Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[GamerPhate]

I can project venom! D=
Ok it's not venom, and it was something kinda gross I learned I could do in grade 9.

If I suppress my saliva glands with my tongue I can spray saliva like

Spoiler: this snake

this snake.

Just with zero actual purpose.

I was also born without a codec on common human behavior installed like the rest of the species.

I believe the street term is "gleeking", or using your tongue in a reflexive way to spray saliva directly out of the mouth in a stream like pattern. This is commonly done with the underside of the tongue, through the duct that normally produces saliva in the mouth. A quick flick of the underside will produces a stream like long reaching strand of saliva.

Yes, I can do this too, but as I got older, being able to explain what I was doing mattered less to the person being sprayed. But who likes to be spit on by someone else? Meh I am sure there is some sorta kink that enjoys that sort of thing. But yeah, it's semi common, and they call it "gleeking" like I said. Maybe there is a different regional name of it out there?

 

[thecatsme0w]

I can knit, walk and carry on conversations at the same time.

 

[GamerPhate]

I can hear electricty I guess. If I walk into a room and anything is on standby, or even just switched on at the plug I can hear it. Is that strange? Im not sure.

It depends. How old are you? (Not trying to be creepy. Teenagers and children can generally hear at much higher frequencies than adults.)I can do this too, btw.
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Actually to backup your theory, there was a study about some sort of "ring tone" that was of the frequency that was out of the "adults range". Thus kids were able to get calls in class that the teachers were unable to detect, due to the super high pitched ring tone. And as with all things, abilities deteriorate with time, due to biologicaly break down, and thus it only makes sense that younger people would have a much higher chance of hearing super high pitch tones that adults were unable to detect.

 

[GamerPhate]

That's actually possible? I've never heard of anyone with a memory like that. But I guess when it happens to you, you should know it's possible...

Interesting. I'll have to do some reading on genetic memory and see what I can find.

It's a strong trait in my family. Although we don't actively remember memories or experiences... very often one of my family members will be doing something for the first time and know exactly what to do.
I remember as a child my mother was putting pictures into picture frames and she suddenly knew to cover the back of the frames with paper and spray a little water on the paper.
Seems that's an old trick that tightens the paper on the back so it stays tight and doesnt wrinkle. and I mean that's an OLD trick.

If you want "proof" of genetic memory, just look at how much more proficient children are becoming with technology and increasingly younger ages...

Actually, that is a good point! Where does intuition come from? How do birds, just know where to fly during the winter? Where do animals get instinct from? Perhaps... what we learn is somehow in-advertantly passed on to the next generation through genetic material? Some believe, we are born knowing everything we every need to know, and we are just re-learning what we already believe as we age. The brain is only able to conveive so much, and especially at an early age, we are very impressionable, and likely to mimic the actions of our predecesors anyways. Therefore, short of an epiphany, people are likely repeat the same sins of their fathers, so to speak.

 

[Feylynn]

I can project venom! D=
Ok it's not venom, and it was something kinda gross I learned I could do in grade 9.

If I suppress my saliva glands with my tongue I can spray saliva like

Spoiler: this snake

this snake.

Just with zero actual purpose.

I was also born without a codec on common human behavior installed like the rest of the species.

I believe the street term is "gleeking", or using your tongue in a reflexive way to spray saliva directly out of the mouth in a stream like pattern. This is commonly done with the underside of the tongue, through the duct that normally produces saliva in the mouth. A quick flick of the underside will produces a stream like long reaching strand of saliva.

Yes, I can do this too, but as I got older, being able to explain what I was doing mattered less to the person being sprayed. But who likes to be spit on by someone else? Meh I am sure there is some sorta kink that enjoys that sort of thing. But yeah, it's semi common, and they call it "gleeking" like I said. Maybe ther is a different regional name of it out there?

Interesting to hear it's a thing as I've never really heard of it.
Just know I learned to by accident and anyone I showed way back when was all shock and awe, I was never mean enough to actually spit at people, they were just easily impressed that I could.

 

[GamerPhate]

I can project venom! D=
Ok it's not venom, and it was something kinda gross I learned I could do in grade 9.

If I suppress my saliva glands with my tongue I can spray saliva like

Spoiler: this snake

this snake.

