What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.
Not me but my gf has a rare condition called SCDS. Basically, she can hyper hear her own body. Her heart sounds like a loud bass drum. She can hear her eyes when they move. She can hear her bones when they creak.
It is unsettling and can be quite dis-orienting and painful. She has surgery scheduled next year to fix it!
Changes in air pressure(I think). Its like everything goes quiet theres ringing it feels very weird. I always ask to see if anyone else notices.
You how you get up on a winter morning after the rain and everything sounds different and the air is crisp. Yeah sometimes I can feel that a sudden shift and its very jarring like ive been stunned for a few seconds.
The frame rate on high refresh monitors
I’ve got friends that say they can’t tell the difference, who’ve only ever used 60hz
I’m kinda like that. While i love high frame rates, i don’t think i see the upgrade. From 60 to 120? Not really sure. But from 120 to 60? Why is my game a slideshow?
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I don’t have a sense of smell but I can still smell if it’s cold or hot outside.
Ah I can hear security cameras sometimes.
i can see very well in the dark, like pitch black night in the arctic circle in a forest i can see the ground enough that i wont trip and can avoid things like snakes
i fucking hate all the bright lights on cars now btw. the sun is genuinely distressing to me i just simply cannot go outside without sunglasses, even when its very cloudy
Found the vampire. Nostrafeu?
Nostrafeu? Restecpa.
I used to be able to smell ants and hear electricity. My senses aren’t as keen as they used to be though.
Same. If there’s a fair amount of particular types of ants I can smell them still but not which corner of the yard has fire ants anymore.
The god-awful taste of sugar substitutes.
A lot of people can taste things like saccharine I think? But I can taste any fake sugar, even when there is a mix of real and fake sugar in the same thing.
Aspartame/acesulfane is definitely the worst of them all, but sucralose, stevia… all of them taste like medicine kind of.
I can also taste the difference between cane and beetroot based granulated sugar. Beetroot sugar is sharper.
This is so interesting, since I simply can not tell a difference between the aspartame/acesulfane and actual sugar in fizzy drinks. I guess I have it easy because of that, but I have a somewhat keen sense of taste otherwise, I cook a lot and can detect what the taste is missing or has too much of pretty consistently, and know the “opposite” tastes/ingredients to apply. And wines and such, it’s sort of a synesthesia thing too, since I kind of feel them as something close to colors. But sweet things I have trouble with. I thought, not sure why, this was a human thing, but it’s interesting to hear someone can detect the sweet things granularly! Cool!
I can feel whether a battery is full or empty based on its weight. I know it doesn’t make sense but I’ve done a blind test and it works. Empty battery is lighter.
Drop a full and an empty battery from the same height onto a flat surface. The empty one will bounce more, the full one will just drop.
There are syringes that come prefilled with saline used to flush IVs. Some people can taste it when it’s injected, others can’t. I’m one of those who can.
I can quickly learn to recognize specific people’s footsteps, so I can hear who’s approaching. Sometimes it doesn’t even depend on what footwear the person is wearing.
Apparently I can hear high pitched sounds too. I’ve heard such sounds several times where people around me weren’t able to hear it, and recently I could hear an ultrasound device too, which kinda make sense since they start at around 20 kHz.
Also, this isn’t about sensing, but I can slow my heart rate temporarily simply by holding my breath.
Oh! I can also slow my heart rate, but I don’t hold my breath, I just beath slowly and… will it.
And here I am thinking everyone can do this, it’s so weird that a thing like this just never came up with anyone
Hey hey, same on a few of these.
Saline tastes like rubber bands smell, in my opinion.
pretty sure the taste is the plastic tubing. delicious microplastics
Yeah, it’s not microplastics per se, just volatile organic compounds that leech into the saline over time. The smell/taste is because those VOCs want to be in the air. So when they hit your lungs, they very happily evaporate and you exhale them. So you’re just tasting your own breath. Like there may be microplastics present, but that’s not what you’re smelling/tasting, because those wouldn’t evaporate into your lungs to be exhaled.
Mould, I’m always surprised at how few people can smell when food is mouldy. I’ve had people insist the smell is a chemical smell, until we’ve found the offending mouldy item (e.g. When someone’s left a cup of coffee on their desk and gone on holiday) and I reap the glory of being right.
Yeah I feel like i can’t smell a foul old coffee cup better than anyone else, but everyone’s sponges always smell bad to me. I always hate washing a dish at anyone else’s house because the bacteria in their sponge leaves a smell on my hands that doesn’t come off from a normal hand washing or three. Rubber gloves also leave a smell on my hands that will make it difficult for me to sleep that night it smells so strong. Latex ones only, though.
apparently no one i know can sense the chemical/marker(?) taste in artificial cherry flavouring like dr. pepper or cherry coke/pepsi
i seriously don’t know how anyone can get past that taste, so i figure people either enjoy it, or don’t notice it
I can smell iron in the soil from a distance (depending on how much there is), and if there’s a lot of iron I feel very sick, almost like I’m going to vomit, and I want to get away from it. There was one place like that where the closer I got the more sick I felt and the more iron I smelled, I could taste it like there was blood in my mouth, some months later did they start digging there and found a lot of iron.
I do not really like lager (love other types) for the same reason, the taste has a lot of iron in it especially some brands but I seem to be the only one who can taste it. I kind of rank lager as less or more irony taste lol.
Sometimes at some bars does one or multiple beers on tap taste weird and sweet regardless of type or brand. No one else of my friends seem to be able to tell. I where at a bar once where only one beer tap tasted as it should… The rest had the same sweet weird taste.
I also do not like coca-cola or Pepsi so my taste buds may just be weird.
Isn’t this supposed to be how you keep the fey away?
Maybe I am one, it works pretty well on me at least haha
Thats like a super power!
Are you good at telling cardinal directions as well? Maybe you have metal in your brain
I am unsure if I do, because I do not know if it is a knowledge thing or instinct. But in the forest am I pretty good at finding my way back even if I just walk randomly but it could also just be that I remember how I walked there.
I do not feel the irons taste/smell that often in the city so I do not really know what it is that makes me feel that way. It is mostly in the forest.
I can smell when a woman is pregnant. I’ve shocked several friends by congratulating them before they even took a test.
what does it smell like?
I don’t know how to describe it. It’s just different than their normal smell
