talking about then it becomes meaningless to attempt a discussion. As as arts student, you certainly wouldn't pass a test if you called Neaderthal cave art found in the south of France something else, like nouveau realisme just because you can't define them (not suggesting you can't).
I will say though that part of the logic is to do with the way that membranes function. In this respect I would not restrict skin, a membrane, simply to the empirical sense of touch.
Why would you think skin does nothing more than provide a sense of touch?