• FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee
    28·
    4 个月前

    This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:

    • gleek intentionally (saving people a search: it’s causing the salivary glands under your tongue to shoot saliva, people often do it unintentionally when yawning)
    • open my jaw wide enough that it goes out of socket, and twofer I can then move it side to side and produce a loud popping noise
    • bend my thumb down to my wrist
    • cause my heart rate to spike for short periods even when at rest
    • make a three leaf clover with my tongue
    • click my tongue extremely loudly
    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      9·
      4 个月前

      I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.

      • FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee
        8·
        4 个月前

        It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      4 个月前

      Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds

    • thefool@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 个月前

      I can also gleek but it’s nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don’t know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I’d ever seen: maybe 6 feet long

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 个月前

      oh my god, so that’s what I’m doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago…

  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    20·
    4 个月前

    I just remembered this, I can open my eyelids and look in a direction where only the whites of my eyes are visible. Apparently it’s very creepy

  • StarsongDusk@lemmy.world
    20·
    4 个月前

    You know that feeling you get when you listen to really awesome music and your hair stands on end and your skin has like an electric tingle all the way up and down? I can do that feeling at will. It’s called ‘voluntary frisson’, normally an autonomic response. Makes music a real.trip.

  • Paradox42@programming.dev
    19·
    4 个月前

    I can voluntarily open my eustachian tubes and hold them open, without needing to yawn or swallow. Makes it much easier to clear the pressure in my ears when changing elevation (like when flying in a plane).

  • Reyali@lemm.ee
    14·
    4 个月前

    Lots of things that ultimately come down to hyper-mobility (thanks Ehlers-Danlos!), including:

    • Lick my elbow
    • Pull my shoulder visibly out of socket (not painful at all, and happens if I carry something heavy if I’m not careful)
    • Pop my hip out of socket while standing (sometimes painful, always somewhat unpleasant, so I’ve had to learn how to not do it)
    • Hold my hands behind my back and pull them to my front
    • Rotate my arm >360°
    • Bend my thumb to my forearm
  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    14·
    4 个月前

    Apparently there’s a thing called lucid dreaming that many people try very hard to achieve.

    Most of my dreams are “lucid”.

    I can also, using only my facial muscles, pull my eyelids back extra far so it looks like my eyeballs are popping out.

    • morphballganon@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 个月前

      I have a hypothesis that there is no such thing as lucid dreaming (before you get the wrong idea, I’ve done it before. My meaning is that it’s misunderstood, not that people are lying about having done it).

      That feeling that you’re in control? You’re just dreaming that you’re in control. You’re just dreaming that you have the experience of choice-movement-feedback.

      How is the feeling of being in control any more real than other sensations you experience in a dream?

      When you experience the sensation of enlightenment in a dream, do you say you were really enlightened, or were you just dreaming that you were enlightened?

      When you experience the sensation of blue in a dream, do you say there was actually blue, or were you just dreaming there was blue?

      Your brain telling you you’re in control is just as suspect as your brain telling you there’s blue. They are both creations of your brain for the purpose of the dream.

      Whatever action you’re taking in an attempt to demonstrate control is just as easily explained as something your brain created as dream decoration.

      Remember, this is just a hypothesis.

      • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
        3·
        4 个月前

        The question is, is there a practical difference between lucid dreaming and dreaming about being lucid? I like to think it’s the memory afterwards that counts.

  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
    11·
    4 个月前

    I can dislocate my shoulder to the music of Billy Joel. The Pawnee Journal once called it, "Why would anyone do this?”

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    11·
    4 个月前

    I can hammer nails and icepicks into my head. I’m very fire resistant and eat fire. I have a split tongue. I can keep my eyes open for a VERY long time.

    TBF I’m a sideshow and fire performer so I’m cheating