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 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.
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’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.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.
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.
Ha! This happens to me as well! I do have a funny slight extra detail though. I can’t really visualise images in my minds eye (almost aphantasia), but when I’m closing my eyes to go to sleep, and a sudden noise happens, I see a flash of white like you, but also usually some random af detailed image flash in my minds eye. It’s so weird, always different, always amusing, and the closest I get to visualising. It could be anything, like a old woman in a cowboy hat riding a horse or whatever. Also, I have slight grapheme-colour synesthesia, so it’s interesting that you called it wish synesthesia! I wonder if it plays some role!
This happens to me for surprising sounds! I sleep with fans and such to drown out noises that make the flash. Is it all sounds for you?
Absolutely all sounds, but it has to be unexpected!
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.
How strange! When I have to pee really badly, I feel it in my teeth. Is that weird or normal?! My past partners have never had this uncomfortable tingling sensation from it. I always clench my jaw and wiggle to try and ease the feeling. Obviously also go pee.
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.
Me too! If I’m scratching or picking at my skin, sometimes I feel it somewhere else, so I figured it’s normal and just nerve signals being connected somehow, but never spoken about it.
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.
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
Wow, I did not know that. Thanks a bunch.
OMG. I had a terrible dental experience because of this.
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
Not quite. See my other replies
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.
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”
What’s the coolest-looking sound?
How does “fuck you” look like ?
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
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.
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.
Came on pretty suddenly when I had my appendix out around 20. They put a catheter in for the surgery and there was a little mishap that required some repair. Everything works fine unless there’s too much backpressure. Hasn’t changed much in the past 18 years.
I’m not your twin am I? I had mine out right before 20…
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.
Nice! You should read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks if you like Fantasy novels.
Yes, every superchromat should read this series.
I am weirdly envious. That sounds so cool!
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
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 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?
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.
Yup! I do the cheat all the time. But I don’t have the inconvenience of the sun randomly triggering it. It’s like I’m Blade, The Daywalker of Sneezing
I can wiggle my little toes independently.
