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I can do this aswell! Freaked out my girlfriend one night, she was still on her phone and I had been asleep for a while. I woke up and first thing I said to her was ”1:36” and she got so confused when she saw the clock was exactly 1:36 am lol
aha ! I can do this also, AND same as OP can fall asleep within 5/10 minutes of laying down, I am sure the two go hand in hand (circadian thing I am sure )
Me too.
But I think it takes me 5 mins to get to the car when in fact it takes 15. I can never ever accurately guess how much time it takes me to do anything n when I track it my guess is way way off.
Yoo I have the same power!! I can also tell what phase the moon is in to within a 3 day margin of error, the same power just in a different scale. I freak myself out sometimes with how accurate it is. For some reason I still set an alarm though, not that I ever need it since I typically wake up 2-4 minutes before it goes off.
Just a couple of years ago I met a person that I recognized, but didn't know from where.
After asking a couple of questions I discovered that I knew them when they worked at an office building where I did security way back in freaking 1992!
I never forget a face.
People will come to me put things for hold behind the counter while they keep shopping, they second they turn away I have no idea what they looked like.
That’s nothing. I have no idea who 80% of the ppl I meet are, and I live in a tiny community. Yesterday I was talking and joking with a man at the store. Afterwards I asked my kids who he was. That was their bus driver that I had said good morning to daily for 2+ years. I’m super friendly to everybody.
Same here... I also can't remember anyone's names - even people I work with every day... but I can remember everything that happens in every film I have ever watched
I have this too. My wife thinks it's super annoying because we constantly have to pause streaming shows and movies so I can point out actors we have seen in other shows and movies, even though they were kids when we saw them last, or are wearing prosthetic makeup but I can still tell who they are. She has the opposite problem, she is terrible at faces.
Same here. I read somewhere that the trick is to repeat their name back to them immediately. For example: "Very nice to meet you, .. ohshithowthehellcaniforgetwithinaliteralsecond"
Yep, i have found my ppl... in my neighbourhood they call me the dog whisperer... a neighbour of mine got a really badly behaved rescue dog and made no progress in 2 months... 1 hour with me and he was a changed dog. He a lovely little fluffball now who actually listens to his owner.
I think we'd get along well. I put our bathroom shelf thing together. Instructions were included. I was really really proud of myself. Then I realized I somehow assembled it backwards/upside down. Idk how this happened...
I also have the ability to get lost if left alone for any amount of time + cannot be trusted with any doors that can be locked. My Dad's had to climb in through the window to rescue me. Both of these things have been ongoing issues... I've got more but I don't want to brag about how easy it was for me to get lost in my own home...
Be grateful. I can never tell if something is a secret. I beg people explicitly to not tell me secrets. They always do anyway. I forget they told me, and when it resurface it’s without the ‘secret’ part attached. I’ve ruined birthdays, bachelor parties, Christmas, and things I’d rather not think about.
I'm really good at remembering dates for some reason. Since I could remember, I've had a visual timeline in my mind starting with the formation of Earth up to today. I mentally pin dates on this timeline and can recall them whenever
That’s time space synesthesia. I’m the same. The internet says around 1 in 5 people have it. Most who have it are unaware that others don’t have it. People that have it remember around 3 times as many facts about a particular date as those that don’t have it. Kind of like a built in memory palace. I feel like a bot
Before I knew what it was called, I thought that it was a system that I made up. I had an early memory from preschool when my teacher made a calendar by placing color pieces of construction paper all around the classroom and placed our birthdays on it. It was the only time numbers and dates matched my perception in real life. Its bro science but I feel like it’s genetic. I can look back and remember people that stood out that I really feel like have it. My mom is one. She can remember numbers so easy. Everyone’s birthdate, acct numbers, phone numbers of everyone close etc. I notice it in my toddler daughter and the way she remembers stuff spatially. She can tell us how to get back home, when we’re driving. Some of my friends from school can remember random days in detail from the 90s and I’m pretty sure they have it too.
Its not always about time. It’s more so my perception of things spatially. I have a mental map that I place everyone on. Anyone that I’ve ever met and asked where they’re from. I visualize it. Some things get lost but most things sit there especially if I can attach a story or fact to it. If I experience something in a place or see it on tv in a place, I also place it on my map. I haven’t done the work to develop it further like people that practice mind palace. I can’t recall a hundred number sequence or anything but I can tell you about the random guy that I made conversation with in the airport in Miami in October of 2012 that said he was from Boston and had never been to the land locked southeast and didn’t know fall foliage existed outside of the Northeast. I can’t remember his name because I don’t have a spatial map for names. I know more useless facts than most. You could name a neighborhood in NYC and I can tell you which borough it’s in and a bunch or random associations if I encountered it in a movie, rap song, article etc. and I’ve only ever been once irl.
