My sister got a Bluetooth headset and it reminded me that i cant use those because my ears heat up in less than 10 seconds after putting them on, in fact as i am typing this my ears are kinda of uncomfortably hot. Dust also cause my ears to heat, it usually the cause but it can also happen randomly as well as when i leave the PC monitor running when i sleep(same room).
there is some other stuff i thought to mention but i think it would be better for a post after discovering your body(e.g my cousin though all ppl can only see through one eye until recently because he himself can only see through one eye and that’s how he found out he has only one functioning eye)
Also feel free to talk about NSFW stuff and is this post hard to read(sentence structure wise)? Cause i never know if ppl have hard time reading my post, and at the moment i find it hard to read myself
Synesthesia. I can see sound. Really neat, actually.
Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some “fun” in a hospital stay
(Irish ancestry here: Letting them know that you’ve got redheaded relatives is the secret cheatcode to let you stay unconscious during surgery. There’s a whole protocol about it.)
yup. My dad is irish. And although I’m not a redhead, I later learned that I have the gene and it’s one of the factors in this problem.
Too bad I only learned about this fact after I woke up a couple times during surgery and later when they put me into an induced coma and I pulled out my tubes.
TIL that painkillers don’t work on redheads.
I also have a super high alcohol tolerance (and I rarely drink), which I think is also an effect of it.
Weed only has an effect for me if I use a lot of it
Wow, I did not know that. Thanks a bunch.
OMG. I had a terrible dental experience because of this.
Same. I inform doctors that I am resistant to sedation. They nod, not believing me. I go under. I wake up 4 hours early, everyone goes insane. One time they failed to put me out right away. Fortunately they managed to put me out before they cut into me. My last memories before waking are hearing “oh shit, he’s awake”. Another time they used “an adult dose and a child dose” which… doesn’t sound right. But I remember waking with a half dozen people trying to rouse me.
when the surgery team came visiting me afterwards, the anesthesiologist said they used “the elephant’s dose”
How does “fuck you” look like ?
funnily enough, as soon as my brain can parse it as language, my synesthesia doesn’t trigger anymore. It really is just for sounds and music.
If I listen to a language that I can’t understand, my synesthesia triggers. It’s a fun example of how the brain processes the information
if told “fuck you” in say, Norwegian, what does it look like? (if you speak Norwegian, then substitute it for something you don’t speak :P)
also, does “fuck you” look the same in all unknown languages?
It really depends on the sound, not the actual content.
It’s quite hard to describe, but for me sounds have a certain color and shape. “Visible” in the location they are coming from.
I also don’t quite see it as the real world around me, more of an “inner eye” overlay.
The color and shape (and often texture) depends on the instrument and tone. There’s an older 360° video on youtube that comes somewhat close to what I experience
That’s really cool
Unless you have tinnitus, then it’s probably hell
I need this info too
me either!
Aphantasia here. Can’t see or remember shit. It sucks.
Only benefits are speed reading and a boost to abstract/scientific thinking. But episodic memories and visualisation sound more fun.
Also resistant to everything. Connective tissue disorder? (EDS)?
Aphantasia here too, do you have an inner monologue? I don’t, to the dismay of every therapist and partner I’ve ever had.
“What are you thinking?”
“There are not words for this.”
Nope just multiple streams of unsymbolic thinking usually. When thinking of something specific or planning how to say something I’ll consciously subvocalise, but there’s no volume/pitch/tone. Having your subconscious talk to you all day sounds exhausting.
Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some “fun” in a hospital stay
Are you a redhead? Apparently that’s a fairly common trait for them
Not quite. See my other replies
Same here on the resistance to pain meds. I had a such a terrible experience with surgery. Once I woke up I was in such agony but I was also tripping hard from the dilaudid and left over anesthesia that I was unable to communicate effectively. Once a doctor finally listened to me many hours later, they gave me a cocktail of other stuff that finally eased the pain. I also really struggle with dental work.
What’s the coolest-looking sound?
I have photic sneeze reflex aka sudden exposure to bright light tends to make me sneeze. Usually happens if I’ve been indoors for a while and then walk out into a bright sunny day.
For a long time never really thought about it, just figured it was a normal thing. Wasn’t until adulthood that I started noticing most people don’t do that and looked it up. If Wikipedia is correct 18% - 35% of the world’s population has that condition.
