What's your superpower?
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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.Welcome to the world's most useless club.
Used to be able to walk down the street and know who's home watching TV by the whine (sort of like an extremely high pitched white noise).
Now CRTs are gone I've since realised I also have tinnitus and am constantly hearing that same sound in my left ear.
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I used to wonder why adults didn't run up the stairs. I figured adults must just be no fun and didn't want to look silly running upstairs.
So all throughout my childhood, teens, 20s, and 30s I would usually run up my stairs because it just felt natural. Then not too far into my 40s, my knee was just like "nope".
Now I have to walk upstairs, which is lame as hell.
No way man, I'm gonna keep on rocking forever!
Forever!
Forever
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Here's a redditor that describes it quite well:
Me. I have this. Happens several times a night. Sounds like a door slamming or a gunshot. The weirdest part is you also get the feeling that there was an impact, like that feeling when someone stomps near you. So it’s not just auditory it’s almost physical. It’s a very strange thing and hard to describe because you’re always 3/4 of the way asleep when it happens. I’ve had it my whole life and always found it curious but have never questioned it out loud. I thought everyone had this until I saw “exploding head syndrome” on the internet. Asked my parents and siblings, no, none of them have this and what the fuck am I talking about? I’m in my goddamned 40s and thought this was normal.
Goddamit I said stop, I've already got a ton of other neuroses to worry about!
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No way man, I'm gonna keep on rocking forever!
Forever!
Forever
Forever...Exactly! And in this case, "what's it" is having knees that don't hurt.
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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.
I can also measurable lower my heart rate by conscious effort alone
I read somewhere a while back that people can learn to do this with training and a visualization. If you have a heart rate monitor that shows different color shades depending on your rate, apparently people can learn focus on making the color turn green and lowering their heart rate.
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This must have been terrifying for the ant.
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Predicting psychopathic behavior hasn't been based on my 401k.
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I can stop my ears from ringing on command.
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Exactly! And in this case, "what's it" is having knees that don't hurt.
shush you, time for your medicine!
(I'm approaching my 40s, so you got me worried haha)
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I can smell fear. I always thought that was normal, because it’s used idiomatically, but the first time I said something in a group of people, they looked at me like an alien. When someone’s anxious, their sweat smells more metallic to me, like amphetamine/coke sweat (which makes sense).
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shush you, time for your medicine!
(I'm approaching my 40s, so you got me worried haha)
It was 42 for me specifically. Good luck!
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As far as I'm aware, this is a skill that can be learned by training your palate
A lot of these are skills that people can learn, but they’re not something that most people care to learn. I can only recommend this one though
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I can recognize a song with just a snippet playing. My piano teacher was apparently surprised by that.
The catch is I never remember the names, just the melody/bass
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Can most people not vibrate their eyes!?
Its possible to learn how, but no, most people can't do it.
I have heard it helps reduce eye strain in dim environments though.
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I can also measurable lower my heart rate by conscious effort alone
I read somewhere a while back that people can learn to do this with training and a visualization. If you have a heart rate monitor that shows different color shades depending on your rate, apparently people can learn focus on making the color turn green and lowering their heart rate.
I do it by focusing on my torso and in my head decelerate it, I guess it's similar. Also, a guy I know can do it through breathing technique, and I suspect breathing is part of my deceleration too.
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I can crack my elbows like knuckles by just extending my arms. My brother can do it too, but I've never met anyone else who can do it.
One of my sons can crack about every joint in his body, including toes, but elbows only rarely.
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I have a blurry photographic memory.
What I mean is that I can remember where/what an item looks like but can’t read it. This was especially lame and stressful in nursing school because during a test I could recall exactly where in the textbook or PowerPoint slide the answer was, but couldn’t “read” it from said memory. Stuff like “it was in the yellow shaded an the lower inner quarter of the page, second and third billet points” or “halfway down the page, highlighted in pink, and next to it was a graphic of the Krebs cycle”
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The craziest one was when we had a staff lunch, and she was like "Jimmy johns, roast beef, with mustard and hot peppers mix"
Next time she does that, say "joke's on you, I actually just went down on the neighbor lady" and see how she reacts.
Probably by explaining he's wrong because she smells like a whole different list of ingredients.
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I just learned from another thread that mine is... fantasizing smells and flavors, and being able to mentally combine them to know what two ingredients will taste like together before I combine them. Apparently not everyone can do this?
Have you read The perfume by Patrick Süskind? You sound like a real-life Grenouille. Without the murdering, hopefully
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I could sometimes think what someone else is about to say right before they say it but I'm either delusional or really lucky
Maybe just really good intuition and knowledge of human behavior. You could probably make a lot of money as a psychic.
