What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?

2 years ago by Interstellar_1 to c/asklemmy

spittingimage 43 points 2 years ago

I can wiggle my ears. I used to use it to entertain children, but today's children are jaded and cynical.

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Bishma 29 points 2 years ago

I found I can wiggle my ears enough to walk my glasses back up my nose when they've slipped down.

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KISSmyOSFeddit 11 points 2 years ago

now that's useful!

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UlfKirsten 5 points 2 years ago

I’ve just tried that and you’ve changed my life

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Sasha 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I didn't even realise until you said it but I absolutely do that all the time

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shinigamiookamiryuu 9 points 2 years ago

Child me would've loved to see that.

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pineapplelover 5 points 2 years ago

Adult me would love to see that

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Hadriscus 6 points 2 years ago

I can do it too! it was like discovering a new muscle! I can't do either independently though

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LogicalDrivel 30 points 2 years ago

I can rumble my eardrums. Mostly useless unless i wanna block out some annoying sound but i can only do it for like a minute at a time.

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stepan 10 points 2 years ago

I think I have the same thing. Is yours also kinda connected to blinking? I can do it without blinking, but closing my eyes at the same moment as rumbling the eardrums feels easier and more natural than rumbling with eyes open.

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Catoblepas 11 points 2 years ago

Mine feels more connected to my jaw, I kind of tense my jaw right near the joint to activate the rumbling.

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LogicalDrivel 10 points 2 years ago

I can do it without closing my eyes but when i was younger, I remember closing my eyes or scrunching my face made it easier to do. If you can wiggle your ears without lifting your eyebrows, it kind of feels like its the same muscle group that causes the rumbles. The rumbling sounds like white noise inside my head. Its caused by constricting Tensor Tympani muscle in the ear voluntarily. From Wikipedia:

Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the muscle. According to the National Institute of Health, "voluntary control of the tensor tympani muscle is an extremely rare event",[5] where "rare" seems to refer more to the scarcity of test subjects and/or studies more than the percentage of the general population who have voluntary control. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply. This phenomenon has been known since (at least) 1884.[6]

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AA5B 5 points 2 years ago

TIL; I always thought it was temporarily spiking your blood pressure that made that rumble. Now I’m no longer scared to do it

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slingstone 7 points 2 years ago

I do this thing where I pop my ears (like when pressure changes from altitude) and then it's like I'm hearing my breathing inside of my sinuses or something. When I breathe this way, it effectively blocks conversations I don't want to overhear. Do other people do this, or am I odd?

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Lemisset 5 points 2 years ago

I can do this. If I'm in a really quiet area, I like to take in a deeper breath and then exhale as slowly as possible while doing it, which then allows me to hear my heartbeat. Super nifty.

I can also use my soft pallet to block airflow from my throat to my nose. Can you do that too?

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slingstone 1 point 2 years ago

I can't block my nose in that way. I tried when your comment came in, but I can't conceive of how to do it.

With the ear popping thing, I just hear the rushing of my breath. I can see how you might be able to hear your heart. I might be making this up in my head, but I feel like maybe I could hear it when I was younger.

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jpeps 3 points 2 years ago

I can do this! I forget the name for it but I can rumble my ears, and then I can also 'pop' them if I go a little further. I'm so grateful for it if I ever go through a pressure change, I can't imagine how people cope without being able to do it.

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slingstone 3 points 2 years ago

Wait a minute. If I hold my jaw right, I do get a very short rumbling apart from my breath. Is that what you guys mean?

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thouartfrugal 2 points 2 years ago

Came here looking for the tensor tympani rumble cause I know it well; not sure what your thing is! If I notice sounds going quiet on a flight I'll pinch the nostrils shut and make an exhalation effort till I hear a pop in each ear, then sounds are normal. Almost like the reverse of yours.

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Gestrid 6 points 2 years ago

Not OP, but mine's not connected to blinking.

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paddirn 5 points 2 years ago

Same. I hold my eyes shut and I can activate it. I like to think of it as my automatic ear-cleaning mode.

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Bizarroland 4 points 2 years ago

I can also ear rumble, it is not tied to my blinking at all, but if I vibrate my eyes while my ears are rumbling they both move at the same ~60hz frequency.

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copymyjalopy 3 points 2 years ago

Mine is activated by blinking hard.

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morphballganon 3 points 2 years ago

Mine is connected to blinking, but it doesn't always work.

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Nemo 3 points 2 years ago

Yep. I can rumble, and I can click.

