Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[whiteshark12]

I can pop my ears at will, I don't need to do the valsalva maneuver or forcing a yawn. I'm not sure if anyone has not believed me but a few have seemed rather incredulous.

I can do this too, not really thought it was worth mentioning to people beyond a few questions about how i seem to not give a shit when in planes and everyone else looks like retards trying to equalize the pressure.

related question: do you get tinnitus a bit? (random high-pitched sound in your ear)

 

[Scrubiii]

I can hear electricty I guess. If I walk into a room and anything is on standby, or even just switched on at the plug I can hear it. Is that strange? Im not sure.

It's not strange. Any circuit with a current passing through it produces a high-pitched whine. Anyone with good enough ears will be able to hear this.

 

[Lilitu]

Together we could fight crime and evil! Nobody could withstand the double-icky-thumb!

The funny thing is yours is on your right, mine is on my left. Just out of curiosity, are you right-handed? Because I'm left handed, maybe this has something to do with early development.

Yes, I am right-handed, maybe this really has something to do with that. I couldn't always do that, maybe somewhen an icky spider has bitten me or something

 

[ragestreet]

I can apologize and admit when I'm wrong on the internet.

 

[Shakomaru]

Well,I get visions of the future, but everyone can do that.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Just wanted to respond to your second claim: As far as I'm aware, babies aren't born with the ability to form recallable memories - That's developed later in life.
Further on, memory is an odd thing. You might be able to recall experiences you've never went through, as in: "Ahh, I remember the cabin at the lake we was at when i was four" - But you never went to any cabin near a lake.

As for strange things... I don't think I'm able to do anything particularly strange.

Yup, this...
False memories are indistinguishable from "real ones".
And no one can call you a liar btw, because no memory is truly 100% reality.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I can temporarily turn off my sight. Like, I can have my eyes open, but voluntarily make my sight worse to the point where I can be almost completely blind (just seeing everything as a blur, basically, not even perceiving shapes). I always figured anybody could do this by un-focusing their eyes, but nobody I tell it about believes it's possible, so I guess they can't.

I can do that too. Isn't it just some eye muscle thing?
I've never thought about it as anything special.

Also, 3 years of age and being a baby are lightyears apart, brain development and memory wise...

 

[Gammaj4]

I can always crack my right ankle.
Even if I just cracked it less than a second ago.
It does really start to hurt eventually, though.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I can imagine 7 dimensions.
This one is very hard to prove.
It also makes my brain hurt.

Can you describe it?

 

[Android2137]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I can do that too; though now that you mention it, I've never seen anyone else do it, or thought to ask if they could. So for all I know, this could be an insanely rare ability.

Apart from that, nothing really.

Well, I used to be able to put my feet behind my head; no-one believed me until I showed them, but it's been a few years and I doubt I could pull it off nowadays.

I'm also in the flaring nostrils club. Is there a club? If not, wanna make one?

I can too, but I never considered it a rare ability. I thought it was something that anyone can do. This is nostril flaring, right? It happens a lot in books when people are angry.

Also in the category of "things I thought everyone else could do", I can rotate both my wrists 540 degrees. The reason why I thought other people could do it was because my entire family can do it and I didn't even realize it was a rare ability until my sister told me about the time her friends saw her do it. Since then, I've been showing it to other people and while I have found a few who can do it too, the majority cannot. Made rigging arms in Maya and Softimage a real pain until I found that out. Feels good when I rotate them to their fullest extent though, like stretching your arms and legs when you're tired.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I can "delete" memories at will (how the hell can one prove that?)

So you have no problem looking at Google images without the safe search on?

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I'm part of the flaring nostrils club.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I can imagine 7 dimensions.
This one is very hard to prove.
It also makes my brain hurt.

Do tell what dimension 5,6 and 7 is. Or atleast 5.

Mathematically speaking, one does not need to define what the dimensions are. For example, a line of a certain length can be extended in a perpendicular axis by the same length to produce a square. It can be extended into a third axis to make a cube. And it can be extended into a fourth axis (even if you cannot visualize that many dimensions simultaneously) to produce a <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube>Tesseract. You can continue doing this same process as long as you want and it continues to make sense mathematically even if it is all but impossible to effectively visualize.

One handy way to do this is to simply project the multi-dimensional object onto a 2d surface. It at least offers you something to latch onto with your mind. The other way to visualize this is to consider what the shape looks like as it passes through 3d space. For example, when a cone passes through a 2d plane, at one instant it is a single point and another it is a circle. From a different angle it produces a parabola and another gives us an ellipse.

 

[QuoBi]

Thumb thing, its called hitch hikers thumb, spine thing is prty common with people as well just a control thing, flaring nostrils and eye wavering is like being able to raise one eyebrow or wiggle ur ears, anyone can do it it just take muscle control.

 

[SiNCry]

You know how people crack their fingers? I crack my toes and ankles. It freaks my roommate out
I'm also a member of the flaring nostrils club
I proof read (to the best of my abilities) before I post something online.

 

[Jak23]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I can too, I discovered this ability watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer... I was trying to make my nose glow.

 

[Retal19]

I can recite Pi to 47 decimal places. I know there are people who can do far more, and that it is completely useless in doing anything but impressing Maths teachers by getting very precise answers in exams. It's not even that strange or anything, but it's the only thing I can do that no-one believes.

I also wonder why it impresses people so much when I actually do it though.

People are also more reluctant to believe me on the Internet where I can just copy-paste.

 

[JDLY]

I can solve a Rubik's cube in under 1 minute.

 

[redisforever]

I can't do anything. I have a friend who can vibrate his eyeballs though.

Oh, I can do that too, but it takes actual effort.



OT: when I see a place once, even for a second, I can close my eyes, and walk around normally.

Sounds useless, but it isn't.
I can turn off the lights, and walk around in my room at night, or if the power goes out, I know where everything is.

 

[Hungry Donner]

I can do this too, not really thought it was worth mentioning to people beyond a few questions about how i seem to not give a shit when in planes and everyone else looks like retards trying to equalize the pressure.

related question: do you get tinnitus a bit? (random high-pitched sound in your ear)

I never thought it was a big deal either but it came up once in discussion and everyone was amazed that I could do it - I hadn't even realized it was uncommon. Since then I've talked to a few people about it and while some haven't found it terribly interesting most have been at least mildly surprised.

Flying is great, you can just sit back with your book or laptop like nothings happening when the yawn chorus starts.

I don't getting a ringing in my ears but I frequently hear pressure changes or fluid draining from within my ear - I'm not sure if that's strictly under the tinnitus umbrella or not. I never thought the two might be connected, that's quite interesting.