In a world where superheroes dominate the box office and graphic novels line our bookshelves, we often daydream about what it would be like to possess extraordinary powers. We’ve all imagined flying like Superman, wielding Thor’s mighty hammer, or becoming invisible to avoid those uncomfortable everyday situations. But what if we told you that there’s a whole range of, let’s say, unconventional superpowers that exist in the real world but never make the cut? The ones that won’t save the planet but might earn you a few laughs or raised eyebrows? Well, my fellow superhumans-in-waiting, this blog post is all about that.
We spent more time than we should have reading this thread where people revealed their useless superpowers, no matter how silly or freaking cool they may be. We collected the best responses and compiled a list of superpowers that are equal parts quirky and comical, showcasing the unique abilities and strange talents that make some humans wonderfully weird. From an uncanny ability to predict time with scary precision to a strong sense of hearing that allows you to listen to two conversations at a time, these unusual skills may not be on par with the X-Men. Still, they’re sure to make these people the talk of the town… or at least of their group of friends.
In an era that celebrates superhumans as deities, it’s time to give the limelight to the underdogs and their peculiar powers. We scoured all corners of the thread to find the most amusing and captivating superpower confessions. So, strap on your metaphorical capes and get ready to discover a treasure trove of hilariously useless abilities that may not save the world but will undoubtedly make it a more interesting place. From the bizarre to the downright side-splitting, this list of superpowers will remind you that sometimes, being ordinary is truly extraordinary.
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"I can read really fast, hard to prove to people though and if I get into a real flow people just think I'm flicking through a book too quick and don't believe me.
I read so fast that if I read out loud I trip over the words on the page, I'm reading them in my head faster than saying them so I'm always a few words behind. In my head though yeah it just flows like water."
I do this too. Then it's annoying when I have to read something out loud because people think I can't read correctly
"Cats love me. I've had cats come running out of side streets and houses just to say hello and get some scritches. Outdoor cats who have never interacted with me before let me pick them up, and if my partner wasn't allergic I would have adopted an army of strays who just followed me home by now.
And it's actually not completely useless - I work as a cat sitter."
Lol just this lady walking down the street with an army of cats marching behind her with little helmets
OB1KENOB said:
"I can remember things I did when I was 8 months old."
-Roast-Toast- replied:
"I can forget things I did 8 minutes ago."
TorchFlower said:
"My daughter says she can choose what she is going to dream about every night.
She describes it as having a few scenes to choose from and she picks one. She was amazed that nobody else in the family could do this. She thought it was normal."
Silv0r replied:
"Wow, this is the best superpower and anything but useless! I'm very envious and super happy for your daughter too! It's called lucid dreaming and I've been trying to do that all my life. She needs to hold on to it! It is a gift. I have only lucid dreamed 1-2 times in my whole life where I could control it like a director."
I can’t lucid dream. I tried to do it but the whole world shattered around me and I woke up
Adkit said:
"Severe aphantasia. Only a small percent of people with aphantasia have complete aphantasia and I'm one of those s*ckers.
I cannot picture things in my mind. At all. It's pitch black, and it never changes. Apparently, you mutants can just close your eyes and imagine whatever you want like some sort of hallucination. I don't even fully understand how that would look..."
JoeBoco7 replied:
I’m on the complete opposite end with hyperphantasia. My imagination is extremely vivid, it feels more real than real. My favorite thing to do is to create new episodes of my favorite shows and just watch it in my head.
MikeT75 said:
"When I have to wrap multiple food items in aluminum foil, I have the super ability to pull my next sheet of foil and cut it to exactly to the same length and size as the last sheet, creating a stack of perfectly matching foil sheets. It amazes no one but me, and makes for a terrible party trick."
OG_ninnyhammer replied:
"That’s the most useful useless thing I’ve ever heard. Good on you."
"(This is from actual medical/psych professionals.) I have very high observational vigilance and extremely fast information processing speed.
This can and has been extremely useful for a lot of my gal friends. If they were ever in doubt about a dude (couldn't decide if his behavior was problematic or not) they'd introduce me and watch if I reacted negatively to them.
It's useless because when you have this starting a young age it can REALLY screw you up. You start getting flooded with noticing other people's negative reactions around you when you're too young to understand that they're not because of you. F*cks up your self esteem and is a recipe for chronic depression that translates into chronic social anxiety. I'm ok now, all handled and taken care of as an adult."
"I can wakeup to 5-1 minutes before the alarm goes off."
Musasabi_King said:
"I have an extremely strong sense of hearing, but people think I'm hard of hearing because I can't hear them when there's any kind of background noise."
illianae replied:
"I have this too. Its like my hearing gets overflowed with information and I can't choose to not hear things. Nothing ever gets to the background noise setting."
I have selective sensitive hearing. Like I don't notice normal house noises. Anomalies, if something is off, fridge compressor constantly running, daughter's car making a noise, I'm on it.
Hello, lads, you should look up sensory processing disorder. It's a b!tch.
Yup, learned last year that this is what i have, after being misdiagnosed as ADHD (though both are spectrum disorders). Looper earplugs help, they act as a noise filter.
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I beleive I have an audial processing disorder. I can hear any conversation going on in my house but cannot processs what someone’s saying to my face lmao.
I have always had super sensitive hearing, can hear a train or dog long before anyone else does. It also sucks because people think I'm imagining sounds, like the factory 2 miles away. Add in tinnitus and musical ear disorder from anxiety and it can be debilitating. My husband at least believes me because I will say hear comes a jet or specific type of helicopter (we're on a flight path of hospital and military) and he will go to the window and it shows up. Thought I was going insane for a long time.
Mason, I want to thank you. I now have a name for what is going on with my hearing. Musical ear disorder. I just googled it. I already figured it probably had something to do with my hearing loss and tinnitus, and it looks like I was correct. I could never find anything on the internet but I guess I was putting in the wrong search words
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"Can't choose to not hear things." Same. When there's an annoying sound, someone always tells me to just ignore it. I cannot. It's the worst when I'm in public somewhere, and I can hear every one of the conversations going on around me.
