• chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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    17 days ago

    Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.

    • Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.

    • Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia

    • Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.

    • Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.

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      17 days ago

      I have the opposites of all of these.

      I can’t differentiate noises, I’m awful at picking out speech in loud places, I’m bad with faces, and spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).

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        17 days ago

        spicy foods upset my stomach (I can eat them, but it has consequences).

        Same. It sucks. My brothers have continually given me shit for decades for being a bitch that doesn’t like spicy wings. I’m like “dudes, it’s not that I don’t enjoy the taste, it’s that my stomach will literally cramp up 4 hours from now and I’ll be shitting pain.”

        They don’t care.

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      17 days ago

      lol well done. the clinical language makes these very mundane skills seem mystical. Hypnagogic AH!