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So Dakkites have any of you got weird talents, I can sneeze up to 25 times in one go It can be funny in school however it is very sore and i end up sneezing blood.

I wouldn't really call sneezing blood a 'talent', rather a sinus problem.

It's useful for driving off predators like that lizard that cries blood

But unusal doesn't have to mean useful.

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

I can make a bronson look like it belongs on a face...



Also I can make my eyes look like there is no iris or pupil.
I can move my eyes independently of each other, but the eye that isn't moving goes blurry.
I can bend the last joint on all my fingers and thumbs back 90 degrees.
I can touch my tongue to my nose.
If I concentrate I can move my resting pulse from the normal 38-40 down to 30 and then up to 60 and back to 40 in under 2 minutes.

i have also delivered a baby whilst blind due to a migraine headache aura.

This is really scary, but I have the same kind of dreams as n0t_u....

AlexGrannell wrote:So Dakkites have any of you got weird talents, I can sneeze up to 25 times in one go It can be funny in school however it is very sore and i end up sneezing blood.

I have a club foot and several odd lumps on my testicles!

What? Thats not a talent?

Oh ok.. Im good at drawing then.

I can find a stupid/funny/not so stupid internet video to match any occasion.

For instance if a friend and I are talking about hotdogs, I might pull up that episode of American Dad where Roger keeps a box of poisons hotdogs.

Not the most usefull of talents and it shows that I have spent way to long on the inernet but what the hell, its good for a few laughs.

n0t_u wrote:It's useful for driving off predators like that lizard that cries blood

But unusal doesn't have to mean useful.

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

I get this an awful lot
also i can lick my nose and elbow

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:If I concentrate I can move my resting pulse from the normal 38-40 down to 30 and then up to 60 and back to 40 in under 2 minutes.

I can do this too and love to mess with the BP test chair at the local pharmacy to entertain my son. It's like a magic trick!

I have to say that being able to force my self to sleep in almost any place or condition is helpful, as is being able to wake instantly from a dead sleep, both talents that my wife finds disturbing.

I can go into a hypnotic trance, like sleep only you can kind of feel things and hear things.

zilegil wrote:I can go into a hypnotic trance, like sleep only you can kind of feel things and hear things.

Stop eating the mushrooms growing in your backyard....

Well I have a talent that beats all of yours...


I can put both of my legs behind my head.

I can slow and increase my heartrate at will.
I can cry at will.
I can cause certain forms of sensory deprivation by willing the sensation/pain to cease (helpful at the dentist and with niggling injuries). I generally do that by focusing on the sensation then reviewing it analytically which shifts it to my second sensory consciousness (I'm really not sure how to explain what occurs, I don't think it's normal) and removes it from directly effecting the portions of the brain that turn sensory information into feelings.
I can generally do the same with the effects of overt drugs like alcohol, though not to the extent I used to. I still suffer from the effects on motor control, but judgement and the inception of ideas seems to float in a different part of the brain than what those effect. I only seem to be able to do it with drugs that have overt and palpable effects though (so not really pills or any sort of atmospheric or slow acting substances).
I can willfully visually hallucinate to a certain extent.
I can will hiccups to cease to a certain extent.
I can stop brain freeze headaches caused by eating ice cream too fast by willing them to cease.

Presumably other things that I can't remember. I have an odd amount of control over the automated processes in my body and I'm not sure my psychology is particularly normal. In fact I'm quite certain it's not.

I can shred paper.

Frazzled wrote:I can shred paper.

Is this done via electronic paper shredder? or Wiener dog paper shredder?

ShivanAngel wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I can shred paper.

Is this done via electronic paper shredder? or Wiener dog paper shredder?

yes. Weiner dogs shred things with so much more style however. Plus you have the chance they might get really enthusiastic and give their work that extra special yellow seal of a pproval if they really hate the paper.

Probably will get me in trouble with the modquisition for this but I cannot help myself

I have a 7 inch long tongue and I can breath through my ears!

I have a photographic memory. I also have very fast reactions when it comes to catching things (thrown objects not STI's you dirty lot!) and the like.

Unfortunately this is offset by an unfortunate talent for rubbing up the wrong way people who are in a position of authority.

I can play jingle bells on my toes.

And am practicly impossible to get drunk.
It saddens me that 2nd one.

n0t_u wrote:It's useful for driving off predators like that lizard that cries blood

But unusal doesn't have to mean useful.

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

I get this.

