What's your superpower?
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I can do my knees and toes too, but not consistently. Neck and ankles I cannot. I can crack my wrist though.
I just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!
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I just cracked my wrist now, but I haven't been able to do it before!
How did you do it? I do it by pushing the base of my thumb down and backwards, and I feel the crack right at the base of my wrist towards the side of the thumb. I suspect I'm actually cracking my thumb, since I'm pushing on my thumb's metacarpal, but I feel it in my wrist.
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How did you do it? I do it by pushing the base of my thumb down and backwards, and I feel the crack right at the base of my wrist towards the side of the thumb. I suspect I'm actually cracking my thumb, since I'm pushing on my thumb's metacarpal, but I feel it in my wrist.
Bend wrist downward to charge, bend upward slowly to crack (this all happened by accident)
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I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.
I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.
That's it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.
That's really impressive, since to be cucumber mostly just tastes like water. (This could just be where I'm getting my cucumber, though.)
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Have you tried doing it without counting?
Do you increment in 1's? Does it work if you count in 2's or 3's?
Science it!
I do none of those things. I touch the wart with the tip of my right index finger and I declaritively count upward from 1 for each wart. Within 4-6 weeks all the warts will be gone. My great aunt did it for me when I was a child and then I tried it and it worked for me too. I've done it probably a dozen times with 100% success rate.
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I'm really good at smelling food and when it's about to go off. If my nose even picks up a hint of rot that's all I can smell. It's really bad right now because our fridge died so everything smells like carcass in the house right now (even though it's gone).
Same. I'm about two days ahead of anyone else I know. If it's even slightly off, I'll start retching. I'm a cook, so it isn't actually completely useless.
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I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.
I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.
That's it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.
This is me with Taco Bell's shredded lettuce. If I get a burrito, I'll know there's a piece of lettuce in it two or three bites before I get to it.
Like I love lettuce, spinach, kale, all those leafy greens. But I swear they spray it with artificial lettuce flavoring or something.
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Books. I own probably a thousand physically, have hundreds of thousands of PDFs and epubs between my laptop and NAS.
The superpower is that I have a book “sense.” I know about where each book I own is - my shelves are not organized in any meaningful way, because I’m ADHD and will just pull one out to look at something and reshelve it. I’m not at home right now, but I can imagine my shelves and stacks in my head - can tell you where Palestine and the Palestinians or The Forty Days of Musa Dagh or the beautiful English translation of the 左传 or House Made of Dawn or the book on Scottish coins i thrifted a few days ago all are.
I can look at almost any given strangers bookshelf and recognize/have read at least one of their books. I navigate libraries by feel and don’t need to look up books.
I also read inhumanly fast I think, and have somewhat of an eidectic memory for text. It’s been almost twenty years since I read The Great Gatsby but a student brought it up and I was able to do a 45 minute lecture on it, with quotes from memory.
I’m also prodigious at sex. I’ll read more books in a week than most do over their life, and I’ll also fuck more people in that week than most do over their life.
Being a slut is a superpower now?
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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.
I can do fingers/knuckles (and individual joints), wrists, back, neck, knees, toes, ankles (sometimes)
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I envy you so much. Yours is an actual superpower. My ability is the opposite, I can wake up from an alarm no matter the circumstance, slept only 3 hours while completely drunk? Still wake up instantly and start doing things, I've never missed an alarm in my life.
I can sleep at will and wake up at will. Like I am traveling early so I have to wake at 4:30am no problem!
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I can hold electric (cow) fences without getting shocked. Perfect for fence hopping through paddocks.
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That's really impressive, since to be cucumber mostly just tastes like water. (This could just be where I'm getting my cucumber, though.)
It dominates everything else, few things are further away from water than (unfermented) cucumbers.
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I can count almost perfect seconds. Most people think they can count seconds until they try to prove it.
Like, give me a stopwatch. I can count seconds to within an average of .05 of a second.
I can do this consistently over a long period of time, i gave up counting when i tested it.
It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.
After many years of hearing these rhythms and noticing the different rhythms that would be made as we changed the batteries over time, i ended up being able to tap the rhythm out on a table/in my head etc and now its just ingrained into my head.
taTA ta... taTA ta... taTA ta...
Absolutely useless.
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I used to absolutely hate cucumber, to the point that I could taste it if someone cut a tomato salad with the same knife they used for the cucumber without washing it in between, the whole tomato salad would be ruined for me.
