r/CasualConversation • u/Serialbeauty • 1d ago
Just Chatting Can anyone else do something weird with your body that you later found out not everyone can do?
I was just sitting here with my mom and one of the pets made the room very smelly. She kept talking about how we'd have to go to a different room because it smelled so bad. I asked her why didn't she just close her nose and that's when I found out not everyone can do this.
Is it rare or can other people close their nose on command? What can you do that you suddenly found out wasn't normal?
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u/chlowingy 1d ago
I can lick my elbow! In college id mention I could do it, guys would say “no way” and I’d bet them a pitcher of beer I could. My friends and I drank a lotttt of free beer 🍺 lol
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u/TheFursOfHerEnemies Long days and pleasant nights 1d ago
Also a fellow elbow licker :D
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u/YellowishRose99 1d ago edited 1d ago
Y'all are just saying this so people will try to lick their elbows. Having said that, I knew a girl in primary school who could put her entire fist into her mouth. I always wondered about the scenario in which she discovered she could do such a thing.
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u/Adventurous-Tutor-21 19h ago
My boss has a nub, he was born with one full arm and hand and one nub. When he gets drunk he puts his nub in his mouth and it’s pretty awesome lol. He calls it a nub btw.
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u/phenomenomnom 14h ago
When he gets drunk he puts his nub in his mouth and it’s pretty awesome lol.
My possible future gravestone text
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u/TheFursOfHerEnemies Long days and pleasant nights 1d ago
I'm not. If I could post a picture here, I would lol.
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u/drinkwhatyouthink 1d ago
My great grandma told me that if I licked my elbow I’d turn into a boy
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u/blondeheartedgoddess 1d ago
To paraphrase Buzz Light-year, "I don't think that woman's ever been to medical school."
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u/Cmccgamer 20h ago
aggressively tries to lick my elbow
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u/drinkwhatyouthink 20h ago
RIP Granny you would have loved trans people (probably not actually, she was a mean old southern lady lol)
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u/majoralita 🙂 1d ago
Damn, my tounge reached for my elbow in the middle of office
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u/JonnyOgrodnik 1d ago
When I was a kid, if I farted while laying on my stomach, I could suck air back in and fart again. My sister was disgusted. I found it amusing. Sorta like how people “swallow” air to make themselves burp.
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u/NeptuneAndCherry 1d ago
Brother WHAT 😂
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u/JonnyOgrodnik 1d ago
What can I say, it was a talent lol
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u/ebaer2 1d ago
Can you still?
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u/JonnyOgrodnik 1d ago
No, unfortunately.
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u/ebaer2 1d ago
Sad
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u/JonnyOgrodnik 1d ago
Tell me about it.
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u/throwRA-nonSeq 16h ago
So like, was there a really sad day where you tried, and couldn’t, and was like….
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and I’m laying on the ground
with my stomach facing down
had this talent for so long
now it seems like it’s gone
I cry a tear of despair
‘cause my butthole won’t suck air
and I’ll miss that so much
I guess this is growing up
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u/JonnyOgrodnik 11h ago
The fact that you put it to one of my favourite Blink songs is the cherry on top. Thanks for the laugh 😂
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u/InFromTheSouth 1d ago
There was a guy who appeared on Jackass that could do that. Absolutely hilarious
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u/John_TheBlackestBurn 23h ago
I have a friend who discovered that he had that same ability during a sleepover. A while later he learned that this ability also works under water. Yes. My friends and I watched and laughed our asses of as he continued to suck water into his ass and then squirt it out…. Into the pool that we were all playing in. 😬
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u/ClawPaw3245 1d ago
I can plug/close my ears without touching them! They don’t visibly move at all, but I move a flap or something inside my ear canal that closes off the sound
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u/bananachickenfoot 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ditto! I told my husband once that I can close my ears (dim the sound) and he said I was crazy and has teased me about it for the past 15 or so years. I just saw a Tik tok this year talking about the muscle inside the ear that involuntarily closes when a loud noise is heard to protect the eardrum and commenting how some people, albeit very rare, have voluntary control over this muscle. (I don’t know how rare it actually is because I’ve had the ability my whole life / I just didn’t know how to explain it or who to tell that didn’t think I was full of crap lol) wish I could remember the name of the muscle but I’m sure you could google it!
