do you have an unusual ability?

[SwampG8r]

i mean something that you can do that others cant.
for me it is finding lost things
since i was small i have been able to go almost immediatly to where missing items are.
i dont know if i just have a remarkable memory and my brain sorts the info or if its some stephen king stuff
i do have a good memory but not that good
it feels like a magnetic pull towards the item and it never works on live things
but i have always done it and still can
because its creepy to me i never discuss it

does anyone else here have an unusual ability they are hardpressed to explain?

[SoxFan]

1. I could tell whether Orr or Ocasek sang a Cars song

Seriously, my sister's friend thought that this was some sort of superpower when we were teenagers!

[Tikki]

9. Ben Orr (RIP) had one of the most spectacular voices in rock...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA3NVafsdo
"Let's Go"....The Cars


Tikki

[Old Troop]

61. I thought you meant Bobby Orr!

[xchrom]

2. i make the world Gay-er. nt

[soleiri]

32. please tell me you wear a cape

because that would be awesome.

[Orrex]

48. +1

[krispos42]

3. I can bend just the end joint of my ring fingers

But I can't do the damn Vulcan salute. :-(

[Phentex]

4. I do that. My boys loved it when I made a dinosaur walk and

bend down using just the top joints of the fingers. :)

[Still Blue in PDX]

12. I can do that with all my fingers. And my proximal thumb joint bends backwards.

Not exactly a superpower, but definitely different.

[lunatica]

5. If I've seen the movie, even decades ago I remember it in the first seconds

when I see it again.

And when I was younger I predicted a few deaths. It would just suddenly drop into my brain that someone was going to die, and it always happened. I think I squelched it because it isn't a wonderful ability and tends to make people scared of you.

I'm sure now someone will come along and tell me the facts of life in sarcastic tones because they have solved all of life's questions and mysteries by the mere fact of not believing in them.

I also have double jointed elbows so I can make my arms look like they're broken and strangely wobbly in the wrong ways.

[SwampG8r]

6. because it isn't a wonderful ability and tends to make people scared of you.

sums up the way i have been quiet
i just find whats lost and dont say how i found it

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Don't make me Super.

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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. I can do what I call "synthesis" (may not be an accurate word)

It's what I call going from point A to point D without stopping at B and C. Mentally I'm simply able to figure out things without knowing all the details.

I've been known to figure some things out as much as a year in advance- my boss used to hate me for it. Of course when the end game came he conveniently forgot I'd already told him the solution, and he naturally took credit for it.

[Fleshdancer]

10. my husband has whatever that is

and it didn't make him any friends at work. I think it's one of the reasons he quit and started his own company.

I find it fascinating and I wish I could go straight to point D without stopping. It boggles me that my husband can do this no matter how big and complex the problem is.

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. John Brunner depicts "synthesists" in his EXCELLENT social fiction novel...

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..."Stand on Zanzibar". They're part of the Govt's "Dilletante Corps" and
their educations are so broad and so varied that they can make connections
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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

13. The Brunner trilogy is my all time favorite.

Stand On Zanzibar has so much to say to the present. Should be required reading. No doubt I got the term from there.

The other two books are The Sheep Look Up and The Shockwave Rider.

[NJCher]

36. I know what that is, pn#6

"It's what I call going from point A to point D without stopping at B and C. Mentally I'm simply able to figure out things without knowing all the details."


I have it, too. It's that you don't think linear, you think circular. It's related to intuitive. You probably would score high on "intuitive" if you ever took the personality profile.

I'll bet your other high score would be logical/analytical.

These are the two best combos. 50/50 intuitive-logical/analytical.

You can out-think everybody to know the conclusion but it really doesn't do any good in work situations 'cuz you have to wait for them to catch up. They have to go through a process.

It's good, though, if you work for yourself.

I know a lot about this because early in my corporate career, I was always coming up with the answer fast and I got tired of waiting for everybody else to come to the conclusion. My company brought in a consultant because I was going to quit out of sheer frustration. The consultant taught me the value of "process" and trained me about the other types. It helped a great deal.