Just with zero actual purpose.

I was also born without a codec on common human behavior installed like the rest of the species.

I believe the street term is "gleeking", or using your tongue in a reflexive way to spray saliva directly out of the mouth in a stream like pattern. This is commonly done with the underside of the tongue, through the duct that normally produces saliva in the mouth. A quick flick of the underside will produces a stream like long reaching strand of saliva.

Yes, I can do this too, but as I got older, being able to explain what I was doing mattered less to the person being sprayed. But who likes to be spit on by someone else? Meh I am sure there is some sorta kink that enjoys that sort of thing. But yeah, it's semi common, and they call it "gleeking" like I said. Maybe ther is a different regional name of it out there?

Interesting to hear it's a thing as I've never really heard of it.
Just know I learned to by accident and anyone I showed way back when was all shock and awe, I was never mean enough to actually spit at people, they were just easily impressed that I could.

I accidently discoverd my .. "super power" that way as well. A click of the tongue, and a long-reaching squirt onto the desk in front of me ensured. Once i realised I could do this at will, god fear anyone in range. But of course, after you get out of high school, this sort of thing might be considered borderline assault the way the civil system has been structured these days, so enjoy your free fire in HS, as after you get out, the world no longer admires or fears your talents.

(and no I havn't really gleeked at people since HS, but I guess I still could, but reserve my .. abilities for .. called for responses.... which likely will yet to ever exist. But maybe if I yelled lieingly, "I have AIDS" and THEN gleeked on people, I MIGHT have a lawsuit on hand, lol. )

 

[The Lugz]

i can wiggle my little toes sideways and stack all my toes over each other, apparently people have problems with their toe dexterity

 

[Aetera]

I can crack my ears. I don't know how, and no one believes me until I do it.

Woah, same here dude, I guess we're freaks that have something unusual in common...

I request... a high five! *holds up hand*

OT: Other than what I said above, I can...

Wait a sec, that's it...

Hm, well, bye... I guess.

YEAH. *high fives*

We are clearly awesome. And freakish.

 

[Kathinka]

Whenever I think of a part of a tv show, later in the day that exact episode will come on. This has happened about 50 times in my life. This also works sometimes with songs on the radio.

That happens to me all the time.
Surely there's a scientific explanation.

there actually is, there even is a scientific term for it. i just have forgotten what it is^^

here's the quick rundown: lets say you think of episode 42 of show x. later that day you turn on the tv, and what episode is on?! 23. nothing special and most likely you will never think about it again, forget that you thought about the episode and that was that.
however, when episode 42 would have been on, you would have thought: "duuuuude, how weird is this?" and remember the freak occurance for years.
so the times when you guess the right episode are in the normal statistical margin. it just seems incredible because you only remember the right "guesses" and therefore grossely misjudge the hit quota. god i wish i remember what the scientific term for that was, there surely must be a wikipedia-article about it..

I see, that's pretty much what I thought, I think.
Is it basically just that when you think of the episode and it's on, you remember that all the time but if you think of an episode that doesn't come on you forget. So you end up only remembering all the times the ones you thought of are on.
That's basically what you said, right?

that's exactly what i said, you got it spot on

 

[Scrubiii]

That's actually possible? I've never heard of anyone with a memory like that. But I guess when it happens to you, you should know it's possible...

Interesting. I'll have to do some reading on genetic memory and see what I can find.

It's a strong trait in my family. Although we don't actively remember memories or experiences... very often one of my family members will be doing something for the first time and know exactly what to do.
I remember as a child my mother was putting pictures into picture frames and she suddenly knew to cover the back of the frames with paper and spray a little water on the paper.
Seems that's an old trick that tightens the paper on the back so it stays tight and doesnt wrinkle. and I mean that's an OLD trick.

If you want "proof" of genetic memory, just look at how much more proficient children are becoming with technology and increasingly younger ages...

As a skeptic, I would say that the reason children are becoming more proficient with technology is because they are exposed to it at a younger age. I never used a computer until I was about 9 or 10, but my 2 year old cousin plays Fruit Ninja on my uncle's iPad.

