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Sep 2022

What is a skill or talent you have that's closest to a superpower?

For me, I have a skill I developed over the years. Essentially, as long as I get 4 hours of sleep and think about my wakeup time, my body automatically wakes itself up, like it has a internal alarm clock.

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ha! I have one of those! It's...not really a skill, but it is funny. I can change from my work clothes into my pajamas so quickly that my parents laugh at me about it (good-naturedly!). Maybe I missed my calling as a quick-change artist! :joy:

From constantly being bullied and beat up during my school days, I have decided to level up my fists. I punch concrete and metal all the time and it's just a matter of time before I level up enough to be like the one punch man!

I am suuuuper low maintenance; I have very flexible eating/sleeping patterns as long as I get enough of it in total each day and I'm happy to eat raw carrots and baked beans for weeks on end. I honestly feel like this is a superpower since I can be totally comfortable while also being literally homeless, so I don't have to deal with the stresses of seeking and maintaining a job that most people have to deal with :sweat_02:

Relative pitch..?

You guys might know about perfect pitch in which some people are able to recognize the note of any sound by simply hearing it, but relative pitch is more like remembering a note through means of exposure and using it as a reference for other sounds.

It's not easy for me, but I can tell you the note of something and be close. Sometimes, I'll even get it right and it's a total mood booster for me :sunglasses:

Being alive.

not to get depressing or anything, but yeah.

Heck yeah.

One of the greatest IRL powers. Reminds me so much of this quote:

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde

I have two, and one of them I have zero control over.

One is timing. I am that person who can set an hour timer (like cooking dinner or something), leave to run an errand, forget about the timer entirely, come back, walk in the front door, and 2 seconds later, the timer goes off. Or I'll put something in the microwave for three minutes, go do something else, feel like it must be about 3 minutes now, and walk back to the microwave-- either to catch it just as it goes off, or a few seconds before. This happens a lot.

The other is invisibility. I have no control over this one, and it doesn't happen often (as far as I know), but occasionally, people's eyes will slide right past me, even if I'm standing in front of them and they're actively looking for me. This has happened many times over my life, from at least high school on. It is not (or is, depending on your perspective?) helped at all by the fact that I'm also very quiet. God, I wish I could control this one.

My friends used to joke that I could teleport because of how quiet I was when sneaking up and scaring them

awww for the second one I just wanna hug you XD Ngl I laughed, but its so sad D= pat pat

my power, dunno how to explain, but I can heat up my body myself when I am cold? makes no sense? Well yes prolly not XD

Yeah, LOL. I get this alot too, except people call me a ninja. (cause I'm Asian)

I just unconsciously make my steps quiet cause, as a kid, my grandparents told me that grownups should walk with quiet steps.

Thinking back, it's probably because I was too loud. I was a very energetic child.

wow, my Dad would tell me the same thing, don't drag your feet,walk quietly

Are you KIDDING? Do you know how valuable invisibility is for causing an utterly priceless jump-scare?

I can handle really extreme situations very well. I just go into a sort of robo mode when things happen. I've saved two lives as a result. One was a guy downtown right outside my work who just dropped and stopped breathing, guess he had a heart attack. It was in the middle of a busy street and I booked it over and performed CPR. He came by my store a few weeks later and that was kinda cool I guess.

Other was my baby cousin. She was about a year old and I was staying over, and she stopped breathing in her sleep. So my aunt and uncle came barreling out of their room butt naked with this floppy child body and I had to pry her from my aunt and perform CPR. It took almost two minutes to get her back but now she's fine.

I'm not a hero but these were lucky moments. I've performed CPR on three other people in my life, none of which survived, but what I can do, I try.

Kinda, yeah. But people will think you're a sociopath as a result, lol. I'm very poor at expressing emotions outwardly, even if I'm experiencing them. Just deadpan face I guess. But it's good for poker, too.

thats fine, everyone is different. People just judge too quickly.

I have the uncanny ability to feel when a season of Top Chef is happening. I don't need to google it or read about it, I just know if Top Chef is on and I'm not watching.

Sleeping, though it's rather unreliable.
I fall asleep rather easily, and can sometimes fall asleep in various positions (such as curling up in a hiding spot while hiding)
I can get lucid dreams
I get pleasure from sleeping, it's a way to de-stress and relieve pain. I can get full sensations in sleep, such as eating sensation.
But it can get addicting, and very hard to wake up from due to sleep paralysis+ false awakenings combination. Sometimes I'm afraid to sleep because of those.