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randint 2 points 2 years ago

Gee, I can do this too! I've tried explaining it to others before but only one person ever got it

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FancyPantsFIRE 29 points 2 years ago

This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:

  • gleek intentionally (saving people a search: it’s causing the salivary glands under your tongue to shoot saliva, people often do it unintentionally when yawning)
  • open my jaw wide enough that it goes out of socket, and twofer I can then move it side to side and produce a loud popping noise
  • bend my thumb down to my wrist
  • cause my heart rate to spike for short periods even when at rest
  • make a three leaf clover with my tongue
  • click my tongue extremely loudly
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ramble81 9 points 2 years ago

I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.

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vivavideri 5 points 2 years ago

A friend taught me how to gleek in 7th grade. I never stopped doing it lmao

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whoisearth 4 points 2 years ago

click my tongue extremely loudly

Learn Xhosa.

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Sasha 3 points 2 years ago

Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds

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Hadriscus 3 points 2 years ago

oh my god, so that's what I'm doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago...

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Interstellar_1 3 points 2 years ago

By shoot, does it have force or do you mean it just comes out?

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FancyPantsFIRE 8 points 2 years ago

It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.

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thefool 2 points 2 years ago

I can also gleek but it's nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don't know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I'd ever seen: maybe 6 feet long

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Vanth 25 points 2 years ago
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fogstormberry 10 points 2 years ago

that sounds so satisfying

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StarsongDusk 24 points 2 years ago

You know that feeling you get when you listen to really awesome music and your hair stands on end and your skin has like an electric tingle all the way up and down? I can do that feeling at will. It's called 'voluntary frisson', normally an autonomic response. Makes music a real.trip.

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Lorindol 6 points 2 years ago

I can do this too.

It's fun to watch people freak out when one can raise his body hair up on command. And since I have an abundance of body hair, the effect is pretty profound.

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Interstellar_1 3 points 2 years ago

I think that's the weirdest one I've seen yet

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Ironfacebuster 2 points 2 years ago

That's actually pretty cool, I haven't felt that in a pretty long time so I'm pretty jealous of you there

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NOT_RICK 24 points 2 years ago

I can hum and whistle at the same time. Makes me sound kinda like a Theremin

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Concave1142 8 points 2 years ago

Same! I liken it to a knock off version of Mongolian Throat singing.

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Ephera 5 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, multiphonics.

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Feathercrown 2 points 2 years ago

I love doing this because it sounds like you're charging a laser weapon

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XEAL 2 points 2 years ago

Lol I just tried that to see how it works.

It's hard because if you close your lips too much to whistle it restricts the airflow and kills the hum.

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Duke_Nukem_1990 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm I can hum independent of my lips 🤔

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Cybermonk_Taiji 22 points 2 years ago
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uid0gid0 11 points 2 years ago

Congratulations you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle.

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FourPacketsOfPeanuts 7 points 2 years ago

Should be a filter on tinder

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1hitsong 4 points 2 years ago

huh. I didn't know others couldn't do this

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Mr_Dr_Oink 3 points 2 years ago

Is that like the sound you get when you yawn? I can do that too!

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KISSmyOSFeddit 22 points 2 years ago

I can make my left elbow sound like biting down on dry cornflakes, just by doing a push-up.

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Shou 20 points 2 years ago

That doesn't sound healthy

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theherk 21 points 2 years ago

They really aren’t, despite what Kelloggs claims.

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stoicmaverick 2 points 2 years ago

They weren't made to be healthy. They were made to keep you from masturbating.

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espentan 3 points 2 years ago

Those sons of bitches.. my childhood could've been very.. different.

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hakunawazo 2 points 2 years ago

And it's working. I'm still unable to masturbate to Cornflakes.

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KISSmyOSFeddit 6 points 2 years ago

I had a complex fracture in the elbow twice, 34 and 30 years ago. There's no pain, no loss of function, and it didn't get worse in all that time.
Nothing I can really do but hope it will stay like that for the next 30.

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Shou 2 points 2 years ago

Damn. I hope so too then. I guess there are loose pieces still in there?

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quicksand 1 point 2 years ago

Or the cartilage got damaged/destroyed and it's bone rubbing on bone

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Interstellar_1 4 points 2 years ago

truly

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Interstellar_1 20 points 2 years ago

I just remembered this, I can open my eyelids and look in a direction where only the whites of my eyes are visible. Apparently it's very creepy

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sp3tr4l 5 points 2 years ago

Oh hey, I can do that too!

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the_dopamine_fiend 4 points 2 years ago

Do you roll your eyes up or down?

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Brunbrun6766 7 points 2 years ago

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shinigamiookamiryuu 1 point 2 years ago

That always used to give the heeby-jeebies to watch.

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Interstellar_1 3 points 2 years ago

I think upwards, kinda hard to tell though

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Kongar 19 points 2 years ago

I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way.

