I was just sitting here with my mom and one of the pets made the room very smelly. She kept talking about how we’d have to go to a different room because it smelled so bad. I asked her why didn’t she just close her nose and that’s when I found out not everyone can do this.
Is it rare or can other people close their nose on command? What can you do that you suddenly found out wasn’t normal?
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I can move my ears on their own make them go up and back down. Never heard of someone closing their nose before
yeah! I can gleek lol
I can make myself burp on command without eating or drinking anything. This horrified my mother when I was a kid š
When my kids were born I had a hard time with diaper changes I always gagged it was hard. I learned I could plug my nose with my upper lip. Saved my life.
I can close my nose with my upper lip. It is only useful for as long as i can hold my breath tho.
Wait, do you mean some people cant breathe through their mouth without (edit:also) breathing through their nose at the same time?
That’s not true. Is it? I refuse to believe.
I can lick my elbow! In college id mention I could do it, guys would say āno wayā and Iād bet them a pitcher of beer I could. My friends and I drank a lotttt of free beer šŗ lol
I close my nose all the time.
Entering restrooms, walking past people who look smelly, being in a stinky house….
I was telling my coworkers about closing your nose and they were astounded. Can it really be that some people can’t do this?
What do you do in a stinky restroom? Breathe the nasty air? Hold your nose with your hand? I’m confused.
i can wiggle my eyeballs
I can roll my tongue but thatās not the weird part. I can then whistle through it.
I can also rumble my ears on command so it sounds like static. It happens in people whose inner muscle of some sort happens to be very near the tympanic membrane IIRC. Thereās a whole sub for it. None of us realized we were in the minority.
Oh and another one. When the densit puts the holders in my mouth to take an xray it hurts my bottom palate a lot. Turns out about 10-20% of people have a bone structure down there that makes it painful. (Why donāt they make special holders? Thatās a lot of people!)
I don’t really stretch to be able to do it, but I can put my foot behind my head. I’m hyper mobile.
I can plug/close my ears without touching them! They donāt visibly move at all, but I move a flap or something inside my ear canal that closes off the sound
I can whistle tunes from my throat instead of my mouth. Fluke discovery after neck seized up for about a week. When it loosened up I would hear a loud whistle when I have strong yawn. I’ve been able to reproduce it with concentration and now can do a half-decent performance of “Memories” from Cats by whistling frm throat.
I can wiggle my ears. Thought it was normal because my grandfather and cousins could do it, too.
I can “pop” my belly button & the inner corner of my eyes. I can successfully air lock fluid in the pocket of the right side of my jaw.
I can pat my head & rub my tummy… At the same time.
I can take my thumbs, and put them completely behind my index finger knuckle
I can hang any type of clothes hanger from my nipple
I can vibrate my eyes, and I can roll one eye outwards while the other is straight
I tear up when I yawn. Apparently thatās a 1 in 10 type of thing. Lol
Edit: I had to turn off the notifications to this cuz I canāt be going around ācryingā every time I look down at my phoneš¤£š¤£š¤£
I can do a couple things:
I can “roll my stomach” by sort of sucking in my stomach from top then middle then bottom so that it kinda looks like a wave rolling through my stomach. Its like what professional belly dancers do, only im not that skilled, and im a kinda fat dude, so nobody is aroused. I think this ability is genetic because my 2 youngest kids can do it as well!
i can raise and lower my eyebrows independently and quickly. I can do waves (again) from side to side, middle out, out to in, and flourishes etc. i love doing eyebrow tricks for kids, because they usually LOL.
I can sweat on command. I have hyperhidrosis (overactive sweat glands). If I happen to not be sweating I can think about it and make my hands start sweating almost instantly.
I can move my eyebrows independently. Some of my kids and grandkids can do it, but others can’t.
My husband can stop his hiccups on command. He describes it as manually disengaging his diaphragm, but he can only do it if he has hiccups and can’t actually describe what the movement is. It’s some freak shit tbh.
Edit: There’s so many of you who can do this wtf.
By āclose your noseā do you just mean breath only through your mouth? Or are you able to flex something inside of your nose that physically closes it?