I'm able to extremely closely colourmatch colours I see with paint. As in, I can look at colours in real life and mix paint to match that colour (semi) exactly. Had to do this a lot this summer for a volunteer job with basically a random mix of paints (most of which not primary colours either). I know jackshit about colour theory but I've passively learned enough to be able to do this.

To be fair, there's a lot of artists here, so I bet there's more people here who can do that.

I have unlimited ideas, motivation and excitement which can also be a super weakness

I know it sounds crazy but I kind of have the ability to foresee the future. I kept telling people I can dream about the future but no one ever believes me. Back in 2019 of September I had a dream that the world was flooded with water and what stopped the flood was pine cones. In my culture a flood means trouble so I told everyone about it and no one believed me. At first I thought maybe a war was coming but as March of 2020 comes so did Covid-19, it spread around the world like the flood in my dream. And I think the pine cone was the vaccine to the virus.

Even after that nobody still believes me when I tell people about my dreams. It's okay though, you can't change the future even if you see it.

I have a second ability, if I'm comfortable with this person I can talk about anything for 8-12 hours straight. I think it's because of my hyperactive mind but I can talk about anything for a long period of time, I can make a story on the spot, I can talk about my life for hours, talk about what I talked about for hours too. Nothing in my mind ever sits still. My mom thinks my friends talk too much but she doesn't even know her own daughter is the one dragging the conversation. It's like my brain is on steriod.

Though lately I've been trying not to talk too much since I have social anxiety from everything now. The downside of this is when my brain thinks I've said enough to this person my brain will treat this person as someone who "has heard every words from mankind and has no reason to live anymore" and they get forgotten. It's never intentional, it does hurt whenever I look back. Usually I can't do anything about the situation and reviving something that is dead is impossible.

I worked in customer service in the 90s, I still think about some funny phone calls sometimes.
Some made it as running gags in my family. I loved the job, it was the easiest time of my life
because I only worked from monday to thursday and only from 7-11 am but the company
fired me :frowning:

My uncle always talked to strangers and he had that weird talent to pretend to know them
since forever. I don´t know how he did that and I would like to be able to do that too

I'm proud to say I am a professional fly murderer, using nothing but a small napkin just so i'm not bare handed. I wouldn't call my reflexes good in general? But for some reason when it comes to visually tracking objects I can see them in slow motion.

Killing flies is hard, so good job. I'd almost like to see you in action with one of those electric tennis rackets.

i have SUPER LOVE! :blush:

you get a SUPER LOVE!
and you get a SUPER LOVE
everybody gets my SUPER LOOOOVEEEEE!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

I can manipulate the future. And I mean down to TV level timing, I believe I have control. The one issue is that it's limited in scope.

For example: If I say casually in a conversation that I'll be free on Friday night, I'm going to be free on Friday night. Even if I forgot I had plans, the universe will somehow get rid of that obstacle until what I said about being free is somehow true.

There was one time I promised to throw a friend a birthday party, but I forgot until the day of. I don't know how, but somehow someone showed up with a cake, another person showed up with balloons, and another person had sodas. Keep in mind these are people I don't know. They just happened to walk in and were like " hey I have this thing I don't want, so you can have it" and somehow it was all the stuff I needed for a party.

But sometimes I accidentally use my power when I don't mean to. For instance if someone asks me for 5 dollars and I tell them I'm broke. I check my bank account and actually have 200 or so dollars. But thanks to my power, somehow in two hours I end up losing that money or having to spend it until I'm broke.

And these examples may seem like little things, but they happen so often it's improbable.

But again, there are limits.

I can't intentionally summon things or make things happen perfectly. Like I can't say to myself " I have 100 dollars" then it magically appears. But if I casually say " I have 100 dollars" while talking to someone, and I honestly believe it, the universe makes it happen. I think that might be the main limitation. I have to

  1. Have another person involved

  2. I gave to make a statement that I myself believe as if it's already true, but it isn't

And then the universe makes it real.

But I cant

  1. Use it to make perfect coincidences happen

  2. Make something untrue happen, if I know it's untrue.

I call it Nonchalant Summoning.