I think I read somewhere where only 2 per cent of the population has this combo.


Cher

[WinkyDink]

54. I always just thought of it as "cutting to the chase." That, and skipping classes. :-)

[KamaAina]

14. I can spot toupees

in fact, I'm a third-generation rug-spotter. Grandma and Grandpa spent much of their final years watching teevee and saying, "Now you KNOW that's a rug!"

[DevonRex]

15. I can remember spoken conversations word for word even decades

later. Drives people crazy. Like my husband.

[Deep13]

16. I can throw a perfect Yahzee whenever I need one. nt

[soleiri]

17. I can give a cat medication

without the cat going all ninja cat claws of death crazy.

[ThomCat]

28. That is a nifty super power.

:)

[soleiri]

31. with 8 cats

It comes in handy.

[MiddleFingerMom]

29. Why come you ain't rich?!?!?

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[kentauros]

37. That is a skill you could actually make money with.

Seriously. Get a magnetic sign for your car (or a t-shirt if you're a biker) with all the pertinent info that you will pill people's cats for a buck a pill or some such fee. Save people (like me) a trip to the vet that takes more time to get there and back than it does to get the pill in him. To have the option of calling someone up to pill my cat for five bucks would be worth more than the added expense vs. driving in Houston traffic during business hours ;)

[Bertha Venation]

40. Do you live anywhere near Washington, DC?

And what do you charge for housecalls?

Signed,

Desperate

PS On edit -- crap. Looked at your profile. You live in CA. Home sweet home. With my sisters. And my best friend. Almost all the good people in my life live in California. Damn your eyes! :)

[triguy46]

58. That is an amazing talent.

[upstandingcitizens]

18. metal

I can repair metal. If it's bent I can unbend it. Twisted, untwist it. Dented, undent it. Torn, weld or solder it. I have always had the ability. The weird part is I don't know how to weld and have never been trained at it but if need be I do.

[femmocrat]

19. I am an excellent gift wrapper.

I can judge just the right amount of wrapping paper to cut off the roll. :)

[rucky]

20. Lifetime undefeated record in thumb wrestling. n/t

[hippywife]

21. I can predict events sometimes.

More often than I would like. I try not to do it, but sometimes I think of something going on and predict the potential for something going wrong. I don't like being able to do that. As a matter of fact, I don't even like speaking of it and probably should not have spoken of it here.

[SwampG8r]

42. thats what im talking about

i dont like admitting i do it either

[The Midway Rebel]

22. I kin spel gud

And, do the absolute perfect cannonball off the 3 meter board or a large pontoon boat.

Not at the same time though.

[Kali]

23. I can gleek.

seems kinda lame compared to most of you :hide:

[kayakjohnny]

25. Can you pm me with a short video of that.

Thanks.

[petronius]

53. I'm jealous - I could never do that except by accident

The best I can come up with is that I can cry on demand, which doesn't exactly bolster my man-cred...

[kayakjohnny]

24. When someone is about to say a number and they pause for a second, I usually guess the number in my

head. I'm usually 9 for 10 with numbers under 20.

I can usually guess the time within a few minutes, even after hours without seeing a clock.

I always know where north is, day or night, wherever I am.

I'm also pretty good at finding lost things, especially for other people.

[SwampG8r]

43. whoa twinsies

i do about all your list but only mentioned the finding
except the numbers

[foxfeet]

26. I can pee standing up.

Wait........ what?


Never mind.

[soleiri]

30. I've mastered the art of the hover.

[tammywammy]

27. I have the amazing ability to quickly change moods at certain times of the months

I tell people it's not PMS, it's a gift.

[triguy46]

59. Don't we know!

[HipChick]

33. I have the ability to enter people's dreams and influence them..

or was that Inception?

[madinmaryland]

34. Yes. But I can't say, because it will get the thread locked in a matter of seconds.

:evilgrin:

[Duer 157099]

35. I can tell what time it is without the clock. Same with temperature.

If I take a moment to think about it, I can usually guess the time within 1-2 minutes.