I can make myself go unconscious and i can bend my thumb on both hands upside down (basically making a fist with the thumb facing up)

Albatross wrote:

n0t_u wrote:It's useful for driving off predators like that lizard that cries blood

But unusal doesn't have to mean useful.

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

I get this.

Me too, although no-one seems to believe me.
It's always tiny little things as well, so dreaming about being shown around some wierd school, and then 3 years later, actually being shown around exactly the same school.
Or having a vivid dream about being taught how to plant sunflowers by my dad, then a month later, having the exact same lesson with the exact same events.

Goliath wrote:

Albatross wrote:

n0t_u wrote:It's useful for driving off predators like that lizard that cries blood

But unusal doesn't have to mean useful.

For even more unusal I occasionally have dreams that predict the future. Not as useful as you'd think. The best explanation I can think of is watch a video and pause it, then skip ahead a random distance (better if someone else does the skipping without you knowing how far). Then watch about 20-40 secs of it before putting it back where it was originally paused.

That leaves you with basically getting a sneak peak at whatever boring thing you'll be doing in an undisclosed amount of time. This ends up just being stuff like fragments of conversations that are rather useless until then, random test results but not knowing when or what test it is. Basically the only way to turn it into something useful would be to be always looking at the date and time as it appears to just be whatever you experience at the time it happens.

Generally you don't see whatever has been predicted coming until it happens and then it's just the realisation then it's over with. To really make use of it you'd have to pretty much have awesome deductive skills to see how these small fragments could fit into anything.
I don't look too much into it as it's rather useless as I've mentioned and simply makes you look crazy to talk about it, but strangely it's on topic here

I get this.

Me too, although no-one seems to believe me.
It's always tiny little things as well, so dreaming about being shown around some wierd school, and then 3 years later, actually being shown around exactly the same school.
Or having a vivid dream about being taught how to plant sunflowers by my dad, then a month later, having the exact same lesson with the exact same events.

I have the same thing, however many times i don't remember it until it happens. And it's not deja vu, i get that many times as well and it's different

Also, i have really fast reflexes. I can move before i realize it to catch something that i drop, or evade a punch or kick. However, to me that's not so weird, taking into consideration that i've been playing ping-pong since i was like 7 or 8 years old. In 15 years, it has really developed some great reflexes that i'm quite proud of

Theres a psychiatric term for that dream thing...

You dont actually dream about what you did, you may dream something similar. Then when you have an experience similar to the dream that experience will implant itself in your mind as what you dreamed.

You may "think" you dreamed it, but you didnt....

Not trying to be a wet blanket, but theres a logical explanation...

I don't dream. Is that wierd?
I just fall asleep then wake up.

^^ Weirdo.

ShivanAngel wrote:Theres a psychiatric term for that dream thing...

You dont actually dream about what you did, you may dream something similar. Then when you have an experience similar to the dream that experience will implant itself in your mind as what you dreamed.

You may "think" you dreamed it, but you didnt....

Not trying to be a wet blanket, but theres a logical explanation...

I read about that, i also did about deja vu. They're not like what i experience. I know it's weird, and i don't believe myself as some psychic guy or whatever. I know there's a logical explanation, i just haven't found it. Yet

aka_tizz wrote:

ShivanAngel wrote:Theres a psychiatric term for that dream thing...

You dont actually dream about what you did, you may dream something similar. Then when you have an experience similar to the dream that experience will implant itself in your mind as what you dreamed.

You may "think" you dreamed it, but you didnt....

Not trying to be a wet blanket, but theres a logical explanation...

I read about that, i also did about deja vu. They're not like what i experience. I know it's weird, and i don't believe myself as some psychic guy or whatever. I know there's a logical explanation, i just haven't found it. Yet

Willful self deception caused by a distinct but subconscious desire to differentiate ones self from peers or the world at large in a largely inconsequential but highly meaningful way?

I once seriously thought about trying to set a world record for popping joints/cracking knuckles. I actually trained for awhile, but I stopped, and now cant do more then the normal. Sucks I used to pop all knuckles/finger joints on both hands, my jaw both ways, neck both ways (many times) back(many times) both knees, my ankles, both feet in half long ways (if that makes sense) all the toes like the hands, my shoulders (many times) and elbows. Damn I was forgetting some there lol

I can place my left hand flat on the wall and then bend my thumb back until it touches my wrist (yes only the left one) but it is incredibly painful to do anymore.


I have a large beard? Im running low on talents here

I have a bottomless pit for a stomach and can't seem to gain weight.