What's Your Weird?

striderno9 · Feb 7, 2019

Do you have any weird "abilities" most people would consider outside the norm?

For example: I'm ambidextrous. It only comes in handy when I play basketball, or if I find myself typing with one hand and checking something off with the other.

Also, I've been able to lucid dream since I was very young. It helps when I have any nightmares, I will usually change the scenery and if whatever is chasing me or terrorizing me follows into the next scene, I can wake myself up. Short of that, I will often rock my leg back and forth to wake my wife up so she can wake me up. When that happens I'm usually in my dream just sort of waiting there avoiding what's scaring me until my wife can wake me up. it's a weird thing but I've always been glad I can do this for some reason.

Lastly, and this is the one that inspired this thread because it happened last night. I haven't had two consecutive hiccups in over a decade. Once I have a hiccup, I usually slow my breathing to the point where I can feel it coming from my diaphragm and after about 15 seconds of breathing like this I go back to normal, never having hiccuped a second time.

How about you guys?

Dest · Feb 7, 2019

I can puff up my eyelids like balloons.

TheBaldwin · Feb 7, 2019

Im 6,3, 12 stone and gym alot. Yet im stupidly flexible. Like i can put my leg behind my head

Its pretty great when i do my laundry and i can pick socks up with my feet and put them in my hand like im a monkey.

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

I can shift the hair on top of my head to move back and forth. Basically, control the skin on top of my skull to move forwards and backwards.

Chixdiggit · Feb 7, 2019

I was a little shit as a kid and always grounded. This left me with a lot of spare time with nothing to do in my room. I started throwing poker cards. I haven't done it in a while but I got pretty good at it. I could throw a card consistently 30 feet on target and make it stick in a piece of foam.

striderno9 · Feb 7, 2019

Chixdiggit said:
I was a little shit as a kid and always grounded. This left me with a lot of spare time with nothing to do in my room. I started throwing poker cards. I haven't done it in a while but I got pretty good at it. I could throw a card consistently 30 feet on target and make it stick in a piece of foam.

I'm jealous, I always wanted to be good at that.

thesoapster · Feb 7, 2019

I can wiggle my nostrils really fast.

Taki · Feb 7, 2019

thesoapster said:
I can wiggle my nostrils really fast.

hawt.

Fiction · Feb 7, 2019

I have audio->visual synesthesia (I can see music). I also can memorize a song completely in <3 listens and know over a thousand songs this way.

Since I never learned to play an instrument, it's worth exactly fuck all

Chixdiggit · Feb 7, 2019

Rivenblade said:
I can shift the hair on top of my head to move back and forth. Basically, control the skin on top of my skull to move forwards and backwards.

How is this even possible? Can you do it without like squinting your eyes or crunching your forehead or something like that?

Transistor · Feb 7, 2019

I can click my tongue extremely loud.

Z-Beat · Feb 7, 2019

My fingers can bend in the opposite direction

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

Chixdiggit said:
How is this even possible? Can you do it without like squinting your eyes or crunching your forehead or something like that?

No. Definitely need to scrunch my forehead and move my eyebrows a bit.

johan · Feb 7, 2019

I can put my tongue up my nose cavity from behind

I can slip two tendons over my knuckles on command, also makes a popping sound

I can make a popping cracking sound with my jaw, not sure what happens there but my gf hates it

I used to be able to lick my elbows, should try that again

PuppetMinion · Feb 7, 2019

I don't get hangovers. (if anything I get extra energy, clean my apartment and stuff)

I can usually tell myself to wake up a certain time. + - ~15 minutes

I can read very fast.

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

Chixdiggit said:
I was a little shit as a kid and always grounded. This left me with a lot of spare time with nothing to do in my room. I started throwing poker cards. I haven't done it in a while but I got pretty good at it. I could throw a card consistently 30 feet on target and make it stick in a piece of foam.

I didn't even know this was possible and always assumed it only existed in fiction. (i.e. Bullseye in Daredevil and Gambit in X-Men)

Chance Hale · Feb 7, 2019

Can turn both of my feet around 210 degrees

Totally useless but fun for freaking people out I guess.

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

Fiction said:
I have audio->visual synesthesia (I can see music). I also can memorize a song completely in <3 listens and know over a thousand songs this way.

