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).
Huh I think I can do the same. I always thought it was one of those things that everyone could do.
Feels like a super power when you’re scuba diving and you see all the other divers holding their noses!
Same. Sometimes I can’t, such as when congested, and it’s super annoying and unbalanced.
yep, I have the same issue when congested.
Weirdly, I can only do this with my right ear. Definitely helps on airplanes.
I can whistle while either exhaling or inhaling
Idk how special or weird it is but everyone I’ve tried to teach the skill to seems entirely incapable of doing the inhale one
It’s super useful for whistling complex songs or long bits without stopping, though
Hello. I, too, can do this!
I can trigger a few seconds vertigo attack when I lie down. If I do not think about it when going to bed, everything is fine. But if I think about it, then it invariably comes.
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.
I can do this too.
It’s fun to watch people freak out when one can raise his body hair up on command. And since I have an abundance of body hair, the effect is pretty profound.
I think that’s the weirdest one I’ve seen yet
I can sing really poorly.
I can wiggle my ears. I used to use it to entertain children, but today’s children are jaded and cynical.
I found I can wiggle my ears enough to walk my glasses back up my nose when they’ve slipped down.
I’ve just tried that and you’ve changed my life
now that’s useful!
Oh yeah, I didn’t even realise until you said it but I absolutely do that all the time
I can do it too! it was like discovering a new muscle! I can’t do either independently though
Child me would’ve loved to see that.
Adult me would love to see that
I can blow air out of my tear duct. Really useful for clearing it out.
Wait … when or why would you need to clear it out?
You know how you can end up with crusties in your eyes in the morning? Well that gunk comes partly from your tear ducts and drys there. So sometimes when I blow them out I get some light white mucus as well as tears. When it’s really full it will make tiny bubbles. Lol and it whistles a little so people in the same room can hear it.
Also as a party gag. Lol
I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way.
Completely grosses people out when I do it.
Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.
Neat! Thanks for the name/info.
I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought.
I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
I think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?
I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;)
Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)
Oh…then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers.
By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.
Ey wobbly eye gang here
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I can hum and whistle at the same time. Makes me sound kinda like a Theremin
Ah yes, multiphonics.
Same! I liken it to a knock off version of Mongolian Throat singing.
Lol I just tried that to see how it works.
It’s hard because if you close your lips too much to whistle it restricts the airflow and kills the hum.
Hmm I can hum independent of my lips 🤔
I love doing this because it sounds like you’re charging a laser weapon
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Congratulations you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle.
Should be a filter on tinder
Is that like the sound you get when you yawn? I can do that too!
huh. I didn’t know others couldn’t do this
I can
- Bend my fingers back almost to the back of my hand, effortlessly
- Raise/lower my eyebrows by a lot, even independently. I can make waving motions, as well!
- Touch the tip of my nose or chin with my tongue
- Wiggle my ears (though not independently)
- Roll my eyes up so only the whites at the bottom are visible
I used to able to touch my fingers to the back of my hand in middle school, but 10 years later I can only bend them back a little less than 3/4
It was a neat party trick while it lasted, because everyone thought it hurt me to do it lol
People are often so worried I’m pushing back hard and damaging my joints. So I let them push a finger back softly, then they’re shocked how easy it is, but no longer worried about my joints! 😁
My left pinkie finger knuckle can hold some tension when I from my pinkie into a claw shape, but then snaps forward. Either that’s unusual or my right hand can’t do that as snappy.
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
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.
click my tongue extremely loudly
Learn Xhosa.
By shoot, does it have force or do you mean it just comes out?
It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.
Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds
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
oh my god, so that’s what I’m doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago…
A friend taught me how to gleek in 7th grade. I never stopped doing it lmao
I can make my left elbow sound like biting down on dry cornflakes, just by doing a push-up.
That doesn’t sound healthy
They really aren’t, despite what Kelloggs claims.
They weren’t made to be healthy. They were made to keep you from masturbating.
And it’s working. I’m still unable to masturbate to Cornflakes.
Rookie. I hit puberty with nothing but a 56k modem, and SEARS catalogs. I could jerk off to the curved surface of two basketballs placed next to each other under a bedsheet.
Those sons of bitches… my childhood could’ve been very… different.
I live in West Michigan where the anti-masturbatory quaker started it all. It’s so weirdly mixed between religious zealots and the rest of us in the cities lmao
truly
I had a complex fracture in the elbow twice, 34 and 30 years ago. There’s no pain, no loss of function, and it didn’t get worse in all that time.
Nothing I can really do but hope it will stay like that for the next 30.Damn. I hope so too then. I guess there are loose pieces still in there?
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that sounds so satisfying