This is a revelation for me to be honest as I never knew anyone else who had this. My hearing is really sharp (my eyesight isn't but swings and roundabouts etc). I always thought though because I found it hard to distinguish individual sounds in really loud environments (like a pub or club) I was imagining it. Now I'm thinking my hearing was being overwhelmed. It's probably why I struggle to sleep as I can hear every tiny noise in my house or even outside my house from a good distance away.
I suffer from migraines and sounds, smells, and light can be overwhelming. I have thought about trying the loop earplugs that partially block noise - anyone tried them or similar?
My mom had this issue, apparently she had severe sleep apnea and she was unknowingly waking up every two minutes and never got enough sleep.
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That’s me but with smell. EVERYTHING has a distinct smell. My neighbors dog smells like a gated community in Las Vegas. Grass smells like spikes
omg, I have this! I can be in another room and hear a conversation - both sides - that someone else is having on the phone. They'll come in the room and say, "I just talked to..." and I'll tell them who it was and what they talked about. But if I walk into a room where the tv is too loud, all I'll hear in my head is the equivalent of a fork in a garbage disposal and that's all I can hear, I can't hear anyone trying to talk over the tv and I get really stressed at loud sounds. My husband watches tv SUPER loud and I hate even walking in there when he does. I bought noise cancelling headphones, but they don't work.
This sounds like ADHD, I have this problem too. Can't hear my dad calling me, bit I'll be running around that house trying to figure out what's making a sound, it was the sump pump.. can hear lights, the tv on even when it's not playing, the neighbors in their house, just not when anyone is talking TO ME.
I wonder if OP is an auditory person. I am. So if I'm in some restaurant and it's busy and people at tables all around, my mind is following the conversations at all the other tables. Not intentionally eavesdropping, it just happens. But it can also make it harder to focus on the person I'm actually dining with. Also other stuff like the background music. I'm comment on the song being played and the other person hasn't heard any of it. Not sure if it is related but once in a while everything is too loud. To the point I recognize it is me, not everyone around me actually being unreasonably loud. Some days I shop with wireless headphones / music to block the other sounds.
I have just realized I am some sort of mutant freak. I can do this too. I have been known to hear something whispered in my next to my neighbours house. Sometimes it hurts my ears, because everything is too damn loud. It gets annoying.
There's a button on the equalizer of my radio (can't remember which) that I have to turn down completely otherwise it hurts my ears. I also can't hear right away if someone is talking to me because if I'm doing something, be it cooking or working on something, I'm completely doing it 100% and talk in my head. I use Loop Quiet Noise Reduction Earplugs in our home office because my husband's laptop fan is too noisy when he plays games and I keep a 2nd pair in my purse, mainly when I go to the dentist - it's loud in there with the TV and radio that are both playing. I use Quietbuds Noise Reduction in the bedroom but also in church when we used to go. This latter one has bad reviews (even my husband didn't like them) but I love them.
I can do this, and I think it is probably connected to auditory processing disorder, but I've never actually been tested.
I identify with this, even if it's my sister singing in the bathtub upstairs, I won't be able to concentrate on what my dad is saying, and I can hear when my parents are whispering in their room with the doors closed
Kind of annoying that we don't have built-in lids on our ears like we have for our eyes, right ?
Im the same noisy room forget it. Some talking quietly in the next room, I can hear you
This happens to me too. I can't make out words when there's background noise. I don't know how other people do it, it seems impossible to separate the words from the background noise.
I have the same issue. Also, I sometimes have difficulty telling which direction a sound is coming from, especially if I'm someplace where there's an echo. I think it's an auditory processing disorder. But every time I get my hearing checked, they only do one ear at a time, with no background noise, and then tell me my hearing's fantastic.
Yep, I've never been diagnosed, but I've always had a suspicion that I have something like this. Try being a manager with auditory processing disorder in a noisy production facility trying to listen to your team and provide thoughtful direction when you hear everything everywhere all at once haha. My annual hearing tests always come back as the best in the building but people always think I'm hard of hearing because I hear them wrong or ask them to repeat themselves often when alarms go off, bottles are clinking, or other conversations are being had in nearby rooms. Sometimes I'll straight up forget I'm talking to someone because I hear something else that takes my attention away and my mind starts to wander, I'll then say a response to what I heard as if they said it and they look at me like I'm crazy haha
I don't normally have this problem, but I did when I tried a hearing aid. It was maddening and disorienting to hear the background noise so loud that I couldn't hear others. But this was a cheap device. I suppose I should try a better quality one.
I have this problem too. In absence of background noise I can hear my wife 2 blocks away, normal speaking. But with noise I can't hear her in the next room. Makes us both nuts
I know right- I have that too- and I also am extremely disturbed by repetitive noises that happen to be the noises my brain focuses on-
I can do that too (unless it's ridiculous o'clock, like 3am for a flight) I always set my alarm just in case, but am usually awake 5 minutes before. Oops, this is meant for the post below re waking at the right time.
Sounds like a combination of acute hearing with being unable to filter out unimportant sounds. Everybody filters out some 90% or more of what they're hearing. Unless an audiologist has actually detected that these people have acute hearing, they may simply have the latter condition, and simply believe that their hearing is acute because they hear things that others are not hearing, because others are filtering these sounds out.
I can do this with my wife. I can hear what she is saying when I'm watching the football and know when to nod yes or no, even though I'm not listening to a word she is saying. The only problem is, sometimes she might say, " And what do you think"? Then the row begins.
I am very sensitive to low frequencies and absolutely loathe any kind of enhanced bass. I rarely listen to new or doctored digital music for this reason. These frequencies stir me up so I want to destroy physical objects. It's sometimes frightening
I dont w anna be an alarmist but not bejng able to tune out background noise is a sign of schizophrenia isnt it?