 

[Brandon237]

A friend of mine have that 'anomaly' as well

I thought she was full of it, until we had a nachspiel at my place with a bunch of people. I asked her to come over to my computer to pick some tunes and she said 'It'll freak out! They always do!' I laughed and told her to come over anyways - when she was 3-4 feet away from the box, bluescreen! I spent 15 minutes fixing the bootsectors, cursing her wiccan ways..

Well people with strange electrical patterns in their bodies creating magnetic fields and what-not are not unheard of, so it could be that. I can imagine how a magnetic field would screw up electronics.

Oh, good. I think I heard before that other cases exist, but not getting instantly dismissed as a crazy idiot is nice.

Thanks, anyways. Wish there was a way around it, it's really quite annoying. At least my case isn't nearly as severe as what Barash mentioned. Worst mutant superpower ever, in any case.

Hey, I have seen my fair share of crazy shit (Bloody ghosts and mechano, to this day I don't know what the hell happened that day), so I'm not going to call someone out for saying the same

Maybe a plastic casing on any valuable electronics? It would be worth a try.

And the post below this suddenly reminded me, luck, I don't know how but I have the luck of the bloody devil. Almost every day I forge homework, the teacher will be late. Our science teacher was very late exactly once in two terms, I forgot to do a massive graph and activity once in two terms, it happened on the same day and I was finished about 30 seconds before she arrived at the class.

I pull a terrible prank on my friend now girlfriend, the few emails that follow go from her saying she is going to kill me to us planning our first date. In one day! Luckiest and best thing that has ever happened to me.
I also nearly died many times in my childhood, at birth I nearly got strangled and brain-damaged, They got me out and untangled the umbilical cord just in time, I almost drowned at the bottom of our pool, got out just in time (when I was very small). I walked right up to a huge Rotweiler at my parents vet clinic when I was 4 years old, and hugged it. My parents couldn't get near it and it had tried to attack my father almost on site. I have not a scratch from that day.

So luck it is?

 

[Cogwheel]

Clap with one hand (you kinda hit the base of the palm with the fingertips, folding your hand to half the size in the process).

Heh, I can do that as well! People look at me weird too, until they see it in action. I can do it with both hands, and at the same time as well.

So can I. Knew I wasn't the only one, mind you (for once). That said, I knew ONE other person who could do this until now, must be fairly rare.

I'm not entirely sure why other people have any difficulty mimicking it, though. It's odd.

 

[StBishop]

I can do the cold shiver thing with my spine too. Takes a bit of effort though and I've got to... charge it up, is I guess the best way to describe it, between my shoulderblades for a few seconds first. It's surprisingly plesent when it isn't warning you of danger.

I can recall a surprising amount of facts and figures about videogames and movies, sometiems years later, after a single glance at a wiki page (and other things too, but wiki pages are the most common). Now technically people do believe that I can recall this stuff, but they always say that I spend hours studying and memorising it. Not at all, it's one glance, one read-through when I'm bored, and I can recall it forever. If only I could do the same thing with my damn academic material.

I use to have this with D&D but mostly because I obsessed over the minutiae trying to min/max.

So it was sort of study but mostly I only looked at the page (of the various rules) once or twice.

I have the same when I recall answers in class, like I can spontaneously regurgitate Newton's laws or Bernoulli's principal in class when asked by the teacher despite that it's not really a major part of the course and never rote learning it, only making sure I understand, can reword, and apply it.
Everyone thinks I study every detail of every lecture to a ludicrous extent. But it makes me feel like less of a dick if I let people think I work a million times harder than them for my better marks.
Sure, I put in effort, but not as much as some people seem to think I do.

 

[General_Potatoes]

Well, I can tell the difference between butter and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!

I seem to be rather dull.

I don't believe it. I can't do anything

 

[Quaxar]

I can imagine 7 dimensions.
This one is very hard to prove.
It also makes my brain hurt.

Heh, meet super string theory.

I held 2 cells and drank some normal bottled water that I had tachyonized for a few hours.

How, exactly, do you go about 'tachyonising' a bottle of water? Because I doubt it's very healthy for you, that high you're feeling may just be radiation poisoning.

