What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.
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Back in my youth when I ruined my teeth by drinking 5-6 liters of Coca Cola a day, I could smell if a bottle was three or less months from expiration date, or if it was fresher.
I can smell when someone is about to be sick. They start smelling like cucumbers to me. I hate cucumbers.
Some dogs can also smell it.
I see certain shades of blue as grey, while my partner can distinguish more shades of blue than the average person, leaving me often feeling like I’m being fucked with
I wear almost exclusively grayscale clothing, except for a pair of pants that are apparently navy blue, and a shirt that’s supposedly slate blue
A friend sent me a casual lecture/talk a few years ago, and I remember that in one section the speaker talks about getting lens surgery and discovering they unknowingly had a similar-sounding condition, which the lenses had fixed.
I can hear baselines (from blocks away!) that my family can’t hear at all. Or, hear isn’t the right word, but I feel it as an ache in my ears and head.
Nah, it gets closer and then farther away, and corresponds to cars blasting heavy bass.
Do you mean like a bass sound? Any idea what frequency?
It happens when the cars with the aftermarket sound systems roll by, because it still happens when we can hear it, but it also happens when it’s too far away for anyone else to hear. I associate it with deep bass, but I don’t actually know what’s causing the effect.
Unlawful orders from a cop. Its a curse.
Apparently I am the only one who can smell this odor that is on dish sponges. It it harsh as smelling salts and is like burning chemicals of some kind. It is not on fresh sponges and doesn’t always develop on used sponges. I thought it might be a chemical reaction between the soap and synthetic sponge materials. I tried searching for it online but haven’t found an answer yet.
I know what you mean. Super odd smell.
I know the exact smell you’re talking about! It’s one of the reasons I don’t use sponges.
What is your alternative?
I have a different reason, but just a nice sturdy brush, and the hard edge to scrape anything stuck on.
Kitchen sponges are basically the dirtiest thing in your house, by amount and harmfulness of bacteria contained. It might just be something one of the species gives off.
I think maybe I’m sensitive to some bad smells other people don’t get. One time someone was demonstrating to a group (including me) making chocolate and it smelled like vomit to me and I had to leave. The others weren’t bothered.
This might be a personal preference thing rather than a sensing-something-undetectable thing but I’ve always hated the flavour of dairy—can’t stomach dairy milk, dairy cheese, dairy butter, etc. The vegan versions of these things are fine to me though because they don’t have that distinct “dairy” flavour whilst still having the other qualities of the product.
Was this a Hershey plant? The specific process they use creates the same acid as in the stomach which makes people who didn’t grow up with the stuff gag.
I’ve been told by Euros their chocolate uses a different process.
No, it was just on the stovetop. A long time ago so I don’t remember the details but it wasn’t in an industrial context.
Same with dairy. I never enjoyed a glass of plain milk, and after switching to dairy free options for milk I also found that vegan cream, ice cream, butter etc doesn’t have that “off” subtaste. The difference with non-dairy really highlighted how badly dairy makes me want to rinse my mouth.
Despite having tinnitus, I can still hear very subtle sounds and identify them.
- For example, a long, deep hum means a garage door is opening/closing.
- I can also hear (and feel) footsteps and movement from people around a building, even very subtle movement.
- I can also pick up on all the little creaks a building makes.
However, despite being able to hear subtle sounds, I cannot hear “no” sound or silence due to the ringing. :/
I can taste water, irl no one I met really can feel the different tastes of plain water but i can
Ever since I had pancreatitic sepsis I hate the taste of water, it’s so frustrating. I mostly drink a few specific zero-sugar sodas now, I wish the prebiotic sodas weren’t so expensive because they would be the best solution.
Water does have tastes. Hard to believe others don‘t notice it.
Idk if it’s rare, but my wife thinks it’s weird that I can smell on the breeze if we are near a winery. It’s kind of an astringent smell
I can smell when a woman is pregnant. I’ve shocked several friends by congratulating them before they even took a test.
I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.
what does it smell like?
I don’t know how to describe it. It’s just different than their normal smell
I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.
A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else noticed.
If you have two x chromosomes, you may have inherited an extra color receptor gene.
I shouldn’t.
Rereading that article makes me wonder if it’s a rod-related thing, since it’s only noticeable at night under dark skies, and apparently they can contribute to colour perception.
Older TVs I could “sense” when they were turned on or off like a room over.
I assume it was a sound but I couldn’t really explain it back then lol, it really was more of a “feeling”
CRT TVs have a very iconic high pitched noise. It’s somewhat similar to the sound of tinnitus. Combine that with some people not being able to hear those high pitched noises very well (especially as they age) it makes sense that you may have been able to hear them but not really consciously be aware of it.
Right, I assumed it was sound but I could like feel it in the hairs on my body too. Was weird lol
It does do some static stuff but I don’t know if you’d be able to feel that from another room.
Before I lost my sense of smell I was absurdly sensitive to ranch. If my ex opened a ranch dip in the apartment I would be dry-heaving very quickly. When I was a kid I would sometimes move seats eating lunch at school because other kids had ranch doritos. Not having to deal with that anymore was a rare positive to come out of my awful experience with covid.
I can enjoy coldcuts and cheeses, but they’ll make me sick if they’re not extremely fresh. In some cases they already smell and taste like they’ve gone rancid fresh off the slicer.
Pancreatitic sepsis fucked my tastebuds, my hospital stay was extended a full week because I couldn’t keep down foods other than sweets. They actually restarted me on the feeding tube because of that. When I went off the NPO and got to eat again for the first time I asked for a spicy sandwich from Chick-Fil-A, I’m pretty sure it was just an ordinary spicy sandwich but in that moment it tasted like the spiciest thing I had ever eaten in my entire life. I don’t like the taste of water anymore, which is miserable.
High pitched noises sometimes. I have an audio spectrum visualizer app installed to confirm these. But they can be pretty weird as they bounce around. You’ll get these heat spots. Unfortunately, I feel like my ears are degrading now.
Anyway, dimmable LED lights are often a problem due to PWM. Only full brightness is quiet.
Smell, I don’t even know what the hell that was. There is or was something in the back of one bus. I wouldn’t say it’s smell, but… something. Just a spicy punch that doesn’t quite let me breathe in. I noted down the license plate if I’ll experience it again to confirm it’s the same vehicle, but this wasn’t the first time, though unfortunately I didn’t copy it that first time. Same line though, so possibly same vehicle as well.
But I am not sure if I was the only one, no one was visibly bothered, but who knows.That high pitch sound from lights and power packs drive me crazy. It’s so loud and high.
