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The body is a complex system that functions smoothly in unison, so we don’t usually take the time to consider what is happening behind the scenes. Until we start noticing something out of the ordinary about it. Then it becomes hard to remain calm, and we begin to seek information or reassurance from others that the strange things we’re experiencing have a perfectly normal explanation. The people in this thread did exactly that. They shared the weird quirks their body has that they don’t fully understand, in hopes they find others like them or even ways to explain them. To read them for yourself, all you have to do is scroll down!
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#1
Apparently I'm developing Musical Ear Syndrome, or musical tinnitus. When its quiet and I'm trying to sleep I'll hear what sounds like a radio playing quietly in another room. It seems to be a form of tinnitus that instead of hearing a ringing or buzzing, your brain generates musical sounds as the interpretation instead. It freaks me out sometimes.
moon_buzz:
I can't express how happy I was to read this, thought I was insane. Alone at night I can totally hear rhythmic music in the silence, if i lift my head to get a better listen then it goes away. head back on pillow it goes again. I first thought it was neighbors having a party but it happens too often, and typically is the same beat.
elmortero 4 months ago
I hope for you the following applies to you, happened to me...I had something similar, always when in bed trying to sleep. Drove me crazy, my -fairly new- partner by then was convinced I was crazy. I swore a hidden radio was in the room. Turned the bedroom upside down and found it. We had a speaker system in the room. For some reason the long speaker cable picked up a nearby radio station even though the speaker was turned off.
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#2
Sometimes I just shiver for a split second for no reason even when it’s piping hot outside.
mostly_elbows:
I really thought this happened to everyone because I've always done it, and growing up we just said, "I got a chill." It was as normal as sneezing. In adulthood, people look at me crazy anytime it happens. I think they're crazy for having NEVER experienced it. Like how?
d b 4 months ago
I do this. In my case, it's a symptom of dysautonomia: an automatic nervous system disorder more common in neurodivergent people and linked to conditions like IBS, POTS, Reynaud's, Sjogren's, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, difficulty swallowing, heart palpitations...If you have symptoms of any of these conditions, please check in with your doctor. All the best!
#3
Require me to RUN RIGHT NOW to the toilet as soon as I get somewhere near my house. Listen, Bladder, I get it, you're full. I'm on my way. Just take a chill for a few more seconds for f**k's sake! You wouldn't even be pulling these shenanigans if the eyeballs hadn't told you where you are!
theseedbeader:
Oh the misery of Latchkey Incontinence. I get this a lot. I usually make sure I empty my bladder right before I head home from work or running errands. If I have a full bladder when I get to my door, it’s an instant emergency and my body suddenly stops obeying me.
Everyone experiences unusual bodily functions to some extent, and many of them are completely normal. It’s simply how our bodies function, which means that we don’t have much control over it. Medical experts online have been discussing and helping people understand more about them, so they know that experiencing strange symptoms is very common and that, for the most part, they’re nothing to worry about.
Something that many are concerned about is hair loss. However, shedding is an ordinary part of having hair on our heads. “Most of us lose up to 100 hairs from our scalp every day, which is normal,” says family physician Jennifer Caudle. “About 80 million men and women in the United States have hereditary hair loss.
“But, it’s possible to lose hair if you have certain medical conditions or take certain medicines,” she noted. Excessive hair loss can also be caused by stress or malnutrition, weight changes, hormonal imbalances, menopause, thyroid issues, or iron deficiency. So if you start noticing extreme hair loss, you might want to see your doctor.
#4
I can voluntarily flex my tympanic membranes which is rarer than I originally thought. Lol I thought everyone could make thunder in their ears but nope.
lhb_aus:
I'm doing it right now. An on-call, organic white noise machine that only I can hear.
#5
My throat gets stuck when I swallow water sometimes. I'll be drinking and it's like my throat jams, it really hurts and then swallowing continues as normal. .
The sudden jerk you feel when falling asleep is also very common and has a totally sensible explanation. It’s called a ‘hypnic jerk’ or ‘sleep start,’ which can be accompanied by the feeling of falling. Up to 70% of people sometimes have this symptom. Even though scientists can’t really explain why they happen, they reassure us that they’re nothing to worry about, as they’re likely caused by our body releasing tension.
“We often hold tension in our muscles from stress during the day,” sleep expert Dr. Richard Shane says. “When we begin to relax on the way to sleep, sometimes that tension releases as a jerk.”
#7
I get itchy when I exercise. its unbearable and apparently I'm not the only one. I manage.