Completely grosses people out when I do it.

Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.

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partial_accumen 8 points 2 years ago

This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.

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Kongar 7 points 2 years ago

Neat! Thanks for the name/info.

I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought.

I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on

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Lost_My_Mind 6 points 2 years ago

I think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?

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Kongar 4 points 2 years ago

I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;)

Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)

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Lost_My_Mind 3 points 2 years ago

Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.

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Gestrid 5 points 2 years ago

There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers.

By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.

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itsathursday 5 points 2 years ago

Ey wobbly eye gang here

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Vanth 3 points 2 years ago
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Fuck_u_spez_ 1 point 2 years ago
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morphballganon 1 point 2 years ago

I can do this but only a couple mm

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Paradox42 19 points 2 years ago

I can voluntarily open my eustachian tubes and hold them open, without needing to yawn or swallow. Makes it much easier to clear the pressure in my ears when changing elevation (like when flying in a plane).

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Interstellar_1 9 points 2 years ago

Huh I think I can do the same. I always thought it was one of those things that everyone could do.

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Squeezer 3 points 2 years ago

Feels like a super power when you’re scuba diving and you see all the other divers holding their noses!

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tiredofsametab 3 points 2 years ago

Same. Sometimes I can't, such as when congested, and it's super annoying and unbalanced.

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Paradox42 1 point 2 years ago

yep, I have the same issue when congested.

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kyle 2 points 2 years ago

Weirdly, I can only do this with my right ear. Definitely helps on airplanes.

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Nemo 14 points 2 years ago

Apparently there's a thing called lucid dreaming that many people try very hard to achieve.

Most of my dreams are "lucid".

I can also, using only my facial muscles, pull my eyelids back extra far so it looks like my eyeballs are popping out.

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shinigamiookamiryuu 6 points 2 years ago

cries in has chronically useless dreams that can't even go in a dream journal

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morphballganon 6 points 2 years ago

I have a hypothesis that there is no such thing as lucid dreaming (before you get the wrong idea, I've done it before. My meaning is that it's misunderstood, not that people are lying about having done it).

That feeling that you're in control? You're just dreaming that you're in control. You're just dreaming that you have the experience of choice-movement-feedback.

How is the feeling of being in control any more real than other sensations you experience in a dream?

When you experience the sensation of enlightenment in a dream, do you say you were really enlightened, or were you just dreaming that you were enlightened?

When you experience the sensation of blue in a dream, do you say there was actually blue, or were you just dreaming there was blue?

Your brain telling you you're in control is just as suspect as your brain telling you there's blue. They are both creations of your brain for the purpose of the dream.

Whatever action you're taking in an attempt to demonstrate control is just as easily explained as something your brain created as dream decoration.

Remember, this is just a hypothesis.

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MicrowavedTea 5 points 2 years ago

The question is, is there a practical difference between lucid dreaming and dreaming about being lucid? I like to think it's the memory afterwards that counts.

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Reyali 14 points 2 years ago

Lots of things that ultimately come down to hyper-mobility (thanks Ehlers-Danlos!), including:

  • Lick my elbow
  • Pull my shoulder visibly out of socket (not painful at all, and happens if I carry something heavy if I’m not careful)
  • Pop my hip out of socket while standing (sometimes painful, always somewhat unpleasant, so I’ve had to learn how to not do it)
  • Hold my hands behind my back and pull them to my front
  • Rotate my arm >360°
  • Bend my thumb to my forearm
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JimSamtanko 13 points 2 years ago

I can dislocate my shoulder to the music of Billy Joel. The Pawnee Journal once called it, "Why would anyone do this?”

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Akasazh 3 points 2 years ago

Why especially the music of Joel?

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JimSamtanko 6 points 2 years ago

It’s a quote from Parks and Recreation.

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Akasazh 2 points 2 years ago

I see. Ty!

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captain_aggravated 12 points 2 years ago

I can flex some muscle in my head that causes a roaring sound in my ears. Not sure what that's for.

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thatKamGuy 7 points 2 years ago

Is it the same muscle that lets you wiggle your ears? Because I can do that, and I get a similar roaring.

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captain_aggravated 3 points 2 years ago

My ears don't seem to move when I do that.

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OhFudgeBars 3 points 2 years ago

Same here. Someone else in the thread said that's your tensor tympani muscle.

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okamiueru 2 points 2 years ago

I get mine to make a clicking sound. Audible to someone else if they stick their ear next to mine.

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flx 12 points 2 years ago

There is a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth that i can suck air through.

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tiefling 12 points 2 years ago

I can hammer nails and icepicks into my head. I'm very fire resistant and eat fire. I have a split tongue. I can keep my eyes open for a VERY long time.