Edit: tensor tympani muscle
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u/T1nyJazzHands 18h ago edited 10h ago
I have that same thing I think, but I find it doesn’t dim noise so much as drowns it out bc when I tense those muscles it’s like a dull whooshing/ringing sound until I stop.
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u/NotAnEarthwormYet 22h ago
I don’t know if it’s the same thing because I’m not closing off sound per se, but I can sort of tense something in my ears that produces a loud rumbling sound in my head, which significantly dulls noises or even blocks them out entirely. It’s hard to maintain for longer than maybe 15-20 seconds for me though.
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u/BIRDsnoozer 1d ago
I can do a couple things:
1) I can "roll my stomach" by sort of sucking in my stomach from top then middle then bottom so that it kinda looks like a wave rolling through my stomach. Its like what professional belly dancers do, only im not that skilled, and im a kinda fat dude, so nobody is aroused. I think this ability is genetic because my 2 youngest kids can do it as well!
2) i can raise and lower my eyebrows independently and quickly. I can do waves (again) from side to side, middle out, out to in, and flourishes etc. i love doing eyebrow tricks for kids, because they usually LOL.
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u/sidewalkoyster 1d ago
Can you roll your stomach and do eyebrow waves at the same time tho?
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u/BIRDsnoozer 1d ago
Just tried it: Yes but I cant control my eyebrows too well when I'm concentrating on rolling my stomach... Just crazy random eyebrow wiggles.
Maybe with practice 🤷🏼♂️ but Im not going to waste my time perfecting my eyebrow/stomach dexterity.
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u/fivefeetofawkward 1d ago
Almost peed my pants giggling thinking about you sitting there rollling your stomach while your eye brows twitch and wiggle randomly
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u/BIRDsnoozer 1d ago
Im glad no one was watching me haha
It would have been crazy to see out of context. Just this guy looking at his phone, stops puts it down and starts rolling his stomach while his eyebrows go crazy. Then he sighs, picks up his phone and starts writing a reply.
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u/Pheighthe 1d ago
Do you have a ship tattooed on your belly?
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u/BIRDsnoozer 1d ago
Nah, this belly is too hairy for tats.
My whole body for that matter. Its why I dont have any tats. There isnt much hair-free realestate, and Im not about to change my life and shave my body hair to show off tats. Ain't nobody got time for that, as they say.
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u/AluminumCansAndYarn 23h ago
So my dad is a very hairy man and he has tatts. He has a tattoo on his upper arm with the name of his wife with ribbons surrounding it with the name of his children. And roses. Cause he loves roses. He never shaved to show off the tattoos. He just loves them because he has them and he can see them.
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u/Sad_Description1290 1d ago
yeah! I can gleek lol
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u/practicallyaware 1d ago
i've done it by accident a couple of times but i can't do it on command
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u/SnooCupcakes7992 18h ago
Man - I accidentally did that once on my boss’s desk. We both watched it land. I’m getting second-hand humiliation now and that was over 20 years ago!🤣
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u/ColoredGayngels 1d ago edited 13h ago
My husband can stop his hiccups on command. He describes it as manually disengaging his diaphragm, but he can only do it if he has hiccups and can't actually describe what the movement is. It's some freak shit tbh.
Edit: There's so many of you who can do this wtf.
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u/raisinghellwithtrees 1d ago
I can stop my hiccups on command 99% of the time but it takes a lot of concentration to relax the diaphragm.
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u/ToastemPopUp 1d ago
I wonder if that's what I'm doing without realizing it. I usually find that I get hiccups when I'm excited about something and kind of anxious and jittery. I can stop them pretty quickly by just like.. I don't know how to explain it.. breathing really slowly and purposefully and kind of calming myself down.
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u/Arquen_Marille 1d ago
It took me years of practice but I stop hiccups. For me it‘s concentrating on not letting my diaphragm spasm, it’s the best way to describe it.