SnooAdvice2527:
I have this too! Exercise-induced urticaria. So annoying. Taking antihistamines beforehand can be super helpful. I find it gets also gets better when I exercise more frequently.
Littlemiss 4 months ago
Is that what its called? I swell up, get a rash all over and itch like mad when I exercise. Drives me up the wall.
#8
My immune system is stupid and doesn't know that it's not supposed to attack and destroy body parts I need to live.
#9
My ankles popped so loudly last night my husband said "...gesundheit?" from the other room, lol.
tsukinoasagi:
My ankle clicks as I walk, my housemates say they hear the clicking before they hear my foot steps.
Another strange body behavior that is totally normal is goosebumps—the tiny bumps that appear on our skin around the hair follicles.
“Goosebumps happen involuntarily and are caused when a small muscle at the bottom of each hair follicle contracts, causing the hair to stand up. In animals this may actually form a layer of insulation,” Dr. Caudle says.
“They can occur due to cold air or also happen when we experience strong emotions such as shock, fear, anxiety, or even being inspired.”
#11
I can hear electricity. Like clearly. I’ll know if something is plugged in or running - like if I get into bed in the dark and don’t hear ringing - I know my charger isn’t plugged in.
Just now for eg, I heard an annoying ringing sound and realised I left my in slab heating on downstairs because I can somehow hear power being sent to whatever it is that runs it lol.
#12
I produce a truly astonishing amount of ear wax. Have to clean them out several times a day. Sometimes when I get hot I can feel it dripping slowly and it drives me insane.
thatcliquekandy:
I sort of have the same issue. My ears get stopped up so often now that I physically have to get them cleaned professionally! I like had to go to the hospital bc I couldn’t hear! Once nothing helped and my ear started bleeding. Found out my husband ruptured my ear drum when cleaning my ear… AND I had an ear infection too on top of that at the time. I. Was. Miserable. Thank weeks later I had a seizure. My body clearly hates me.
Lastly, the intrusive thoughts that some people have, like shouting in a silent room or swerving a car, are also generally considered to be normal, even though they appear very strange.
“Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts or images that seem to pop into our minds against our wishes and often focus on the thing that would be most inappropriate in a setting or the thing that we most fear,” says Dr. Hannah Reese, an assistant professor of psychology at Bowdoin College. “For this reason, they are usually upsetting or distressing to the person having the thought.”
“When we experience an intrusive thought, it is best to recognize it for what it is, not take it seriously, and let it fade away on its own,” Dr. Reese says. Because the moment you try not to think about it, they can start appearing more frequently.
#13
I sneeze when there is light reflecting off windows regardless of if it is sun light or just a normal light it catches my eyes and I am sneezing i have no idea why.
Plentyofoomph 4 months ago
Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst - ACHOO syndrome
#14
The veins in my fingers randomly explode. All of a sudden I’ll feel a super sharp pain in one finger (like it’s just been hit with a hammer or something) and there will be a dark blue spot under the skin where the blood is starting to pool out. If I can grab an ice cube immediately it usually won’t swell too bad. If I don’t have access to ice then the whole finger swells up a bit before it stops
It must be genetic because my mom has the same thing. We found on the Internet that there is a name for it, Achenbach syndrome, but no one knows what causes it or how to prevent it.
#15
I have a milk duct thingy above my collarbone. Never knew about it until it popped up during my first pregnancy, and then my doctor checked it out and it turned out to be a tiny extra pocket for milk almost in my neck.
JB 4 months ago
Breast tissue is notorious for finding weird places to develop in the body. It's one of the things that makes breast cancer so frightening - like, imagine finding out you have breast cancer in your neck and it's metastasized to your spinal column, all because a couple cells floated around while you were an embryo.
#16
My immune system is slowly munching at my thyroid gland thinking it's a virus. It's called hashimoto's.
#17
I leak from my ears when I cry.
I mentioned it to an ENT once, and he thought that maybe there was some odd connection from my tear ducts or sinuses that was causing it and that it might explain why I had chronic sinus/ear infections as a kid.
FluffySquiddy:
There is a connections between nose and ears, it's called the eustachian tune. I don't think it is tears passing through your ears, but rather nose mucus. As a kid I had chronic otitis and my doctor would warn me against sniffing.
#18
The first thing to hurt or ache are my thighs. Period cramps= thigh cramps, overtired=achy thighs, sunstroke = legs give way. It's a time.
