I can wiggle my ears. I used to use it to entertain children, but today’s children are jaded and cynical.
I found I can wiggle my ears enough to walk my glasses back up my nose when they’ve slipped down.
now that’s useful!
I’ve just tried that and you’ve changed my life
Oh yeah, I didn’t even realise until you said it but I absolutely do that all the time
Child me would’ve loved to see that.
Adult me would love to see that
I can do it too! it was like discovering a new muscle! I can’t do either independently though
I can rumble my eardrums. Mostly useless unless i wanna block out some annoying sound but i can only do it for like a minute at a time.
I think I have the same thing. Is yours also kinda connected to blinking? I can do it without blinking, but closing my eyes at the same moment as rumbling the eardrums feels easier and more natural than rumbling with eyes open.
Mine feels more connected to my jaw, I kind of tense my jaw right near the joint to activate the rumbling.
I can do it without closing my eyes but when i was younger, I remember closing my eyes or scrunching my face made it easier to do. If you can wiggle your ears without lifting your eyebrows, it kind of feels like its the same muscle group that causes the rumbles. The rumbling sounds like white noise inside my head. Its caused by constricting Tensor Tympani muscle in the ear voluntarily. From Wikipedia:
Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the muscle. According to the National Institute of Health, “voluntary control of the tensor tympani muscle is an extremely rare event”,[5] where “rare” seems to refer more to the scarcity of test subjects and/or studies more than the percentage of the general population who have voluntary control. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply. This phenomenon has been known since (at least) 1884.[6]
TIL; I always thought it was temporarily spiking your blood pressure that made that rumble. Now I’m no longer scared to do it
I do this thing where I pop my ears (like when pressure changes from altitude) and then it’s like I’m hearing my breathing inside of my sinuses or something. When I breathe this way, it effectively blocks conversations I don’t want to overhear. Do other people do this, or am I odd?
I can do this. If I’m in a really quiet area, I like to take in a deeper breath and then exhale as slowly as possible while doing it, which then allows me to hear my heartbeat. Super nifty.
I can also use my soft pallet to block airflow from my throat to my nose. Can you do that too?
Came here looking for the tensor tympani rumble cause I know it well; not sure what your thing is! If I notice sounds going quiet on a flight I’ll pinch the nostrils shut and make an exhalation effort till I hear a pop in each ear, then sounds are normal. Almost like the reverse of yours.
I can do this! I forget the name for it but I can rumble my ears, and then I can also ‘pop’ them if I go a little further. I’m so grateful for it if I ever go through a pressure change, I can’t imagine how people cope without being able to do it.
Wait a minute. If I hold my jaw right, I do get a very short rumbling apart from my breath. Is that what you guys mean?
Not OP, but mine’s not connected to blinking.
Same. I hold my eyes shut and I can activate it. I like to think of it as my automatic ear-cleaning mode.
Mine is connected to blinking, but it doesn’t always work.
Mine is activated by blinking hard.
Yep. I can rumble, and I can click.
Gee, I can do this too! I’ve tried explaining it to others before but only one person ever got it
This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:
- gleek intentionally (saving people a search: it’s causing the salivary glands under your tongue to shoot saliva, people often do it unintentionally when yawning)
- open my jaw wide enough that it goes out of socket, and twofer I can then move it side to side and produce a loud popping noise
- bend my thumb down to my wrist
- cause my heart rate to spike for short periods even when at rest
- make a three leaf clover with my tongue
- click my tongue extremely loudly
I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.
A friend taught me how to gleek in 7th grade. I never stopped doing it lmao
Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds
oh my god, so that’s what I’m doing when I yawn! It started happening a few years ago…
click my tongue extremely loudly
Learn Xhosa.
I can also gleek but it’s nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don’t know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I’d ever seen: maybe 6 feet long
By shoot, does it have force or do you mean it just comes out?
It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.
I can hum and whistle at the same time. Makes me sound kinda like a Theremin
Same! I liken it to a knock off version of Mongolian Throat singing.
Ah yes, multiphonics.
I love doing this because it sounds like you’re charging a laser weapon
Lol I just tried that to see how it works.
It’s hard because if you close your lips too much to whistle it restricts the airflow and kills the hum.
Just by inhaling robustly, I can crack multiple joints in my back and shoulders, audible to people standing around me. I have a coworker who gets nauseous from the sound so I try to breathe gently while he’s around and he tries to key in on other sounds.
that sounds so satisfying
I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way.
Completely grosses people out when I do it.
Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.
Neat! Thanks for the name/info.
I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought.
I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
I think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?
