I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.
A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else could perceive it at all.
If you have two x chromosomes, you may have inherited an extra color receptor gene.
If it's dark and I see a light at just tge right angle, I see an image of the blood vessels inside my eyes.
I can hear the muscles in my eyes when I look from side to side or up and down.
I notice echoes even in smaller spaces. Like rooms. Carpets don't stop the echoes. These echoes are unique in homes. They always sound "metallic". Like sound bouncing off metal. Hard to explain.
Any room that is mostly empty (regardless of curtains, rugs, carpet) will have that echo sound. But furnishings definitely mute it.
It's not pleasant.
It's distorted in a strange way like when people talk through a fan. That's the closest way I can describe it.
Idk what causes it specifically. I suspect windows.
The glass is likely the culprit.
Also the echoes have a very short latency. But I'd be surprised if others havent noticed them.
Probably related: apparently (some?) people can learn to use echolocation. Particularly useful for blind people of course, but I've read it's too much effort and too limited compared to the alternative solutions so that it's generally not considered worth pursuing. Naturally I had to try it myself: distinguishing the distance to one wall isn't hard at all, at least coarsely; the difficulty seems to be in rapidly (while walking) finding smaller objects (especially ones that dampen sound), figuring out angles if you're not facing or precisely perpendicular to a wall, and dealing with background noise
With your superhuman hearing, maybe you'd enjoy casually learning to do this at some level and getting some use out of the hearing sensitivity :)
Constant droning Like tinnitus except very low-pitched. Probably caused by intracranial hypertension.
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.
Nah, it gets closer and then farther away, and corresponds to cars blasting heavy bass.
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.
I can sense when it's time to wake up, while asleep.
It's likely just confirmation bias, but I almost always wake up minutes before my alarm if I have a stressful or unusual appointment, like an early flight or interview.
I assume most people has this with their routine wake-up time, that the body learns when to wake up right on time... but this is like: if I usually wake up at 8:30 but now have to wake up 5:45 or 6:15 or whatever, I'll wake up on my own right before the alarm goes off. I just need to think about it somewhat thoroughly (wake-up time and approx. how many hour of sleep until then) before falling asleep.
I wish my body was that precise, my body wakes up an hour before I need to get up in that situation and always in a "shit I am late!" way :(
Your body give you an hour long relaxing shower, or the opportunity for continental breakfast at home before leaving. Generous body!
True! It is less stressful because of that
I don't know what it is, but I can smell a somewhat metallic type smell on some specific people's breath. It always smells very similar between different people. They generally aren't very healthy, but no one seems to know what I'm talking about.
I knew someone with that terrible metalic breath, was stomach ulcers causing it!
The chemical most places use for drycleaning is perchloroethylene, or perc, which can contaminate groundwater if not stored or disposed of properly.
When I first read this comment I thought your superpower was being able to taste dry cleaning chemicals in groundwater. Then I read your other post in this thread and realized it’s street markings.
I can smell carbon monoxide.
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