#19
Sometimes my eye twitches for no reason, like it's trying to send Morse code. No stress, no caffeine - just vibes. Still no idea why.
#20
Depending on where I touch or scratch on my arms and hands, I can feel the sensation in other parts of my body. Oh, and my nervous system just likes to go haywire and keep me on my toes every once in a while. Like, "Oh, hey. I heard that you have to make a phone call, or do some other normally mundane task you've done a thousand times....but now it's scary! I hope you like that feeling where you're about to fall backwards in a chair, for hours on end!".
Ixanga Cancun 4 months ago
If I scratch the inside of my left elbow, my throat itches unbearably.
#21
My body likes to grow a uterine lining on my spine. Means I have chronic sciatica, and sometimes when i fart too hard my back crunches and I have to sit down for a minute.
#22
I can vibrate my eyes back and forth extremely fast, cross both eyes independently in all directions, and I can even make my left eye go lazy if I really try (or if I'm super tired). I've never met anyone with the same ocular control I have, though if I do it too much, it starts to hurt my eye sockets and results in a headache.
Grape Walls of Ire 4 months ago
The eye shaking is not overly rare. I can do it, and I've met several others who can as well. Maybe the other skills are less common.
#23
My left eye has over time lost its colour, it’s near black like the pupil - my right eye is as it’s always been, hazel. My vision has not been affected in anyway whatsoever, and my eyes are healthy.
#24
There is an area on my right cheek that if touched lightly I completely lose my hearing in both ears from what feels like extreme chills running over my face.
fasterthantrees:
This is super interesting. Have you ever asked a doctor or masseuse about it? Sounds like a muscular/nerve/trigger point thing.
m4ynard (OP):
Since it’s never caused me any issues I haven’t, no. But I am curious! Maybe this will spark me to ask next time I see my doctor. I have very recent MRI results but no idea how to look for anything like that myself.
#27
I'm allergic to cold. It can be a sunny day, but a cool breeze blows past, and I get hives. Cold induced urticaria. It can come and go randomly through your life, apparently. No one knows why.
Also, I live in Canada. 🫠😭.
#28
When my allergies kick in, my ears itch first. Sneezing comes next, with congestion and itchy eyes. If I don't take my meds when my ears start itching, I'm doomed to misery once the snot kicks in.
#29
Field vision loss EXCEPT when I tried my husband's aviator sunglasses on, first time as far back as I can remember I could see "properly" and no they're not prescription. .
#30
If someone lightly brushes against my stomach or sides all of my core muscles contract and I jump really hard. It’s completely involuntary but my gf takes it so personally like I’m acting like she punched me.
#31
I’ve had three kids on their exact due date at home in less than 5 hours each time 😼.
#32
Every time I eat cherries close to my period, I get a red mark on the base of nose where the front bottom part meets my upper lip. I thought I scratched myself at first! Experimented with this theory over the past 3 months and it’s a pattern!
Melissa Harris 4 months ago
Sounds like an allergic reaction caused by the rise in certin hormones during menstruation.
#35
I have vasovago syncope. Basically when I see something that triggers it (side note hate that people b*********d that word and when people misuse it) my brain desides that it doesnt need blood anymore, and will cause me to get extremely dizzy, hyper ventilate, become light headed, and then ultimately pass out. This sequence will all happen within 2 minutes. During that time my brain decides it also needs to confirm that it doesnt like said scene by playing it on repeat until I pass out. And for bonus fun, sound and description can also trigger this response.
Ive caused buildings to be rewired, policies to be changed, and have scared the living s**t out of people seeing this response.
As for what triggers it, surgery scenes, needles in arms irl, detailed injuries. What doesnt trigger it? Stupidly over the top bloody scenes like in anime. However a friend decided to show this scene where a dude cuts a girls palm with his finger and let her slower bleed out from it, and yup that triggered it.
Oh and for even more bonus points my brain recently decided to remind me about this fun glitch by causing one of my f*****g dreams to trigger an episode in the middle of the god d**n night.
Big Chungus 4 months ago
I have this (nuerocardiogenic syncope or vasovagal) and honestly it's not as intense as this person is describing. You get the extreme nausea and all of that, but you feel it before you start to pass out and you can stop it usually by laying on the ground with legs up. I have missed stopping in time before and hit my head, but in general it is manageable. Eat more salt.
#36
When I'm very hungry, there's this fizzing sounds coming from the back of my throat, it will disappear when I'm no longer hungry. It is audible if the person puts their ear close to my neck.
