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.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. Itโs 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?
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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.Should be an age thing. I remember at school that some teachers would leave the TV on when they were done showing something and the CRT noise would make us students crazy and we had to remind the teacher to turn it off.
So you will probably lose it at some point.
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I can unhook a bra through a winter coat.
Not, that I wouldI once unhooked a bra with a hug. Sadly not a superpower I retained.
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I can wiggle my ears.
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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 don't think so -- the noises I hear are real, they're just accompanied by flashes of light if my brain can't place the source of the sound in realtime
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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.Some power-supplies also do this high pitch noise too and it bothers me a lot. Most people can't hear it.
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I don't think so -- the noises I hear are real, they're just accompanied by flashes of light if my brain can't place the source of the sound in realtime
I can't really speak for you of course, but I can add that I thought it was the same for me. Until it turned out I was the only one who was hearing these noises.
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I can't really speak for you of course, but I can add that I thought it was the same for me. Until it turned out I was the only one who was hearing these noises.
Hah! Oh jesus, this will be a fun rabbithole for me to think about over the next few years.
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I have special ability to fall asleep quick if deciding to take a nap during office hours.
Unfortunately, it's not effective going to sleep in the evening
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I can rumble my ears. It's not at all useful and often highly annoying.
It's useful when your ears are under high pressure. It can help relieve it. Sometimes.
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I can bend my thumb further back than most people :3 this literally does nothing of use for me x3
Hypermobility can have side-effects. If your diet isn't right or you live in a very warm or very cold area, it can affect your tissues. If I'm not mistaken it can sporadically be linked to auto-immune diseases.