TBF I'm a sideshow and fire performer so I'm cheating

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Feathercrown 6 points 2 years ago

Are you a demon and who summoned you

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tiefling 5 points 2 years ago

Yes

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FragrantOwl 11 points 2 years ago
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Lost_My_Mind 6 points 2 years ago

Psssshhhhhh, look at this guy, existing! Not like the rest of us simulated humans! Buy ovaltine! Just sitting around in society. Pretending to exist, so we can slip subtle advertising into daily conversations. Buy ovaltime! Bet you didn't realize that we're all in the matrix, and your entire purpose for existance is to be made to be miserable. Currency is worthless outside the matrix. We're only doing this to make all in the matrix suffer!!!

Mwahahahaha!!!! Thats my evil laugh! Do you like it?

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shinigamiookamiryuu 3 points 2 years ago

SAME

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variants 11 points 2 years ago

I can whistle from my throat, I figured out how to do it from yawning and just kept practicing, the wife hates it because it hurts her ears but every time I yawn I have a habit of trying

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pelotron 13 points 2 years ago

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Kolanaki 6 points 2 years ago

Does it sound different than a normal lip whistle?

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jpeps 3 points 2 years ago

I have this! For ages I've been trying to figure out how to do it on command but so far I can only do it while yawning.

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Nefara 10 points 2 years ago

I can whistle in three different ways. The classic pursed lip whistle, a whistle using just the tip of my tongue and the roof of my mouth, not using my lips at all, and then another using the tops of my bottom teeth. I can make decent bird sounds using my bottom teeth, but I can do pretty much any tune I can think of with the pursed lip method. It has been relevant to my life exactly zero times, except to entertain myself.

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Ephera 4 points 2 years ago

I've got a tooth gap through which I can whistle. And it's working so well, that I can also audibly whistle while breathing in. So, I can actually whistle pretty much continuously for like 10+ minutes, until my cheeks start hurting. Only really useful getting on someone's nerves...

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Nefara 2 points 2 years ago

That's how I learned the bottom tooth whistle! One of my bottom front teeth was a bit crooked and created a tiny gap at the top, and I learned to whistle through it. When I got my teeth straightened I lost the ability to do the invert whistle and some of my control but I can still do it well enough with the pursed lip method.

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Deadrek 2 points 2 years ago

Ah! I have another whistling method! I can use my throat. It's like a heavily modified sigh? It's the best way I can describe how to even try to do it.

With practice I think I could get it loud enough to be disorientating to the unsuspecting though. Lol

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Nefara 1 point 2 years ago

Ha! I haven't heard of that, but maybe I should try to learn it just to know more ways. Not that I'm doing much with the ones I do know at the moment, lol

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shinigamiookamiryuu 10 points 2 years ago

I can roll my R's like a Spaniard and move my boobs on their own but that's it.

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morphballganon 7 points 2 years ago

Video of both at the same time?

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shinigamiookamiryuu 2 points 2 years ago

How does one do that on here?

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morphballganon 2 points 2 years ago

Upload to an image host like catbox, imgbb, imgur, gfycat etc?

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shinigamiookamiryuu 1 point 2 years ago

But those don't do video.

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Kolanaki 10 points 2 years ago

I can inhale through my butthole to fart on command.

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shinigamiookamiryuu 6 points 2 years ago

What are you, a turtle?

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Whitebrow 7 points 2 years ago

Heheheheh. Turdle.

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Bishma 10 points 2 years ago

If I press on the corners of my eye it forces air down my naso-lacrimal duct (that lets tears drain into our sinuses) and it makes a squeak loud enough for people sitting next to be to hear. I have a built in nose flute.

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r0ertel 3 points 2 years ago

A nose flute, awesome! I have the opposite where I can blow air out the other way, but sometimes it will squirt out a stream of tears.

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gamermanh 10 points 2 years ago

I can whistle while either exhaling or inhaling

Idk how special or weird it is but everyone I've tried to teach the skill to seems entirely incapable of doing the inhale one

It's super useful for whistling complex songs or long bits without stopping, though

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WindyRebel 5 points 2 years ago

Hello. I, too, can do this!

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Xanis 10 points 2 years ago

Sooo I can cause what honestly feels like a small and constant electrical current flow through any part of my body. If I center this feeling on my chest it is easily more prominent than anywhere else with my head being second. Extremities are dead last. If I am hooked up to a heart monitor I can make it freak out at will. Any location I focus it on tends to want to tense up.

I like to tell people this is the result of me grabbing onto a metal item when I was younger that was still hot. Couldn't let go for a solid 6-10 seconds, can't say exactly how long. What I am able to do feels very similar.

