What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?

  • moobythegoldensock@geddit.social
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    1 year ago

    I can tell whether a food has milk in it simply by eating it and waiting a few minutes.

    It’s kind of a shitty superpower, to be honest.

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    I have an uncanny ability to figure out the optimal size container to use to store leftovers. Kneel before my power!

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    1 year ago

    Took me a while to realize that this is actually a real life superpower, but - I can fix things. Throw it away? Meh… Repairing, upcycling? Bring it on!

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      Me too! The older I get the more I find fixing things is not as common as I thought. Just the other day I was at a friend’s place and they were struggling opening a window. Five minutes later it was fixed. The sash spring fell off, super simple fix. They were cursing at it for months without any effort to figure it out, but that’s most people it seems.

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      1 year ago

      This yes! Also being able to do something after watching someone do it is a good skill?

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        1 year ago

        Of course! That just show’s that you’re very good at extracting information of other’s explanations and are able to understand the nature of things. Very valuable!

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      Man it takes me maintaining a dream journal, some MILD affirmations now and then and about 15 Reality check per day to even get atleast one lucid dream in a week and when i get busy and couldnt keep up with my dream journal and reality check, i would need to start from scratch to get to that previous level and that could mean month gap between lucid dreams.

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    Being unphased by traumatic situations. At least right away. If a loved one dies or there’s a terrorist attack, I feel nothing until usually months go by. It then hits me randomly and I get as upset as you’d expect one to at the beginning.

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      1 year ago

      I have a similar reaction to things. Unfortunately, it often causes people to look at me to figure shit out in the moment. Just because I’m not freaking out doesn’t mean I know a damn thing about the correct course of action right now.

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        I get a different reaction. People see me as disturbed or heartless, I get “What is wrong with you” and “Don’t you feel anything right now?” One time I responded with honesty. Bad call brother. I try to look upset, but it probably resembles the same level of concern one might show when trying to determine the perpetrator of an especially offensive fart.

    • Memento Mori@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is a totally normal response. Check out the book The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno if you want to learn more!

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    I know when a timer or alarm I set is about to go off. This sometimes works for timers I thought I set, so it’s kind of useful.

    For alarms, It means I wake up a minute before the alarm

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    I forget the plots of movies and books fairly fast, and I’m able to enjoy them “for the first time” many times.

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      That’s amazing! I always wished there was a pill or something that could give me amnesia for a fee hours so I could enjoy something for the first time again.

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    I have really good reflexes for catching things that are falling. I don’t even have to think about it - if something is falling near me that’s catchable, my hand will just reach out and catch it 9/10 times. Seems I can override it for dangerous things like kitchen knives. Most of the time, nobody ever sees it happen, so it’s also a hidden talent, lol.

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      Are you me?

      One time I was DM-ing for a group of friends, it was late and we were drunk. One of my friends had left a glass behind my dm screen were I couldn’t see it (but I knew it was there). I don’t remember exactly how, but he bumped the screen and the cup fell from the table

      Somehow my hand jumped in an arc going over the screen and under the table to be exactly were the glass was on its way to the floor and I catch it

      It’s one of my favorite memories

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    Superpower: catching dropped objects in mid-air, including objects dropped by other people standing near me.

    Unfortunately it’s a function of hypervigilance, which is quite hard on my nerves.

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      You are the 3rd person in this post to give this answer - I was going to add this myself, but clearly this is just a regular power.

      I don’t feel special anymore!

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    Not really a super power, but I’m deaf since birth, hearing aids since 3 months old, and I can read lips from ten feet away, which means that I can follow a conversation perfectly fine bc I can read lips, while everyone else has to have someone shouting in their ear from a foot away in noisy environments.

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        Haha, if I have, it never made it into my memory. But I did have an FM system for school as a kid. Sort of like a microphone the teacher wore around their neck that streamed the audio directly to my hearing aids. The signals could go far. If the teacher forgot to mute it or turn it off, I’d hear the sounds of them going to the bathroom down the hallway. Which was super irritating when I was trying to focus on my notes.

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    Creepily excellent memory…although only for things that are pointless or people would really rather I didn’t remember.