What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?

  • yads@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    I have an uncanny ability to figure out the optimal size container to use to store leftovers. Kneel before my power!

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      2 years ago

      Man it takes me maintaining a dream journal, some MILD affirmations now and then and about 15 Reality check per day to even get atleast one lucid dream in a week and when i get busy and couldnt keep up with my dream journal and reality check, i would need to start from scratch to get to that previous level and that could mean month gap between lucid dreams.

  • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Being unphased by traumatic situations. At least right away. If a loved one dies or there’s a terrorist attack, I feel nothing until usually months go by. It then hits me randomly and I get as upset as you’d expect one to at the beginning.

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    2 years ago

    I know when a timer or alarm I set is about to go off. This sometimes works for timers I thought I set, so it’s kind of useful.

    For alarms, It means I wake up a minute before the alarm

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    Not really a super power, but I’m deaf since birth, hearing aids since 3 months old, and I can read lips from ten feet away, which means that I can follow a conversation perfectly fine bc I can read lips, while everyone else has to have someone shouting in their ear from a foot away in noisy environments.

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        Haha, if I have, it never made it into my memory. But I did have an FM system for school as a kid. Sort of like a microphone the teacher wore around their neck that streamed the audio directly to my hearing aids. The signals could go far. If the teacher forgot to mute it or turn it off, I’d hear the sounds of them going to the bathroom down the hallway. Which was super irritating when I was trying to focus on my notes.

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    2 years ago

    Creepily excellent memory…although only for things that are pointless or people would really rather I didn’t remember.

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    2 years ago

    Bit embarrassed to admit this, but I used to seriously believe I had the ability to read woman’s minds.

    I used to walk into a party/bar and instantly know if I was going to have sex with a particular woman. This was virtually infallible. (Disclaimer: This didn’t happen every time I went to a party, nor did I necessarily choose the woman, but every time I felt that feeling I was right.)

    Turns out many years later I realized I just had a good understanding of woman’s body language. And could tell when a woman found me attractive enough, and was horny enough, to let me pick her up.

    FTR I do feel foolish for ever thinking I had some supernatural ability with women, but I was somewhat attractive and charming, so that went to my head.

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    2 years ago

    Took me a while to realize that this is actually a real life superpower, but - I can fix things. Throw it away? Meh… Repairing, upcycling? Bring it on!

  • CaspianXI@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 years ago

    I don’t cry when I chop onions. If I’m chopping dozens of them, everyone needs to get out of the kitchen because the air will get potent (but I won’t notice).

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    2 years ago

    I have cat-like night vision, and can see just fine in lighting that most people would call “pitch black”.

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    2 years ago

    Grit. Most people think I have some sort of innate natural ability with everything I do. In reality, I just persevere through difficulty and failure, as many times as it takes to arrive at success. The downside is that I have a decent number of things I have tried that I probably should have given up on sooner.

  • SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
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    I can hear the most minute of sounds. Even my kitten walking around downstairs (on a marble floor).

    On the other hand, I hear way too much noise and have great trouble understanding speech because of it.

    Just last week, it allowed me to hear the spinning of wheels stuck in mud a couple of klicks from my house, while I was eating dinner. Apparently someone got stuck in one of the muddy holes caused by the rains, in the middle of nowhere. Dropped him off at his place, and got the car freed the next day.