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I blush extremely easily when I'm aroused or embarrassed . My previous partner used to rely on it to see if her flirting worked and even tried to push it as far as she could to see how red I could get. The answer is very, very red! Even my chest starts blushing at some point! When I have an orgasm I'll often be blushing all over my body. Apparently it's normal and I don't have any health problems...
Also my sense of smell is insane, and I can touch my nose and my elbow with my tongue.
Sometimes if I take too big a gulp of water at once, the little bone near my adam's apple clicks out of place and I have to manually reset it.
Hey! Me too. I thought I was the only one. Happens when I yawn sometimes too.
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.
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.
I can scoop a spit bubble up off the bottom of my mouth with my tongue, fold my tongue around it, and blow the bubble out of my mouth, and it floats to the ground.
I have a few
A Dexa scan I had done revealed that I have an incredibly dense skeleton in the top 1% of the US national database. It sounds neat but it does absolutely nothing to stop all the soft tissue damage that sports accumulates.
A genetic test revealed I have the super taster gene, some things taste godly but mostly things people like taste bad to me. Coffee, beer, wine for instance are all repulsive.
I have no refractory period. I can pretty much have sex as long as I want and cum over and over again. Record for a single session was 19 with a kinky femdom I used to play with. Despite what all of those female rap songs tell you, there actually aren't very many women that are ready for Mr all night when he shows up.
I heal incredibly fast, I had major surgery and I blew past all the normal milestones for recovery.
I have central heterochromia in both eyes which I'm told is attractive
I also likely have the genes for FNSS (familial natural short sleep) which basically just means that I am genetically predisposed to only require 4 to 5 hours Sleep a night to feel completely refreshed.
Geez, look at mister perfect over here. /s
Actually though, does your dense skeleton give you a resistance to broken bones?
I do a few tough sports like MMA, bouldering, snowboarding etc and thus have never experienced any bone break, but I've had bad tendon injuries.
When I have to shit really bad I can feel a pain in my forearm. Not like a painful pain but more like a tingling sensation in only my left forearm.
I sometimes feel the same thing at different spots of my body.
Like if someone pinches the skin on my back I could feel the pain of the pinch on my shoulder as well.
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.
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.
I'm a tetrachromat if that counts. That means instead of seeing just the regular six color groups most people see, I can see 25% more colors on top of that.
Here's me with my red-green deficiency already jealous of standard colour vision
Honestly, practically-speaking, you aren't missing out on too much. Color isn't as crucial a detail outside of aesthetics. Plus I imagine you have the perfect excuse for running a red light and committing fashion crimes.
Haha unfortunately on the red front I can see red, but I miss many of the shades. It's not so much can't see red but all reds look the same, reddy browns just look brown, pinky reds just look pink, purples are harder to distinguish from blue.
No getting out of red lights, unfortunately
You must be a woman. As far as I can tell, that only happens in women.
This is correct. In fact, the same gene manifests differently in men even if they had it. In men, if anything, it hinders color. Or so that's what my doctor told me.
How did you and your doctor confirm you are tetrachromatic? I find all your replies here fascinating, I hope you don't mind another question!
It wasn't my doctor that first found out, it was my school. Just as there are ways people can realize someone is colorblind, there are ways people might realize that someone is a tetrachromat. I remember often feeling something was off when we were describing colors in school and little me was like "wait a minute, why does this feel incomplete?"
Very interesting! Thanks for the response.
I have hypermobility, but a mild form that just lets me bend my fingers back without any of the major problems associated with it.
My hands and feet are slightly adhesive when they're any wetter than bone dry, so you can hear a faint peeling sound when I walk barefoot in the house, even a little bit on short carpet. Think peeling scotch tape and reduce it by 50%.
I can also control the muscles responsible for equalizing the pressure in my ears, and that allows me to put them under a slight vacuum to slightly dampen loud noises.
I also have long toes. Not to the extent of a chimp, but I have successfully signed my name with them before (though even lower quality than signing with my left hand).
I also cannot cry from cutting onions. This sounds awesome until you're cutting 3 bags of onions in one go and you learn that the tears dilute the sulfuric acid that forms. That was a painful evening.
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.
I’m in the crazy sneezing corner at work.
You can't just post this and leave out the other name for this:
Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst
Or: ACHOO
I can wiggle my little toes independently.
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
Mentally perceive sounds as color. I don't get the visual effect as with true synesthesia but more like my mind says "that sound is blue" when I hear it.
I can fold my ears in on themselves and they will stay that way until I smile.
Basically my ears are just super soft because I was always playing with them as a kid so the cartridge never really hardened up like it did for most other people.
As I have gotten older and played with my ears less they don't stay folded as long but I can still do it.
I can think myself into immediately stopping hiccups.
I can also puke on demand.
My ears have a little muscle in them that acts like an eject button for hard earbuds ( like apple)
I can dislocate my joints at will. Thing with Ehlers-Danlos but it's a nice party trick
I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side.
This happened to me when I took antidepressants for the first time, as well as being incredibly sensitive to sound, to the point where I could hear electricity.
Not being hyperbolic at all. To test this my partner and I tested a bunch of devices, she flicked either a dummy-switch, or one powering an appliance, and with my back turned, I could tell her if it was on, off, or she hit a dummy switch.
Ultimately I couldn't stand being on antidepressants, I felt like my IQ dropped 10 points.
I always thought hearing electricity is normal, up until I realized most people can't do that. Never been on antidepressants or anything, that's my normal state of consciousness.
Surprise surprise, I'm extremely sensitive to all kinds of noise.
I can pop my clavical by pushing my shoulder toward my back with my opposite hand.
I can inhale through my ass to fart on command.
My thumbs can bend backwards without assistance from the other hand.
I can inhale smoke from a cigarette or pipe or something, and blow it out of my ears (it hurts though; I don't like doing it).
I can kinda wiggle my ears.
I can put my own dick in my own butt, but just the tip.
I can tell when there are electronics turned on around me even if they aren't intended to make noise, because they all seem to give off this kind of almost imperceptible high pitch whine. Not enough to be bothersome, but just enough to know something probably has current running through it.
Some microphones can't pick up my voice.
We need more information here because that doesn't seem possible. Is it something like your voice is so deep that cheap microphones don't capture it or what?
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.
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)
