What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.
I have a heart condition that I get an ECG (electro cardiogram) done for every 6 months or so. It’s just an ultrasound on your heart. They always take mine from a bunch of different angles and a bunch of different types of pictures.
But I was recently in the hospital and told the technician that their machine was loud. She looked baffled. I told her I can hear the ultrasound and hers is the loudest I’ve encountered. Apparently I’m the only person she’s ever done work on (or however to say that) that’s been able to hear it.
So I guess that is my super power. Or I’m just autistic, as apparently many autists can hear very high pitched noises.
But the ultrasound is pretty cool. The frequencies and the pitch will change depending on what photo mode they’re in. Like a doppler mode is all pewpewpewpewpew while the normal mode is all eeeeeeeeeeeee. Lol. It’s hard to explain.
That’s a wonderful superpower! I can hear cars or footsteps approaching before my friends realise them, but high-pitched electric mole traps and ticking clocks can be annoying. Listening to music with good hearing is like taking drugs though. You should check out well-mastered music, commonly going as audiophile music.
Its seriously wild that you can do this!
Apparently, ultrasound machines can use frequencies that start just higher than human hearing, 20kHz.
Can you hear dog-whistles, bats, or other electronics?
Get a hearing test and call Guiness (c:
Modern Guiness is corporate propaganda.
That’s awesome! I can’t hear ultrasounds, but I can hear electronics, which gets really annoying
I can smell your fabric softener, no matter how long ago you used it. Artificial perfumes of any kind just murder my sinuses. It suuuucks.
I also can hear electronics, even just the lights, if that’s all that’s on. Maddening, because I can almost never find real silence. It’s why I love camping.
I experience the first set of powers, and I hate it. Every detergent, shampoo, deodorant I use is “sensitive”, “baby formula” or whatever.
And a few years ago some deodorant company started using some I guess artificial compounds that just pushes the air out of my lungs, it’s so bad. I can not only smell it, it digs into my forehead.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
High pitched noises sometimes. I have an audio spectrum visualizer app installed to confirm these. But they can be pretty weird as they bounce around. You’ll get these heat spots. Unfortunately, I feel like my ears are degrading now.
Anyway, dimmable LED lights are often a problem due to PWM. Only full brightness is quiet.
Smell, I don’t even know what the hell that was. There is or was something in the back of one bus. I wouldn’t say it’s smell, but… something. Just a spicy punch that doesn’t quite let me breathe in. I noted down the license plate if I’ll experience it again to confirm it’s the same vehicle, but this wasn’t the first time, though unfortunately I didn’t copy it that first time. Same line though, so possibly same vehicle as well.
But I am not sure if I was the only one, no one was visibly bothered, but who knows.That high pitch sound from lights and power packs drive me crazy. It’s so loud and high.
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.
I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side or up and down.
Ooh, sometimes mine sound like trying to wind a motor. What do yours sound like?
Apparently I am the only one who can smell this odor that is on dish sponges. It it harsh as smelling salts and is like burning chemicals of some kind. It is not on fresh sponges and doesn’t always develop on used sponges. I thought it might be a chemical reaction between the soap and synthetic sponge materials. I tried searching for it online but haven’t found an answer yet.
I know what you mean. Super odd smell.
I know the exact smell you’re talking about! It’s one of the reasons I don’t use sponges.
Not exactly sense, but my brain’s processing. I can easily pick out the melody of only 1 instrument in music. It’s like Fourier transform but on instrument level.
As a trained musician I do this too. But it also means the “skill” spills over into other situations. If I’m in a restaurant, instead of being able to ignore the hum of background conversations, I will hear (and subconsciosly bounce around focsing on) every side conversation.
It makes listening to things VERY hard
Mold, or at least some types of mold. Used to smell it on food but other people couldn’t, so just assumed it was something else. But did the experiment by putting things in their own containers and leaving them out for a while, while probably not the best sample size, the muffins that smelled like mold eventually visibly showed it.
LOL, talk about confirmation bias.
The fucking documentation for the libraries we program with, apparently. Everyone else at work either just vibecodes or goes “aw I don’t know how to do that, it probably can’t be done :c”
Constant droning Like tinnitus except very low-pitched. Probably caused by intracranial hypertension.