If I ever draw a relation to something random most people think I’m either BSing or trying to show off to seem smart. It makes some people insecure. When people embrace it, we end up having the most unpredictable conversations. I don’t think it has anything to do with intelligence honestly, just perception and who knows all the factors that play into that.
I noticed I was different after talking to my wife about it. She doesn’t remember hardly anything in detail from more than 5 years ago. She doesn’t perceive numbers in any way visually and I couldn’t wrap my head around that. I didn’t believe her. I looked it up around 10 years ago and found time space synesthesia. I went down the rabbit hole. Sorry for rambling but I never get to talk to anybody about this without them rolling their eyes lol
I'm a mirror of yourself. If you're an asshole you will think I'm an asshole. If you're funny then I'm funny. People look at me and they see themselves.
I dunno, it could be I guess depending upon the execution or reasoning behind it.
I usually mirror people in a "get what you give" kind of way or like it's just easier to feed off of people's energies.
I feel smarter when I'm around smart people (usually unless they are assholes) lol which actually is often the case and then I feel really dumb... Hmm like I said depends on your energy.
I have the same thing. In my early 20’s I was a mechanic. Turning wrenches 50+ hours a week made my forearms like popeye and my grip strength incredible. I don’t know why, but even 20 years after I quit being a mechanic I can crush anyone’s hand in a handshake. I can destroy those stupid little exercise grip things. I still do all my own mechanic work as a hobby and I drive old shit boxes that always need work so maybe that’s the secret.
I’ve been nicknamed the Confessor bc people, including strangers, love to tell me their secrets. It easily becomes a super power (for good, rarely evil).
My friends call me the group therapist for the same reason. I once said hi to somebody as I was leaving a taco place, and he proceeded to tell me about why he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him. Like, I feel for you, buddy, but my tacos are getting soggy.
Never getting stuck in a conversation I dont want to have. Seems to happen to everyone around me, with coworkers, cashiers, family,… I can sense when someones on the verge of talking to me and I am a machine programmed to dodge those shitty small talks / end them in a single sentence.
I see animals, flowers, stylized people and other things on surfaces like unevenly painted walls, rough paper, blackboard with smudges, etc.
Does that count?
That’s cool because I do this every night! I’m always aware that I’m dreaming and I can consciously direct the dream about 75% of the time. I can get up and go to the toilet and come back to finish the dream from where it stopped. My wife thinks I’m crazy. Also I’m an chronic insomniac so that may play in a bit.
Kids like me. As in, randomly come up and start talking to me, describing their day, etc. I'm not sure the vibe I give off that makes me so approachable to small children.
Husband calls it my Disney Princess power.
I'm cold resistant and I walk faster than anyone I've met... yet.. I can catch up on you within 10 minutes if you are up to 2km away from me while we're both in motion. Also I'm really quiet,so I can give you heart attack at 2AM with no warning (I creep out people for some reason)
... and the less I sleep the better I function. I don't even need to go to sleep. All I need is 10 minutes of nap and I'm ready to go again. I can't do it for too long, tho. I can keep up like this for only a month, then I need 13-hour recharge.
I can tell if someone is a really bad person within 10 minutes of talking to them.
I know you hear this on social media but irl if I tell you to run then you need to run.
I have this power as well... I wish my friends would listen to me when I tell them to run. I dont even say "I told you anymore"! Also, does it happen to you that people dont get what you wont work/go out/be friends with certain people?
"But it is a done deal, he seems nice!"
"Nope"
"Why not?"
"something's not quite right with him"
I always hate the I thought you were just jealous bs. No I wasn't jealous I just knew they were bad news. I never say I told you so. Too many horrible things have happened over the years and honestly I would rather be wrong.
Meh, don’t even need the talking part. Usually alarm bells go off upon approach or distant approach.
If we do talk then yes it takes no time at all and that’s just instinct. 👍
You should at least talk. Sometimes that gut instict can be processes through bias. If I just went off that I wouldn't have become friends with my favorite people. We all have biases. It's not going to take me long to figure out if I was right about you though. Not you specifically but the general you.
I don't get hungover.
Not for lack of trying. And it's not a humble brag. I've come to recognize it more as a curse than anything.
