Ask Lemmy

I have very curvy hair, like screws, on very specific parts of my body. One on each side, a bit above and right in front of my ears, beard curls below the edges of my mouth, chest hair curls between my nipples and two public hair curls right at the base of my shaft. Partners have found this very funny and fun to play with.

I can pop my right peck on command. I can pop my left peck only if I concentrate as hard as possible.

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

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 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

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

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.

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 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 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.

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 weirdly thick skin on and especially under my feet, so I can walk barefoot on ice and snow and not feel cold.