You can’t just post this and leave out the other name for this:
Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst
Or: ACHOO
Everyone realizes this is a joke acronym, right? Or am I dumb for thinking that needs to be pointed out?
In academia finding onomatopeeic acronyms is a type of sport. I don’t know enough about this instance, but an acronym like this can be both a joke and a proper academic designation.
I’ve definitely got some variant of the photic sneeze. If I’m in a small sneezing fit, and I want to continue to dislodge the whatever, I look for the brightest area and wait. Takes less than 5 seconds.
If I feel a sneeze lingering all I have to do is look at the sky or a light and I can get it out right away. It’s like a cheat code for getting it over quickly. It can be annoying when driving sometimes when the sun is suddenly in my face and I immediately sneeze.
Yup! I do the cheat all the time. But I don’t have the inconvenience of the sun randomly triggering it. It’s like I’m Blade, The Daywalker of Sneezing
I do this too. I thought it was a normal thing because it’s something my mum taught me to do to get the sneeze out so I thought it was like a common thing that worked for everyone. Until I told my husband to try it and he said no that stops the sneeze. So I googled it and found out it’s a minority thing! It’s like your eyes quickly adjusting to the bright light somehow makes your nasal passages freak out too.
I have that too and also thought it normal for the longest time. My wife calls it that I ”get sun in my nose”.
I’m in the crazy sneezing corner at work.
- My coworker has allergies, with fits of many sneezes.
- At the same time every day when the sun comes in, I get hit with three rapid sneezes - loud too. It’s always a surprise so I don’t have time to figure out how to sneeze quietly. You could set a clock by it
I noticed that for some reason, when I pee I feel the tip of my toes getting hotter
I have no idea what causes it
Stop peeing on your toes
thanks! so that’s what causes it
Same, but more intense. It can affect the whole of the bottom of my feet sometimes, and I’ve never been able to consistently replicate it so I’ve no idea what triggers it either.
When laying in dark, any smallest sound makes a bright flash appear in my eyes, before I realize there was a sound. So I am always surprised when it happens, and fraction of a second later I realize there was a sound. So it’s Synesthesia, but from Wish.
Ha! This happens to me as well! I do have a funny slight extra detail though. I can’t really visualise images in my minds eye (almost aphantasia), but when I’m closing my eyes to go to sleep, and a sudden noise happens, I see a flash of white like you, but also usually some random af detailed image flash in my minds eye. It’s so weird, always different, always amusing, and the closest I get to visualising. It could be anything, like a old woman in a cowboy hat riding a horse or whatever. Also, I have slight grapheme-colour synesthesia, so it’s interesting that you called it wish synesthesia! I wonder if it plays some role!
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Absolutely all sounds, but it has to be unexpected!
I can pop, or reverse pop my ears at will. Where most people talk about chewing gum to pop their ears on a plane I can push out and suck them in to change the pressure at will. It’s useful to help regulate how much noise gets in (in a small way) too.
Same, there is a muscle in there that most people can’t voluntarily control.
But we can!Also, I’ve never heard anyone else mention the part about “reversing” their ears! Seems I’m not the only one!
Hey me too
Same. It’s a very useful trick for scuba diving.
I can pop outwards by closing my mouth and nose and then putting pressure on my mouth walls with the air.
Reverse, I can manage only down to equal pressure, by simply drinking back my saliva.What do you mean by pop ? Ro you hear a champagne bottlw “pop !” instead of the regular crackling noise ?
it’s like when go from a high down, your ears pop
Oh, ok
I can do this too!
I can smell moulds that nobody else can smell; at least for several more weeks until the moulds get mouldy enough.
It’s basically the most pointless superpower. I can smell the cereal in the cupboard and tell my wife that it’s gone bad, but she won’t smell it so she’ll eat it and then nothing bad happens except possibly to her gut microflora
I recently learned about some people being able to smell ants. I wonder if you can smell them as well
Sadly no, I’m not one of those cool Ant People
I have something similar (but days, not weeks) and was always the designated tester in my family but half the time they eat the food anyway.
Odd, same here. Can’t smell other stuff that well but mold I pick up on right away.
My nose is specially sensitive to stuff like deodorants and synthetic perfumes, formaldehyde and other paint smells, the stuff from Odonil™, WD 40 etc. I feel like, if I wanted to train myself to detect non-lethal doses of HCN, I might manage it.
If you smell almonds, you are in business.
Imagine in your head a scene on the ocean near a dock with a sailboat. The wind is light and there are small waves lapping against the shore, rocking the boat.