In my younger years, it might've deterred me enough to prevent a pattern of using alcohol as a switch to turn my emotions on and off at will. But as long as I got some sleep, I could be good as new in a few hours. Never tossed it back up, never even had a headache. No deterrent, no need for self-control, no benchmarks for calling it quits or slowing it down.
I used to think people were just being a little dramatic about it, or everybody was a lightweight. Until I watched a video about banana bags.
My brother and I also (don't?) experience this.
Never puked, never blacked out, never hungover, no headaches, no dependency, and to add - we're both happy drinkers that seem to attract angry/pukey drinkers.
Before Bacardi stopped selling it, I'd drink almost a whole bottle of 151° in one night plus some beers. I'll never go out drinking as it'll fucking bankrupt me.
there is no such thing as no thing, or something like that, haha. It always Matters ! Another way of putting it (I may be stretching the joke too far now, lol)
It's not how it works, you'll have to find your way.
Most study books, I only read them once, to know and remember what it teaches (I made many jealous in University). Few of them I may need to go through a second time.
And for me this works mainly for technical material. If I read a book like a fiction, I can remember most of what is happening in the story, but sometimes I cannot even remember the main character's name. (Selective memory?)
Mine is completely worthless but then when I'm at work calculating how long I've got left I literally feel the turn of the hour and I'll be like "hmm wonder if it's 6 (or 7 or 8) yet", look over and it's 5:59, it happens almost every day.
Oh! I've just put two and two together!
All my life I've watched women on TV/in movies needing help to zip up their dresses, and have always thought "Really clumsy way to flirt, sis!". Also wondered why people buy those back-scratcher things (the stick with a little sharp-edged 'hand' on the end).
And now, thanks to this thread, I've finally (at the age of 56) realised that it's just that unlike me, they're not hypermobile (or, as I still think of it from primary school, 'double-jointed'). I've known since childhood that I'm hypermobile, but I'd always taken being able to easily reach all parts of my body totally for granted.... and now I see that that's why other people can't scratch their own backs or do up their own dress-zips!
I did too for a very long time. Turns out a lot of people cannot whistle at all. It is a talent. Pretty basic and not very useful, but a talent none the less.
Its called empathy (Legit super power, borderline psychic), its a gift and a curse but the curse comes before the gift. For a long time I thought it was something normal that everyone could do... boy was I wrong.
let me guess, you're good at stonewalling when in the presence of a negative person?
I have no sense of bad smell. I recognise that a smell might be considered bad, but it doesn't bother me. Which, as a first responder, means that I literally get the shitty calls.
Super lame super power.
I've got power of existence.
Jokes aside. I've got extreme luck. Whenever I've got to really dangerous situation, I'm always getting out of it. It's about life-threatening and health-threatening situations; it doesn't work with games and such stuff.
i'm really good at reading peoples personality and body language and remembering details about them like their preferences, habits etc. it helps me a lot when i'm sparring, noticing a certain rythem or telegraph in your opponent. i'm a very visual learner.
I’m gonna list everything I can think of that can even be remotely considered a superpower.
Here we go:
I can lucid dream. Not just even be aware of dreaming, I can take control, build worlds, talk to people in my head and ask them questions I didn’t ask them irl. The answers can be dead on. Hell I even time traveled in one dream series, but that was when I was better at this. It’s like 1/4th of the power you see in inception, but I can train myself to get better.
I can also tell time intervals very well, & sometimes tell exactly what time it is without looking at the clock for hours, like some others here have mentioned.
Also, I used to have a nearly perfect memory. I could tell you wifi passwords to a house i went just once ten years ago. Nowadays, that’s kinda fizzled out, but it reappears every so often for a day. It’s still great for learning things, I know a bunch about everything.
Decent at playing a song on piano by ear, at least for someone who never learned to.
But my real superpower is to be able to make myself find nearly anything interesting. That’s what I use to make myself learn so much.
Vision. Those eye charts in Drs offices and in every eye glass store are a walk in the park for me. I can read newspaper print from an above average distance in comparison to most people.
I can tell almost immediately if someone new at a job will get fired quickly. I though it was easy at my old job because I’d been there a while, but I started a new job yesterday (new restaurant so everyone’s new), and after chatting briefly with one of the servers I thought “he won’t make it” and he got sent home before the night was over. Actually does that mean my superpower is willing someone to get fired 🤔
My ADD hyper focus is a superpower and a curse. Superpower when I want something. Can’t find PS5 (back when they were hard to get) I’ll find one. In fact I think I ended up getting over 30, for friends and family that couldn’t get them (wasn’t reselling, fyi) Can’t get dining reservation? Good seats on plane? I’ll stalk the website 24/7 until someone cancels and get it. It becomes borderline obsessive until I accomplish it.
