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).
Huh I think I can do the same. I always thought it was one of those things that everyone could do.
Same. Sometimes I can’t, such as when congested, and it’s super annoying and unbalanced.
yep, I have the same issue when congested.
Feels like a super power when you’re scuba diving and you see all the other divers holding their noses!
Weirdly, I can only do this with my right ear. Definitely helps on airplanes.
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.
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.
I think that’s the weirdest one I’ve seen yet
That’s actually pretty cool, I haven’t felt that in a pretty long time so I’m pretty jealous of you there
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
Hello. I, too, can do this!
I can wiggle my ears. I used to use it to entertain children, but today’s children are jaded and cynical.
I found I can wiggle my ears enough to walk my glasses back up my nose when they’ve slipped down.
I’ve just tried that and you’ve changed my life
now that’s useful!
Oh yeah, I didn’t even realise until you said it but I absolutely do that all the time
Child me would’ve loved to see that.
Adult me would love to see that
I can do it too! it was like discovering a new muscle! I can’t do either independently though
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.
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.
I can snap with my toes the same way people snap their fingers, but only with the right foot for some reason.
I used to do this all the time. Since I stopped, they don’t pop so easily anymore
There is a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth that i can suck air through.
I can hear the blood flowing in my head, including hearing my own pulse via the same sound.
That sounds stressful
Only if you stop hearing it.
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
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.
heh, I can also hear myself blink sometimes in a quiet room. my thyroid tests are inconclusive though.
I can hum and whistle at the same time. Makes me sound kinda like a Theremin
Same! I liken it to a knock off version of Mongolian Throat singing.
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.
I love doing this because it sounds like you’re charging a laser weapon
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
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
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! 😁
I can sing really poorly.
I can cock both eyebrows one at a time
I can touch my palms flat to the ground while trying to touch my toes
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.
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.
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…
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.