When I was a kid, if I farted while laying on my stomach, I could suck air back in and fart again. My sister was disgusted. I found it amusing. Sorta like how people āswallowā air to make themselves burp.
I found out I was double jointed in my last relationship. Holding hands led to him being like āyouāre double jointed!!ā As I was dumbfounded he explained that peopleās fingers shouldnāt be able to go so far back
I can activate the saliva gland under my tongue. In feels like pulling back on the muscles at the base of my tongue to open a spigot.
I can lift my right arm up and touch my hand to my back, and reach down behind my back with my left hand, and clasp my hands behind my back. And vice versa.
The close your nose thing is pretty rare. Iāve only ever known two people who can do it. Yāall are dolphins
I have a disorder that causes joint hypermobility, and nearly all of my joints can extend a fair bit past normal range of motion. I try not to take advantage of it, though, because it can really cause problems. I do occasionally hyperextend my knees I’m when standing for a long time. Just a couple minutes at a time, but it helps me keep recover a bit.
I can make my stomach gurgle on command…sometimes. I think it’s like belching on command, in which people swallow air and can let it out when they desire. If I get air in my stomach, I can flex my belly in and out to make it gurgle loudly.
Sometimes it happens involuntarily when I breathe and I can’t make it stop, which can be really awkward in quiet or formal settings.
My older siblings found both do it in their teens, but apparently not as adults, and alright I’ve never met another person who can/does do this, I secretly believe everyone could, they’ve just never tried…
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I can close my nose on demand. Itās how I got through changing my sonās diapers while my husband would gag each time it was poopy. I usually am the one dealing with smelly things in the house. My hips are also naturally flexible. I can do a complete butterfly stretch and bend forward all the way to the ground even if itās been months since Iāve done it (but it has led to other hip issues).
Other weird things is that I canāt whistle (have a cousin who canāt whistle as well) and canāt roll rs. I have a naturally small jaw I think plays a part.
I can close my nose too! I’ve been telling my kids to do this for years, so I guess I owe them an apology. I can also release dopamine on command (I’m pretty sure that’s what happens)…it’s like I concentrate on a certain part of my brain, and I get this warm, relaxed feeling throughout my entire body. I’ve been able to do it since I was a kid. I can also make headaches go away by concentrating on my brain as well.
My sense of smell is better than anyone I know. I’m infamous for it.
For example, my caregiver can eat chocolate (one of my least favorite foods) and then drive 30-45 minutes to my apartment. I’ll be able to smell it as soon as I open the door. I squint at her and say, “You had chocolate.” She nods, and we laugh.
I can also squirt liquid out of my tear ducts in my eyes. I use to put dye in milk and shoot it out with my eyes rolled up as far as I could. My brother would tell people I was possessed.
I have weirdly long toes, and I can pick things up with my feet, like monkeys. I didn’t realize this was a weird talent until I was in my 20s, and I dropped something on my floor at home and picked it up with my foot, and passed it to my hand in front of my partner and he lost his mind! I just thought everyone could do it!
i can make my tongue into a clover
Make myself sneeze by looking at the light..I thought everyone could do this
My brother and I both can suck air through the corner of our eyes if we plug our noses and try to inhale. It makes a weird little sound like air being released from a tiny balloon
You know those hidden image things where most people put the page basically up against their face and then slowly pull it away to see the image? Well I just look at it and unfocus then refocus my eyes to see it. I used to be so confused as to why people put the page so close to their face when unfoocusing and refocusing was so much easier and faster. I also used this skill to make one of the school nurses look crazy when they did the school eye tests. I didn’t like her so I would unfocus my eyes and struggle to read the chart them refocus them and read it normally for the other nurse. Lots of fun until I bragged to my sister about it and she told our mom. Then when I actually needed glasses my mom didn’t believe me at first because of that trick.
One in every 1,000 people cannot smell skunk. I’m one of them.
Iām so enjoying this post! Yall are mini superheroes lol.
I can burp on command. Back in January, a bottle top got stuck in my throat. I kept trying to force myself to burp, which made the bottle top come out.