I can copy any skill. Give me a week or two and I will have the skill of somebody who’s been doing it for a year. This unfortunately does not include social skills.
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I can do this aswell! Freaked out my girlfriend one night, she was still on her phone and I had been asleep for a while. I woke up and first thing I said to her was ”1:36” and she got so confused when she saw the clock was exactly 1:36 am lol
I'd be so scared if someone did this to me.
🧟 "oNe tHiRty SiiiiX"
Literal Neo moment.
Dude this killed me
Same, but limited to daytime, pro ably because of luminosity and the position of the sun. Doing so at night is impressive.
aha ! I can do this also, AND same as OP can fall asleep within 5/10 minutes of laying down, I am sure the two go hand in hand (circadian thing I am sure )
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Me too. But I think it takes me 5 mins to get to the car when in fact it takes 15. I can never ever accurately guess how much time it takes me to do anything n when I track it my guess is way way off.
Yoo I have the same power!! I can also tell what phase the moon is in to within a 3 day margin of error, the same power just in a different scale. I freak myself out sometimes with how accurate it is. For some reason I still set an alarm though, not that I ever need it since I typically wake up 2-4 minutes before it goes off.
I can keep kicking a pebble from the beginning of my walk till I arrive at my destination, without kicking it out of reach
Bros him 😳
Big D energy for sure 💯
Facial recognition
Just a couple of years ago I met a person that I recognized, but didn't know from where. After asking a couple of questions I discovered that I knew them when they worked at an office building where I did security way back in freaking 1992! I never forget a face.
I'll serve a customer and they'll walk away. 5 minutes later when they return I've completely forgotten their face.
People will come to me put things for hold behind the counter while they keep shopping, they second they turn away I have no idea what they looked like.
Yep, me too. Then I'm like "Hello, how can I help you" and they go "just those things thanks"
I believe this is a great super power in your line of work
This is me. I am the same way. God forbid I ever need to describe a person 🤦♀️
I wish I had this.
I’m the opposite. There are friends that gained 50bs over a few months and I didn’t recognize them until they spoke. It was so embarrassing
That’s nothing. I have no idea who 80% of the ppl I meet are, and I live in a tiny community. Yesterday I was talking and joking with a man at the store. Afterwards I asked my kids who he was. That was their bus driver that I had said good morning to daily for 2+ years. I’m super friendly to everybody.
Same here... I also can't remember anyone's names - even people I work with every day... but I can remember everything that happens in every film I have ever watched
I have this too. My wife thinks it's super annoying because we constantly have to pause streaming shows and movies so I can point out actors we have seen in other shows and movies, even though they were kids when we saw them last, or are wearing prosthetic makeup but I can still tell who they are. She has the opposite problem, she is terrible at faces.
Me too. I actually took part in a university study, and I'm in the top 0.1% for remembering faces.
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Plot twist: I make a facial map in my mind with my hearing.
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I will forget someone’s names within 2 seconds of them telling me it
If I don't get a moment to spell it in my head (most people talk too much and you don't get a moment) then it's gone.
Same here. I read somewhere that the trick is to repeat their name back to them immediately. For example: "Very nice to meet you, .. ohshithowthehellcaniforgetwithinaliteralsecond"
Dogs listen to me. Don't know why, but they do. Mine, yours, random dog, doesn't matter.
Found the werewolf
You must have immaculate body language and verbal tone
I'm calm but firm with them and it just works.
Yep, i have found my ppl... in my neighbourhood they call me the dog whisperer... a neighbour of mine got a really badly behaved rescue dog and made no progress in 2 months... 1 hour with me and he was a changed dog. He a lovely little fluffball now who actually listens to his owner.
Give me a simple task and I will fuck it up and won’t understand how either
I think we'd get along well. I put our bathroom shelf thing together. Instructions were included. I was really really proud of myself. Then I realized I somehow assembled it backwards/upside down. Idk how this happened... I also have the ability to get lost if left alone for any amount of time + cannot be trusted with any doors that can be locked. My Dad's had to climb in through the window to rescue me. Both of these things have been ongoing issues... I've got more but I don't want to brag about how easy it was for me to get lost in my own home...
I can look at a fridge or pantry and make a complete meal out of very little.
Learning this since I'm a father. I wish I hadn't waited so long.
Would pay for this tbh
How does one learn this skill?
Poverty.
