Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.
I haven’t shit my pants for like 30 years.
I’ve starred in 1 local govt commercial, have my mustached face in an airport infomercial (around the 40-50s mark) and have some 3-5 seconds of screentime as an extra in 2 different brazilian movies.
I once ate 6 pizzas in one sitting.
Legend
I’ve actively moderated the Zootopia subreddit almost since its inception. We did a lot of cool stuff but, uh, moderating a subreddit is not the kind of thing you brag about. Anyway, i quit this year.
Also i have every single r/place-related medal because i helped organize artworks. That’s not any better is it?
Not here, anyway
I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.
Do you meditate? This is pretty much my meditative state.
I don’t, but I’ve suspected that’s what I’m supposed to do if I ever do it. Lol
Unrelated but I felt really proud the first time I had an inner monologue in English (not my first language).
Now I realize that my inner monologue language switch according to the context, if I’m thinking about family it will be in French, thinking about work and it switch to English.
So this means you hear your thoughts as if they were on speaker, right? I don’t, which is a form of aphantasia, which i also have.
I this is why i mumble to myself all the time, my brain has no speakers
That’s really awesome, that is one of the main goals of most meditation techniques! Sometimes I‘d really like to do that as well.
Have you actively worked on this or were you just able to do this?
Is it difficult to „turn your thoughts back on“?
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
To me it’s as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I’m misunderstanding you.
Yeah I can’t. I think in words, in English, very occasionally Spanish, but always language, words words words.
Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?
Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.
But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I’m like, what, you guys can’t just turn it on or off? I’ve concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.
If I try to stop thinking I just ended up thinking “stopthinkingstopthinking shutupshutupshutup”
I wouldn’t say that I stop thinking, but I can act out thoughts, pay attention to things or have new experiences without internally processing them verbally, although it does help with more complex issues.
If I’m having a shower, I just put soap on a flannel, I don’t internally verbalise “put some soap on the flannel, I’m putting soap on a flannel now”.
Yeah, for some (like me) it’s almost impossible.
But then, there are also people that do not have any inner monologue at all…
Yeh, me. I don’t really think in words. More like visualisations of what I’m doing, have been doing, or are going to do.
I can give up almost anything save for breathing, eating, and my dogs.
Save them for lunch later, smort
I have actually been held at gunpoint many times in a dictatorship, by the leftists dictator forces.
I have actually gone through famine for years caused by leftists, and survived to tell the tale.
I also have survived a leftist dictatorship and escaped successfully from one
Weird flex but okay
Venezuela?
Does Argentina count as a dictatorship lol
I’m pretty sure you use the word leftist wrong
They’re from Chile, it’s actually possible!
I taught myself to juggle fire.
Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.
Sometimes I’ll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone’s clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it.
Holy shit bro that could be a sign of diabetes. See a doctor
Already have, it’s definitely not diabetes. Apparently it’s a genetic thing, but it’s both pretty rare and just isn’t caught by people that “have the gift”.
wtf 😅 eww?
You sound like some kind of Anime villain
What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it
What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?
Oh. Lol. Weird…
Haha, it’s so weird that the only people that have caught on that are my sneezes are my wife and my parents. My wife used to think it was cute, until she realised that her smelling it basically means she’s breathing in my sneezes, which is pretty grim.
It’s maybe 1 in 5 sneezes, but I can almost always tell when it’s going to be a “smelly” one.
I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.
At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. “There is no leak here, you’re just imagining things” was the response after I showed the room to my boss. “There is and we shall see in a few days.” After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.
I’ve been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn’t so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.
I would hate this superpower. Having grown up with brothers, I learned to breathe defensively without smelling, but it’s also so nice to be able to use scented products and perfume without it hurting.
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I am fascinated by you. Please tell me you’ve written a book or long thread?
Also please don’t get Covid
Dude has the super sniffer
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog
Elevators full of perfume must be hell
Are you like the person that posted they can smell ants? Dude was able to find a single ant by sense of smell.
The ant-smelling trait is a genetic thing. I have a co-worker that can smell ants, but otherwise their sense of smell is unremarkable
I do not know. I have never actively tried to smell ants nor had them inside any apartments I’ve lived in. I shall test this when summer returns one day. But I do remember that the ant guy wrote about having some genetic quirk that ables him to register some compound that’s out normal human range of smell.
I was a super smeller but lost the sense during Covid. It still hasn’t fully returned. I have good days where I’ll surprise myself by picking up something subtle and off days where popcorn smells like vomit or skunks smell like brake dust. I was considering a sommelier course prior to this.
Yeah, Covid was a freaky experience. I got off easy, no fever or other symptoms, I just realized one day that I was unable to smell freshly cut grass. Then I realized that I did not smell anything at all.
My sense of smell started coming slowly back after a few days and I can’t tell if it’s diminished or not. But after Covid every brand of whiskey smells and tastes like vomit to me, so there was a price to pay. Also the smell of someone eating rice cakes became utterly disgusting, as well as yogurt. Before Covid I barely registered these two.
That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress… most only go through the tourist area.
Someone went to the basement for a library card
Yes i did. Thanks to my mom for noticing the information to tell me about the reader card. Otherwise I would not have had that experience. I did the normal tourist area but then got that experience
Very cool experience :) glad you got to go in! Now go watch national treasure
Own it on disc and just watched it the other week.
As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.
YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more (“The thing is, like, if you’re trying to do this, or this, do X first” – predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.
Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )
How much information do you actually retain?
Wait, since when does the speed increase go up to 3x?
enhancer for youtube extension in firefox for me.
You can get browser extensions to have more control over video speed
I also usually watch videos at around 1.3 to 1.6 times speed depending on the type of video
I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses…, in full 3D and a victorian setting.
In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).
Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multiplayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there’s that.
Heey there it is!
Thank you :-)
I can lick my elbow.
I can lick your elbow.
No way
Me too! But only on one arm.
Thanks, mild localised hypermobility.
Are you a giraffe? FOUND THE GIRAFFE, GUYS!
I’m trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:
My parents and my husband’s parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.
My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian’s first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.