Well, I mostly can’t do that. Not much of a minds eye. If I really focus I can do it but there isn’t any detail, and my mind doesn’t fill in background.
Lol I skipped past the first paragraph after reading the first few words, as it’s just a bunch of words to me, and then realised reading the next paragraph that exactly that was your point. Yes I definitely relate to you 😂
Have the same problem with aphantasia but full on, I can’t imagine feeling, hearing or any of my senses In my head. I know something is hot because I remember it hurt but I can’t seem to like create it in my mind.
Although tbh it’s kinda fun to interupt someone when they say “ok imagine that…” And I’m like “no”. (Usually in jest with someone I trust)
Aphantasia. I have it, too.
Not myself, but my wife. We live in the country side with two cats, and they have a cat flap, 24/7 access. My wife can smell a dead mouse nearly from the second it’s dead. She complained last week about it smelling like death in our hallway, and we couldn’t find the source. It took two days for me to smell it, and then it was gone a few days later. We think it died in the ceiling, so couldn’t do much about it. But her smell for death is crazy!
I have weirdly thick skin on and especially under my feet, so I can walk barefoot on ice and snow and not feel cold.
Damn I’m jealous, true northerner
I have a rare condition called EBS (sometimes called butterfly skin). I am lucky enough to have a non life threatening form so it is usually only a problem when I walk/exercise in above 20°C temperatures. And I usually get benefits (I rarely have to queue for things)
If I hold my pee for too long, I struggle to start peeing. It’ll weakly dribble but some will come out, then about 5 minutes later I can piss normally. It’s bullshit.
Guessing you’re a male? Similar issue here too. Gets worse as you get older I’ve found.
Came on pretty suddenly when I had my appendix out around 20. They put a catheter in for the surgery and there was a little mishap that required some repair. Everything works fine unless there’s too much backpressure. Hasn’t changed much in the past 18 years.
I’m not your twin am I? I had mine out right before 20…
- I have a forked tongue
- I once hammered the back of my sinuses hard enough to draw blood
- I can make my shoulder blade pop out
- I can keep my eyes open for 5-10 minutes
Hammered the back of your sinuses? Come again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blockhead
I do this a lot with nails, icepicks, and power drills
Oh, yikes!
I feel like this trick lost its magic ever since covid tests taught everyone that nose holes basically go straight into the face instead of up
It’s not a magic trick though, it’s a sideshow trick. The difference between the two is that sideshow doesn’t need smoke and mirrors, wysiwyg. It still requires practice and training to reliably execute, not to mention performing is its own skill as well.
As far as sideshow goes, it’s one of the less risky stunts, so you’re very welcome to jam a chopstick up there if you want to try it :)
the fourth one, both my sisters can do that? makes me squeamish
I can pop my ankles almost non stop since around 2 years ago for some reason (no pain or anything), lol
I can do that too. Bonus since I sprained one at 16, I’ll just be randomly walking along when something in my ankle makes an audible pop and dislocates for just long enough for me to stumble and take another step.
I had a wrist sprain a few years back and got an X-ray. They told me my ulna was about a millimeter longer than it probably should be. I’m wondering if that’s the case for most of my joints and that’s why I creak like gammy’s favorite rocking chair
Ugh ouch
I dont know if I sprained mine, I remember picking up running for a few weeks (cuz I thought doing only weights wasnt the best idea) and I remember my ankles feeling sore after running. I expected it to be normal though, cuz I don’t tend to run a lot (though I walk a lot). 🤷
Haven’t done an xray yet, might do one day
I can do it, but only with my left ankle! It’s almost like I’m sliding the tendon across the bone? making a really loud “popping” sound, over and over. I’ve been able to do it for as long as I can remember and it’s never hurt. Never met anyone else who could do it!
I can think myself into immediately stopping hiccups.
I can also puke on demand.
I can burp on command tho i think that ones command
When I’m in a hypnagogic state (between awake and sleeping) I can look through my eyelids.
They’re still closed, but I can see the room through them.
I know it’s not real, and if something were to quietly change in the room, I wouldn’t be able to see it, but it still feels weird.
I can also pinpoint the moment when I’ll fall asleep, and sometimes go directly from being awake to dreaming.
Which has the nice side effect that I’m aware I’m dreaming, and the dream world feels just as realistic as if I was awake, except I can control everything in it.