Desperate-Acadia7438 said:
"Not me but my mom, if they have leftovers she can pick the exact right container it’ll fit into perfectly. It’s magical."
Rodyland replied:
"I have the exact opposite of this ability. No matter what, the container I choose is always the wrong size. If I try to play it off against itself and pick a different container before putting food in it, then the original container will have been the right size after all."
SPATIAL. You're also good at packing a suitcase or backpack, the fridge -- and you intuitively know where people are around you.
Ryborg6900 said:
"I can clear my mind and go up to five minutes without a single thought."
RaedwaldRex replied:
"That's something I can never seem to do. People say clear your mind and all that happens is my mind fills with ways and ideas on how can I clear my mind."
"The last place I worked I could tell who had already arrived at work before me that morning by the smell(s) in the elevator. There was only one elevator as it was a small building. Kinda gross, but I freaked out a coworker because I was always right."
"Animals tend to like me more than the other people around. Found that out in my early thirties. Since then I now have my second dog. I'm able to form a deep bond to animals in a short amount of time. Sometimes dogs meet me and won't leave my side, even when the owner is shouting for them.
I would never say it's useless but I have several negative issues in my life that I would like to lose instead of being the animal friend."
"I can cook minute rice in 58 seconds."
OMG SOMEONE CALL THE CIA! NO, CALL THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
"I have an amazing memory for song lyrics. Every once in a while this helps my team win pub trivia."
I have this too. A song that I haven't heard in 5 years can come on, and I know all the words. I have suppress the urge to correct my mom when she sings the words wrong.
"I have no object permanence, and it also works on people. Basically, if I don't see people often enough I just forget them."
"I used to know when the phone (land line) would ring. I would go over the phone and wait a few seconds to pick it up before it rung. My mother was baffled by it and I also didn't understand why. Hasn't happened for the past 14 years now."
Omg I never met anyone else who could do this. I would freak my friends, my grandparents, and my Mom out by telling them your phone is going to ring. I would just get a sense ofvibration like getting close to something running like a refrigerator. I was always asked what the lottery numbers would be that day.
"I can always tell the correct time, within 5 minutes, without looking at a clock. I just know, ya know?"
I'm curious: Have you ever tried this while cut off from direct or indirect daylight? I have heard that the sense of time is determined by the perceived light conditions.
"Finding 4 leaf clovers. I also have some 5 and 6 leaf ones. I just seem to have an eye for spotting the ones that don't match the pattern, and will find at least one on every country walk."
"My daughter has a parking fairy, basically she can pull into a shopping centre carpark and someone will pull out in front of her so she can park.
My mother-in-law had the same power."
"I am a trivia savant.
'There's many things you can do with that.'
Yeah, win $20 off of bar tabs at pub trivia.
Otherwise, I never had finger dexterity to be a 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire' contestant, and got third when I was on Jeopardy and won $1000.
Not bitter."
"I can walk into a crowd of people and it naturally disperses. Have had this since high school, told my buddies-they laughed at me, until I walked onto a dance floor and soon had a 4ft open circle around me. They became believers. To be clear, I shower daily, wash and launder my clothes weekly, practice good hygiene, etc. I literally just walk into a crowd, and it disperses. Just did it last week at my local mall—started laughing and said, 'Shoulda video’ed it for the boys.'"
No offense, but are your mannerisms perceived as you being a psycho murderer or something?
Positive-Source8205 said:
"I can find the slowest checkout line at the grocery store."
Silv0r replied:
"Haha that's something we all have in common! Never change your first impulse decision. I always regret the change of a queue."
fkenthrowaway replied:
"The trick is to always go to the one with the least amount of old people. I try to approximate the average age of a line and go to the lowest."
"I can tell you exactly what episode of Golden Girls is coming on based on the first 10 seconds of the episode."
vagabond1022 said:
"I can tell the day of the week of any day in the year just by knowing two things: the day of the week of January 1st, and the year's number."
Briffy03 replied:
"We all could do that easily if humanity just decided to go for a 13 month, each with exactly 28 days, all starting with a Monday and ending with a Sunday, and 1 free party day each year. All would be perfectly nice, and humanity could have a one single day off we could just celebrate 'humanity-day' on."
I remember this as being recommended as a world calendar about 70 years ago. There's also a second party day each leap year. I think it lost out because people don't like changes
"Making a woman love me.
Plot twist: I’m gay."
"I swear to god almighty I can sense death. When either someone close to me, or a very well known public figure (celebrity, politician, etc) is about to die, I can feel it. I can’t explain the feeling further than a spidey sense. I know it when I feel it, and moments after I feel it, someone f*cking dies. Either naturally or in a freak accident. I know this doesn’t sound useless, but it happens so quickly that I would have no time to do anything about it, therefore, useless. Other than being an early detection system I guess."
"I'm fantastic at killing flies and mosquitos by clapping them with my hands. Almost never miss."
My dad can roll up a towel and snap a housefly out of midair with it
"I've never really told anyone this before, but I think I remember being born. I've had these 'memories' my whole life. I'm in a completely enclosed space, with the space touching my skin and whole body, but not claustrophobic. Then there are moments where it's smooth, and then all... crunched up? Like a smooth piece of aluminum foil, then it's all wrinkled, then smooth again. It's dark, but also my eyes aren't open or closed. Sometimes I'll get this memory when I'm falling asleep. I can't think of anything else it could be."
You could have H-SAM? (for clarification, I don't know if this is a legitimate disease. Google says it is, but Google also says that that pimple on my forehead is a symptom of severe oral cancer.)
explosivepro said:
"Ability to focus on an incredibly boring and repetitive task for hours with no incentive."
Godzilla1282 replied:
"Ah. An Old School Runescape player."
One_Eyed_Kitten said:
"I can move through time, but only into the future and only 1 second at a time."
Ok-Disk-2191 replied:
"I can do this also, but I've learnt that if you drink alcohol it can slow or speed time down or up."
