What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?
I have an uncanny ability to figure out the optimal size container to use to store leftovers. Kneel before my power!
He is the chosen one!
I am your nemesis, I inevitably dirty several containers trying to find the right size.
We can fight when I am done doing the dishes.
Lol, my wife just ends up using an obscenely large container for the tiniest bit of left overs.
But can you find the correct lid to that Tupperware?
I can tell whether a food has milk in it simply by eating it and waiting a few minutes.
It’s kind of a shitty superpower, to be honest.
LMAO
This is similar to mine. I can detect the presence of nickel in an alloy at a certain concentration by how much it makes my skin tingle. Prolonged contact will result in a rash.
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!
Me too! The older I get the more I find fixing things is not as common as I thought. Just the other day I was at a friend’s place and they were struggling opening a window. Five minutes later it was fixed. The sash spring fell off, super simple fix. They were cursing at it for months without any effort to figure it out, but that’s most people it seems.
This yes! Also being able to do something after watching someone do it is a good skill?
Of course! That just show’s that you’re very good at extracting information of other’s explanations and are able to understand the nature of things. Very valuable!
I just suck at learning things from books or other forms of text though
I can cook minute rice in 55 seconds.
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.
I have a similar reaction to things. Unfortunately, it often causes people to look at me to figure shit out in the moment. Just because I’m not freaking out doesn’t mean I know a damn thing about the correct course of action right now.
I get a different reaction. People see me as disturbed or heartless, I get “What is wrong with you” and “Don’t you feel anything right now?” One time I responded with honesty. Bad call brother. I try to look upset, but it probably resembles the same level of concern one might show when trying to determine the perpetrator of an especially offensive fart.
That’s rough, though imagining your description is quite funny.
This is a totally normal response. Check out the book The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno if you want to learn more!
Welcome to the heartless club!
Apparently, lucid dreaming. Been doing it my whole life, requires no effort to initiate.
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.
Do you find your quality of sleep low?
How would I compare? But no, I do fine.
I lucid dream and I find that when I lucid dream, that’s when I’m getting the best sleep I can get.
Being able to lose anything I put my hands on. Not a good power, but it’s all I got.
Come over here and put those magic hands on my belly fat, you wizard!
With great power comes great responsibility
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
I forget the plots of movies and books fairly fast, and I’m able to enjoy them “for the first time” many times.
OMG! I thought I was the only one.
That’s amazing! I always wished there was a pill or something that could give me amnesia for a fee hours so I could enjoy something for the first time again.
Superpower: catching dropped objects in mid-air, including objects dropped by other people standing near me.
Unfortunately it’s a function of hypervigilance, which is quite hard on my nerves.
You are the 3rd person in this post to give this answer - I was going to add this myself, but clearly this is just a regular power.
I don’t feel special anymore!
I have really good reflexes for catching things that are falling. I don’t even have to think about it - if something is falling near me that’s catchable, my hand will just reach out and catch it 9/10 times. Seems I can override it for dangerous things like kitchen knives. Most of the time, nobody ever sees it happen, so it’s also a hidden talent, lol.
Are you me?
One time I was DM-ing for a group of friends, it was late and we were drunk. One of my friends had left a glass behind my dm screen were I couldn’t see it (but I knew it was there). I don’t remember exactly how, but he bumped the screen and the cup fell from the table
Somehow my hand jumped in an arc going over the screen and under the table to be exactly were the glass was on its way to the floor and I catch it
It’s one of my favorite memories
Rolled a nat 20 on that one for sure.
Creepily excellent memory…although only for things that are pointless or people would really rather I didn’t remember.
Maybe self-learning. I always learn new stuff using the Internet by myself without asking anyone.
Why is it that every comment has an eerily relevant username?
I wonder if it has anything to do with the person writing the comment being able to choose their username 🤔
I find that I’m really calm in emergency situations. When someone (including myself) gets hurt, I have a way of being the guardian in the room that stays calm and gets things done.
I broke my wrist pretty bad at the start of the year, to the point that I had surgery done and now have a metal plate and 7-8 screws. When it happened, I was oddly in fucking zen mode–despite the pain. I called my wife calmly, instructed someone to call an ambulance for me (made sure to specify non-emergency since it was a closed fracture), and made jokes at the hospital and in the ambulance. I was even taking selfies during all of the hospital procedures so that I could document it.
Outside of that, I’m an anxiety and ADHD-riddled mess that can barely make a decision on what snack to eat, and feels like he’s productive at nothing.
This sounds like my fiancé. She’s also riddled with anxiety and adhd which actually makes sense. She spends everyday and every moment bouncing around in her head analyzing every little thing and possibility that when something does actually happen she’s ready for it.
It definitely ties in to how our ADHD brains work. You’re right, it’s like we’ve prepped for every scenario our whole lives. It reminds me of the Futurama episode where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee.
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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.
Okay, story time? Have you ever read lips to a conversation and learned some juicy gossip?!
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.