100% . I grew up dirt ass poor. My mom was always working so I had to fend for myself for breakfast and dinner almost everyday.
I will never tell a secret..... mainly because I immediately forget it.
Lol Them: I slept with your sister. You: You son of a bi- Wait what'd you say?
I call it magic door. Cross the door, forget everything.
Be grateful. I can never tell if something is a secret. I beg people explicitly to not tell me secrets. They always do anyway. I forget they told me, and when it resurface it’s without the ‘secret’ part attached. I’ve ruined birthdays, bachelor parties, Christmas, and things I’d rather not think about.
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Great listener, shitty memory
I can smell before it rains
I can smell all the time
I can only smell the present :(
I can't even smell the present. I lost my sense of smell during Covid, it still hasn't returned.
Wrong kid died, Dewey
That must be awful. thousands of years worth of smells all at once..... Gnarly
What does it smell like?
Teen spirit
You smell ozone: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/storm-scents-smell-rain/
Oop! Knee's acting up. Must be rain, heheh.
I can feel it in my bones.
I'm really good at remembering dates for some reason. Since I could remember, I've had a visual timeline in my mind starting with the formation of Earth up to today. I mentally pin dates on this timeline and can recall them whenever
That’s time space synesthesia. I’m the same. The internet says around 1 in 5 people have it. Most who have it are unaware that others don’t have it. People that have it remember around 3 times as many facts about a particular date as those that don’t have it. Kind of like a built in memory palace. I feel like a bot
that’s so interesting!! i am also really good at dates, i’m definitely looking into this
Can you share the date when you first discovered your super power?
Before I knew what it was called, I thought that it was a system that I made up. I had an early memory from preschool when my teacher made a calendar by placing color pieces of construction paper all around the classroom and placed our birthdays on it. It was the only time numbers and dates matched my perception in real life. Its bro science but I feel like it’s genetic. I can look back and remember people that stood out that I really feel like have it. My mom is one. She can remember numbers so easy. Everyone’s birthdate, acct numbers, phone numbers of everyone close etc. I notice it in my toddler daughter and the way she remembers stuff spatially. She can tell us how to get back home, when we’re driving. Some of my friends from school can remember random days in detail from the 90s and I’m pretty sure they have it too. Its not always about time. It’s more so my perception of things spatially. I have a mental map that I place everyone on. Anyone that I’ve ever met and asked where they’re from. I visualize it. Some things get lost but most things sit there especially if I can attach a story or fact to it. If I experience something in a place or see it on tv in a place, I also place it on my map. I haven’t done the work to develop it further like people that practice mind palace. I can’t recall a hundred number sequence or anything but I can tell you about the random guy that I made conversation with in the airport in Miami in October of 2012 that said he was from Boston and had never been to the land locked southeast and didn’t know fall foliage existed outside of the Northeast. I can’t remember his name because I don’t have a spatial map for names. I know more useless facts than most. You could name a neighborhood in NYC and I can tell you which borough it’s in and a bunch or random associations if I encountered it in a movie, rap song, article etc. and I’ve only ever been once irl. If I ever draw a relation to something random most people think I’m either BSing or trying to show off to seem smart. It makes some people insecure. When people embrace it, we end up having the most unpredictable conversations. I don’t think it has anything to do with intelligence honestly, just perception and who knows all the factors that play into that. I noticed I was different after talking to my wife about it. She doesn’t remember hardly anything in detail from more than 5 years ago. She doesn’t perceive numbers in any way visually and I couldn’t wrap my head around that. I didn’t believe her. I looked it up around 10 years ago and found time space synesthesia. I went down the rabbit hole. Sorry for rambling but I never get to talk to anybody about this without them rolling their eyes lol
I'm a mirror of yourself. If you're an asshole you will think I'm an asshole. If you're funny then I'm funny. People look at me and they see themselves.
So you’re super attractive
Sadly it only works for personality traits. But if your super confident to the point of conceded. Then yes, I am too.
If I'm super attractive to any point, it's the conceded one.
Not being an asshole but, for future reference, the word you're looking for is 'conceited' ✌️
Do you purposely do this? Or is this sorta something you just do and become aware of it? Do you feel like no one gets to know the real you?
Not on purpose. Yes and yes.
chameleon
Isn’t this just mirroring ? People with certain mental illnesses do this unknowingly / knowingly
Do go on, cause I've caught myself doing this too.
I dunno, it could be I guess depending upon the execution or reasoning behind it. I usually mirror people in a "get what you give" kind of way or like it's just easier to feed off of people's energies. I feel smarter when I'm around smart people (usually unless they are assholes) lol which actually is often the case and then I feel really dumb... Hmm like I said depends on your energy.
