Hmm, I have the strange mental feature of remaining almost disturbingly calm (to the outside world) and suddenly bursting into flame (figuratively) once a certain treshold of annoyance, anger or whatever is reached. The outburst is still not that bad, considering those of other people, but the contrast is what usually drives the point home. Almost as if I completely invert my personality. Suddenly, mercy, understanding, shyness and everything are out the window, being replaced by rage.
Physically, I really like my bones. They had to endure a LOT of mechanical stress over the course of my life without breaking. I swear I once felt my arm bend a little when I fell on a bar, and when I fell down a tree, onto another treestump, from about two metres of height, flat on the side of my chest, all my ribs were completely intact. I love my rubber bones.
Also, my blood contains a noticeably higher number of thrombocytes (in case you feel the impulse to look this up: They're the small blood cells which cause your blood to congeal when you're injured). Of course, this also raises my risk of getting an emboly or thrombose, but until then, they almost completely prevent hematomes and even deep cuts stop bleeding quite quickly (If I'm not too careless with the wound, I can take off bandaids after a few hours).
My perception seems to be a little weird, too, at least when smell and sound is concerned.
My range of hearing is actually quite bad, since I had a lot of inner-ear infections in my childhood. The rest of my hearing is quite distinct though. If I know an area, my girlfriend's bedroom for example, I know its typical sounds, too. It almost drives me mad if she has her cellphone charger plugged in over night, because I don't just hear the charger's high-pitched humming all the time, the room also feels wrong because the sound is not right.
The same works for songs I know. No matter how perfect a cover version is (what's the point of identical cover versions, anyway?) I notice an even slightly different voice really quickly. Often, they pronounce some words subtly different.
And whenever I smell something, the smell is almost instantly connected to a memory or identity, most of the time before my friends even realized there actually is a special smell. When I go to a party with my girlfriend, and she uses her typical perfume, I can usually find her just by going through the room waiting for her scent to come up.
I actually have noticed something else, but I would just like to know if that's normal:
My eyes seem to have different priorities concerning the information they gather. My right eye has far better contrast (for dark/light), while my left eye delivers significantly more intense colour information. I realized this when we had a field trip to an indoor swimming pool's water treatment installation.
They checked the chlorine content of the water by filling a vial with cleaned pool water, putting it under a stereo microscope and looking through. The left eye view was on the vial, the right eye tube had a dial to turn a scale inside, until both view showed the same colour. THen you could read the result on the side.
I tried to check one sample, and got the value very wrong, although I would have sworn it was the same colour. The guide then corrected it, I looked through again, and the colours were totally different (it was both pink, but the wrong kind).
Has anyone ever heard of something like this?
Physically, I really like my bones. They had to endure a LOT of mechanical stress over the course of my life without breaking. I swear I once felt my arm bend a little when I fell on a bar, and when I fell down a tree, onto another treestump, from about two metres of height, flat on the side of my chest, all my ribs were completely intact. I love my rubber bones.
Also, my blood contains a noticeably higher number of thrombocytes (in case you feel the impulse to look this up: They're the small blood cells which cause your blood to congeal when you're injured). Of course, this also raises my risk of getting an emboly or thrombose, but until then, they almost completely prevent hematomes and even deep cuts stop bleeding quite quickly (If I'm not too careless with the wound, I can take off bandaids after a few hours).
My perception seems to be a little weird, too, at least when smell and sound is concerned.
My range of hearing is actually quite bad, since I had a lot of inner-ear infections in my childhood. The rest of my hearing is quite distinct though. If I know an area, my girlfriend's bedroom for example, I know its typical sounds, too. It almost drives me mad if she has her cellphone charger plugged in over night, because I don't just hear the charger's high-pitched humming all the time, the room also feels wrong because the sound is not right.
The same works for songs I know. No matter how perfect a cover version is (what's the point of identical cover versions, anyway?) I notice an even slightly different voice really quickly. Often, they pronounce some words subtly different.
And whenever I smell something, the smell is almost instantly connected to a memory or identity, most of the time before my friends even realized there actually is a special smell. When I go to a party with my girlfriend, and she uses her typical perfume, I can usually find her just by going through the room waiting for her scent to come up.
I actually have noticed something else, but I would just like to know if that's normal:
My eyes seem to have different priorities concerning the information they gather. My right eye has far better contrast (for dark/light), while my left eye delivers significantly more intense colour information. I realized this when we had a field trip to an indoor swimming pool's water treatment installation.
They checked the chlorine content of the water by filling a vial with cleaned pool water, putting it under a stereo microscope and looking through. The left eye view was on the vial, the right eye tube had a dial to turn a scale inside, until both view showed the same colour. THen you could read the result on the side.
I tried to check one sample, and got the value very wrong, although I would have sworn it was the same colour. The guide then corrected it, I looked through again, and the colours were totally different (it was both pink, but the wrong kind).
Has anyone ever heard of something like this?
