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.I had this before my hearing was damaged in my mid-thirties. I could hear if any electrical device with large filter capasitors was turned on, even from another room. I discovered by accident that the high pitch noise was emitted by the capasitors when I was fixing old audio gear, I guess they vibrate while doing their job or something like that.
I talked about this with my friend who was specializing to be an ear/hearing doctor, his theory was that my upper hearing range was a bit higher than average. He also talked about how brains filter sensory data and it could just be that my filters weren't blocking these frequencies.
It was also impossible for me to sleep in a room if there were any mosquitoes. The whining of their wings even in the far side of a room was maddening, so I had to kill them all every night before hitting the bed. The one good thing that came out of the damage to my hearing was that the mosquitoes bother me no more, unless they fly right in front of my ears.
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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.
Regarding rythm: https://youtu.be/SthcxWPXG_E
Maybe it would end like this at one point if multiple clocks won't get enough power.
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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.
What is a pretty looking name or word to you? Also, what are the colors of the numbers to you? Some synesthetes have really awesome colors while I feel like mine are pretty lame most of the time xD so many black and white and green and red letters. So few yellows and blues and pinks and purples. It's tragic lol.
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I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.
Got gaslit about it by my family as well.
You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.
You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.
Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.
entoptic blue field phenomenon
Thank you. You've solved a mystery that bugged me since forever lol. Yay, I am not crazy. I legit thought there was something wrong with my eyesight all these years, or that they were just weird floaters. Thank you so much, friend. Relate hard to the sound stuff as well, it's nice to know it happens to other people al well.
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If I get drunk, I can picture colors for different instruments. Drums, wind, and string instruments are varying shades of red, yellow and orange depending on pitch. Synthesizers are always cool colors depending on their sound. The more artificial they sound, the further away they are from yellow or red for purple and green synthesizers) Human voices are pink if high pitched and red if low pitched.
Aw man. I have always wanted music based synesthesia. I knew someone who saw colors when she listened to music too and she tried to paint a few different songs at one point. It was so interesting.
I'm a bit jelly of you xD it must be friggin awesome to see colors when listening to music.
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I have the same super power
do you like it
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I can blur my vision on command, kinda useless but a bit of fun to play with.
I also have a lazy eye, so I can scare unsuspecting people, sometimes two at a time if they're positioned right.
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I can blur my vision on command, kinda useless but a bit of fun to play with.
I also have a lazy eye, so I can scare unsuspecting people, sometimes two at a time if they're positioned right.
Sorry, but can't everyone blur their vision? You just use your eye muscles to lose focus, right?
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Sorry, but can't everyone blur their vision? You just use your eye muscles to lose focus, right?
I couldn't when I was younger. Now I can, but not for more than 2 seconds
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Give this guy a wood block!
I would rock the wood block!
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do you like it
Depends on the day, today not really.
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I think I can smell progesterone, in some women, and in some months (far more than others/other times). Being male, this is absolutely is not something I can collect a lot of data on very quickly, and I don't know whether the strength or clarity for me correlates with women who have higher levels than normal, but I do know it correlates really well with this chart in terms of timing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estradiol_and_progesterone_%25_changes_across_the_menstrual_cycle.tif
So often I know that it's a week and a half before your period, and I know what that means, but I promise you that I have never ever used this knowledge, partly because I'm pretty shy, but not even with my wife (who doesn't know I can tell) when we were aiming for pregnancies, because that was a very busy time indeed in that arena and I saw no reason to reduce that in any way whatsoever.
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I have extremely sensitive hearing. I can tell when there's an animal scarer nearby.
This brings me to Microsoft Teams. You might have seen people mention that their dogs know when someone joins the call before they do. That's because they introduced "ultrasonic howling" to detect if they're in the same room as you, and mutes their mic.
It hurts like fucking hell with headphones on.
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But never suddenly, out of your control, right? As long as it's not narcolepsy, I would appreciate it if you gave me that skill.
No, not at all. In fact I am pretty good at being able to stay awake for rather long periods of time. I can comfortably go 48 hours without sleep.
If I could donate it I would happily do so.
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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.
You an I... We are either going to form an unstoppable super team or... You ate going to end up as my nemesis.
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Sorry, but can't everyone blur their vision? You just use your eye muscles to lose focus, right?
It could be different depending on where you live, but it's pretty rare to find another person who can do the same where i live.
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I learned this. The trick is to force yourself to do it. And your body goes "now I don't want to anymore"
That's not the trick I use. I just relax my throat; midway between breathe in and breathe out, and temporarily stop inhaling and exhaling for a (now halted) hiccup cycle or two.
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Old. Repost.
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I used to hear it too, now I'm old and I can't hear anything above 16KHz, maybe less now.
Same, but more like 13k Hz last time I tested myself.
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I can cut butter to the exact weight each time.
Get him! He's to dangerous to keep alive!
(Sorry if that's not your gender, I have a really hard time formulating the same joke in a gender neutral way)