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quicksand 3 points 2 years ago

a metal item when I was younger that was still hot

Still hot as in temperature or electricity?

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OneWomanCreamTeam 7 points 2 years ago

As in sexy

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Xanis 5 points 2 years ago

Electricity. Hand curled around it to grab and got rooted. I still remember the sensation of my repeating mental command to "LET GO" feeling as if it was slowly travelling down my arm. Weird is a word that comes to mind.

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quicksand 3 points 2 years ago

Wow that's wild, my only experience with that tingling feeling is testing 9V batteries with my tongue. I've had a healthy fear of electricity and always LOTO at work, so I'm hoping it stays that way.

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Xanis 4 points 2 years ago

The wild part is it didn't hurt. I don't remember any pain at all. Just an intense knowledge that something was very wrong and I needed to get away as quickly as I could. But like no matter how hard I tried my body would not listen until that signal I mentioned hit my hand and I let go.

I was also surrounded by people and not a single person noticed.

But yeah, Iiii wouldn't repeat the experience.

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Bonifratz 9 points 2 years ago

I can crack the knuckles of my big toes at will (only moving my toes, no hands involved).

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BradleyUffner 2 points 2 years ago

Me too! But only the ones on my right foot.

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casual_observer 1 point 2 years ago

Ditto.

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 9 points 2 years ago

I can poop on the floor. But I bet you can too.

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Rocketpoweredgorilla 9 points 2 years ago

Instructions unclear. Anyone know how to clean a popcorn ceiling?

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Deadrek 2 points 2 years ago

Pre or post pop?

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shinigamiookamiryuu 5 points 2 years ago

SAME

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RBWells 9 points 2 years ago

Well, I can still do a cartwheel, it's good for surprising children. Thumbs bend backwards.

I can also reach all of me, which my husband seems to think odd, can put sunscreen on my own back so I don't think it's useless.

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Zier 9 points 2 years ago

Due to an NDA I signed, I am unable to answer your inquiry. Next question please.

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Feathercrown 8 points 2 years ago

Hi yes I'm a big fan. I'd like to know your credit card details please

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Zier 6 points 2 years ago

I LOVE my fans, I would do anything for them. It's Visa 0251 6623 8874 1000 exp 10/2027

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Feathercrown 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you, my dream has been fulfilled

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nossaquesapao 8 points 2 years ago

I can rotate one finger at one direction and the other on the opposite direction while pointing one to another, simultaneously. I don't know how uncommon it is but, back at high school, no one else in my class could do it. Totally unuseful skill.

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 5 points 2 years ago

My fingers don't rotate unless you count wrist involvement, so I'm a little confused by what you're describing.

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nossaquesapao 5 points 2 years ago

Something like this. Sorry for the poor image. The wrists can move too, I think it doesn't change much.

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Reyali 5 points 2 years ago

If I’m understanding your description correctly (the image didn’t come through), I can do this too! I heard once as a kid it was impossible and I refused to accept that, so I practiced until I could do it.

Rephrasing to see if we’re talking about the same thing: I can point my fingers towards each other in front of me, then circle one hand away from myself and the other towards myself, and continue looping them in opposite directions. Most people can do it for 1-2 loops, but then end up moving both fingers in the same direction.

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nossaquesapao 5 points 2 years ago

I believe we're talking about the same thing. Welcome to the club!

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Feathercrown 4 points 2 years ago

Neat! I just tried it and it's hard (harder one way than the other, for some reason), but doable.

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BugleFingers 8 points 2 years ago

I can put both my hands In a "pray" position behind my back between my shoulder blades. I can vibrate my eyes. Perpetually crack my right ankle. And pull my arm out of it's socket.

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Notyou 2 points 2 years ago

I can vibrate my eyes.

Oh shit. You just gave me a memo of middle/high school. I use to be able to do that. I just checked and maybe if I keep practicing, but it's not there anymore.

Someone I knew did it to me in school. Like just vibrated their eyes while looking at me. Then asked if I could do that. Well no, but it intrigued my young ass enough to figure out how he did it. He told me and after a few days I was able to do it pretty easy.

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BugleFingers 2 points 2 years ago

That's similar to how I learned! My brother could do it and I was envious and figured it out, he can do it for as long as he wants but my eyes tire after maybe 20 seconds or so

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Notyou 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah my eyes always got tired after like 10 seconds and I need to close my eyes and let them rest after doing it for a while.

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PeterLossGeorgeWall 8 points 2 years ago

I can fit the majority of my little finger up my nostrils. My nose might be slightly larger than normal and my hands are about normal. It just fits up there with a little twist.

