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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaspianXI@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 41 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] yads@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] million@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] yads@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Lol, my wife just ends up using an obscenely large container for the tiniest bit of left overs.

[-] Scott@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

But can you find the correct lid to that Tupperware?

[-] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year 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!

[-] doc@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Nemo@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

Apparently, lucid dreaming. Been doing it my whole life, requires no effort to initiate.

[-] Maldreamer@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] Hypnosis4162@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Do you find your quality of sleep low?

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[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

I can cook minute rice in 55 seconds.

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year 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.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] naterbugg@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Being able to lose anything I put my hands on. Not a good power, but it's all I got.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Come over here and put those magic hands on my belly fat, you wizard!

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year 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

[-] papertowels@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

I forget the plots of movies and books fairly fast, and I'm able to enjoy them "for the first time" many times.

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[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Thedragslay@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] TheLonelyDude2049@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Maybe self-learning. I always learn new stuff using the Internet by myself without asking anyone.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Why is it that every comment has an eerily relevant username?

[-] lonke@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it has anything to do with the person writing the comment being able to choose their username 🤔

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I can go anywhere there is alcohol present and not drink it.

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[-] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mido_ml@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Scott@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] GCanuck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year 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.

[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 6 points 1 year ago

I used to walk into a party/bar and instantly know if I was going to have sex with a particular woman.

I can do that too. It's very easy for me. The answer is always the same: no, no they are not

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[-] rayman30@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I can hang things straight without using measurement tools. I just ‘sense’ it is straight. A nice power to have.

[-] CaspianXI@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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).

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 1 year ago

I thought I had this superpower, but it turns out I never chopped enough onions. I got a job in a restaurant and I couldn't even keep my eyes open near the onions.

[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] andemira@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Very accurate sense for when shit is about to hit the fan and it's time to GTFO.

.......comes from having PTSD and a whole lot of trauma, but hey, I'll take what I can get.

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[-] noisypine@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year 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.

[-] daanzel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have color-grapheme synesthesia. I can use this super power to.. Uhmm.. It won me a bet once? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme%E2%80%93color_synesthesia

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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

None. Im incredibly human and typically so. Nothing unusual or worth investigating at all. 100% human for sure.

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[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Good navigation ability and sense of where I am in relation to landmarks, places and even celestial bodies. Also works for time.

Some of my friends need phone GPS just to get around the city they’ve lived in for 15 years!

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[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'm very good at finding four-leaf clovers. Its a skill i developed in little league baseball when the coach would always put me in right field, which the kids never hit to because it was little league. So i just stared at the ground and looked for 4-leaf clovers. I kept finding them all throughout my childhood, and my parents alwats told me i'd diluted the luck from one of those things so much that they each only gave me enough luck to find the next 4-leaf clover.

[-] lemminer@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] Mekboy_nutkrakka@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Very sensitive smell so i can tell somethings burning or notice dangerous smells much quicker then everyone else tho it feels more like a curse cause a lot of smells are overwhelming and makes me sick.

[-] sofa-sogood@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

My farts can clear a room in record time.

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[-] fische_stix@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I can quickly, with minimal info, triage the work/inconvenience ratio of any given leisure activity and determine whether it is vaible as entertainment.

[-] themadcodger@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Increased probability that anything I put down or toss on the bed, etc, will fall off and hit the floor instead. In reality, it's probably just a poor sense of propioception.

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