Something not mentioned that I’m curious about, if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids.
I've had this many times before too.
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#152Very cool website. I'm not sure if this is worthy of adding, but sometimes if I eat something extremely salty I get a pain in what feels like my saliva glands for 3-5 seconds or so after the first taste (it then goes away).
I think it's the same as in this reddit post where others describe it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DAE/comments/1hw4xx3/dae_ever_get_a...
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah great! I'll put it on my list to read up on. Thanks
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/…
I belive that this is closing your soft pallate to the back of your throat. It should also happen when you swallow.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
My mum taught me the ear popping thing, while we were traveling by air, to relieve the ear pressure. I can do it on command but never paid attention to how before. It's basically "yawning manually". There's a couple different muscles activating at the same time, most irrelevant to the popping, I can't control them individually yet. (Probably learnable, if I practiced I could probably get the pop more efficiently.) Bu…
For me I describe it more as trying to open your jaw with the muscles near your ear, while holding the jaw in place with the main jaw muscles. Like an isometric hold.
I actually didn't know I could do it until now, I could always get the click and it's how I clear ear popping sensations but I didn't realize it I push it harder I get the hollow voice thing and apparently it's useful for diving. Cool.
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#155It should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ Life in prison (at least) But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI/…
I know someone who can literally vibrate their eyes sideways. It is very odd to see. You can see his eyes rapidly moving left/right but only a centimeter or less. Don't know if this has a name.
Haha I can do it, it was a fun trick in school days to freak people out.
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#156Sorry, AI slop
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#157There's a nice booklet called "experimenting with babies" which covers a lot of these in, well, babies and small children.
The book is not as good as the title, but it may contain some oddities you're not aware of.
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#158Very cool website. I'm not sure if this is worthy of adding, but sometimes if I eat something extremely salty I get a pain in what feels like my saliva glands for 3-5 seconds or so after the first taste (it then goes away). I think it's the same as in this reddit post where others describe it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DAE/comments/1hw4xx3/dae_ever_get_a...
I share this (in hindsight, hasn't happened in a while).
I always assumed it was the saliva glands going into overdrive.
I didn't think/realize it was limited to salty things, to me it was connected to things I really like.
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#159Awesome site! I didn't find canaliths on it so I might submit it to you eventually: roughly every winter I get vertigo when lying down, and apparently there is no "fix" except to "reposition my canaliths"[1]. It all goes away during the summer somehow. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
I knew those as otoliths, and the vertigo they cause is so intense and annoying I never forgot the name: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Fortunately, the Epley maneuver is very effective, if done correctly. Unfortunately, if done incorrectly it can worsen the symptoms. It's all about identifying in which semicircular canal are the otoliths before moving them.
I know the issue as meniere's disease.
There's Apparently a whole family of these.
It's trivial but absolutely terrifying.
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#160When I see someone else jump or fall from a height, I sense the fall in the bottoms of my feet and my lower legs. I feel both the drop and the landing. It also happens if I approach a ledge or dropoff.
I thought this was universal. It's pretty easy to trigger for me, even quite abstract geometric shapes that look a bit like something falling from a height can trigger it.
I do not have this, but at this point I couldn't say if it's you folks or me who are "odd".