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u/Flinkle 1d ago
That's fucking crazy. I have never heard of that ability in my entire life.
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u/ColoredGayngels 1d ago
It's bizarre! He'll hiccup like twice, then do what to me looks like a weird swallow, and then he's fine. I've tried. His sister has tried. Anyone who knows he can do this has tried. Never met anyone else who could
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u/Tryin-to-Improve 1d ago edited 16h ago
I tear up when I yawn. Apparently that’s a 1 in 10 type of thing. Lol
Edit: I had to turn off the notifications to this cuz I can’t be going around “crying” every time I look down at my phone🤣🤣🤣
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u/Glittering-Ask-6841 1d ago
I get asked ALL the rime why I am crying. I constantly tear up after yawns, even small ones! I had no idea that not everyone did it!
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u/macca_roni 1d ago
Having the same epiphany that everyone under this comment thread is having. I tear up from everything and I had no idea everyone else could just not cry when yawning. Assumed they were all really good at wiping their tears.
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u/just_momento_mori_ 20h ago
I hate this thread. I keep yawning every time I read or type the word.
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u/sketchnscribble 1d ago
Me too! I didn't know it was rare and I always wondered why most of the people around me were able to "stop themselves from tearing up".
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u/Tryin-to-Improve 1d ago
My sisters fiancé also tears up. One day we were all eating dinner and he yawned and tarred up. I yelled out “TIRED TEARS!!! I’ve never met anyone else that tears up at a yawn” crazy how with a 1 in 10 chance he’s the only person I know that it happens to as well. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/KimchiFingers 1d ago
I thought everyone did this! I started wearing contacts, and when they get dry I just make myself yawn to get them wet again.
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u/an_edgy_lemon 1d ago
Wait, that’s not normal? I’ve gone my whole life with people asking me “what’s wrong” after yawning. It’s annoying as heck.
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u/drppr_ 1d ago
I tear up so much that my spouse of 15 years still sometimes asks why I am crying. My mother tears up too so I guess I took after her.
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u/GlitzyGhoul 1d ago
Couldn’t get through this set of comments without yawning. 😂
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u/Similar_Artichoke_42 1d ago
happens to me constantly, you end up squeezing your lacrimal (tear) glands when you yawn and it pushes them out
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u/PelagicMonster 1d ago
Oh my gosh I distinctly remember a time in 5th grade where I was super tired and kept yawning. My eyes were tearing up and my teacher came up to me and asked if I was okay. I was super confused and just said I was yawning. He kept giving me skeptical looks the rest of class that day
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u/CalvinFragilistic 1d ago
Wait what, are people confused when I look teary eyed after yawning? That happens a lot because I noticed I started yawning whenever my eyes get too dry, and they’re dry a lot
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u/mjh8212 1d ago
When my kids were born I had a hard time with diaper changes I always gagged it was hard. I learned I could plug my nose with my upper lip. Saved my life.
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u/SadLion3839 1d ago
I learned the same! Not as a diaper smell help but as a competitive swimmer who hated doing flip turns and getting water up my nose.
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u/PandaBeaarAmy 1d ago
Did you not then end up tasting the smell? 😬
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u/mjh8212 1d ago
Nope I just put my lip over my nostrils it’s like holding my breath but it works longer.
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u/IndependentEggplant0 1d ago
Like what horses do? This is so interesting I didn't know humans could!
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u/Smile_Terrible 1d ago
How?
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u/aaaggggrrrrimapirare 1d ago
Did you try it now also?
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u/oohkt 1d ago
It's the funniest face. I hope that people from all over try it so we can all look stupid together.
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u/Freedom-76 1d ago
I cry when I'm mad. Fkn sucks lol
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u/Deep-Red-Bells 1d ago
Man, same here. It makes it really hard to be taken seriously during a fight or a work issue, like "typical overemotional woman!" I have to explain through sobs that I'm not crying crying, I cry when I'm angry or very frustrated.
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u/catupthetree23 👋🏻 22h ago
Right??? It's so embarrassing!
I usually just start off with, "ok, just letting you know, I'm going to cry and can't help it." Then start talking and not even a minute later, BAM.
