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It's there! :)
Is voluntary piloerection really that unusual? I thought everyone could give themselves goosebumps?
I can't do it either... Needs a good song or scene or situation to trigger it...
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Another one I'm not sure how to fully explain: closing the nose without touching it. I can fully block smells or breathing by doing something that feels like inflating a zone between the top of the mouth and the nose. When speaking it will sound as if I am pinching my nose without hands. Comes in handy when having to face horrible smells. I assume everybody can do it but many don't know how. https://www.reddit.com/r/…
Everybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].
Oh great point this will go on the oddity once I add it!
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#73This is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the rest of the site feel less trustworthy.
I agree, the images will need iteration.
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My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
I'm not a diver but I suspect it can be learned. I have allergy issues that cause my ears to not equalize when allergies are hitting and I think I just learned how to do this. its just sort of muscle that can sort of be lightly controlled. Controlling one side vs the other I can't really manage.
Ye ye, she is frustrated it's taking so long to learn it. It's so valuable for divers.
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#75I immediately looked up whether it had "piss shiver" and it did. It was disappointing when Cecil (Straight Dope) refused to investigate it. (Don't suppose you'd include orgasmic quiver?) Synesthesia is multifaceted. When I was a kid I used to feel a shape in my hand whenever I felt a certain emotion. That went away in my 20's. Later as an adult I guessed it was a kind of synesthesia.
I started off having an nsfw tag, but it wasn't too populated, and decided for now to not include it. Might revisit.
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#77You've been great with clicking yes/no on the oddities, and providing more examples! I've already added some more, and refined some texts. I'll give it some more attention after I'm home again later today.
Thanks to everyone!
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#78Random chest pains like you describe cause so much anxiety for me. And yet every time it turns out to be nothing.
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#79Here I am clicking on everything to see if I have it :D
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#80I clicked on Supernumerary nipples. Interesting. In the Sources section, there’s a link to Mark Wahlberg’s Wikipedia page. There’s nothing about nipples on Mark Wahlberg’s Wikipedia page.