I could smell instantly when someone started chopping cucumber in the other room.
That's it, my superpower is to detect traces of cucumber.
I have this, but for mushrooms....cooked mushrooms have the worst taste, the smell gets into the rest of the food and ruins it.
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I can count almost perfect seconds. Most people think they can count seconds until they try to prove it.
Like, give me a stopwatch. I can count seconds to within an average of .05 of a second.
I can do this consistently over a long period of time, i gave up counting when i tested it.
It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.
After many years of hearing these rhythms and noticing the different rhythms that would be made as we changed the batteries over time, i ended up being able to tap the rhythm out on a table/in my head etc and now its just ingrained into my head.
taTA ta... taTA ta... taTA ta...
Absolutely useless.
It's because i used to have 3 clocks in my living room, and they all used to tick at different times. I guess from when the battery was connected and it would create all these different rhythms.
Even one clock ticking in a room is enough to drive me mad. I'm not sure if having three would be better or worse. Adding some rhythm to it might help actually.
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I can't stay angry; I have multi-sensory aphantaisa, this comes with not being able to re-experience emotions.
I remember that something made me angry, but I can't relive the emotion. It lets me dispassionately examine the past to see what made me angry and thus work through the trigger and try to reduce it in the future.
There is the downside to this, it is on all emotion, so I also can't re-experience happy emotions either.
I think I may have the opposite, at least some times. If I think about it too much I'll feel the emotion way to strongly which is a problem itself.
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In that case, I wasn’t interested and just felt immense pity at the situation, so I completely ignored it and talked to another coworker about our SOs at the group lunch table with him.
I’ve definitely noticed it on job interviews I’ve held and first dates/relationship milestones. In the former, I just ignore it, and in the latter, I do keep it in mind.
I have to shower after I have something like a job interview though, because it’s not a pleasant smell.
Cool. My sense of smell isn't that good, so it's kind of curious to know some people are that sensitive.
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I have a few different versions of synesthesia.
The most prominent one is that is see words and letters in color. If you tell me your name I can more or less paint your name like a weird color code. Whenever it is brought up it's almost like a fun little party trick where people ask me what color their names are and I tell them.
Spoiler alert, though: if your name has A or S in it, it will most likely have red in the mix. M and N are differnet variations of green. Some letters are dominant and others are submissive so depending on the word they either pain other letters a specific color or take color from dominant letters. E is a submissive letter. Tends to be a pale yellow, but will change color depending on the letters it is put together with. D is a weird dominant letter that changes color all the time. Either black or a deep purple. Completely depends on the word.
Numbers have colors too.
0 - white
1 - black
2 - pale yellow
3 - sky blue
4 - red
5 - dark brown
6 - black
7 - yellow
8 - dark purple
9 - orange
Random names and their colors:
Jack = black and red, white and black again.
Stephanie = red, yellow, green and yellowish white
Peter = gold and black
Mary = forest green, red, black and orangy yellow
Robert = black, white black
Lily = white, silver, yellow like sunshine
William = black, white, red, forest green
Karen = black, red, black, a sprinkle of yellow and spring green.
Russell = black, golden yellow, red, yellow
Evelyn = sunshine yellow, white and spring green.
Etc etc
To me, pretty names are not just pretty if they sound good, they also have to have beautiful and unique color combinations. Most names tend to have red and green color combos for me so whenever yellow, blue, purple or pink appear in a name I really like it. In my country there's a man's name Åge which isn't the prettiest sounding name, but to me it is so friggin beautiful because it's one of the rarest color combinations I have in my head: dusty blue, morning pink, white, misty overlay and a bit of golden brown. The letter Å is the prettiest letter to me as it is this rare double color of blue and pink and it is a dominant letter so whenever it appears in a name or a word, it is like a breath of fresh air among all the greens and blacks and reds.
I'm the same way. It makes my memory recall interesting. I remember the colors first and then translate them to numbers or letters. Made a college job as a receptionist interesting.
I also 100% agree on names must look appealing by color. We have different colors, but the similarities are stark.
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I guess we are only talking about the oddly specific ones so.
I like acidic foods so much, that I drank a cup of vinegar once, and survived.
My teeth are also weirdly resistant to decay.
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i can breathe in strong winds
But can you expel the winds back out with the same strength?
