What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.
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I can smell when a woman is pregnant. I’ve shocked several friends by congratulating them before they even took a test.
what does it smell like?
I don’t know how to describe it. It’s just different than their normal smell
I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.
I see certain shades of blue as grey, while my partner can distinguish more shades of blue than the average person, leaving me often feeling like I’m being fucked with
I wear almost exclusively grayscale clothing, except for a pair of pants that are apparently navy blue, and a shirt that’s supposedly slate blue
A friend sent me a casual lecture/talk a few years ago, and I remember that in one section the speaker talks about getting lens surgery and discovering they unknowingly had a similar-sounding condition, which the lenses had fixed.
i can hear power supplies. kinda annoying.
I don’t have a sense of smell but I can still smell if it’s cold or hot outside.
Ah I can hear security cameras sometimes.
I can taste water, irl no one I met really can feel the different tastes of plain water but i can
Water does have tastes. Hard to believe others don‘t notice it.
Ever since I had pancreatitic sepsis I hate the taste of water, it’s so frustrating. I mostly drink a few specific zero-sugar sodas now, I wish the prebiotic sodas weren’t so expensive because they would be the best solution.
Despite having tinnitus, I can still hear very subtle sounds and identify them.
- For example, a long, deep hum means a garage door is opening/closing.
- I can also hear (and feel) footsteps and movement from people around a building, even very subtle movement.
- I can also pick up on all the little creaks a building makes.
However, despite being able to hear subtle sounds, I cannot hear “no” sound or silence due to the ringing. :/
Changes in air pressure(I think). Its like everything goes quiet theres ringing it feels very weird. I always ask to see if anyone else notices.
You how you get up on a winter morning after the rain and everything sounds different and the air is crisp. Yeah sometimes I can feel that a sudden shift and its very jarring like ive been stunned for a few seconds.
I get this too. I didn’t think/know it was air pressure though? Seems to happen to me randomly, and rarely.
My nose is more sensitive than average to certain types of foul smells mostly in the poop and rotting organic material categories but also things like mouse / rodent urine, skunks, and cigarette smoke. Oh joy.
Mostly it makes me feel like I’m going crazy because I smell these things when nobody else seems to notice leading me to wonder if I’m just hallucinating the smell. But sometimes I put it to good use by being the early warning system of skunks in the area and sometimes I’m the first to notice when the milk is starting to go bad.
The ringing in my ears is my own personal sensation. There are many others with a ringing of their own, but this one is mine and it undoubtedly is as unique as my fingerprint.
I can hear baselines (from blocks away!) that my family can’t hear at all. Or, hear isn’t the right word, but I feel it as an ache in my ears and head.
Do you mean like a bass sound? Any idea what frequency?
It happens when the cars with the aftermarket sound systems roll by, because it still happens when we can hear it, but it also happens when it’s too far away for anyone else to hear. I associate it with deep bass, but I don’t actually know what’s causing the effect.
Nah, it gets closer and then farther away, and corresponds to cars blasting heavy bass.
I used to operate a drill rig for taking soil and water samples. I learned to read all the utility markings and to spot the telltale markings of previous drill work. I can walk around an urban area and tell you where all the gas stations and drycleaners used to be just based on a look at the pavement. In that sense I can “see” things others can’t.
Why do dry cleaners need drill work?
Just fyi, they answered your question further down in the thread without replying to you by accident I think. I saw your question and also wanted to know, just passing that along in case you were still curious lol
I can see lights flicker when others can’t.
All lights flicker. Just mostly we can’t perceive them.
LED flicker is most noticeable tho. Incandescent the least.
Fun fact. They flicker at similar frequencies (per light output/lumens) but the light drop off is more dramatic for LEDs so we perceive it more.
People who are epileptic or prone to migraines usually are bothered more by LEDs.
One word for you: DLP projectors
All lights? Also battery-fed DC lights somehow?! I’m no expert but that seems strange
I’ve caught a lot of lights and light-emitting displays flickering with the 980fps camera that’s built into my phone (best thing since sliced bread for a nerd like me), but also quite many lights appear solid. I’d imagine few have such high-frequency electronics that it pulses well beyond 1 kHz. Otherwise the sensor should sometimes capture a frame during a low or a peak
As an example, I was recently looking at car lights in Germany, expecting to see duty cycling in most modern ones, but the majority (2/3rds or so) were actually solid so far as I could tell. A few cars had a mixture of flickering and solid lights in seemingly the same fixture. All flickering ones were high frequency though, not like 50 Hz as grid-fed lights do but much more. I didn’t bother with ffmpeg and counting frames but I estimated on the order of 250 Hz for one of them
Yes all lights flicker. That frequency number is how fast it flickers.
There has been attempts to reduce flicker.
It has to do with how electricity works and the filament in the bulb. I honestly don’t know the details except that some tech has reduced it in LEDs. They say it no longer has flicker but it’s still there. Just reduced.
I’m going to post another image relevant to this.
When food is going to go off, or when an object has developed mildew/black mold, I can tell way before anyone else by smell.
Unlawful orders from a cop. Its a curse.
I can see dead people.
Are you a medical examiner?
[Icey breath] No.