"I can remember and draw the floor plan of every place I’ve lived since the house I lived in until I was four years old. I can do this for the many different apartments I lived in for several years after college and could probably draw the floor plans for most of my friends’ houses and many of the houses I have looked at when house hunting."
I remember all 18 places I've lived in, every home that I've visited and the motel/hotel rooms I've stayed in. I thought that was normal. (Yes, I've actually lived in 18 places. I moved alot when I was younger. Lol!)
"Wrapping presents."
"I fix tech just by being there. I've lost count of the amount of times my wife/kids/students where I teach will shout 'it doesn't work', to which I walk over, inevitably causing whatever didn't work to start working again.
Spoiler: I just make sure they were doing what they wanted to do properly and make them read any error messages."
Ah ah. I do the opposite. My computer crashed so many times at work, the guys didn't know what to do anymore because rebooting was not a great option (it didn't work). The first time, they said I was typing too fast for the computer so they changed it. LOL. Then again and again, like every 2-3 months. They were really happy when I retired.
"Being able to work continuously to the point where my perception of time might make 8 hours seem like 30 minutes AND I get my work done to clock out on time."
"I can move my ears on command."
When I was little, I read a book called "The Girl with the Silver Eyes" about a little girl who had telekinesis. It mentioned several times how she would push up her glasses without touching them, which, as a seven-year-old glasses wearer, I thought was really cool - so I set about trying to teach myself how to do it! (This is going somewhere, I promise! LOL!) I would sit and concentrate and concentrate, straining every muscle in my lil head and...gasp! Eventually, over a length of time that I can't remember because it was 40 years ago, I realized I could move my glasses a little bit! I was SO STOKED!! I WAS GONNA BE TELEKINETIC! This, Pandas, is how I taught myself to wiggle my ears!
seratoninsgone said:
"If I drop something by accident, I always somehow make the right decision to either move my foot out of the way or try and catch it with my foot."
Silv0r replied:
"The things I SHOULD catch (eggs, babies, you name it) I miss and fail badly. But things I should just let go (a 20 kg server, knife, mother-in-law), I always try to catch, haha."
"I'm pretty good at minimizing crumbs whilst eating a crumbly cookie."
"My useless super power is being double jointed in my ankles to the point I can turn both my feet around facing backwards. I was given the nickname crazy legs by a few of my classmates in high school. Its useless cuz not only does it freak people out, sometimes scaring off the more faint of heart but i stopped doing it entirely because the older I get it becomes a bit mire painful when I do it though I'm still definitely able to do pull it off. Most people my age aren't impressed and honestly in hindsight teenagers are impresses by dumb crap like what I'm able to do. Adult life isn't about impressing anyone but yourself or potential employers. More importantly life isn't a popularity contest."
Oh! My ring finger is double jointed! At that middle joint, it bends a little too much to the wrong way to be normal.
"I can listen to two conversations at once."
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i have perfect pitch and it’s really weird but i can read sheet music like a book, can hear it in my head just by looking at it even if i’ve never heard it
So jealous of this. Hopefully its something you enjoy, and not an irritant.
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I can still smell cooked scallops in the house even after a week or so since they have been cooked. No one else in my family can. (I think I am hypersensitive to whatever chemical it has) I hate it, and it smells terrible. It is very pungent the whole time.
1. I can smell/sense pregnancy and also the ending of it (miscarriage, or birth). 2. I can go though the dirtiest paths and my shoes will still be clean.
Do you work in healthcare? My grandma was able to tell someone was pregnant before they knew themselves. She was a nurse for 24 years.
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When I’m looking at an aerial photo of river systems or craters (e.g., craters on the moon or Mars) or of a footprint in damp sand, I immediately see it the wrong way around, so coming up rather than being a depression. I don’t mean I can go back and forth, I mean my brain sees it the wrong way. If I really try I can *usually* convince my brain to see it the right way but not always and, even when I do, I lose it really quickly.
I have a freakish sense of smell. I can tell the weather, season, some people by smell, and I’m a super taster. Also, I’m turning into one of those little old ladies that can tell the weather with her knees because every time there’s an atmospheric pressure change I get a little arthritis flare.
I can take my socks off and roll them into a ball with my toes. The evidence shows that I do it in my sleep just as well as I do when still awake.
Locator gift. Husband or kids misplace anything, I know where it is. And not because I put it there.
That must be a mom thing! My mom has it, and surprisingly, even with my ADD and very poor history of finding things, I have had it ever since I became a mom (well maybe after post-partum mental fog..)
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I can, without fail, choose the locker in the gym that is closest to the only person needing their locker at the same time as me. In other words, I can walk into an empty locker room at the start of my workout, find the locker farthest from any other locked locker, and when I return to the locker room after working out, there will be exactly one other person in the locker room, and they will be blocking access to my locker.
Can remember so many patients I have looked after over 38 years of nursing. All the way back to being a patient care aid in a chronic care hospital. Name, what was wrong with them, what room they were in, particulars of so many events. As I moved on to nursing school, same thing. To this very day. 53 years later. It used to freak out my coworkers. Sometimes I could even remember significant changes in blood pressure, right down to the numbers. I can remember one of my patient’s (a critically ill one) lab work from 30 years ago. Only problem would be is if I was on the stand in a coroner’s case, there’s no way I wouldn’t remember.
I can 1:: read upside down,2:read backwards, 3: throw my voice, 4: tell if you are a bad person within 5 minutes.
I can pick up a pen or marker and tell by its weight whether it's low on ink.
I have the ability to make Shyla and the other soft can-openers wait on my every whim.
One thing I can do is predict the near future. I have to whole heartedly believe that something will happen but the exact opposite ends up happening instead. I can also remember things involving numbers more easily like statistics for example.
My significant other has hypersensitive senses. Touch and smell particularly. He can create a full image in his head from touching an unknown object. Smell, he is able to tell me what stage I’m in of my cycle. Freaked me out at first but it’s useful and saves accidents.
