40 People Reveal Their Useless Superpowers That Are Somehow Cool, Funny, Or Weird

I have this weird ability to remember exactly where on a page a certain sentence or passage is when I'm having a conversation with someone or need to prove my point.

Same also I have very vivid imagery when reading

Same. Whenever we were in school and the teacher wanted kids to read out loud they'd always say "don't read ahead". Well, I literally can't help it. And so when it was my turn, I'd always need to figure out where they were and then I'd stumble over the words and my dyslexia would kick in for an extra punch. Lovely. I've trained myself in most words because I love to read, but any uncommon or made up word I have so much trouble pronouncing. Spelling is also awful. Good thing for autocorrect sometimes.

Same. My dad was trying to see if I read fast to read fast or if I am actually absorbing info. proved to him I do absorb the info.

I'm exactly the same, so I was always in the "slow readers" groups in school reading little kids books I hated it cos at home I would be reading adult level books

OH MY WORD THIS. I always get so self conscious because its like dang I actually can read guys I swear it

Same

Sameeee. I sometimes skip words when reading out loud because I've already read the part in my head 😂

After over 20 years my husband still forgets I can do this and thinks I'm bragging. No, I'm trying to help you and my elderly mom read your menus because you both have terrible vision. The waitress shouldn't have to tell you that your food comes with two sides and repeat the salad dressings when your thumb is next to them.

Me too! Learned that trick teaching! It's useful and makes students really confused.

I do that :D it’s fun because I get all the plot and interesting stuff but every time I re read I notice a new little detail

Isn’t that what human brains do? We don’t read letter by letter, but see each word as a whole chunk. (Wihch is why you can porblaby raed tihs etinre snetncae jsut fnie.) Or are you talking about something else? :) I tried to Google it out of curiosity and kept getting something called “reader’s block” haha

No! My lil bro is dyslexic and he certainly cannot.

I just noticed that and scrolled down to see if anyone beat me to it :-) I thought to myself, "Holy sh*t that cat has some MITTS"

Cats, dogs, birds, squirrels...yeah they know if you're a threat. I have a whole zoo of wild animals that listen to me and my husband just can't understand it. He likes animals but gets nervous around unfamiliars because his mom was neurotic about animals. I have pics of me standing 20 feet from black beers as a toddler because my parents were outdoors people. Ok, bears but I'm sure I was near some beers too so I'm not going to correct that.

I can't :(

do what? ;-)

boss

Same here.

same!

same

It's a skill you can teach yourself. I taught myself how to do it when I was a teenager. It just takes practice like everything else.

It helps to play video games. Gamers have a higher chance of controlling their dreams and having lucid dreams because of the way they control their game world.

I think that has to do with the relationship between your active consciousness and your subconscious. I often lucid dream, but there's a point where if I try to get too crazy something invades the dream and forces me to leave. I've come to believe it's the rational part of the subconscious letting me know I've gone too far. Try telling yourself that you'd like to try it and you'll be careful and see if that works.

I have one about once every 3 months, if I try. They sometimes accidentally become nightmares, if I’m not careful!

That'll happen a lot when you're learning, don't give up. Even after achieving lucidity in the dream state, that can happen if you try to change too much too quickly. Try starting small. Once you realize you're dreaming maybe consciously explore the setting you're in, try asking the dream characters some questions. Or just start playing with objects that already exist in the dream, to see how you can manipulate them. Then you can work your way up to conjuring things that aren't there or changing the scene entirely

Did the top stop?

I almost did once and I was scared to do it again for a long time because of that

Thats actually quite common.

As a lucid dreamer I must say I believe this. However as someone who used to have terrible nightmares all the time, I'd rather be tired because I was in control of the dream rather than it being in control of me.

Personally, I never experienced it like that. I seen to have lost the ability to lucid dream, but there have been a few years when I used to do it. In my case, however, it seemed to happen in the last hour or so of my normal sleep, so I typically came out of it when I had to wake up anyways. I kinda miss it, though. i never tried to learn it, it came just naturally. Maybe I should try learning again, it was fun to be in control. Biggest benefit of dreaming lucid for me was being able to get rid of a recurring nightmare that I had several times a week for a few decades since I was a kid.

I can’t really do that, I can only imagine things in my head when my eyes closed and even than it’s not really a clear picture, just sort of an idea of the thing I’m imagining. it’s weird