Tachyon particles are SOOO small and go soo fast (THROUGH the earth's molicule gaps at NEAR the speed of light or faster) we don't have machines sophisticated enough to measure these particles. Perhaps when they built something smaller than a nano-meter or something that day will come.

Oh dear we've made a whoopsie. Tachyons are quantum particles, existing both as physical objects and electromagnetic waveforms depending on if they're observed. That being said, even while existing as particles they don't travel by speed in the same way we do, they exist as probability fields. However even with that, we as a race do have the ability to detect quantum particles, both using our eyes (light photons are quantum particles) and devices like photometres and colourometeres. Tachyons, on the other hand, violate many principles of current universal physics theories and very likely can't be detected because they don't exist.

Of course you'd know all of this if you just read the wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon], which I really recomend you do in future before irradiating yourself or wasting thousands of [your currancy here] trying to detect something that's already being looked for by qualified scientists with millian dollar budgets.

Okay I thought a Tachyon was a subatomic particle that can break the speed of light but only in a vacuum? So how are you creating a vacuum for all this "tachyonising" or how do you do it? I also thought that a research group from Austrailia named KANGAROO (not kidding, that's what they call themselves) did discover it and although it's true that the human eye (when adapted to the dark) can detect a photon, I don't think you would see something traveling faster than 186,000 miles per second. Lastly, did you mean whether light is a wave or particle depends on HOW it's observed? Sorry that first bit confused me. This is why Wikipedia is NOT equal to a library.

Alright, let me clear things up a bit. Or so I hope.

A Tachyon is a theoretical particle moving faster than the speed of light. We can't disprove that detect a Tachyon and probably never will because even if it exists it probably doesn't interact with sub-lightspeed particles. And if it does we still need bigger and better detectors.

Creating a vacuum isn't the problem, I mean you just have to suck the air out of an airtight vessel but I call BS on the "tachyonizing" part as shown in the last paragraph.

Aaaand... I'm not sure I know this photon detection experiment. Google to the rescue!

But I can help you with the ol' particle-wave-problem.
See, light is a strange thing. It's not totally wave but not totally particle, sometimes it uses features of a wave, sometimes of a particle.
For example looking at the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment>double-slit experiment it behaves like a wave, meaning we can see interference like when you throw two stones into the water next to each other.
On the other hand do waves need a medium to travel through (sound waves, for example, can't exist in a vacuum) but light still passes the emptiness of space.

I could go on but I think I'll leave you there for now. Though feel free to ask, I have way too many hard physic books here. I can talk about anything.

Right. That was exactly what I meant about light. Whether or not it is a wave or a particle depends on HOW it's observed.

It's this bit from Paul Davies: "About Time" that gets me confused about Tachyons I think, Mr. Davies is talking about the CANGAROO experiments: "Some of the eletrically charged particles involved in these showers (the ones they were studying) move at very close indeed to the speed of light. In fact, they actually move FASTER than light moves through the air. This is an important point. The theory of relativity forbids a subatomic particle from going faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. But light travels more slowly in air, so it is possible for a nuclear particle, which may be slowed only slightly by the air, to be superluminal in the atmosphere. If the particle is electrically charged, it creates a sort of electromagnetic shock wave, a little bit like a sonic boom, but with light instead of sound. The light is known as "Cherenkov radiation."

Now the OP had talked about them as if Tachyons were bottled and available as pratically a Slurpee flavor, but I'm just saying that they've been discovered and do exist. If I'm wrong about that then so is this book and I want to know the truth. This is important (as is later explained in the book) because if it's true than it means that at the very least signals could be sent to the past/from the future as well as it has huge paradoxical implications for physics as a whole.

Ah, the Cherenkov light. Alright then, I get where you're coming from but I think you or the book must have confused something there (or referred to the <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#Cherenkov_radiation>theoretical tachyon Cherenkov effect). The emitted light is not tachyons and breaking the speed of light in a medium does not qualify something as a tachyon.
Tachyons always move faster than absolute c (speed of light in total vacuum), normal electromagnetic waves never can move faster than absolute c.
Both are completely different kinds of particles, at least if Tachyons do prove to exist which we can't do currently. Don't listen to the talk of tachyonized water.