I'm known as The Baby Whisperer...I don't have any kids of my own, but other family & friends who have kids and even strangers with kids, their kids always gravitate towards me and I can get fussy babies to fall asleep within seconds of holding them. Parents are always shocked that I'm able to do this.
I can pick out the most expensive item in a group without seeing any price tags. If I like it, it will be the most expensive thing in the bunch. Not that I can afford anything. Hubby loves taking me to thrift stores and garage sales to see what treasures I can find.
I can pee with an erection right away, no problem. Just have to flex my vaginal opening and out it comes from the phallus like a fire hose. My typical distance doing that is about 6 or 7 feet, though it does come out in bursts. Being intersex with ambiguous genitalia is fun like that. Definitely a trick that's going to stop being interesting after I get SRS...
I'm bizarrely good at picking just the right gift for people. Most notable would definitely be the guy at the local video hire joint (remember those?). We got to know each other a bit, and one day when my dog got loose he recognised him and rescued him for me. To say thanks I got him a small box of chocolates, and he said "How on earth did you know these were my favourite???"
I'm a superrecognizer and I've never once lost a sock in the dryer.
Never once lost a sock in the dryer? That's the most difficult to believe superpower on this whole list
Load More Replies... hmm let me see. I can pace someone talking while typing. Not fast talkers, just regular convo speed. You can gather that BP tells me often to calm down and stop posting so fast. I can read about 700wpm, or a page in less than a minute. Useful for doing research work. Good at skimming writing and locating the key passages. Can basically read a novel in a day or two by knowing which flag words indicate I can skip the paragraph. Hmm. What else. I can read people really well. Not their emotional states (ASD) but what they "are". Like home language, preferred aesthetics/music taste, etc. Even without overt demographic markers like skintone differences. Like I can glance at someone and give their nationality. I'm right about 80% of the time. I'm not that accurate with far-east but Africa and EU, USA... easy.
As a very small child, I had a super innate sense of direction and could always tell which way the world was spinning. I live in Seattle, so it was always too grey to be able to use the sun, and now I've totally lost that. I have literally no idea which direction is which and am terrible at going places
Everything I smell I taste in my mouth, it’s both horrible and awesome. Also my brain makes up lyrics constantly to songs and it’s dumb
I can be thinking of a random song or obscure movie or tv show and it will play on the radio or be on the tv that day, even though i havent heard or seen it for years.
OMG Same!! It always freaks me out when that happens too! It makes me wonder if life really is a computer simulation or something...
Load More Replies... If a bunch of you go missing, I'll know the CIA found you. Send me a telepathic message and I promise I'll send you good thoughts.
Oooh! Ooooh! I can inflict a stabbing pain in my shoulder or inner elbow by simply thinking about needles! (I have severe trypanophobia to the point where sometimes the spots on my arm where shots or blood draws happen start feeling like there's needles in them by simply being exposed to air)
If some one gives me a quote from and Harry Potter book, I can tell you the book it was said in, who said it, and in what context. Same goes for Marvel movies
I don't misplace things at all .Even on a busy day or when I'm tired or sleepy my mind subconsciously places all the things at their respective place without me thinking abt it
I can write a novel in under 2 weeks and change nothing but a few typos. I think of a premise, watch the film of it in my head, and type what happens... but it's not healthy the way I binge write, so I don't do it often. I also do not tell other people because I have found it just makes people angry. Like, if I worked for 5 years and still had an unfinished book, this would p**s me off, too.
My useless superpower is gorlin’s sign (being able to touch top of nose with tongue. I’m yet to meet anybody else that can do this.
My cousin can do this too. Should I introduce you?😄
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Me: I type absurdly fast. Far faster than I talk. Probably in the top 20 in the world. My mom: she never used an alarm. She would lay down, think 'I'm waking up at 5:15 am,' and would magically wake up at the exact minute. Autistic guy I was a caregiver for: you could tell him any date in the last 500 years and he could instantly tell you what day of the week it was.
I can tell what time it is while lying in bed with my eyes closed in the morning based on the sound of which vehicle is started up in my condo building's parking lot for who's headed to work... I deeply dislike loud vehicles :(
whenever i go to someone's house and they have pets, whatever the animal is, they love me. i think its just my cat, because dogs specifically love me most...
not me but my dad. he has a bond with all animals. animals tend to trust him the point of approaching him. wild birds will sometimes light on him and stay. he used to work part time at a camping area for fun. deer would come up to him and hang around. the campers would ask to pet 'his' deer and he would tell them sure, if you can catch them. that was the wild animals. the pets we have owned idolized him and we don't exist when he walks into the house. this also goes to bees. too. when he would work next to a hive and they would get bothered he would talk to them, tell them he was not going to bother them and to go away. interestingly, they would stick around the hive and occasionally light on him. i am a little like this but not to his degree. helped when i worked at a zoo with the smaller animals. we call him papa doolittle
i have constant deja vu and feel after something happens i had thought about it before and forgot
My superpower is that I can close my ears, so that I want hear anything. And back on again wenenever I want.
A song will pop into my head and the next time I turn on the radio it will often be that song.
I have three : Animals are almost always very calm around me. Skittish horses, rescue dogs, wild deer, you name it. I also tend to be more observant of animal behavior and am able to fairly accurately predict their actions. I have a 85-95% success rate depending on the species I also have an absurdly good sense of smell. It’s a nice ability but it has its disadvantages I can also completely override my senses to make myself sense things that aren’t there. I usually use this to feel a warm rain and the sensation of rocking on a boat as a method of relaxation.
I guess one of my things is being able to tell if something us off center, even by an eighth of an inch.
My superpower is I can tell which of these commenters are talking about legitimate personal characteristics that are perfectly explainable, like "Pets love me!", and which ones have read too many books from the New Age section.