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lol_idk 7 points 2 years ago

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FeelThePower 7 points 2 years ago

I can make fart sounds with only my hands

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kionite231 4 points 2 years ago

I can too with my hand and armpit ;)

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Toes 7 points 2 years ago

Fall asleep standing

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LogicalDrivel 13 points 2 years ago

The trick is to wake up standing, as well.

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Toes 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah that part is a bit shaky

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Bizarroland 7 points 2 years ago

I can move my fingertip joints without moving the rest of my finger.

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BradleyUffner 7 points 2 years ago

I can snap with my toes the same way people snap their fingers, but only with the right foot for some reason.

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tiredofsametab 1 point 2 years ago

I used to do this all the time. Since I stopped, they don't pop so easily anymore

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lord_ryvan 7 points 2 years ago

I can

  • Bend my fingers back almost to the back of my hand, effortlessly
  • Raise/lower my eyebrows by a lot, even independently. I can make waving motions, as well!
  • Touch the tip of my nose or chin with my tongue
  • Wiggle my ears (though not independently)
  • Roll my eyes up so only the whites at the bottom are visible
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Ironfacebuster 2 points 2 years ago

I used to able to touch my fingers to the back of my hand in middle school, but 10 years later I can only bend them back a little less than 3/4

It was a neat party trick while it lasted, because everyone thought it hurt me to do it lol

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lord_ryvan 1 point 2 years ago

People are often so worried I'm pushing back hard and damaging my joints. So I let them push a finger back softly, then they're shocked how easy it is, but no longer worried about my joints! 😁

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razm 7 points 2 years ago

I can trigger a few seconds vertigo attack when I lie down. If I do not think about it when going to bed, everything is fine. But if I think about it, then it invariably comes.

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TRBoom 6 points 2 years ago

Blow bubbles off of my tongue

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humorlessrepost 4 points 2 years ago

I came here to say this!

Form a bubble under the tip of my tongue, scoop it up, fold tongue, gently blow.

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TRBoom 3 points 2 years ago

Yes! Same exact method lol

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Volkditty 6 points 2 years ago

Sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day.

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AgentGrimstone 6 points 2 years ago

The best way I can describe it is I can make the nerves on the back of my neck, upper back, and shoulders feel sensitive at will.

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cordlesslamp 6 points 2 years ago

I can whistle with my lips just slightly open (like a ventriloquist).

I can make a really high pitched whistle like that and it confused the hell out of other people while they trying to find where the sound came from (high pitched sound is harder to pinpoint the location as it's bounce around the room).

But as I get older, I find it getting harder and harder to do so. 10 - 12 years ago I can whistle an entire song like that and it would sound crystal clear. Now it's really hard to follow a tune or make complex sounds.

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Alborlin 2 points 2 years ago

It's called pallet whistling, I can do it too in fact I don't need to have lips very close at all i.e. you can see my teeth while whistling.

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cordlesslamp 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah that's what I meant. My lips can move freely while I whistle and it doesn't affect the sound at all. I just specifically mentioned the "slightly opened lips" as it's more interesting to the story I'm telling.

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AFC1886VCC 6 points 2 years ago
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Hikermick 3 points 2 years ago

I can do the same by cupping my hand in my armpit then jerking my arm down like a chicken wing real fast. Is this still a thing? I haven't been a kid since the 70's

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meekah 2 points 2 years ago

I'm in my 20s but totally still a thing when I was a kid.

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HiddenLychee 2 points 2 years ago

I can one up you by doing that with my chest

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zip 2 points 2 years ago

I can do both of those and I can do it with my collarbone up against my neck. I do it accidentally all the time while leaning over and it catches me off guard all the time...and makes me giggle, because I am very mature.

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tigeruppercut 2 points 2 years ago

palm over eye socket fart gang checking in

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zip 2 points 2 years ago

Ooh, I hadn't thought of trying that yet. I can do it, too! Thank you for helping me learn this new talent. That pressure/suction is a weird feeling on the eye lol

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blackstampede 6 points 2 years ago

I can bend the last joint in my fingers independently. I also have a small nub on the tip of my tongue, which is only useful in one situation.

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 4 points 2 years ago

Getting peanut butter off the roof of your mouth?

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blackstampede 3 points 2 years ago

Yep.

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Notyou 1 point 2 years ago

I can bend the last joint of my right hand middle finger independently. Not any of the other ones though. I found out when I was playing Double Dragon in the arcade and smashing the attack button. My finger when stuff with the first joint bent and still smashing the kick button. I didn't know what it was.

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Klear 6 points 2 years ago

Wake up and go about my day.

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casual_observer 6 points 2 years ago

I can lick my own uvula.

