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
I too get the hot ears. I always worry it’s a tell in poker.
so its visible to other ppl too for u. Can other ppl feel ur ear being hot? Do you have dust allergies or allergies in general?
I don’t know how visible it is, and how much people are paying attention, but they do get red and I feel hot in just my ears. Too many allergies to count. Idk if it’s allergy related or something up with my sinuses.
I absolutely loathe shoes and boots because it causes my feet to overheat and then my whole body feels uncomfortable. I am a dedicated sandal wearing unless there’s literally snow outside.
One of my teeth is sort of in the middle of my mouth - I had an issue with it not coming in straight so an ortho pulled it down through the roof of my mouth and it was never really worth it to pull it into place. It’s fun to fidget with with my tongue.
For the teeth i have something similar. My last baby tooth was just removed last year even tho i am +18, turns out my adult tooth was growing below it all this time and now its behind my row of teeths and i can’t stop rubbing it with my tongue and its damn sharp that its driving me insane
I am gonna remove it too but unfortunately we dont have the money for that now
I had two of those as a kid. They put little chains around them and pulled them down into place.
That was the plan with mine but I was a terrible patient.
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
OMG. I had a terrible dental experience because of this.
Wow, I did not know that. Thanks a bunch.
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”
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.
How does “fuck you” look like ?
I need this info too
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
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.
I can relate. Here’s something you can see though.
Does red hair run in your family by any chance? People with red hair in their family (myself included, I have auburn-ish hair) need 20% more anesthetics.
yup. See my other reply
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
When I eat a few dill pickles, my scalp tingles. It’s mostly a pleasant sensation.
I sneeze when the temperature changes significantly. I have no idea why.
- 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
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 :)
Oh, yikes!
the fourth one, both my sisters can do that? makes me squeamish
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
I think it’s pretty wild that the body will just accept exogenous cross-sex hormones and start using them without issue.
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.
I’m apparently one of the only men in the world who have something akin to that, it’s similar but not as strong from what I’ve been told. Never once met another man with a better colour sense than me.
could you elaborate on what you mean by “more colours”? like infra red or ultraviolet? or do you mean your eyes have an extra colour cone that gives you more precise information about colours so that it’s easier for you to tell them apart?
A human’s eyes see color because of cones in the eyes. Each one corresponds to a different range of wavelengths; one cone corresponds to red, one to yellow or green, and one to blue. Tetrachromats have four cones.
Look outside at the nearest flower. To you, it could be just yellow, but we might see some cyan or teal that other people don’t. This is how crows, which we typically assume are all identically black, often recognize each other so well; they have five or six color cones I think, and amongst themselves, they look like they have the colors of a parakeet.
We can see new colors too. They are difficult to describe, though the best way to describe them is to ask you to think of the most neon-esque colors you can think of and think of all the dimensions and hues you might have never seen and which take on a life of their own. These new colors stretch beyond the ordinary boundaries of the rainbow but loop around in the same way.
fascinating!
no need to answer if you don’t want to, i don’t want to make you feel like it’s an interview or anything but i do wonder -
how does art look to you? do you sometimes see colours that are wrong that someone has used without knowing they’re there? do digital things look inherently less colourful since they only emit the light that 3 colour coned people can perceive?
Yes, I do occasionally see colors in art that aren’t there. Not to scare people, but in traditional art, it almost seems like smudges, and I can actually attest even some very classic works of art have some peculiar color arrangements when you see them in person. In digital art, you would be right; it’s like a regular person watching one of those lowkey noire movies or sports movies that voluntarily reduce the color output.
woah! thank you for answering! :D some really cool eyes you’ve got there
What does the color addon look like?
What do you mean, like the add-ons for technology? Technology, as it turns out, is biased towards trichromacy. When using a device or watching footage, you just get the red/green/yellow/blue experience because that’s all that’s programmed in the pixels. It’s to me what watching a noire movie is to a person who sees the normal range of colors.
It’s to me what watching a noire movie is to a person who sees the normal range of colors.
This is absolutely insane to me as a trichromatic person. I envy the richness of the world that you see
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 am weirdly envious. That sounds so cool!
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
Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.
Yes, every superchromat should read this series.
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.
I can do this too!
Hey me too
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.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!
Same. It’s a very useful trick for scuba diving.
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 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 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.
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
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.
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.
- 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
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 have something similar. Honeymoon rhinitus. People have picked up the perception that, if I sound like I have a cold when I talk to them, I really like them.
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’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.
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.
Yup! I do the cheat all the time. But I don’t have the inconvenience of the sun triggering it. It’s like I’m Blade, The Daywalker of Sneezing
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I don’t get fevers. My immune system is above average, I don’t have any diseases which affect my immune system, and nobody’s sure why I don’t get fevers.
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I have hyperphantasia, so when I imagine things, they look as real as real life, or like I’m watching a movie scene.
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I also have hyperthymia, which means I’m in a near continual state of mild mania (and I enjoy it!)
How is not getting fevers the sign of a strong immune system? Fevers are how bodies kill off infections.
It might seem paradoxical but despite not getting fevers I fight off infections more quickly compared to most people and it’s very rare for me to get sick. I got tested at one point and my immune system markers are all good!
Yeah, I have a similar thing. Despite my whole household getting sick with something and me not taking precautions, I rarely get any of the symptoms that would come from the immune system doing it’s job, and my symptoms from the disease itself are always mild and short lived. I still take precautions against anything new going around, since my presumption is that even if I have my immune system to thank for this, it can still only protect me against threats it knows.
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- If I blow my nose too hard when I’m sick I get pink eye
- I sneeze when I walk outside on a sunny day
I sneeze when I walk outside on a sunny day
Ah, the Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst. AKA ACHOO Syndrome
I have that too, but it requires a much higher intensity than just going out in the sun.
i.e. I need to have slept for a while in the dark and then come out and stare at the Sun to get the ACHOO.Also, I once looked straight at a solar eclipse (don’t tell my mother :P) for a few seconds and my eyes were still better than most other people for many years.
I thought this happened for everyone? Like, if you have to sneeze, looking at a bright light, everyone I know tries that to make them sneeze. I thought it was normal.
lol, that backronym is a bit of a stretch. Saying “I have a photic sneeze reflex” explains what I have. Saying “I have Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst” makes me sound I’m having a stroke and saying “I have ACHOO” makes me sound stupid 😅
Sneezing when I eat too much, typically 3 times.