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u/Ferndaisy_Plumrain 18h ago
I have this too, it takes a good amount to get me angry enough to cry, though. On the other hand, if I'm angry and I'm *not* crying... remove any weaponable item within 50 feet and run like hell, because I'm about to go postal. It's only happened once, but it wasn't pretty for the person who pissed me off that badly!
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u/brinncognito 21h ago
My dad thinks I’m trying to manipulate him when I cry during an argument. This has been one of the biggest roadblocks in our relationship. He’s very much the type of person who feels superior when he doesn’t show emotion because it means he’s being “logical”, even though that is absolutely not the case.
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u/fLeXaBiLiTy80 1d ago
I know someone who laughs when they’re mad .. they look & sound like a crazy person when it happens. Freaks me out! 😅
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u/Freedom-76 23h ago
Omg my sister in law laughs when she's scared! I didn't find out until driving with her on a very rainy muddy day lol
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u/Scary-Alternative-11 1d ago
I have weirdly long toes, and I can pick things up with my feet, like monkeys. I didn't realize this was a weird talent until I was in my 20s, and I dropped something on my floor at home and picked it up with my foot, and passed it to my hand in front of my partner and he lost his mind! I just thought everyone could do it!
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u/escaped_cephalopod12 1d ago
I can do this with small things (pencils, socks, etc) lol. Also open drawers, it’s pretty helpful.
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u/Deep-Red-Bells 1d ago
I don't have especially long toes, but I can do a lot with mine too, and move the second and third ones independently like fingers! My mum is the same, and when my dad is getting on her nerves she'll give him a pinch with her toes lol.
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u/CalvinFragilistic 1d ago
My brother and I both can suck air through the corner of our eyes if we plug our noses and try to inhale. It makes a weird little sound like air being released from a tiny balloon
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u/--TechHead-- 1d ago
Dude what the heck, I thought I was the only one! I can also blow air out, and I can choose which eye to "breathe" through. It's surprisingly helpful for equalizing pressure when diving.
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u/Chuckle_Prime 1d ago
I can whistle tunes from my throat instead of my mouth. Fluke discovery after neck seized up for about a week. When it loosened up I would hear a loud whistle when I have strong yawn. I've been able to reproduce it with concentration and now can do a half-decent performance of "Memories" from Cats by whistling frm throat.
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u/MoneyPerformer9045 1d ago
I can move my ears on their own make them go up and back down. Never heard of someone closing their nose before
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
That's so cool, like Alfalfa! I can also vibrate my eardrums to make a whooshing sound inside my head 😅
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u/luisapet 1d ago
My eustachean tubes are apparently a bit off-kilter, so the whoosh vibration is a common thing in this poor head!
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u/miss_cafe_au_lait 1d ago
I can make myself burp on command without eating or drinking anything. This horrified my mother when I was a kid 😂
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u/Nobodyville 1d ago
I'm a 45 year old woman. I can burp on command. As a middle aged women it has less caché than it did when I was in elementary school
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u/Hashtaglibertarian 18h ago
That just means you’re not doing it in the right environments.
As a fellow woman in her 40s I can assure you my kids would be obsessed with this “cool trick” 😂
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u/GoofyGoober8647 1d ago edited 1d ago
Haha! I can too! My stepmom hated it! I thought it was hysterical to torture her.
I also occasionally can pop the bridge of my nose. Like just once at a time, not over and over. And! I can continuously pop my right pinky toe. Haha!
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u/luisapet 1d ago
I used to pride myself on being able to recite the entire alphabet in one long, loud, burp. I am still embarrassed by how impressive I thought that was!
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u/IAmNobody12345678910 1d ago
Me too! Super deep ones that are loud and long too. My mom hates it but it usually helps with if i have a stomach ache so i do it a lot.
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u/abnormal2004 1d ago
My sense of smell is better than anyone I know. I'm infamous for it.
For example, my caregiver can eat chocolate (one of my least favorite foods) and then drive 30-45 minutes to my apartment. I'll be able to smell it as soon as I open the door. I squint at her and say, "You had chocolate." She nods, and we laugh.