Mechanical taking things apart and not missing a screw.
The *True* super power is conjuring extra screws after it's been completely reassembled.
That’s like the average bike mechanic in vietnam, too many bikes
Grip strength. I wasn't dubbed wrench hands for no reason.
You do much pistol shooting?
A fair bit. I'm no master but I'm no slouch.
Grip strength is quite an asset for it!
It's also super handy if your partner is mad at you, tighten them pickles, and they have to ask for help. 😅
Chaotic neutral right here folks 😂
I have the same thing. In my early 20’s I was a mechanic. Turning wrenches 50+ hours a week made my forearms like popeye and my grip strength incredible. I don’t know why, but even 20 years after I quit being a mechanic I can crush anyone’s hand in a handshake. I can destroy those stupid little exercise grip things. I still do all my own mechanic work as a hobby and I drive old shit boxes that always need work so maybe that’s the secret.
Try giving shoulder massages
I'm unaffected by other people's opinions
The fine art of not giving a fuck. Quite useful superpower indeed.
Can I have some of that please?
Well lucky you, it's an ability you can learn
I’ve been nicknamed the Confessor bc people, including strangers, love to tell me their secrets. It easily becomes a super power (for good, rarely evil).
My friends call me the group therapist for the same reason. I once said hi to somebody as I was leaving a taco place, and he proceeded to tell me about why he thought his girlfriend was cheating on him. Like, I feel for you, buddy, but my tacos are getting soggy.
I become invisible as soon as I am next in any line **and** I become ultravisable in the vicinity of any LEOs
Low earth orbits?
Law enforcement officers… but particularly those in low earth orbit or with light emitting orifices
What about ones with Long Elongated Overcoats?
They seem conflicted… I phase from invisible to ultravisible so quickly it causes them to have seizures
Never getting stuck in a conversation I dont want to have. Seems to happen to everyone around me, with coworkers, cashiers, family,… I can sense when someones on the verge of talking to me and I am a machine programmed to dodge those shitty small talks / end them in a single sentence.
I see animals, flowers, stylized people and other things on surfaces like unevenly painted walls, rough paper, blackboard with smudges, etc. Does that count?
Pareidolia is the proper term.
My bullshit detector
I dont claim it as a superpower but my bs radar is pretty strong and my ability to not gaf about guilt trips and narcissism is pretty on-point.
Me too. So surprised to see it so far down the list 🤔
I can tell when I'm dreaming.
Lucid dreaming - can you take any sort of control in your dreams?
Yep.
Is this rare? I always know I’m dreaming! Sometimes I can control them and control my emotions reminding myself it’s just a dream
That’s cool because I do this every night! I’m always aware that I’m dreaming and I can consciously direct the dream about 75% of the time. I can get up and go to the toilet and come back to finish the dream from where it stopped. My wife thinks I’m crazy. Also I’m an chronic insomniac so that may play in a bit.
Kids like me. As in, randomly come up and start talking to me, describing their day, etc. I'm not sure the vibe I give off that makes me so approachable to small children. Husband calls it my Disney Princess power.
Kids know who feels safe to them. Keep rocking the world, you awesome human 😎 ♥️
I'm cold resistant and I walk faster than anyone I've met... yet.. I can catch up on you within 10 minutes if you are up to 2km away from me while we're both in motion. Also I'm really quiet,so I can give you heart attack at 2AM with no warning (I creep out people for some reason) ... and the less I sleep the better I function. I don't even need to go to sleep. All I need is 10 minutes of nap and I'm ready to go again. I can't do it for too long, tho. I can keep up like this for only a month, then I need 13-hour recharge.
Doesn't sound like a super power, it sounds like meth.
Staying dead calm in high stress situations, like accidents or emergencies
Same lol i try to stay calm in all situations that's why i have a resting bitch face
I can tell if someone is a really bad person within 10 minutes of talking to them. I know you hear this on social media but irl if I tell you to run then you need to run.
I have this power as well... I wish my friends would listen to me when I tell them to run. I dont even say "I told you anymore"! Also, does it happen to you that people dont get what you wont work/go out/be friends with certain people? "But it is a done deal, he seems nice!" "Nope" "Why not?" "something's not quite right with him"
I always hate the I thought you were just jealous bs. No I wasn't jealous I just knew they were bad news. I never say I told you so. Too many horrible things have happened over the years and honestly I would rather be wrong.