Since I never learned to play an instrument, it's worth exactly fuck all

That...sounds amazing. I mean, it's pretty cool for karaoke and trivia. Have you ever tried memorizing useful information this way? Like...the history of a world war in song form or something? :)

Jakke_Koala · Feb 7, 2019

I can get my kids in bed in about 10-15 minutes and they will sleep within 5 minutes.

In comparison with other people with young kids, i guess thats pretty special

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

PuppetMinion said:
I don't get hangovers. (if anything I get extra energy, clean my apartment and stuff)

I can usually tell myself to wake up a certain time. + - ~15 minutes

I can read very fast.

I'm always jealous of fast readers. I had a friend in university like that who would talk about finishing a Harry Potter book in a couple of hours. For average novel length texts, I can read around 40-50 pages per hour max. I consider that slow.

I can do the wakeup thing too. :) I never viewed it as weird, but just something I trained myself to do with the help of alarms in the beginning.

Fubar · Feb 7, 2019

I didnt know it was unique/rare until someone said it was, but I can stop seeing mid-stream, pack up, and leave no problem. Apparently a lot of people cant stop no matter what? Floodgates open or whatever?

Also, cutting onions never makes me cry. Ever. I chop them up no problem.

astro · Feb 7, 2019

I can make a predator with my hands

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

Jakke_Koala said:
I can get my kids in bed in about 10-15 minutes and they will sleep within 5 minutes.

In comparison with other people with young kids, i guess thats pretty special

Well done! I think this also has to do with your kids, though. I have two, and one (now 6 years old) can be asleep within 5 minutes, while the other wants to jump around the mattress for an hour. (3 years old) But I'm definitely better at getting them to fall asleep calmly than my wife is. Shh, don't tell her.

Avis · Feb 7, 2019

I can shake my eyes really fast

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

astro said:
I can make a predator with my hands

I mean, that's pretty cool, so way to go.

Rivenblade · Feb 7, 2019

Fubar said:
I didnt know it was unique/rare until someone said it was, but I can stop seeing mid-stream, pack up, and leave no problem. Apparently a lot of people cant stop no matter what? Floodgates open or whatever?

Also, cutting onions never makes me cry. Ever. I chop them up no problem.

It kind of hurts to stop mid-stream for me. I never want to do it for fear of damaging the ol' pee canal system.

RepairmanJack · Feb 7, 2019

I have really really sensitive taste buds. It ends up making me actually dislike a lot of food because I find most flavors as just too strong and overbearing. So I end up eating a lot of plain and bland food because too strong of flavors just become too much for me.

I turn it into a fun talent though as I hate using a straw(a plastic straw) with water because it makes the water taste weird. So I can have someone give me a couple glasses of water with one being stirred with a straw and I can pick out which one had the straw used on it.

Fritz · Feb 7, 2019

I can like dislocate my middle fingers on both hands and snap them back with a weird "tipping" move. As a child I had to do this resting my hands on arms, hands or legs of others and apparently having my dislocated finger tipping them is a super weird slightly repulsive sensation.

striderno9 · Feb 7, 2019

Oh I have one more that my wife thinks is a bit weird but I can power nap like a champ. I can usually take a 3 to 9 minute nap and feel completely refreshed.

Also, I love you weirdos, thanks for participating in the thread.

Stouffers · Feb 7, 2019

I stop watches within a day of putting it on. This has been going on for 30 years.

RepairmanJack · Feb 7, 2019

striderno9 said:
Oh I have one more that my wife thinks is a bit weird but I can power nap like a champ. I can usually take a 3 to 9 minute nap and feel completely refreshed.

Also, I love you weirdos, thanks for participating in the thread.

I wish I had your ability. Napping, no matter how long, if done in the middle of the day will just make me sick. I feel sluggish and congested almost immediately. I've not been able to nap almost ever.

Deleted member 48205 · Feb 7, 2019

I take really long shits
People think it's weird
I'm just chilling out man

Shadybiz · Feb 7, 2019

Rivenblade said:
I can shift the hair on top of my head to move back and forth. Basically, control the skin on top of my skull to move forwards and backwards.

thesoapster said:
I can wiggle my nostrils really fast.

Both of these are mine. Other than that, I'm pretty normal.

Chixdiggit · Feb 7, 2019

Rivenblade said:
I didn't even know this was possible and always assumed it only existed in fiction. (i.e. Bullseye in Daredevil and Gambit in X-Men)

I just looked up the world record thinking maybe I was extraordinary but it turns out to be 216 feet at 92 MPH.