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tuxtey 7 points 2 years ago

I misread that, but I'm still curious

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casual_observer 2 points 2 years ago

Curious how? I can curl my tongue back and flick it.

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MicrowavedTea 2 points 2 years ago

You mean that isn't normal? Well TIL

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Fuck_u_spez_ 1 point 2 years ago
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MeDuViNoX 1 point 2 years ago

Next step, go behind it and reach your tongue up into your nasal passage above your soft pallet. Congratulations, you're now able to pick your nose from inside your mouth.

I've been able to do this for about a decade now because I got bored one day.

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Crackhappy 1 point 2 years ago

That's both titillating and disgusting. Bravo.

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casual_observer 2 points 2 years ago

THANK YOU

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Hadriscus 2 points 2 years ago

hmmm.... titillusting

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nifty 6 points 2 years ago

I can cock both eyebrows one at a time

I can touch my palms flat to the ground while trying to touch my toes

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SlothMama 6 points 2 years ago

I can hear the blood flowing in my head, including hearing my own pulse via the same sound.

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lord_ryvan 8 points 2 years ago

That sounds stressful

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lightnsfw 5 points 2 years ago

Only if you stop hearing it.

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SpiderShoeCult 4 points 2 years ago

have you considered getting your thyroid checked? anecdotal evidence, a former colleague mentioned they had thyroid issues (on the hyper side) and could hear their pulse in their head before solving it. somehow that bit of info stuck with me

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SlothMama 4 points 2 years ago

Never heard this, interesting. I usually only hear it in places with low background noise, it kinda reminds me of the sound a CRT TV or something kinda like electricity, it's not really like those things, but it's the closest thing I can think of.

I can also hear myself blink if I have silence in a room.

I also actually do have a thyroid condition, but that could be pure coincidence.

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SpiderShoeCult 4 points 2 years ago

heh, I can also hear myself blink sometimes in a quiet room. my thyroid tests are inconclusive though.

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MicrowavedTea 6 points 2 years ago

I can bring my hands from the back of my body to the front (and the opposite) while holding them together. There might be a use for this if I ever get tied up.

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Rocketpoweredgorilla 3 points 2 years ago

Me too. the local police even stopped handcuffing me behind my back because I'd just step over so my hands were in front again.

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lol_idk 4 points 2 years ago

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Rocketpoweredgorilla 1 point 2 years ago

The handcuff thing. Being on a first name basis with the local cops is pretty common in a small town like where I lived for a bit when I was an angry teen.

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moonpiedumplings 6 points 2 years ago

I can spiral my tongue, so that the front part is fully upsidr down - but only to the left. I can't rotate it to the right at all for some reason, it's like the equivalent muscles are missing.

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fmstrat 5 points 2 years ago

Talking.

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Resol 5 points 2 years ago

I can sing really poorly.

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ArbitraryValue 5 points 2 years ago

Sometimes when I open my mouth really wide, I somehow spray a little stream of saliva, like from a squirt gun. It makes me feel like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park, but so far I haven't been able to do it on purpose.

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Rhynoplaz 7 points 2 years ago

The gleek. Someone else mentioned it on here. I've known a few people who can do it on command.

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Vanth 3 points 2 years ago
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Rhynoplaz 4 points 2 years ago

Middle school in the 90s wasn't much different.

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JayEchoRay 5 points 2 years ago

I can fold my ears twice - so from the top of my ear I fold it towards the bottom of my ear and at the point where it folds I can fold it again across over the first fold.

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sp3tr4l 5 points 2 years ago

Not a thing I can, but I once knew a person who could make their eyes go anti-crosseyed, as in left eye looking far left, right eye looking far right, away from their nose.

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Obi 4 points 2 years ago

We have a couple things that run in the family. All men in my direct family (so me, my dad and my brother) can twist our mouths in both directions at once, so upper lip one side lower lip the other side, looks funky. We can also do eyebrow dances with moving only single eyebrows but I think that's more common.

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Mr_Dr_Oink 4 points 2 years ago

I can make my right arm vibrate by tensing up the muscles in my forearm. I dont me shake really fast. I mean vibrate.like, fast.

Outside of beating my brothers on specific mario party mini games that require repeatedly pressing a single button (or other games that have that use mechanic) or unlocking the cheats in bomberman 64 (needed a turbo controller to hit start repeatedly on the main menu) its pretty damn useless.

There was one Mario Party mini game (i think called domination) where you had to hit A as fast as possible, with each press making a thwomp or "domino" appear in a line. At the end, they all fall down, and you see whose line is the longest.

Some people couldn't reach the finish line. Some could just about get past it. Mine just kept going and going.