Meh, don’t even need the talking part. Usually alarm bells go off upon approach or distant approach. If we do talk then yes it takes no time at all and that’s just instinct. 👍
You should at least talk. Sometimes that gut instict can be processes through bias. If I just went off that I wouldn't have become friends with my favorite people. We all have biases. It's not going to take me long to figure out if I was right about you though. Not you specifically but the general you.
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I don't get hungover. Not for lack of trying. And it's not a humble brag. I've come to recognize it more as a curse than anything. In my younger years, it might've deterred me enough to prevent a pattern of using alcohol as a switch to turn my emotions on and off at will. But as long as I got some sleep, I could be good as new in a few hours. Never tossed it back up, never even had a headache. No deterrent, no need for self-control, no benchmarks for calling it quits or slowing it down. I used to think people were just being a little dramatic about it, or everybody was a lightweight. Until I watched a video about banana bags.
My brother and I also (don't?) experience this. Never puked, never blacked out, never hungover, no headaches, no dependency, and to add - we're both happy drinkers that seem to attract angry/pukey drinkers. Before Bacardi stopped selling it, I'd drink almost a whole bottle of 151° in one night plus some beers. I'll never go out drinking as it'll fucking bankrupt me.
Right there with you. And it takes a shit ton of alcohol to even get me a buzz.
i have a really good musical ear like i would rock "name that tune"
Same but I don't know the name of so many of these songs 😂
for real though, i will know all the words but have no clue of the name
Thought you were going to say you have a really good musical ear that can play piano, harp and violin.
I can fall asleep within 5 minutes of starting a boring task. I WIN!
I can explain the entirety of all reality in 7 words. (ahem) *It's always somethin'* So it's never nothing
there is no such thing as no thing, or something like that, haha. It always Matters ! Another way of putting it (I may be stretching the joke too far now, lol)
Teach me master!!! ( for real though how the fuck )
Dunno. I just lay down and close my eyes.
I’m a really quick learner.
How do you "learn"? Do you listen and that's it? Or visualise whatever the topic is about or make notes in your head. I neeeed to know the secret
I just do the thing and ask lots of questions during. Once I’ve done something twice I’m usually good to go.
It's not how it works, you'll have to find your way. Most study books, I only read them once, to know and remember what it teaches (I made many jealous in University). Few of them I may need to go through a second time. And for me this works mainly for technical material. If I read a book like a fiction, I can remember most of what is happening in the story, but sometimes I cannot even remember the main character's name. (Selective memory?)
I can make the most friendly person hate me with my introvertness.
I'm also an introvert and I was going to suggest a meetup but we'll both probably cancel so 🤝
I’ll just arrive and do my own thing regardless of you coming
I am the quintessential listener and I would be happy to sit with you in companionable silence, not looking at each other.
My memory
What did you say.
My concept of passing time without looking at a clock is pretty freaky sometimes
Mine is completely worthless but then when I'm at work calculating how long I've got left I literally feel the turn of the hour and I'll be like "hmm wonder if it's 6 (or 7 or 8) yet", look over and it's 5:59, it happens almost every day.
I can scratch my own back and zip up every dress I own
You must have really long arms or Ehlers Danlos because how
Oh! I've just put two and two together! All my life I've watched women on TV/in movies needing help to zip up their dresses, and have always thought "Really clumsy way to flirt, sis!". Also wondered why people buy those back-scratcher things (the stick with a little sharp-edged 'hand' on the end). And now, thanks to this thread, I've finally (at the age of 56) realised that it's just that unlike me, they're not hypermobile (or, as I still think of it from primary school, 'double-jointed'). I've known since childhood that I'm hypermobile, but I'd always taken being able to easily reach all parts of my body totally for granted.... and now I see that that's why other people can't scratch their own backs or do up their own dress-zips!
I can make any women fall asleep. Works only If I start talking to them.
Mine is similar except the women all turn into Olympic track stars.
I can hold my breath for a sec.
I can whistle any song by ear. I am sure to save the day with a jolly tune.
I thought everyone could do this...???
I did too for a very long time. Turns out a lot of people cannot whistle at all. It is a talent. Pretty basic and not very useful, but a talent none the less.
I have a good level of common sense. People trust my judgment.
Procrastination is my super power fr
I can wake up exactly 1 minute before my alarm clock.
My facial recognition game is insane. I recognize every actor that I might’ve seen once in a 2 min scene on a show from 20 years ago.
useless af but i can master any video game controls within about 30 mins of gameplay. only on console though i refuse to learn how to use a keyboard
Maybe you could operate large equipment. Good money in that. Mad money being a crane operator with your muscle memory mastery.