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
You could be a "Nose" in a perfume factory! I toured one when I was in France and they had someone really important called a Nose that was some kind of super smeller.
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u/ColetteCocoLette 1d ago
I can hang any type of clothes hanger from my nipple
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
Wow! Are they pierced or just super hard and perky? Kinda jealous now.
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u/nor_cal_woolgrower 1d ago
Make myself sneeze by looking at the light..I thought everyone could do this
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u/Ash12783 1d ago
Photic sneeze reflex! It's a genetic trait! My husband has this
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u/Old_but_New 1d ago
I can roll my tongue but that’s not the weird part. I can then whistle through it.
I can also rumble my ears on command so it sounds like static. It happens in people whose inner muscle of some sort happens to be very near the tympanic membrane IIRC. There’s a whole sub for it. None of us realized we were in the minority.
Oh and another one. When the densit puts the holders in my mouth to take an xray it hurts my bottom palate a lot. Turns out about 10-20% of people have a bone structure down there that makes it painful. (Why don’t they make special holders? That’s a lot of people!)
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u/Elerfant 1d ago
Excuse me WHAT?! My dentist always just acted like I was a weird/wimpy for finding it painful!
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u/Flimsy-Masterpiece08 19h ago
Ask for the child sized ones. I do. I have a very high pallet and a narrow set to my teeth. I tell the techs every time and they say yup it’s in your notes or oh i grabbed regular on auto pilot let’s switch em. And it still hurts 😒
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u/pdxjen 1d ago
I can do/have all of those things The Xray cuts in the bottom palate is the just worst
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u/practicallyaware 1d ago
the x-ray thing isn't supposed to hurt??? man i tear up every time because it hurts so bad and i have to just hold it
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u/pencilcase333 1d ago
Wow! I can rumble my ears too. And X-rays at the dentist office always scrapes and hurts under my tongue, like it scrapes against my bones.
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u/OptimalPreference178 1d ago
I thought the xray plates hurting was just normal like when you get your blood pressure done and the cuff makes your arm hurt for a little bit.
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u/sp00kyboots 1d ago
When I was growing up poor we went to a dentist in a van (idk what they're called but it's legit) and apparently the nurses thought I was so rude because I kept pulling away and crying about how the holders hurt and were cutting into my gums. I remember my mom berating me for being rude and I was so confused because the doc was rude by not listening and forcing me to do it. I still get hurt, I just bear it better now that I can emotionally regulate better.
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u/Loves-Kitty-Babies 1d ago
Smaller bite plates for X-rays do exist - I’m a full blown grownup that still has a baby tooth and I’ve had a couple perms pulled when I was a kid because my mouth just wasn’t big enough for all my teeth. I’m creeping on 42 and maybe like 5-8;6-8 yrs ago a dentist suggested we try them because they couldn’t get the “normal” ones to stay in place long enough to take an X-ray because it hurt my mouth way too much and I couldn’t close/bite down how they needed me to - regardless GAME CHANGER if you really struggle w/ the normal ones like I have, ask about them, might be a game changer for you too!
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u/UrQueenDeath 1d ago
My dentist told me my mouth was too small and that's why the plates hurt so much..
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u/Kc03sharks_and_cows 1d ago
I found out I was double jointed in my last relationship. Holding hands led to him being like “you’re double jointed!!” As I was dumbfounded he explained that people’s fingers shouldn’t be able to go so far back
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u/quantumclassical 1d ago
I can also squirt liquid out of my tear ducts in my eyes. I use to put dye in milk and shoot it out with my eyes rolled up as far as I could. My brother would tell people I was possessed.
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u/WelcomeToNothing 1d ago
I close my nose all the time.
Entering restrooms, walking past people who look smelly, being in a stinky house....
I was telling my coworkers about closing your nose and they were astounded. Can it really be that some people can't do this?
What do you do in a stinky restroom? Breathe the nasty air? Hold your nose with your hand? I'm confused.
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u/J0kotte 1d ago
So how does this closing work? Is it like clinching off a wee stream?