I have yet to find an explanation on the internet.
#37
Every once in a while I get a really tight chest and I have to completely stop and hold it and breathe lightly as deeply hurts. It feels like my heart is about to explode. I am scared of having this sensation whilst doing exercise .
#38
I've got this one, tiny part of my left thigh that twitches rapidly and is close enough to the surface that it is visible when happening. Looks like my leg has a bowl of jello experiencing an earthquake. Happens seemingly randomly, though the thing that is most commonly a predictor is sleeping less than 5 hours.
#39
Sometimes when eating carrots I sneeze pieces of them out later.
Edit to add: should have originally noted I sneeze them out of my nose.
Oh, and it has happened with cooked Spagetti too…yeah that was weird….
#40
When I stretch or breathe in certain ways, I feel a "flick" sensation at the bottom of my left rib, almost like something is getting caught on it and then snaps back off it like a rubber band if that makes sense. I have no idea what it is and have found no answers online but it doesn't bother me enough to ask my doctor.
OneHappyPuppy 4 months ago
Hey, me too! Laughing too, just below the lowest left rib. Thought it was just me
#41
I can crack my toes without touching them. I just have to bend them. I don’t know if other people can do this but my husband says it’s not normal.
#42
When I sneeze I have a honey smell in my nose...
Also sometimes it hurts like hell when I swallow water for someone unknown reason.
HeavyMetalHeart 4 months ago
I get the honey smell in spring/summer sometimes - I assume it’s because you’re sneezing out pollen.
#43
I can control my heart rate. Used to troll doctors as a teen by purposely slowing it down and then speeding up when they were listening to my chest with a stethoscope.
#44
I can turn my sense of smell on and off at will (yes, while still breathing).
#45
Sometimes I get a one off of something that resembles a hiccup but it’s not. However, when I get that, it feels like my oesophagus is ripping apart for a couple of seconds. It’s scary and it hurts.
#46
I can wiggle my whole scalp, similar to how some people can wiggle their ears.
#47
I get extremely intense intrusive daydreams when I have the urge to pee. No idea why :/.
#48
My intestines don’t know that they’re supposed to discard the waste and not hold onto all of it and rip open
Also, stomach is very upset by any food ever coming in, despite asking for it!
#49
I get rubber band snaps in my legs and arms before I get a fever. I know when I feel snapping feelings in my shins / forearms I’m done for, I’m sick.
#50
Sometimes when I eat, I get this clicking sound in my jaw.
Savana Ballard 4 months ago
That’s temporo-mandibular disorder and the click is from the disc on one side of your jaw popping out of place and is relatively common
#52
Sometimes my right eye start shedding tears for no reason.
#54
I have a light form of tourettes (no, not the shouting random insults one). Specific muscle groups contract randomly ranging from my neck to my chest cavity/lungs. The neck muscle contractions are alright, its just the lung/chest muscles that are a b***h to deal with :(.
#55
I'm allergic to my own progesterone. Have to go to the ER a lot.
Margaret Wartime 4 months ago
Oh I was pregnant once and got MASSIVELY sick. 2 straight days of puking every 5-10 minutes - which eventually turned into dry heaving since I couldn’t keep anything down - was incredibly exhausting since I couldn’t even sleep. I broke so many blood vessels in my face from the strain that it looked like I had acne. I remember bawling my eyes out dry heaving in a bucket at the end of the bed while my bf’s mom stroked my hair (he was on a work trip). Went to the hospital because I couldn’t even keep water down. I remember the doctor telling me I was pregnant and saying something about being sensitive to progesterone, or having an allergic reaction to it, or something - I remember the word “allergic” was said at some point but I was so sick and tired and numb that I kinda blanked 🥲 never had issues with my hormones before though
#57
My wrists hurt when im sad.
#58
I have that thing where I can't picture things in my head. Crazily enough, I'm a pretty good painter.
Melissa Harris 4 months ago (edited)
Aphantasia. The ability to visualize mental imagery falls across a spectrum from not at all (aphantasia) to hyperphantasia.
#59
Whenever I hold batteries or magnets, I get this very distinct and uniquely painful sensation in my hands/arms/whichever part of my body that is making contact with them, that grows more intensely/painfull the longer the contact continues to go on.
JB 4 months ago
This feels like a good place to mention that small children can get extremely ill from ingesting lithium batteries. The electrical current necrotizes (kills) any tissue around it, leading to internal holes where there shouldn't be holes. Don't leave them out, and if a child has eaten one, they need a doctor!
