Strange things you can do (no one believes)

[winginson]

Being able to remember tiny details I read once years ago. Everyone thinks I have recently studied it or something. I can't remember anything important from last week however...

Improbable aiming skills - in airsoft being able whip the gun up and hit someone fairly far away without aiming or steadying the gun, in paintball hitting people from infeasibly long distance (30 degrees and more aiming up distance).

Most people know me as a quiet, shy, hard-core gamer who over-anaylyses everything and likes to be safe. They think I'm trying to act tough when I tell them stories of dangerous things done on a motorbike, bike rallies, shagging around, parties, raves etc. Then they see my bike and the pics.

 

[Mr. Google]

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.

Yeah as was proven by cracked.com someone can make up memories for you because...well the brains just a *****

 

[TobiasMP]

I can tell the time, without looking at a clock or the sun or anything else for that matter. It's really weird, but handy! It started when friends of mine asked me what time it is and i didn't really know, so i took a guess and....wait for it....i was right! This happened a couple times, and my friends noticed it. So they ended up testing this ability at random moments. I haven't been more than 2 minutes off in over 100 guesses...everytime again, i'm, amazed by this, since i actually just keep guessing and never really know if i'm even close...but i scary enough; i am

 

[Taldeer]

I can remember my dreams vividly and in complete detail. Also, I have frequent prophetic dreams. I've dreamt things like meeting new people only to meet them in the exact same scenario a few days later. I've also had dreams come true years after dreaming them. (Actually, I'm still waiting for Thom Yorke to issue another solo album, in collaboration with an Icelandic choir. I dreamt I saw the video on VH1. It will happen.)

Another little quirk I used to have, but I haven't tried it in a very long time, is the ability to always pick out a winning lottery ticket (I don't mean winning numbers, I mean lottery tickets which you can tear open, or scratch with a coin and you get the chance to win something). I would never win more than the price of another ticket, but my record is five winning tickets in a row. One time I entertained a friend of mine by proving this. I bought one, and it was a winner. The next one was a winner too. And the third. I stopped after that. No sense in pushing luck.

 

[bombadilillo]

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.

This is very true, and led to the Recovered memory scandals. A bunch of modern day pop psychologists convinced people they were abused at "recovered" the memories and a lot of inocent fathers and uncles went to jail.

The mind is very suseptable to influence and generates its own memories and systems of thought. Theres a lot of evidence that multiple personalites dont actually exist but are "created" by phycoanalyzing someone about it which generates the multiple personality by letting people name a certain side of them. Paradoxical and interesting.

 

[Darius Brogan]

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.

Interesting.

I've never really has cause to believe that whatever-it-was I had was something like genetic memory, so I never put a lot of thought into why I remembered so much.
One of the more recent memories was actually a young boy going through Squire training.
Much of the time, they're short, almost clipped memories, but they're definitely memories, and they're definitely active.
If I start thinking too hard, I have to push a flood of not-my-lives back into my brain.
Good to know I'm not just going insane.

 

[Kathinka]

i can lick my ellbow^^ and bring the fingers of each hand backwards so far they are parralel to the arm without assistance of the other hand.

flexible girl xD

 

[sylekage]

You know how people can make farting noises with their armpits?

I can do it with my eyes. Just cup my hand over the eyes socket and it makes the noise. Immature, but funny as hell.

Also, I'm scary good at guesstimations. A whole life of OCD counting can do that for you

 

[Akytalusia]

i've always wondered what that spinal surge thing was, i get that too. anyway, no special abilities here. just a normal human. there are a few things that are unusual about me though that are impossible to prove. one, i only ever have nightmares, and frequently, i've never had a pleasant dream in my life. second, i burned my eyes a few years ago and have a permanent scar right in the middle of my vision. it's a circle of perpetualy swirling chaos that has the same color as whatever is behind it, and warps the image of whatever i'm looking at so it bends around it. it's quite amusing to look at a grid or any straight lines. third, i'm completely rational. yes, that's unusual. looking at you, kid.