Same with the temperature outside, even if I haven't even seen out a window yet.

[NJCher]

38. I can guess the number of jelly beans in a jar

Or paperclips. Or pennies. Or whatever's in the jar. I have often won prizes for this.

I would give anything to have SwampG8r's gift, however. I lose things all the time and I can never find them. If you only knew the number of purses, driver's licenses, books, etc. that I have lost over the years. I have to plan my whole life around being a "loser!"


Cher

[kentauros]

39. It used to be gardening without effort.

I may still have that skill, but it requires me having some land in which to grow things. Apartment living isn't all that conducive to turning my balcony into a plot for ten-foot-tall sunflowers and six-foot diameter basil bushes ;)

So, what I do now is overtone-singing. Taught myself over the years and can now harmonize with myself :D

Here's an example by someone else much more skilled at it than I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92_2ZiO3Aao&feature=related

[Mopar151]

41. I make jerks explode

Every now and then.....

[Orrex]

50. Stay the hell away from me you bastard!

[proteus_lives]

44. Encyclopedic recall of comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, fantasy facts and trivia.

Don't worry, I only use my powers for good.

[snot]

45. I attract bullies.

[PJPhreak]

46. Directional Ability,

Sunny,cloudy,snowing,raining,Dark,Light,Day,Night it does not matter.

Friends have blindfolded me and walked me around in circles,as soon as the blindfold comes off I can tell within a few degrees which way is True North,South,East or West.

Drives those who cant go around the block without a map nuts.

[quakerboy]

47. Mild versions of things listed above

I identify with the directional one. I occasionally come out a few degrees off perfect north, but I can usually point you the right way.

I also identify with the synthesis one. I often come up with the right answer quickly. Not 100% always right, but far more often than not.

I am a great test taker, particularly for multiple choice tests. One of my college buddies didn't believe me, so I went to his math class(that I was not in, mind you, and was about 2 levels past the class that I struggled with the next semester) and took a multiple choice quiz. And passed. I also took the SAT 4 times. The 3rd time, I got a 1020, my worst score ever. I got that score by randomly filling in bubbles.

Finally, I can, with very high accuracy, tell you how a fiction book will end after reading the first 20 pages. I haven't tested this one in years, but one of my HS teachers tested me, thinking I was a bragging teen. Turned out I could. I would read 20 pages, write her a summary, and I was always right in at least 9 out of 10 details that I would predict.

[zipplewrath]

49. Remembering directions

I can find my way "back" to places I visited once, years ago. I can't always tell you how to get there, but put me in a car and I'll get there. Often I don't miss a single turn. I'll drive my wife nuts because we'll be going somewhere and I'll suddenly start taking odd turns down back roads and announce "this is where we got a cat 12 years ago".

[triguy46]

60. Check, got that one too. Uncanny sense of direction, if I do say so myself.

[Orrex]

51. I can juggle five.

And if that won't get me the job, then nothing will.

[MorningGlow]

52. I can remember song lyrics forever

If I've heard a song once and the lyrics aren't garbled by a marbles-in-the-mouth singer, I can remember them. I'm especially good with songs from the '50s and '60s even though I wasn't born till '66. Amaze your friends and all that. I just wonder how many brain cells have been taken up with lyrics storage, when I could be using them for something more constructive...like figuring out how to balance my checkbook...

[Bennyboy]

55. I can Teach ANYONE how to juggle in about ten minutes....

As long s they are old enough to catch the balls then I can teach them. I have taught gangbangers to juggle, little old ladies to juggle, musicians to juggle and little kids to juggle.

[triguy46]

56. I can whistle really loudly, like call the horses from the back 40 loudly.

Learned when I was 13, now 44 years later, it still comes in handy.

[BlueJazz]

57. I have perfect pitch but sometimes I wonder if it's not a curse.

:) :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

62. Despite the unusual things I can do, I know others who are much better at it.

:shrug:

We each contribute our own percentage.