Rivenblade said:
No. Definitely need to scrunch my forehead and move my eyebrows a bit.

Still cool. Something I definitely can't do and yes I just tried.

Solace · Feb 7, 2019

Kazura said:
I take really long shits
People think it's weird
I'm just chilling out man

Like, how long?

Strangelove_77 · Feb 7, 2019

I have crippling depression.

deftones r cool · Feb 7, 2019

I have a foot fetish, and fantasize about women peeing on me.

Jindrax · Feb 7, 2019

Fiction said:
I have audio->visual synesthesia (I can see music). I also can memorize a song completely in <3 listens and know over a thousand songs this way.

Since I never learned to play an instrument, it's worth exactly fuck all

Many questions:

1 what does music look like?
2 why dont you learn an instrument and use this epic skill?
3 does the music look like variations of the same or does different music look drastically different?
4 how do you know you can memorize the song if you cant play an instrument?

grang · Feb 7, 2019

Dest said:
I can puff up my eyelids like balloons.

How has no one commented on this, what does this even look like

Chixdiggit · Feb 7, 2019

Fiction said:
I have audio->visual synesthesia (I can see music). I also can memorize a song completely in <3 listens and know over a thousand songs this way.

Since I never learned to play an instrument, it's worth exactly fuck all

Jindrax said:
why dont you learn an instrument and use this epic skill?

Not speaking for the poster you quoted but my wife has a similar ability. She can hear a song and with in minutes she can play it pretty damn decent on a piano. She has never had a lesson in any musical instrument and has no interest in doing so. Always been bazaar to me.

striderno9 · Feb 7, 2019

grang said:
How has no one commented on this, what does this even look like

Yeah, I totally meant to ask, how and what is buffing eyelids?

HalStep · Feb 7, 2019

my hearing is very sensitive,those bird scarer's and high pitch devices some shops use to annoy young people hanging around shops after dark cause me pain bordering on physical.

only people in their teens to early twenties are supposed to be able to hear it but i still can in my forties.

Fiction · Feb 7, 2019

Jindrax said:
Many questions:

1 what does music look like?
2 why dont you learn an instrument and use this epic skill?
3 does the music look like variations of the same or does different music look drastically different?
4 how do you know you can memorize the song if you cant play an instrument?

1. Colored smoke or fireworks, depending
2. I'm lazy, thought I was crazy and avoided it as a kid when I found out it's weird to see music
3. Color varies the most, but the shape can be dramatic. Some things are so intense they look like static.
4. I know all the lyrics, beats and notes (colors) Husband is a musician and often used this ability to learn stuff from me. I just tell him 'Nope, it's higher/lower' until he gets it.

Wackamole · Feb 7, 2019

Just negative stuff like misophonia.

Fiction said:
I have audio->visual synesthesia (I can see music). I also can memorize a song completely in <3 listens and know over a thousand songs this way.

Since I never learned to play an instrument, it's worth exactly fuck all

Wow, most people need LSD or Shrooms for that.

Izzard · Feb 7, 2019

I can wiggle my eyes left and right really fast. Makes people go ewww.

deftones r cool · Feb 7, 2019

Fiction said:
1. Colored smoke or fireworks, depending
2. I'm lazy, thought I was crazy and avoided it as a kid when I found out it's weird to see music
3. Color varies the most, but the shape can be dramatic. Some things are so intense they look like static.
4. I know all the lyrics, beats and notes (colors) Husband is a musician and often used this ability to learn stuff from me. I just tell him 'Nope, it's higher/lower' until he gets it.

I have never been more envious of someone in my entire life. That's miraculous

HalStep · Feb 7, 2019

i forgot to add to my other post and i have no idea how common it is but my big toe isn't the one that sticks out the furthest,the next toe in is.

Fiction · Feb 7, 2019

deftones r cool said:
I have never been more envious of someone in my entire life. That's miraculous

It's something I've had my whole life so it's hard to imagine seeing any other way. I was literally floored when I found out not everyone sees music. It'd be like you finding out it's extremely rare to see in color

Pickman · Feb 7, 2019

I can voluntarily flex my tensor tympani muscle. When you yawn deep or squint hard and hear that rushing rumble sound. I can do that on command.

Borgnine · Feb 7, 2019

Transistor said:
I can click my tongue extremely loud.

Noice.

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