It doesn't happen every time, but when someone is having an issue with their computer, and they call me over, the problem goes away without doing anything. People in my family have said to me, more than once, "Can you come look at this so it stops happening?" I've even had it happen over Zoom calls. It's not entirely useless, and I know comformation bias makes it happen more often in my head than it really does, but it happens more often with me than with other people.
my superpower is that I am the supreme lord of trinkets. I've had things from home openly out in the halls, and they have never once been confiscated.
my sister can also smell marshmallows from outside of the package.
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I love it and I have a pretty cool type of skill where I'll just talk to someone and in at least 2 minutes we're already good friends. and when I go up to an animal, like any type of animal carnivores, omnivores, strays, herbivore, house pet, any type and it just loves me.
I can pee, any time, anywhere. If I moved to a desert, it would be a swamp within a week.
I have a very very very vivid imagination. I have the ability to trick myself into believing I am experiencing something when I am not. Its like a filter, and I can see every situation that way. It's like I am actually, visually seeing it. It's hard pulling myself back to reality. Sometimes I like to think the reality I experience is just a product of my imagination, and true reality is the things I dream up. Also, it can be unnerving realizing what you see is not what others see, and is not reality, when you think it is. It can be terrifying, bieng able to lie to all of your senses, not just sight, at the same time.
My mom can hear her students swearing or talking about her 20 to 30 feet away in the classroom. She calls them her mom ears. My sister has the ability to display the greatest mother look of all time even though she has never been a mom. I have issues with hyper vigilance mostly based on my hearing so I can hear creepy things that I don't want to hear which is why I have several white noise makers in my room.
I can bring people to a business. If I go to a store or restaurant or any place involving customers, and it’s empty, within a few minutes of me being there other people will start showing up. Before I leave it’s full.
I can smell really well. I can smell if gas is left on on the stove, I can smell things going bad before anybody else, I can smell what somebody cooked even if I wasn't in the house but just the smell of their clothes, I can smell animals in a house before they even pop up. I even remember smells very well, so I'm big on perfumes and colognes. My dad says I can smell s**t before people have to s**t lol.
I can "skip time", although I probably won't know what happened. Basically I can zone out, but still be completely functional. Sometimes I remember what happened while I was out, but in third person/like it happened to someone else, sometime it's just a blank space. I sadly can't control it
I can tell if you brain trauma or mental illness just by looking at someone's face ir stand next to them, even with no apparent signs. They feel like a very strong, almost violent river going down a hole; I'll have an image of it as well. Their eyes look different, as though they are coming out of their head a little and the eye has missing. Deep depression feels/looks like their eyes are drowning in their body. Mostly useless because I do not work in social services or the mentally ill. I used to read out to people who were like this to make rhem feel better or help in some way. It's caused too many problems. Other than depression. I use it to stay away from them
Please ignore obvious errors. I was typing it in a very small window on my phone.
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I can sometimes predict stuff like today as an example I told my mom the two brothers would be at the gym at the same time as us. My mom said they weren't there. I was right. I still don't know how I knew
I am 40 years old. I still can hear the devices aiming at scaring off weasles and martins and those ... Actually, I am pretty happy that my ears are doing so well for my age - so far, I still have a reason not to give in and accept noise, like mp3, as substitute for music. FLAC is way better, also it's more efficient than Wavesound files, ... so, that's my way to go. Aside the old ones I converted before I had a programm that could convert into FLAC (I threw all my CDs on a HDD to have them all on one remote's call - pretty handy with >30k songs, ...). Anyway, that's about all. I tried to convince myself I was unable to vomit, but I just took a ten year break from actually doing it, then drank spoiled ice tea - just 3 weeks over the date, what would go wrong? Well, that did go wrong... + to the ears again - I never listened to max volume on headphones, restricted myself about that pretty rigid, although I do enjoy loud music ... never tinkered around, never had any injuries, no infections in an age that I would remember today, ... luck and care? Seems, that and genetics.
I can fly, but only a few inches off the ground, and only for a few seconds before I fall.
Flying is easy. Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Not really a superpower, but my dreams have told the future. One time, I dreamed that me, my mom, and my brother were getting out of the car to go to school, and my mom informed my brother that he would have to stay home for a week. The next morning, I woke up, and his whole class had covid. He had to stay home for a week. It’s happened on a smaller scale a few other occasions but I think it’s cool. I can also hear voices when Im super relaxed, as if someone is next to me saying them. That might just be a mental illness thing though lol. But I’ve been told it means I’m intact with my unconscious mind
i have perfect pitch and it’s really weird but i can read sheet music like a book, can hear it in my head just by looking at it even if i’ve never heard it
So jealous of this. Hopefully its something you enjoy, and not an irritant.
Load More Replies... I can still smell cooked scallops in the house even after a week or so since they have been cooked. No one else in my family can. (I think I am hypersensitive to whatever chemical it has) I hate it, and it smells terrible. It is very pungent the whole time.
1. I can smell/sense pregnancy and also the ending of it (miscarriage, or birth). 2. I can go though the dirtiest paths and my shoes will still be clean.
Do you work in healthcare? My grandma was able to tell someone was pregnant before they knew themselves. She was a nurse for 24 years.
Load More Replies... When I’m looking at an aerial photo of river systems or craters (e.g., craters on the moon or Mars) or of a footprint in damp sand, I immediately see it the wrong way around, so coming up rather than being a depression. I don’t mean I can go back and forth, I mean my brain sees it the wrong way. If I really try I can *usually* convince my brain to see it the right way but not always and, even when I do, I lose it really quickly.
I have a freakish sense of smell. I can tell the weather, season, some people by smell, and I’m a super taster. Also, I’m turning into one of those little old ladies that can tell the weather with her knees because every time there’s an atmospheric pressure change I get a little arthritis flare.
I can take my socks off and roll them into a ball with my toes. The evidence shows that I do it in my sleep just as well as I do when still awake.
Locator gift. Husband or kids misplace anything, I know where it is. And not because I put it there.
That must be a mom thing! My mom has it, and surprisingly, even with my ADD and very poor history of finding things, I have had it ever since I became a mom (well maybe after post-partum mental fog..)