#60
Sometimes when I run in public I get self conscious and then my arms start to spasm and twist inward like weird dinosaur arms and it’s hard for me to keep balance. It goes away after a minute but it’s been going on since I was a kid and I have no idea why.
Melissa Harris 4 months ago (edited)
It's only when being watched/observed it's psychosomatic and a reaction to anxiety. Councilling and a prescription for anti-anxiety meds would seem to be appropriate.
#61
I will be eating food and suddenly feel like i’m having a heart attack, goes away after like a second as long as i stop eating the food.
#62
Get tired and dissociated throughout the day, sometimes for a minute or 2, sometimes half an hour. At totally random intervals and times :(.
Melissa Harris 4 months ago (edited)
This sounds like derealization/depersonalization. It's a symptom of depression and anxiety and often a trauma response
#64
You know that one stretch that has you interlock your hands and hold them up to your neck? I can fully flip my arms back around without unlocking my hands. I’ve been able to do this since I was little.
I also have a severe stutter that makes me do s**t completely involuntary. I get asked “are you ok?” By so many people all day, because it makes me look like I’m having a stroke or seizure.
#65
I can get “good” breaths, which feel like an incredibly pleasant stretch in my lungs. I crave them pretty much always. But I can’t get them whenever I want, it’s like they have a cooldown, but there’s some luck but also technique involved in making happen. Being in certain positions makes it easier, being bloated with food makes it harder and the craving worse. If I try to get one and don’t it feels awful.
It’s almost impossible to get via diaphragm breathing. The best technique is trying to time a sudden deep chest breath (raising my shoulders up) at whatever feels like the right time. Or trying to induce a yawn, which always result in a good breath.
Sometimes I’ll try and can feel one almost there, and then it’ll suddenly happen and I’ll end up taking in more air in a gasp. It really feels like there’s a part of my lungs that can only be filled sometimes.
It’s been happening since I was at least 8-9 and has never gone away.
Melissa Harris 4 months ago (edited)
The OP NEES to see a respiratory therapist. Could be a huge number of things but it doesn't sound like their moving enough volume with regular breaths
#66
I can regurgitate my food at will within a time period after swallowing it. This is how I get people to leave me alone.
#67
When I smile my right eye is barely open while my left eye is normal. Hate this for photos.
#68
When I really have to pee and I'm holding it I fart a lot and then I don't have to pee anymore.
OneHappyPuppy 4 months ago
It's not the pee, it's the built up pressure from the gas pushing at the bladder
#69
I can crack all of my fingers on both hands at once as many times in a row as I want to without stopping. It causes no pain or discomfort.
#70
I sometimes have allergic reactions to my own sweat. Mostly between my b***s.
#71
I can hold my nose internally, it feels like there’s a flap of skin I can control inside my nose that stops airflow and water!
#72
I have this weird buzzing (don’t know how else to describe it) in my whole body which I don’t notice until it randomly stops and then I freak out thinking maybe my heart has stopped beating and I frantically check my pulse. Lmao I know it sounds weird and I’ve brought it up with my doctors and even had a holter monitor but nothing is physically wrong with me. I don’t know what it is or why it feels so weird. It’s like I can feel my blood flow pulsing throughout my body and then at random times that feeling just stops for whatever reason and I’m left with a weird feeling of nothing/silence. Then it comes back like 10 seconds later.
#73
My forehead stretches up when I see or hear something unexpected. Which I really can't control.
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Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I think a lot of people here really should ask their doctor about some of these. A lot of quirks are just that, harmless quirks, but some could be precursors or symptomatic of a disorder.
Neb 4 months ago
Unfortunately, some of the doctors are pretty much dismissive, as with "well, such side effect is not known, so I think it is only coincidence" or "no, that cannot happen". First one was relatively easy to avoid stuff; the second one - also easy to avoid after I managed to understand what caused it and fixed it. Both related with very standard and regular supplements.
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 4 months ago
I think a lot of people here really should ask their doctor about some of these. A lot of quirks are just that, harmless quirks, but some could be precursors or symptomatic of a disorder.
Neb 4 months ago
Unfortunately, some of the doctors are pretty much dismissive, as with "well, such side effect is not known, so I think it is only coincidence" or "no, that cannot happen". First one was relatively easy to avoid stuff; the second one - also easy to avoid after I managed to understand what caused it and fixed it. Both related with very standard and regular supplements.
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