I can also make my head shake (not nodding) rapidly. I don’t know how to explain it. I showed it to some classmates, and they were like “WHAAAAAAAT?!”. LOL!
I can give myself goosebumps at will. Just learned that was unique!
I can close my nose on command and people always look at me like I have two heads when I try to explain it. Or I’ll say, “You know, just do the cough syrup thing, where you block the taste of the cough syrup going down,” and nobody gets it. But I have a feeling you get it, OP!!
Awww my son’s Dad could do that too. I miss him. Thanks for making me smile!!!
I can “flap” my ribs like they are wings trapped under my skin. When I do this it makes my sternum poke out a bit. I always thought that it made my torso look like a surprise face with my areola as eyes, my sternum as a nose and my bellybutton as a surprised mouth.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, I canāt burp. Most everybody else in the world can.
I have hypersomia. We are super smellers. I can smell stuff no one else can. I only wish I could close my nose like some of these other people.
It’s actually really awful when seated next to a stanky person in a captive situation like an airplane.
I can touch my nose with my tongue. I donāt have a particularly long tongue, but it reaches to my nose. Iām a lesbian and I tease that itās what got me all the cute ones.
If I plug my nose and blow, like Iām trying to pop my ears, and leave my eyes open, my contact pops out of my left eye, so I guess air comes out of my eye?? I donāt think thatās normal lol? Maybe it is?
I can wriggle a vein in my hand and make it do a lil snakey motion
I dated a girl who could queef on command. It was interesting to say the least. My only super human talent (or stupid human talent if you prefer) is that my dog got sprayed by a skunk three times in a month and now I canāt smell skunk. š¤·
I cry when I’m mad. Fkn sucks lol
I have strabismus so I can change the dominant eye at will.
Standing somewhere that my right eye is blocked from seeing a thing? Easy, switch dominance to left eye and see the thing from a slight distance over to one side! And same the other way too.
Also helpful when I’m reading on two surfaces, like a paper and a computer screen. Use one eye to focus on paper and switch to the other for the screen. Less eyestrain from switching accommodation distance in both eyes.
Ok I just read through this entire thread and didn’t find my something weird, so here it is:
I sometimes cry (tears running down my face) when I pee. I don’t know why and I’m very curious to know that, or if others have this too.
I can see in the dark, I don’t know how much it is my body and how much of it is that nobody I’ve met bothers to wait for their eyes to adjust but yeah.
Edit: I can also sense the echolocation pulses of bats. It’s less like I’m hearing them and more like I can just feel them hitting my eardrums, it feels like a tiny fraction of a second of sensory overwhelm
When I wake up I get like a deep sharp pang of hunger that almost feels like nausea and immediately after it causes me to sneeze and then the feeling is gone. I looked it up and apparently itās a weird like sensitive vagus nerve quirk!
I can release a natural painkiller by concentrating a certain way. Learned how to do it after dental extraction when the painkillers wore off.
Numbs any pain, especially scrapes, bruises, cuts, and so on. Less good for internal pain, but reduces it.
Too much, and I get dizzy, foggy, and woozy. Feels like morphine.
I know someone that can do the same with adrenaline.
I think I might be able to do the same with what I think is dopamine if I practice more, but haven’t had much use for it. Trying it can make me feel trapped inside and not able to move or react to things, sluggish. Blissed out in a weird way IIRC.
I can smell when itās going to rain. Iāve had times where I smell it hours before it actually happens.
I always wondered why people couldn’t just stop smelling a bad smell. Close off your nose, breathe through your mouth only. Then I’m told by the majority of people that makes it worse, because now they can taste the smell. It’s helped me not vomit, like cleaning up maggot covered pet food at work.
Apparently flaring your nostril, being able to curl your tongue, and being double jointed are also unusual. I can do all of these!
I can make my ears produce a loud thundering sound inside my head to block out noises I donāt want to hear. I thought everyone could do it but it turns out no, they canāt.
I have a thing where my eyesight has a lot of visual noise, like really tiny moving pixels. It gets worse in the dark. I remember describing it when I was a kid and nobody understood. It wasnāt until I was an adult that I learned itās called visual snow syndrome. Iāve only found one person with it, and they thought it was normal.