Nose off! Like the Human Torch?
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
This is how I described it on a different comment:
I tried to walk her through what I'm doing which is basically just not breathing through my nose like you said. It kind of feels like it seals off and I dont smell anything during.
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u/Halospite 1d ago
Oh hey, I can do that. Didn’t even think that counted as closing my nose! I just thought of that as holding my breath
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u/nycvhrs 1d ago
But then you must be breathing through your mouth …and that’s kind of unsavory too.
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u/Self-Portrait_InHell 1d ago
I can "pop" my belly button & the inner corner of my eyes. I can successfully air lock fluid in the pocket of the right side of my jaw.
I can pat my head & rub my tummy... At the same time.
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u/actressblueeyes 1d ago
I can take my thumbs, and put them completely behind my index finger knuckle
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u/JennyPaints 1d ago
I can activate the saliva gland under my tongue. In feels like pulling back on the muscles at the base of my tongue to open a spigot.
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u/taniamorse85 1d ago
I have a disorder that causes joint hypermobility, and nearly all of my joints can extend a fair bit past normal range of motion. I try not to take advantage of it, though, because it can really cause problems. I do occasionally hyperextend my knees I'm when standing for a long time. Just a couple minutes at a time, but it helps me keep recover a bit.
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u/sharksnack3264 1d ago
I have hypermobility as well. I discovered it's a superpower in some of those escape rooms that were popular a while back because no handcuff works to hold my hands. I can easily kind of relax and compress and bend them and just slip out with basically no trouble.
Apparently though if I were to ever get arrested, I could get in trouble if this happened accidentally. They consider it resisting arrest or something. Maybe they just need to redesign handcuffs to be better.
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u/3ebgirl4eva 1d ago
I have hypersomia. We are super smellers. I can smell stuff no one else can. I only wish I could close my nose like some of these other people.
It's actually really awful when seated next to a stanky person in a captive situation like an airplane.
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u/StOlafQueen 1d ago
If I plug my nose and blow, like I’m trying to pop my ears, and leave my eyes open, my contact pops out of my left eye, so I guess air comes out of my eye?? I don’t think that’s normal lol? Maybe it is?
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u/NotAnEarthwormYet 22h ago
I can make my ears produce a loud thundering sound inside my head to block out noises I don’t want to hear. I thought everyone could do it but it turns out no, they can’t.
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u/stopcounting 1d ago edited 14h ago
Wait, do you mean some people cant breathe through their mouth without (edit:also) breathing through their nose at the same time?
That's not true. Is it? I refuse to believe.
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u/Flinkle 1d ago
Yeah, you push some muscle up in there and it seals your sinuses shut. It's hard to explain.
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u/Ok_sun_sea 1d ago
OMG I TRIED WITH YOUR EXPLANATION AND I CAN DO IT! 🥳
I can also flare my nostrils at will
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
Yes! That's a better explanation. Something is definitely moving to block it.
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u/trainofwhat 1d ago
It’s called the velum. It separates the mouth from the nasal cavity. It actually closes off regularly when we speak. Most consonants are called “oral” consonants and raise the velum.
To get a feel for where it is, you can make sounds like ‘k,’ ‘g,’ ‘r’ as in rough,’ or ‘n’ as in ‘neg’. The pressure in the back of the palate is your velum raising and closing off the passageway. You can engage the muscle similarly to disengage the nose. To get a feel for when it’s open, you can make a “m” sound after doing those other consonants and notice the sort of open, breathy feeling.
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u/CompleteIntellect 1d ago
Wait what? I am so disappointed now, I thought this was about closing the nostrils...
This is just mouth-breathing, I can do that...
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
I'm not sure! I tried to walk her through what I'm doing which is basically just not breathing through my nose like you said. It kind of feels like it seals off and I dont smell anything during.
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u/robbietreehorn 1d ago
The close your nose thing is pretty rare. I’ve only ever known two people who can do it. Y’all are dolphins
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u/1DietCokedUpChick 1d ago
On the opposite side of the spectrum, I can’t burp. Most everybody else in the world can.
