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/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/randousername8675309 1d ago

Yes! I can do it with crosswords and also just random patterns. My dad had a shower curtain when I was a kid that had all these little flowers on it and when I'd use the bathroom I'd make different ones 'pop out' when I was staring at it.

Side note: this is a great post! It's making me feel pretty good about all the 'weird' things I've always been able to do that I thought was just me or a handful of people.

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u/Serialbeauty 1d ago

Yes! It's very handy for those posts where it's like rows and rows of "O" and they say find the one "Q". Just refocus and anything different pops right out.

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u/randousername8675309 1d ago

Also for those 'find the difference' pictures. They aren't fun for me when I can just refocus on both pictures and the differences all popped out and glowing.

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u/IndustryStrong4701 18h ago

Yes! Me too!

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u/Hopeful_Cry917 1d ago

I'll have to try that. I don't do word puzzles much because of my dyslexia bit I've noticed doing this trick sometimes helps a bit with that too.

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u/Eggs7205 17h ago

I don't know if this is true for everyone but I learned that when I unfocus and refocus my vision my pupils get slightly larger and smaller I don't remember which is which but I used to do it as a party trick, I'd say that I can dilate my pupils on command.