Awright I'm bored. So let's get mah Mythbuster on:

Sorry I guess you didn't read my post, but it is okay, people don't read these days despite spending time on the internet looking for things to read, heh. But on your notion about Tach-Water, you can Tachyonize nearly anything. Water for example is very easy to Tach, with a clear Tachyon cell, within a few hours, that water is going to be sweet to the taste, crisp, and give you a pickup like you drank a Jolt soda. The cell consentrates the Tachyons into an area, and what ever is near it usually absorbs the effects that the Tachyon energy provide. The breakdown of this happens shortly after removing the water from the cell. Thus, like I said before, I can not sell or provide for testing this water, unless you happen to live in my state or something. However, the site I get the products from does have the cells you can use to do it yourself, or they have their own ionized and tachyonized water they sell, but I have yet to try it , since I can make my own at will, with anything! Soda, Juice, Beer, Vodka, it doesn't really matter. And in fact, thigns with the most toxins in it, such as Cigarettes and Beer or what not, often taste like nothing you have ever tried before. Take a cheap beer and turn it into almost an ale taste.

Not to offend but this first paragraph reads like the perfect troll marketing scheme. I have something against the laws of physics but I can't show you, you'll have to pay to see it!
Using the laws of refraction you tell me how (if the thing I found on Google is correct) a colorful contact lense can "concentrate tachyons" and I promise I'll think about it.

And ONE more time I will adress the Meta-physical part of this post. Scientists have NOT been intelligent enough yet, to make a device that can happen to measure these particles. As was mentioned, they go WAY too fast, and pass THROUGH the Earth and back out into space. So I suppose you could consider it a wave form of sorts. Similar to light, or the radiation from the sun, these waves come to us all the time. You are getting them right now, but in small doses, and your computer is likly blocking a majority of it. But as far as saying Tachyons exist? If you use Science, they want 100 percent proof before they say anything.

So scientists, despite being made up of the most intelligent people on earth who actually spend years of their lives studying their respective areas are too dumb for it? I'm sorry, how could I question someone who is a <url=http://www.tachyonenergy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=36>Tachyon Energy Master Practitioner.
Tachyons pass through the earth (kinda like neutrinos, huh?) but the computer is magically blocking them? Please explain.

If you use science they want logical concepts that that fit into established theories. Unless you can find a flaw in the laws of thermodynamics you can publish books about perpetuum mobiles all you want.

 

[Pat8u]

I am able to tell when a TV is turned on without it's volume being up without even being able to tell there is a TV in the room. (From an adjacent room based on a weird almost electric feeling around my ears.)

If that's the case, go earn yourself a million dollars [http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html].

Seriously, anyone claiming to be able to do something paranormal, go forth and take James Randi's money.

thats not paranormal its probabely like a buzzing sound usally happens with old tvs

OT:Nope... Nothing oh waitttttt Nope hmmmmm I can make duck noises with my mouth

 

[Gasaraki]

It's amusing how many people are using this thread to wave around their autistic, supposedly-psychic, e-peens around

Could you clarify on that please? What you said could be taken to be quite offensive. It's definitely got my back up and the only thing that's stopping me from hitting the report button is that you may actually mean something else and aren't being intentionally offensive.

Well, just about every person with autism or asperger's that I've met makes shit up frequently to seem cool. I'm not saying everone with autism or asperger's is a compulsive liar, that's just been my experience with them and so I sort of tend to associate the two. It's not meant to be incredibly offensive or whatever, calm down.

 

[lacktheknack]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I CAN DO THAT! BROTHERRRRRR!

Beyond that, I can sweat desperately in 12 degree environments. It's not pleasant.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I can full on cry whenever I decide to.
I can make my arm fall asleep pretty much at will. I don't do it often cause it feels horrible.
And I can... well, let's just say I can do something to myself not many other guys can do.

Ahh so you are ummm flexible .. in .. that way, eh?

Very much so, yes

 

[fragmaster09]

I have control over my nostrils as in make the nostrils bigger (inflant). Apperantly the people who I have encounter can't do that.

I CAN DO THAT! BROTHERRRRRR!

Beyond that, I can sweat desperately in 12 degree environments. It's not pleasant.

i can do that, but only when talking to one specific young woman (you know what i mean), or when i think i'm in trouble