Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[bliebblob]

The search bar couldn't find me anyting quite like this question so here goes.

Can you do something strange but nobody believes you because you can't prove it?
If so: frustrating isn't it? ^^ So here's your chance to vent.

I'll try to kick start things with some examples of my own.
I can make a very strong cold shiver run down my spine voluntarily. Not by thinking of something that gives me shivers, it's more like moving a finger. Nobody believes me though since only I feel it. And I can't think of any way to prove it besides maybe jagging a voltmeter into my spine.

I can actively remember my baby years, birth and even some time in the womb. It's just fragments though. Ofcourse nobody believes that because I can just make memories up since nobody really knows what goes on in a baby's head.

That's enough from me though. I'll add more if the thread takes off but this isn't the "look how awesome the OP is" thread. So let's hear it!

EDIT: I am very much aware memory can be a strange thing. Infact I originally assumed my baby memories were false. However I told them to my mother once and it turns out the events I recall did happen. In fact, the memories of my birth are consistent with certain complications that arose during it. Even though my parents never told me about those complications before.

 

[Aetera]

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

 

[Niflhel]

Just wanted to respond to your second claim: As far as I'm aware, babies aren't born with the ability to form recallable memories - That's developed later in life.
Further on, memory is an odd thing. You might be able to recall experiences you've never went through, as in: "Ahh, I remember the cabin at the lake we was at when i was four" - But you never went to any cabin near a lake.

As for strange things... I don't think I'm able to do anything particularly strange.

 

[Raognerrrm]

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

 

[Tentickles]

I can turn my emotions on and off at will.

 

[Scabadus]

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.

 

[lovetropicana]

I always know which elevator to take.
Yes I have the most useless superpower, but when you're in a huge hospital with twelve elevators to choose from zooming in different directions, always standing in front of the one that's going to piiiing open surprises everybody. Even the ones who see me do it daily. Most funny was one time the elevator behind me ping'd, my friends rushed to take it but I didnt budge, simply uttered "It's going up"
Lo and behold, it was going in the wrong direction. I can't explain how I know, I just find myself in front of the elevator doors that will open first

 

[Servallier]

I can create detailed 3D models of places in my head, not just thinking about what it looks like, but actually being able to rotate it, follow it, find obstacles etc, after i've been round a place maybe once or twice, i can go through it with my eyes shut. It's pretty useful.

 

[Scrubiii]

I can't do anything. I have a friend who can vibrate his eyeballs though.

 

[Lilitu]

I can turn my emotions on and off at will.

Data is that you?


OT:
I can dislocate (at least it looks like that) my right thumb as I wish and "relocate" it without external force.
You believe me when you see it.
Most people say that is gross but otherwise I don't show that very often.

Not very spectacular but I couldn't just ask if Tentickles is Data

[Edited typo]

 

[b3nn3tt]

Not something I can do myself, but my girlfriend can lick her own elbow, despite the fact it's meant to be physically impossible

 

[Scarim Coral]

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

 

[b3nn3tt]

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

Do you mean flaring them? I think I read somewhere that it's a genetic thing, like whether or not you can roll your tongue

 

[Tentickles]

I can turn my emotions on and off at will.

Data is that you?


OT:
I can dislocate (at least it looks like that) my right thump as I wish and "relocate" it without external force.
You believe me when you see it.
Most people say that is gross but otherwise I don't show that very often.

Not very spectacular but I couldn't just ask if Tentickles is Data

You can dislocate your thump? Wow that is impressive. I wasn't even aware humans had a thump.

Well OBVIOUSLY he's an alien.
I am an android after all.

 

[Mr Thin]

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 too; though now that you mention it, I've never seen anyone else do it, or thought to ask if they could. So for all I know, this could be an insanely rare ability.

Apart from that, nothing really.

Well, I used to be able to put my feet behind my head; no-one believed me until I showed them, but it's been a few years and I doubt I could pull it off nowadays.

 

[Lilitu]

I can turn my emotions on and off at will.

Data is that you?


OT:
I can dislocate (at least it looks like that) my right thump as I wish and "relocate" it without external force.
You believe me when you see it.
Most people say that is gross but otherwise I don't show that very often.

You can dislocate your thump? Wow that is impressive. I wasn't even aware humans had a thump.

Ehrm...typing with a dislocated thumb can result in typos...I guess^^;

 

[Scarim Coral]

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

Do you mean flaring them? I think I read somewhere that it's a genetic thing, like whether or not you can roll your tongue

Yeah that what I meant (I didn't know the exact term for it). Oh right I didn't know it could be genetic.

 

[rutger5000]

Not something I can do myself, but my girlfriend can lick her own elbow, despite the fact it's meant to be physically impossible

Lucky you?

 

[The Funslinger]

I don't get hangovers, whatsoever.

I have random moments of precognition.

Examples: It was easter, at my grandparent's, and my cousin, who was too young to actually remember numbers properly was counting her easter eggs. A random number pattern came into my head, something like "1,2,4,8,12" a few seconds later, she counted out those exact numbers (and was then corrected by my sister)

I was in a car, with a drink balanced on the dashboard (fortunately it had a lid) I was playing on my gameboy when I, half aware of what I was doing, stuck my hand out. A few seconds later, we went over a bump and the cup fell safely into my hand.

I was speaking to my friend on msn. I asked what level his character was on an RPG game. I just murmured to myself "32", and that was the number he posted.

I was on holiday with family and friends. It was dark, and we were at the docks. We heard one of the kids running along the docks, right to where the jagged rocks were. Me and another guy sprinted along the docks, but there were these local fishermen untangling some line. It was stretched across the width of the dock in a tangled mess and we couldn't see for the dark. My friend came to a halt, but I jumped on a split reaction and went through a small gap in the net a few feet in the air.