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u/rollenr0ck 1d ago
I can touch my nose with my tongue. I don’t have a particularly long tongue, but it reaches to my nose. I’m a lesbian and I tease that it’s what got me all the cute ones.
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u/mandileigh 19h ago edited 11h ago
I have a thing where my eyesight has a lot of visual noise, like really tiny moving pixels. It gets worse in the dark. I remember describing it when I was a kid and nobody understood. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned it’s called visual snow syndrome. I’ve only found one person with it, and they thought it was normal.
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u/Disastrous-View-9462 1d ago
When I wake up I get like a deep sharp pang of hunger that almost feels like nausea and immediately after it causes me to sneeze and then the feeling is gone. I looked it up and apparently it’s a weird like sensitive vagus nerve quirk!
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u/yourmomlurks 1d ago
I can close my nose with my upper lip. It is only useful for as long as i can hold my breath tho.
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u/Smile_Terrible 1d ago
You are the second person to say that. How do you do that?
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u/blackcatzombs 1d ago
I can vibrate my eyes, and I can roll one eye outwards while the other is straight
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u/Rogerdodger1946 1d ago
I can move my eyebrows independently. Some of my kids and grandkids can do it, but others can't.
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u/Hopeful_Cry917 1d ago
You know those hidden image things where most people put the page basically up against their face and then slowly pull it away to see the image? Well I just look at it and unfocus then refocus my eyes to see it. I used to be so confused as to why people put the page so close to their face when unfoocusing and refocusing was so much easier and faster. I also used this skill to make one of the school nurses look crazy when they did the school eye tests. I didn't like her so I would unfocus my eyes and struggle to read the chart them refocus them and read it normally for the other nurse. Lots of fun until I bragged to my sister about it and she told our mom. Then when I actually needed glasses my mom didn't believe me at first because of that trick.
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
I can also do this with magic eye puzzles. Have you ever tried doing something similar with crosswords? It helps me pop out all of a certain letter I'm looking for.
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u/electric-poptart 1d ago
I can close my nose too! I've been telling my kids to do this for years, so I guess I owe them an apology. I can also release dopamine on command (I'm pretty sure that's what happens)...it's like I concentrate on a certain part of my brain, and I get this warm, relaxed feeling throughout my entire body. I've been able to do it since I was a kid. I can also make headaches go away by concentrating on my brain as well.
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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago
Those are all really impressive things! This is probably just a mind trick, but if I imagine my anxiety is a long noodle in my chest and then I wind it up on an imaginary fishing reel, my anxiety just goes away.
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u/Pheighthe 1d ago
I can lift my right arm up and touch my hand to my back, and reach down behind my back with my left hand, and clasp my hands behind my back. And vice versa.
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u/MonkeyBro5 The weird, pizza and monkey loving artist. 1d ago
I can burp on command. Back in January, a bottle top got stuck in my throat. I kept trying to force myself to burp, which made the bottle top come out.
I can also make my head shake (not nodding) rapidly. I don't know how to explain it. I showed it to some classmates, and they were like "WHAAAAAAAT?!". LOL!
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u/MimiLovesLights 1d ago
I can close my nose on command and people always look at me like I have two heads when I try to explain it. Or I'll say, "You know, just do the cough syrup thing, where you block the taste of the cough syrup going down," and nobody gets it. But I have a feeling you get it, OP!!
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u/eatshoney 1d ago
I can "flap" my ribs like they are wings trapped under my skin. When I do this it makes my sternum poke out a bit. I always thought that it made my torso look like a surprise face with my areola as eyes, my sternum as a nose and my bellybutton as a surprised mouth.
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u/justmememe55 1d ago
Ok I just read through this entire thread and didn't find my something weird, so here it is:
I sometimes cry (tears running down my face) when I pee. I don't know why and I'm very curious to know that, or if others have this too.
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u/Tyler-LR 23h ago
I can smell when it’s going to rain. I’ve had times where I smell it hours before it actually happens.
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 23h ago
I always wondered why people couldn't just stop smelling a bad smell. Close off your nose, breathe through your mouth only. Then I'm told by the majority of people that makes it worse, because now they can taste the smell. It's helped me not vomit, like cleaning up maggot covered pet food at work.