Load More Replies... I can, without fail, choose the locker in the gym that is closest to the only person needing their locker at the same time as me. In other words, I can walk into an empty locker room at the start of my workout, find the locker farthest from any other locked locker, and when I return to the locker room after working out, there will be exactly one other person in the locker room, and they will be blocking access to my locker.
Can remember so many patients I have looked after over 38 years of nursing. All the way back to being a patient care aid in a chronic care hospital. Name, what was wrong with them, what room they were in, particulars of so many events. As I moved on to nursing school, same thing. To this very day. 53 years later. It used to freak out my coworkers. Sometimes I could even remember significant changes in blood pressure, right down to the numbers. I can remember one of my patient’s (a critically ill one) lab work from 30 years ago. Only problem would be is if I was on the stand in a coroner’s case, there’s no way I wouldn’t remember.
I can 1:: read upside down,2:read backwards, 3: throw my voice, 4: tell if you are a bad person within 5 minutes.
I can pick up a pen or marker and tell by its weight whether it's low on ink.
I have the ability to make Shyla and the other soft can-openers wait on my every whim.
One thing I can do is predict the near future. I have to whole heartedly believe that something will happen but the exact opposite ends up happening instead. I can also remember things involving numbers more easily like statistics for example.
My significant other has hypersensitive senses. Touch and smell particularly. He can create a full image in his head from touching an unknown object. Smell, he is able to tell me what stage I’m in of my cycle. Freaked me out at first but it’s useful and saves accidents.
I'm known as The Baby Whisperer...I don't have any kids of my own, but other family & friends who have kids and even strangers with kids, their kids always gravitate towards me and I can get fussy babies to fall asleep within seconds of holding them. Parents are always shocked that I'm able to do this.
I can pick out the most expensive item in a group without seeing any price tags. If I like it, it will be the most expensive thing in the bunch. Not that I can afford anything. Hubby loves taking me to thrift stores and garage sales to see what treasures I can find.
I can pee with an erection right away, no problem. Just have to flex my vaginal opening and out it comes from the phallus like a fire hose. My typical distance doing that is about 6 or 7 feet, though it does come out in bursts. Being intersex with ambiguous genitalia is fun like that. Definitely a trick that's going to stop being interesting after I get SRS...
I'm bizarrely good at picking just the right gift for people. Most notable would definitely be the guy at the local video hire joint (remember those?). We got to know each other a bit, and one day when my dog got loose he recognised him and rescued him for me. To say thanks I got him a small box of chocolates, and he said "How on earth did you know these were my favourite???"
I'm a superrecognizer and I've never once lost a sock in the dryer.
Never once lost a sock in the dryer? That's the most difficult to believe superpower on this whole list
Load More Replies... hmm let me see. I can pace someone talking while typing. Not fast talkers, just regular convo speed. You can gather that BP tells me often to calm down and stop posting so fast. I can read about 700wpm, or a page in less than a minute. Useful for doing research work. Good at skimming writing and locating the key passages. Can basically read a novel in a day or two by knowing which flag words indicate I can skip the paragraph. Hmm. What else. I can read people really well. Not their emotional states (ASD) but what they "are". Like home language, preferred aesthetics/music taste, etc. Even without overt demographic markers like skintone differences. Like I can glance at someone and give their nationality. I'm right about 80% of the time. I'm not that accurate with far-east but Africa and EU, USA... easy.
As a very small child, I had a super innate sense of direction and could always tell which way the world was spinning. I live in Seattle, so it was always too grey to be able to use the sun, and now I've totally lost that. I have literally no idea which direction is which and am terrible at going places
Everything I smell I taste in my mouth, it’s both horrible and awesome. Also my brain makes up lyrics constantly to songs and it’s dumb
I can be thinking of a random song or obscure movie or tv show and it will play on the radio or be on the tv that day, even though i havent heard or seen it for years.
OMG Same!! It always freaks me out when that happens too! It makes me wonder if life really is a computer simulation or something...
Load More Replies... If a bunch of you go missing, I'll know the CIA found you. Send me a telepathic message and I promise I'll send you good thoughts.
Oooh! Ooooh! I can inflict a stabbing pain in my shoulder or inner elbow by simply thinking about needles! (I have severe trypanophobia to the point where sometimes the spots on my arm where shots or blood draws happen start feeling like there's needles in them by simply being exposed to air)
If some one gives me a quote from and Harry Potter book, I can tell you the book it was said in, who said it, and in what context. Same goes for Marvel movies
I don't misplace things at all .Even on a busy day or when I'm tired or sleepy my mind subconsciously places all the things at their respective place without me thinking abt it
I can write a novel in under 2 weeks and change nothing but a few typos. I think of a premise, watch the film of it in my head, and type what happens... but it's not healthy the way I binge write, so I don't do it often. I also do not tell other people because I have found it just makes people angry. Like, if I worked for 5 years and still had an unfinished book, this would p**s me off, too.
My useless superpower is gorlin’s sign (being able to touch top of nose with tongue. I’m yet to meet anybody else that can do this.
My cousin can do this too. Should I introduce you?😄
Load More Replies... Me: I type absurdly fast. Far faster than I talk. Probably in the top 20 in the world. My mom: she never used an alarm. She would lay down, think 'I'm waking up at 5:15 am,' and would magically wake up at the exact minute. Autistic guy I was a caregiver for: you could tell him any date in the last 500 years and he could instantly tell you what day of the week it was.
