What's your superpower?
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Synesthesia. I can see music. It's fun.
Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)
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I can smell reposts and pictures I have already seen a mile away.
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I can repressurize my ears without yawning, just by flexing a muscle. Even less useful, I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless. -
Synesthesia. I can see music. It's fun.
Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)
Oh I got that to a lesser degree. At night, I interpret sudden bangs (door slamming) as flashes of intense white light.
I realised that the lights were not real (phantom lightning, or bright outdoor lighrs winking on and off) once I started sleeping with a blindfold
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I'm a stair master. I sprint them 3-4-5 at a time, smooth and quiet as a ninja. Up or down, doesn't matter
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I can repressurize my ears without yawning, just by flexing a muscle. Even less useful, I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
If you are diving the first comes in very practically.
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I think those are the same ants in the southwest us that can find a box of cereal in a vault. Not sure if I could smell just one ant, but they are insanely smelly until you’re too hungover to pay attention and get a mouthful
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I can repressurize my ears without yawning, just by flexing a muscle. Even less useful, I can focus my eyes to different distances without using the finger trick, which comes in handy never.
I can focus my eyes to different distances
That's not common? Tbh I never asked around if others can do it I just assumed it's normal.
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I can unhook a bra through a winter coat.
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.I used to hear it too, now I'm old and I can't hear anything above 16KHz, maybe less now.
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.Try that with cheap mobile phone charges. They have an annoying coil whine.
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Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?
Ear rumbling was gonna be my superpower. And I can indeed also use this to some extent to repressurize my ears.
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In a room full of power supplies i was the only one able to find which one was still powering something, because apparently out of the ~20 people that tried before me, i was the only one that could hear the transformer whine.
Also a general annoyance since i need to charge my phone in another room if i want to sleep without simulating tinnitus.
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I can rumble my ears. It's not at all useful and often highly annoying.
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I can rumble my ears, do the vulcan greet, do Stan Laurel's kneesy earsy nosey and the finger wriggle. I can also measurable lower my heart rate by conscious effort alone, and increase my body temperature by concentrating on it.
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.I could detect it as a kid, but definitely not past 25
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Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.
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Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.
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Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia
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Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.
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Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.
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I can hear CRT screens. They emit a high pitch noise that nobody else in my family can hear, I assume most people actually can hear it but never noticed it. My family used to think I was crazy or had tinnitus (jury's still out on both) until they tested me by making me close my eyes and tell them if the TV was on while turning it off and on at random, with sound off. It was a weird test from my perspective, since I could hear it fine anyway.
So far I haven't noticed a decay due to age, but if it had little use when CRTs were widespread, it's now completely useless.think I was crazy or had tinnitus
When you have tinnitus, then you will know it. And then you probably can't hear that CRT screen anymore.
About "crazy" I don't know
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Synesthesia. I can see music. It's fun.
Also, being resistant to pain killers. Not so fun (takes ages to get drunk, and I woke up 3 times during a surgery)
Are there any music pieces that are your favorite because of synesthesia? Or pieces that you couldn't enjoy because of it?
I'd also imagine that watching movies must be a very different experience for you too haha.
