Your most hated body perk

Starfestival 2016-07-31 23:45:07 UTC #22

Hiccups. I get hiccups from the most mundane shit. Like eating fries. One fry=5 minutes of that.

WasHNooB 2016-08-01 00:05:35 UTC #23

The feeling of wanting to sleep is the best feeling ever (I get it 24/7 though) because its almost bed time...

but the worst body thing is SLEEP PARALYSIS
if you want to feel possessed or something that is the thing to feel
- WasH

marygold 2016-08-01 00:21:46 UTC #24

I feel you whole heartedly my friend

indagold 2016-08-01 00:33:52 UTC #25

I get sleep paralysis while I sleep. I have a dream right before I wake up in the morning that mimics all the symptoms of it, I can't movie in the dream, feel pressures on my bed, shadows surrounding me. Plus I can see my whole room in the dream so I must be sleeping with my eyes open. Never scary just really weird.

jayorten 2016-08-01 00:35:08 UTC #26

Has anyone mentioned the "twitchy eye syndrome" where your eye involuntarily twitches due to fatique? I seem to get those all the time when I'm tired.

marygold 2016-08-01 01:38:38 UTC #27

Sometimes my toes seize uo .-. It's the worst. Glad you don't experience that pain very often anymore

Heck 2016-08-01 06:00:16 UTC #28

I used to get leg cramps every day. My body wasn't getting enough sodium. If you get them often try drinking a cup of chicken (or beef, w/e) bullion before bed. Ideally 2000mg is fine, which I think is 16oz (you can double up the bullion cubes, it's fine, just don't drink the last bit unless you want EXTREME CHICKEN FLAVOR). You can also find sodium in other foods, but I didn't want to change my diet so now I just have a bit of chicken broth before bed. Haven't had leg cramps in a whole year! You can also try magnesium and potassium, if you have ultra cramps, but I find chicken broth works best.

If you're stuck in a cramp, try to stand up and put weight on your heel. Stretch your heel forwards (or try touching your toes to your knee) and roll your heel around in a circular motion. Make sure to do this SLOWLY so that you don't rip the muscle. If you bend your knee (tucking the calf toward you) you can also rip your muscle, like I did three years ago and now I still can't fully extend that leg without calf pain -- so don't do it! This exercise also helps to unlock the muscle if it's still stiff from a night of cramping.

I totally sound like a commercial but w/e cramping sucks :<

Zanreo 2016-08-03 19:14:05 UTC #29

Ok, so not really a body quirk as such but another thing I remembered, because it just happened? Getting eyelashes in your eyes... whyyyyy
There's some weird irony to the things that are supposed to protect your eye and keeping stuff from getting in there, actually falling in there themselves...

TACOBERTO 2016-08-03 23:08:07 UTC #30

Waking up with a sore wrist, arm, neck, leg etc that won't go away because of the way I slept ._.

SpavVy 2016-08-04 00:00:41 UTC #31

Stuff my body does that I really hate...
Sleep paralysis, sudden gasps, waking up every morning with a dry throat, lactose intolerance, panic attacks, and these seasonal blisters I tend to get on my hands and feet.

NickRowler 2016-08-04 00:28:42 UTC #32

I have this condition which really sucks. When the air pressure drops, I go absolutely insane. Like I get really paranoid and I can't sit still, and sometimes I get really really depressing thoughts. And sometimes my body will start to hurt too (similar to when someone is so sad they begin to feel body pain).

marygold 2016-08-04 06:21:43 UTC #33

When fall hits all hell breaks loose on my hands :/ it's one patch of rash followed by another...

Reraser 2016-08-04 07:14:02 UTC #34

Right now I'm living the ever-so-slightly inconvenient hell of a mild fever. Nothing specific, literally just the coughs and the nose that is somehow both stuffed and runny. So that's my current vice. It's like death by a thousand cuts, and the cuts are minor annoyances like your nose getting rubbed raw from too much tissue usage.

Though one really funny body tic is when your limb falls asleep and will tickle the shit out of you if a single muscle is moved. And then you do have to move said muscles. It's like a trial, do you have the courage to bear through this tickling?

monotone_ink 2016-08-04 10:06:35 UTC #35

My hands sweat a lot, and that directly impacts my work

timinabox24 2016-08-04 10:18:42 UTC #36

I hate sneezing X_X and I don't even just sneeze once, no, once I start sneezing it goes on for a while
so whatever I'm doing, I have to put it all away and just wait until I can stop sneezing
or when my nose randomly gets all stuffed up and itchy and it sometimes goes into my eyes too. I'm not sure if it's an allergy or something but I hate it
and I'm not sure if that also counts, but I get really bad migraines if I'm in the sun for too long
it's like I spend 5minutes outside and then I just throw up and pass out for the next 12hours or so DX

SpavVy 2016-08-04 12:40:31 UTC #37

That's basically what happens to me except it's in July >_<; makes drawing pretty difficult because it mainly hits the webs between my fingers and on my palms.

realSean_Murphy 2016-08-05 03:14:28 UTC #38

Itching especially a mosquito bite as it's not good to scratch. Or really anything that scratching could make worse.
I actually like sweating, Lol.

marygold 2016-08-05 03:43:19 UTC #39

@xeithe ever got a mosquito bite on the tip of your finger? HELL ON EARTH. I have scars from where I over-scratched those wretched bites lol

Maybe after I sweat I feel good but the actual process is, urgh... face and neck I can barely tolerate but my back....no no no

shazzbaa 2016-08-06 18:30:31 UTC #40

Because in humans (and the few animals that menstruate), parent and baby have an antagonistic relationship! Baby wants all the nutrients; Parent wants to keep some nutrients for themselves. Human foetuses are aggressive and try to dig all the way through the womb lining to steal nutrients and blood from the mother directly, which most animal foetuses don't do, so we have a lot of extra lining as a defence. There's also the idea that, since our young can show up at any time and take a lot of resources, the extra lining is in part designed to kill a bad embryo before we waste a bunch of resources on offspring that won't be worth it. Either way, we have extra, and it's too much to absorb efficiently so it's """easier""" to bleed it out. [I don't remember where I first learned this so here's the first source I could find]

Basically most animals build a nice little metaphorical nest which is easy to take down, while we build freakin' castle ramparts every month to prevent babies from stealing our blood and to kill them if they are unworthy.
Idk why we treat periods as awkward shame instead of the most metal coming of age ritual possible?

.............But yeah I agree they're definitely the worst one.

BlackMantaStudios 2016-08-06 18:37:59 UTC #41

The leg one. Good God, it hurts so much. It's happened to me maybe three times, but those three times were hell. I hate that.

For some reason I kinda like my bad dreams. I dunno, they're all so bizarre and terrifying they're actually fun. I also got a few story ideas from them.