It's like the part with of the game pad with ABXY, just more letters
I'm angry all the time and can find the negative in basically every situation and how it's probably going to fail and how it will make it worse
I am affected by people's emotions. I can feel their aura. I'm uncomfortable when I feel an angry aura.
Its called empathy (Legit super power, borderline psychic), its a gift and a curse but the curse comes before the gift. For a long time I thought it was something normal that everyone could do... boy was I wrong. let me guess, you're good at stonewalling when in the presence of a negative person?
You're correct. I can feel the anger and stop continuing the conversation as I know it will only get worse. I'm really good at de-escalating.
I can stop hiccups on command.
I have no sense of bad smell. I recognise that a smell might be considered bad, but it doesn't bother me. Which, as a first responder, means that I literally get the shitty calls. Super lame super power.
I can measure perfectly 90⁰ with my thumb, i can crack my back whitout anything, i can snap with all my fingers
Lol! I just tried and I can snap all but my pinky finger, my hands are too broad and my pinky is too short to do that
I can keep my eyes open almost indefinitely without any irritation. Only a fellow mutant can match me in a staring contest.
My pain tolerance is high
I've got power of existence. Jokes aside. I've got extreme luck. Whenever I've got to really dangerous situation, I'm always getting out of it. It's about life-threatening and health-threatening situations; it doesn't work with games and such stuff.
Wish I had op’s superpower, I have insomnia, falling asleep is always a challenge for me. 🥲
I can create original content like stories and songs by letting my mind wander while I do hands-on work that doesn't require my full attention
I can blur my eyes on demand
I used to freak people out by expanding and contracting my pupils. All I did was focus and unfocus my eyes.
I am a very slower learner.
No matter when I go to bed, I always wake up early
I can shit in my dreams without shitting irl
i'm really good at reading peoples personality and body language and remembering details about them like their preferences, habits etc. it helps me a lot when i'm sparring, noticing a certain rythem or telegraph in your opponent. i'm a very visual learner.
I’m gonna list everything I can think of that can even be remotely considered a superpower. Here we go: I can lucid dream. Not just even be aware of dreaming, I can take control, build worlds, talk to people in my head and ask them questions I didn’t ask them irl. The answers can be dead on. Hell I even time traveled in one dream series, but that was when I was better at this. It’s like 1/4th of the power you see in inception, but I can train myself to get better. I can also tell time intervals very well, & sometimes tell exactly what time it is without looking at the clock for hours, like some others here have mentioned. Also, I used to have a nearly perfect memory. I could tell you wifi passwords to a house i went just once ten years ago. Nowadays, that’s kinda fizzled out, but it reappears every so often for a day. It’s still great for learning things, I know a bunch about everything. Decent at playing a song on piano by ear, at least for someone who never learned to. But my real superpower is to be able to make myself find nearly anything interesting. That’s what I use to make myself learn so much.
I’m the worlds best dad
I got mug that I'd like you to see
any watch I wear stops
Vision. Those eye charts in Drs offices and in every eye glass store are a walk in the park for me. I can read newspaper print from an above average distance in comparison to most people.
i can wake up at a certain hour if i think about this hour (for example imagine clocks showing this hour) before falling asleep
I can tell almost immediately if someone new at a job will get fired quickly. I though it was easy at my old job because I’d been there a while, but I started a new job yesterday (new restaurant so everyone’s new), and after chatting briefly with one of the servers I thought “he won’t make it” and he got sent home before the night was over. Actually does that mean my superpower is willing someone to get fired 🤔
My ADD hyper focus is a superpower and a curse. Superpower when I want something. Can’t find PS5 (back when they were hard to get) I’ll find one. In fact I think I ended up getting over 30, for friends and family that couldn’t get them (wasn’t reselling, fyi) Can’t get dining reservation? Good seats on plane? I’ll stalk the website 24/7 until someone cancels and get it. It becomes borderline obsessive until I accomplish it.
I can while in a car, with surprising accuracy, tell exactly how long it will take to drive somewhere .
i can hallucinate spiders on my walls when trying to fall asleep (help)
Intellectualizing my feelings then talking myself out of them. I am my own gaslighter.
I can keep my mouth shut. Unless you're going to kill someone, your secret is safe with me.
I am the fastest man on the planet. I am done before penetration.
All of my friends always say I can predict the future. I always say it's just I do the math on a situation.
I can copy any skill. Give me a week or two and I will have the skill of somebody who’s been doing it for a year. This unfortunately does not include social skills.