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When laying in dark, any smallest sound makes a bright flash appear in my eyes, before I realize there was a sound. So I am always surprised when it happens, and fraction of a second later I realize there was a sound. So it's Synesthesia, but from Wish.

Synesthesia. I can see sound. Really neat, actually.

Not so neat is my aparent genetic resistance to pain meds and anesthetics. Caused some "fun" in a hospital stay

I'm a tetrachromat if that counts. That means instead of seeing just the regular six color groups most people see, I can see 25% more colors on top of that.

I have photic sneeze reflex aka sudden exposure to bright light tends to make me sneeze. Usually happens if I've been indoors for a while and then walk out into a bright sunny day.

For a long time never really thought about it, just figured it was a normal thing. Wasn't until adulthood that I started noticing most people don't do that and looked it up. If Wikipedia is correct 18% - 35% of the world's population has that condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

I blush extremely easily when I'm aroused or embarrassed . My previous partner used to rely on it to see if her flirting worked and even tried to push it as far as she could to see how red I could get. The answer is very, very red! Even my chest starts blushing at some point! When I have an orgasm I'll often be blushing all over my body. Apparently it's normal and I don't have any health problems...

Also my sense of smell is insane, and I can touch my nose and my elbow with my tongue.

I noticed that for some reason, when I pee I feel the tip of my toes getting hotter

I have no idea what causes it

When I'm in a hypnagogic state (between awake and sleeping) I can look through my eyelids.
They're still closed, but I can see the room through them.
I know it's not real, and if something were to quietly change in the room, I wouldn't be able to see it, but it still feels weird.
I can also pinpoint the moment when I'll fall asleep, and sometimes go directly from being awake to dreaming.
Which has the nice side effect that I'm aware I'm dreaming, and the dream world feels just as realistic as if I was awake, except I can control everything in it.

If I hold my pee for too long, I struggle to start peeing. It'll weakly dribble but some will come out, then about 5 minutes later I can piss normally. It's bullshit.

I can pop my clavical by pushing my shoulder toward my back with my opposite hand.

I can inhale through my ass to fart on command.

My thumbs can bend backwards without assistance from the other hand.

I can inhale smoke from a cigarette or pipe or something, and blow it out of my ears (it hurts though; I don't like doing it).

I can kinda wiggle my ears.

I can put my own dick in my own butt, but just the tip.

I can tell when there are electronics turned on around me even if they aren't intended to make noise, because they all seem to give off this kind of almost imperceptible high pitch whine. Not enough to be bothersome, but just enough to know something probably has current running through it.

Sometimes if I take too big a gulp of water at once, the little bone near my adam's apple clicks out of place and I have to manually reset it.

I can fold my ears in on themselves and they will stay that way until I smile.

Basically my ears are just super soft because I was always playing with them as a kid so the cartridge never really hardened up like it did for most other people.

As I have gotten older and played with my ears less they don't stay folded as long but I can still do it.

When I have to shit really bad I can feel a pain in my forearm. Not like a painful pain but more like a tingling sensation in only my left forearm.

Imagine in your head a scene on the ocean near a dock with a sailboat. The wind is light and there are small waves lapping against the shore, rocking the boat.

Well, I mostly can’t do that. Not much of a minds eye. If I really focus I can do it but there isn’t any detail, and my mind doesn’t fill in background.

I can scoop a spit bubble up off the bottom of my mouth with my tongue, fold my tongue around it, and blow the bubble out of my mouth, and it floats to the ground.

I can pop, or reverse pop my ears at will. Where most people talk about chewing gum to pop their ears on a plane I can push out and suck them in to change the pressure at will. It's useful to help regulate how much noise gets in (in a small way) too.

I can smell moulds that nobody else can smell; at least for several more weeks until the moulds get mouldy enough.

It's basically the most pointless superpower. I can smell the cereal in the cupboard and tell my wife that it's gone bad, but she won't smell it so she'll eat it and then nothing bad happens except possibly to her gut microflora

Not myself, but my wife. We live in the country side with two cats, and they have a cat flap, 24/7 access. My wife can smell a dead mouse nearly from the second it's dead. She complained last week about it smelling like death in our hallway, and we couldn't find the source. It took two days for me to smell it, and then it was gone a few days later. We think it died in the ceiling, so couldn't do much about it. But her smell for death is crazy!

I have a rare condition called EBS (sometimes called butterfly skin). I am lucky enough to have a non life threatening form so it is usually only a problem when I walk/exercise in above 20°C temperatures. And I usually get benefits (I rarely have to queue for things)

I have weirdly thick skin on and especially under my feet, so I can walk barefoot on ice and snow and not feel cold.

I can think myself into immediately stopping hiccups.

I can also puke on demand.

I can wiggle my little toes independently.

I sometimes feel the same thing at different spots of my body.

Like if someone pinches the skin on my back I could feel the pain of the pinch on my shoulder as well.

My ears have a little muscle in them that acts like an eject button for hard earbuds ( like apple)

I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side.

I have hypermobility, but a mild form that just lets me bend my fingers back without any of the major problems associated with it.

My hands and feet are slightly adhesive when they're any wetter than bone dry, so you can hear a faint peeling sound when I walk barefoot in the house, even a little bit on short carpet. Think peeling scotch tape and reduce it by 50%.

I can also control the muscles responsible for equalizing the pressure in my ears, and that allows me to put them under a slight vacuum to slightly dampen loud noises.

I also have long toes. Not to the extent of a chimp, but I have successfully signed my name with them before (though even lower quality than signing with my left hand).

I also cannot cry from cutting onions. This sounds awesome until you're cutting 3 bags of onions in one go and you learn that the tears dilute the sulfuric acid that forms. That was a painful evening.

Some microphones can't pick up my voice.

• I have a forked tongue
• I once hammered the back of my sinuses hard enough to draw blood
• I can make my shoulder blade pop out
• I can keep my eyes open for 5-10 minutes

I can pop my ankles almost non stop since around 2 years ago for some reason (no pain or anything), lol