Otherwise, totally useless.

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Kuma 2 points 2 years ago

I thought that was normal and I just had not learned how to not vibrate, I can vibrate my whole body by tensing up or whatever part I focus on. So I vibrate like crazy when I do the plank... Extremely annoying....

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Mr_Dr_Oink 2 points 2 years ago

Mad how everyone has such different experiences and how they shape our outlook on the world and what we consider normal. Like in my circles my arm thing was unique to me. I never met anyone that could do it. But looking at the comments in this post it seems like most of us think our weird trick is unique but there are almost alwas other people who have the opposite experience.

Interesting.

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Kuma 1 point 2 years ago

Yea, these kinds of topics are great. Makes you think.

You may even feel weirder because apparently you have a party trick and you didn't even know it haha

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s3rvant 1 point 2 years ago

I can do this as well and find it useful for other devices that use a lot of button presses such as TV volume etc

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Ephera 4 points 2 years ago

I can bend my knees backwards by, like, 20°.

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stoicmaverick 4 points 2 years ago

Pfff. Everyone can do that..... Two times.

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OozingPositron 3 points 2 years ago

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Ephera 4 points 2 years ago

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JigglySackles 4 points 2 years ago

I can blow air out of my tear duct. Really useful for clearing it out.

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TheFish 3 points 2 years ago

Wait .. when or why would you need to clear it out?

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JigglySackles 3 points 2 years ago

You know how you can end up with crusties in your eyes in the morning? Well that gunk comes partly from your tear ducts and drys there. So sometimes when I blow them out I get some light white mucus as well as tears. When it's really full it will make tiny bubbles. Lol and it whistles a little so people in the same room can hear it.

Also as a party gag. Lol

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Illogicalbit 3 points 2 years ago

I can usually make my goosebumps on my arm go away by concentrating alone.

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ShadowRam 3 points 2 years ago

I can make them show up on command.

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Feathercrown 2 points 2 years ago

With your powers combined, you are... Mangoose!

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Tudsamfa 3 points 2 years ago

My left pinkie finger knuckle can hold some tension when I from my pinkie into a claw shape, but then snaps forward. Either that's unusual or my right hand can't do that as snappy.

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ohlaph 3 points 2 years ago

You can partially wave at the wall in a dark, but cold and loud room.

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Feathercrown 2 points 2 years ago

We don't talk about The Room

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the_dopamine_fiend 3 points 2 years ago

I can diverge my eyes really far, almost equivalent to how far I can cross them. Way easier when I'm super sleepy.

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OhFudgeBars 2 points 2 years ago

I have a few that some others in the thread have already mentioned, but I can also:

  • wiggle most of my scalp back and forth
  • retract the middle of the tip of my tongue so when I stick it out, it looks like an ass
  • stop peeing mid-stream. Maybe this is perfectly common, but people talk about not being able to just stop, or at least not for longer than a few seconds.
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GregorGizeh 2 points 2 years ago

I can click my tongue (?) very loudly. Entirely useless

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pedestrian 2 points 2 years ago

I can snap the tendon over my knuckles kinda hard to where it makes a popping/snapping sound. If I do it close to someone's cheek, it stings like releasing a tiny rubber band.

I can also move my ears independent of one another.

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GnomeKat 1 point 2 years ago

Pop my knees

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kionite231 1 point 2 years ago

My knees pop even when I just casually walk. Maybe I should see a doctor.

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ParabolicMotion 1 point 2 years ago

I can make my left scapula pop/click by moving my scapulas closer together. I read on a medical website that it’s actually an ailment that can be remedied by surgery. I don’t really want surgery. I’m right handed, so it doesn’t affect me too much. Apparently, I’m the only one in my family with this issue and it’s supposedly a genetic issue.

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thorbot 1 point 2 years ago
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Mango 0 points 2 years ago

Well I'm a flow artist, so that. Is feeling like a badass useless?

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nifty 1 point 2 years ago

What’s a flow artist?

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Mango 1 point 2 years ago path: 0 10330668 10343552 10344871, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 2
nifty 1 point 2 years ago

Oh cool, I’ve seen people do this pyrotechnics

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Mango 2 points 2 years ago

I've spun fire poi before!

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kerrigan778 -1 points 2 years ago

There's a bit of me that I can put in certain other people, and it will cause a smaller version of us to form.

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Benardsmart -13 points 2 years ago
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sp3tr4l 3 points 2 years ago

Wtf lol, malfunctioning bot.

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JackGreenEarth 1 point 2 years ago

What did it say?

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble 3 points 2 years ago

spamming some Instagram page with text that didn't make sense.

I also like how the message was supposedly edited 3 minutes ago.

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