 

[briunj04]

I can shoot webs out of my hands, fly, and bake a fantastic rhubarb pie all at the same time. But nobody seems to believe me

 

[Lilitu]

Unless you mean you can literally pop yours out of the joint, in which case then no ninja took place.

[...]

I seriously have the lamest mutant power ever. How the hell do you fight crime with an omnidirectional thumb?

I don't know if my thumb is really popped out. It just looks weird.
See?!

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I can move it too, that looks even weirder and more disgusting as witnesses have told me.


Even if that is no cool super-power, you still can scare your fiends away with the power of the icky thumb!

 

[eggy32]

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

I can vibrate mine as well. I thought everybody could.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

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 do this too, actually. I'd not realised it was something most people couldn't do...well I learned something today. (Well, not a 'strong' shiver, but a shiver nonetheless)

My main one that really frustrates me that I can't prove is that I can cure the hiccups with willpower. I get the hiccups, I take a steady breath, and it's gone. I've not met anyone that can do it, I've tried to talk people through it with no success, I'm told that it's 'impossible' and yet...I can do it just fine.

Worst super-power ever.

I can also make my hands and feet vibrate vigorously. My sister calls it 'isolated seizures'. Easy to prove that one, though, so I guess it doesn't count. I always win button-spamming games...always.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Unless you mean you can literally pop yours out of the joint, in which case then no ninja took place.

[...]

I seriously have the lamest mutant power ever. How the hell do you fight crime with an omnidirectional thumb?

I don't know if my thumb is really popped out. It just looks weird.
See?!

Spoiler

[http://img51.imageshack.us/i/1006258s.jpg/]

I can move it too, that looks even weirder and more disgusting as witnesses have told me.


Even if that is no cool super-power, you still can scare your fiends away with the power of the icky thumb!

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE!

Check it out, I've got the exact same thing!

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EDIT: Whoops, forgot the [ img ] tag.

 

[eggy32]

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.

 

[Klagermeister]

I can bend my right knee so far that I tuck my foot under my ribcage.
Hard to explain, and it hurts like hell to do it, but it certainly amazes people. I'll try to get a pic up. Thank god for my new webcam!

 

[Tim Mazzola]

I can vibrate my eyeballs, but I can prove that by showing people.

I do not experience spicyness as heat. I get more of a tickle, so when I eat spicy things I laugh. It confuses people.

I can process/digest corn completely. This I CAN prove, but no one wants me to.

I remember being a baby. At least, I have vivid memories of getting my diaper changed and sleeping in a crib. I can also recall the exact layout of magnets on my fridge when I was 3 years old. No one else I know remembers, but it's one of my favorite memories.

I can temporarily turn off my sight. Like, I can have my eyes open, but voluntarily make my sight worse to the point where I can be almost completely blind (just seeing everything as a blur, basically, not even perceiving shapes). I always figured anybody could do this by un-focusing their eyes, but nobody I tell it about believes it's possible, so I guess they can't.

 

[Watson767]

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.

 

[barash]

Also, I am bad for electronics (rather like my mother, but less so). Watches and clocks generally don't last terribly long, computers I own start going wrong in ways that baffle pretty much everyone, and lights in my room last less long. In fact, I've had plenty of lights just stop working (permanently) the second I walk into the room.

No one believes the former until they see it, and no one outside the family believes the latter to this day. I reckon the electronics thing might be some sorta weak personal EMF effect, but honestly, that's pure amateur guesswork. Don't know why it'd happen anyway.

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..

She's a 'proper' wiccan btw; Worshipping, dancing naked in the woods and all. Very lovely, 'cept around electronics. Drives her hubbie mental )

 

[NDstephan]

I've got the deja vu thing going for me. When I was 12 I was obsessed with dreams and kept a journal of all the dreams I had/remembered having.
One was I was in a dimly lit room at a table and said "Hey Em, when's it going to be ready?"
7 years later it happened; with my girlfriend whom I met a month before actually sitting at the table.
I can also "touch" people without actually making contact. I have to be close though about 1/4 inch above their skin.