I can tell what time it is while lying in bed with my eyes closed in the morning based on the sound of which vehicle is started up in my condo building's parking lot for who's headed to work... I deeply dislike loud vehicles :(
whenever i go to someone's house and they have pets, whatever the animal is, they love me. i think its just my cat, because dogs specifically love me most...
not me but my dad. he has a bond with all animals. animals tend to trust him the point of approaching him. wild birds will sometimes light on him and stay. he used to work part time at a camping area for fun. deer would come up to him and hang around. the campers would ask to pet 'his' deer and he would tell them sure, if you can catch them. that was the wild animals. the pets we have owned idolized him and we don't exist when he walks into the house. this also goes to bees. too. when he would work next to a hive and they would get bothered he would talk to them, tell them he was not going to bother them and to go away. interestingly, they would stick around the hive and occasionally light on him. i am a little like this but not to his degree. helped when i worked at a zoo with the smaller animals. we call him papa doolittle
i have constant deja vu and feel after something happens i had thought about it before and forgot
My superpower is that I can close my ears, so that I want hear anything. And back on again wenenever I want.
A song will pop into my head and the next time I turn on the radio it will often be that song.
I have three : Animals are almost always very calm around me. Skittish horses, rescue dogs, wild deer, you name it. I also tend to be more observant of animal behavior and am able to fairly accurately predict their actions. I have a 85-95% success rate depending on the species I also have an absurdly good sense of smell. It’s a nice ability but it has its disadvantages I can also completely override my senses to make myself sense things that aren’t there. I usually use this to feel a warm rain and the sensation of rocking on a boat as a method of relaxation.
I guess one of my things is being able to tell if something us off center, even by an eighth of an inch.
My superpower is I can tell which of these commenters are talking about legitimate personal characteristics that are perfectly explainable, like "Pets love me!", and which ones have read too many books from the New Age section.
It doesn't happen every time, but when someone is having an issue with their computer, and they call me over, the problem goes away without doing anything. People in my family have said to me, more than once, "Can you come look at this so it stops happening?" I've even had it happen over Zoom calls. It's not entirely useless, and I know comformation bias makes it happen more often in my head than it really does, but it happens more often with me than with other people.
my superpower is that I am the supreme lord of trinkets. I've had things from home openly out in the halls, and they have never once been confiscated.
my sister can also smell marshmallows from outside of the package.
Load More Replies... I love it and I have a pretty cool type of skill where I'll just talk to someone and in at least 2 minutes we're already good friends. and when I go up to an animal, like any type of animal carnivores, omnivores, strays, herbivore, house pet, any type and it just loves me.
I can pee, any time, anywhere. If I moved to a desert, it would be a swamp within a week.
I have a very very very vivid imagination. I have the ability to trick myself into believing I am experiencing something when I am not. Its like a filter, and I can see every situation that way. It's like I am actually, visually seeing it. It's hard pulling myself back to reality. Sometimes I like to think the reality I experience is just a product of my imagination, and true reality is the things I dream up. Also, it can be unnerving realizing what you see is not what others see, and is not reality, when you think it is. It can be terrifying, bieng able to lie to all of your senses, not just sight, at the same time.
My mom can hear her students swearing or talking about her 20 to 30 feet away in the classroom. She calls them her mom ears. My sister has the ability to display the greatest mother look of all time even though she has never been a mom. I have issues with hyper vigilance mostly based on my hearing so I can hear creepy things that I don't want to hear which is why I have several white noise makers in my room.
I can bring people to a business. If I go to a store or restaurant or any place involving customers, and it’s empty, within a few minutes of me being there other people will start showing up. Before I leave it’s full.
I can smell really well. I can smell if gas is left on on the stove, I can smell things going bad before anybody else, I can smell what somebody cooked even if I wasn't in the house but just the smell of their clothes, I can smell animals in a house before they even pop up. I even remember smells very well, so I'm big on perfumes and colognes. My dad says I can smell s**t before people have to s**t lol.
I can "skip time", although I probably won't know what happened. Basically I can zone out, but still be completely functional. Sometimes I remember what happened while I was out, but in third person/like it happened to someone else, sometime it's just a blank space. I sadly can't control it
I can tell if you brain trauma or mental illness just by looking at someone's face ir stand next to them, even with no apparent signs. They feel like a very strong, almost violent river going down a hole; I'll have an image of it as well. Their eyes look different, as though they are coming out of their head a little and the eye has missing. Deep depression feels/looks like their eyes are drowning in their body. Mostly useless because I do not work in social services or the mentally ill. I used to read out to people who were like this to make rhem feel better or help in some way. It's caused too many problems. Other than depression. I use it to stay away from them
Please ignore obvious errors. I was typing it in a very small window on my phone.
Load More Replies... I can sometimes predict stuff like today as an example I told my mom the two brothers would be at the gym at the same time as us. My mom said they weren't there. I was right. I still don't know how I knew
I am 40 years old. I still can hear the devices aiming at scaring off weasles and martins and those ... Actually, I am pretty happy that my ears are doing so well for my age - so far, I still have a reason not to give in and accept noise, like mp3, as substitute for music. FLAC is way better, also it's more efficient than Wavesound files, ... so, that's my way to go. Aside the old ones I converted before I had a programm that could convert into FLAC (I threw all my CDs on a HDD to have them all on one remote's call - pretty handy with >30k songs, ...). Anyway, that's about all. I tried to convince myself I was unable to vomit, but I just took a ten year break from actually doing it, then drank spoiled ice tea - just 3 weeks over the date, what would go wrong? Well, that did go wrong... + to the ears again - I never listened to max volume on headphones, restricted myself about that pretty rigid, although I do enjoy loud music ... never tinkered around, never had any injuries, no infections in an age that I would remember today, ... luck and care? Seems, that and genetics.
I can fly, but only a few inches off the ground, and only for a few seconds before I fall.
Flying is easy. Just throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Load More Replies... Not really a superpower, but my dreams have told the future. One time, I dreamed that me, my mom, and my brother were getting out of the car to go to school, and my mom informed my brother that he would have to stay home for a week. The next morning, I woke up, and his whole class had covid. He had to stay home for a week. It’s happened on a smaller scale a few other occasions but I think it’s cool. I can also hear voices when Im super relaxed, as if someone is next to me saying them. That might just be a mental illness thing though lol. But I’ve been told it means I’m intact with my unconscious mind
