What special ability do you posess that most people don’t have?
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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.
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 cook minute rice in 55 seconds.
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?
I lucid dream and I find that when I lucid dream, that’s when I’m getting the best sleep I can get.
How would I compare? But no, I do fine.
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!
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
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.
This is a totally normal response. Check out the book The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno if you want to learn more!
I can go anywhere there is alcohol present and not drink it.
Teach us your ways.
I forget the plots of movies and books fairly fast, and I’m able to enjoy them “for the first time” many times.
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.
I have cat-like night vision, and can see just fine in lighting that most people would call “pitch black”.
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.
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 🤔
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.
I can do that too. It’s very easy for me. The answer is always the same: no, no they are not
To most of the men this is a super power so don’t sell yourself short