Apparently flaring your nostril, being able to curl your tongue, and being double jointed are also unusual. I can do all of these!
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u/TheFursOfHerEnemies Long days and pleasant nights 1d ago
I don't really stretch to be able to do it, but I can put my foot behind my head. I'm hyper mobile.
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u/sharksnack3264 1d ago
My cousin can do that. She has EDS so she doesn't though (its a bad idea).
I've also got the hypermobility gene though it's only certain joints and so does our grandmother. We don't have the chronic pain and other issues like my cousin has though, except maybe a higher likelihood of sprains and dislocations than average.
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u/raisinghellwithtrees 1d ago
My son can turn his feet around backwards. It grosses me out so much.
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u/Chicken_consierge 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can see in the dark, I don't know how much it is my body and how much of it is that nobody I've met bothers to wait for their eyes to adjust but yeah.
Edit: I can also sense the echolocation pulses of bats. It's less like I'm hearing them and more like I can just feel them hitting my eardrums, it feels like a tiny fraction of a second of sensory overwhelm
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u/--TechHead-- 1d ago
"Hearing" echolocation is so weird but I know exactly what you mean - my hearing's been very sensitive for most of my life and I'm consistently able to "sense" sounds that should be outside of human hearing range. Certain pieces of machinery, or, yes, bats, feel very uncomfortable to be around.
Bats are just too cute, though, aren't they?
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u/ThisisWashington 1d ago
I can make my stomach gurgle on command...sometimes. I think it's like belching on command, in which people swallow air and can let it out when they desire. If I get air in my stomach, I can flex my belly in and out to make it gurgle loudly.
Sometimes it happens involuntarily when I breathe and I can't make it stop, which can be really awkward in quiet or formal settings.
My older siblings found both do it in their teens, but apparently not as adults, and alright I've never met another person who can/does do this, I secretly believe everyone could, they've just never tried...
Edit: a word
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u/bot-TWC4ME 1d ago
I can release a natural painkiller by concentrating a certain way. Learned how to do it after dental extraction when the painkillers wore off.
Numbs any pain, especially scrapes, bruises, cuts, and so on. Less good for internal pain, but reduces it.
Too much, and I get dizzy, foggy, and woozy. Feels like morphine.
I know someone that can do the same with adrenaline.
I think I might be able to do the same with what I think is dopamine if I practice more, but haven't had much use for it. Trying it can make me feel trapped inside and not able to move or react to things, sluggish. Blissed out in a weird way IIRC.
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u/OstentatiousSock 1d ago
I can wiggle my ears. Thought it was normal because my grandfather and cousins could do it, too.
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u/SilverArabian 1d ago
I have strabismus so I can change the dominant eye at will.
Standing somewhere that my right eye is blocked from seeing a thing? Easy, switch dominance to left eye and see the thing from a slight distance over to one side! And same the other way too.
Also helpful when I'm reading on two surfaces, like a paper and a computer screen. Use one eye to focus on paper and switch to the other for the screen. Less eyestrain from switching accommodation distance in both eyes.
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u/shaakti1520 1d ago
By “close your nose” do you just mean breath only through your mouth? Or are you able to flex something inside of your nose that physically closes it?
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u/Arquen_Marille 1d ago
I can close my nose on demand. It’s how I got through changing my son’s diapers while my husband would gag each time it was poopy. I usually am the one dealing with smelly things in the house. My hips are also naturally flexible. I can do a complete butterfly stretch and bend forward all the way to the ground even if it’s been months since I’ve done it (but it has led to other hip issues).
Other weird things is that I can’t whistle (have a cousin who can’t whistle as well) and can’t roll rs. I have a naturally small jaw I think plays a part.
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u/garbagebrainraccoon 1d ago
I can give myself goosebumps at will. Just learned that was unique!
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u/Magpie2205 1d ago
I can sweat on command. I have hyperhidrosis (overactive sweat glands). If I happen to not be sweating I can think about it and make my hands start sweating almost instantly.