I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;)
Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)
Oh…then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers.
By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.
Ey wobbly eye gang here
Samesies! But it makes me feel like I need to sneeze.
Like Pruitt Taylor Vince? I feel like he’s done it in every movie he’s been in, from Mississippi Burning to Identity. Creepy indeed.
I can do this but only a couple mm
I just remembered this, I can open my eyelids and look in a direction where only the whites of my eyes are visible. Apparently it’s very creepy
Oh hey, I can do that too!
Do you roll your eyes up or down?
That always used to give the heeby-jeebies to watch.
I think upwards, kinda hard to tell though
I can make my left elbow sound like biting down on dry cornflakes, just by doing a push-up.
That doesn’t sound healthy
They really aren’t, despite what Kelloggs claims.
They weren’t made to be healthy. They were made to keep you from masturbating.
Those sons of bitches… my childhood could’ve been very… different.
And it’s working. I’m still unable to masturbate to Cornflakes.
truly
I had a complex fracture in the elbow twice, 34 and 30 years ago. There’s no pain, no loss of function, and it didn’t get worse in all that time.
Nothing I can really do but hope it will stay like that for the next 30.Damn. I hope so too then. I guess there are loose pieces still in there?
Apparently there’s a thing called lucid dreaming that many people try very hard to achieve.
Most of my dreams are “lucid”.
I can also, using only my facial muscles, pull my eyelids back extra far so it looks like my eyeballs are popping out.
I have a hypothesis that there is no such thing as lucid dreaming (before you get the wrong idea, I’ve done it before. My meaning is that it’s misunderstood, not that people are lying about having done it).
That feeling that you’re in control? You’re just dreaming that you’re in control. You’re just dreaming that you have the experience of choice-movement-feedback.
How is the feeling of being in control any more real than other sensations you experience in a dream?
When you experience the sensation of enlightenment in a dream, do you say you were really enlightened, or were you just dreaming that you were enlightened?
When you experience the sensation of blue in a dream, do you say there was actually blue, or were you just dreaming there was blue?
Your brain telling you you’re in control is just as suspect as your brain telling you there’s blue. They are both creations of your brain for the purpose of the dream.
Whatever action you’re taking in an attempt to demonstrate control is just as easily explained as something your brain created as dream decoration.
Remember, this is just a hypothesis.
The question is, is there a practical difference between lucid dreaming and dreaming about being lucid? I like to think it’s the memory afterwards that counts.
cries in has chronically useless dreams that can’t even go in a dream journal
I can hammer nails and icepicks into my head. I’m very fire resistant and eat fire. I have a split tongue. I can keep my eyes open for a VERY long time.
TBF I’m a sideshow and fire performer so I’m cheating
Are you a demon and who summoned you
Yes
You know that feeling you get when you listen to really awesome music and your hair stands on end and your skin has like an electric tingle all the way up and down? I can do that feeling at will. It’s called ‘voluntary frisson’, normally an autonomic response. Makes music a real.trip.
I can do this too.
It’s fun to watch people freak out when one can raise his body hair up on command. And since I have an abundance of body hair, the effect is pretty profound.
I think that’s the weirdest one I’ve seen yet
Lots of things that ultimately come down to hyper-mobility (thanks Ehlers-Danlos!), including:
- Lick my elbow
- Pull my shoulder visibly out of socket (not painful at all, and happens if I carry something heavy if I’m not careful)
- Pop my hip out of socket while standing (sometimes painful, always somewhat unpleasant, so I’ve had to learn how to not do it)
- Hold my hands behind my back and pull them to my front
- Rotate my arm >360°
- Bend my thumb to my forearm
Exist.
Psssshhhhhh, look at this guy, existing! Not like the rest of us simulated humans! Buy ovaltine! Just sitting around in society. Pretending to exist, so we can slip subtle advertising into daily conversations. Buy ovaltime! Bet you didn’t realize that we’re all in the matrix, and your entire purpose for existance is to be made to be miserable. Currency is worthless outside the matrix. We’re only doing this to make all in the matrix suffer!!!
Mwahahahaha!!! Thats my evil laugh! Do you like it?
If I press on the corners of my eye it forces air down my naso-lacrimal duct (that lets tears drain into our sinuses) and it makes a squeak loud enough for people sitting next to be to hear. I have a built in nose flute.
A nose flute, awesome! I have the opposite where I can blow air out the other way, but sometimes it will squirt out a stream of tears.
I can whistle from my throat, I figured out how to do it from yawning and just kept practicing, the wife hates it because it hurts her ears but every time I yawn I have a habit of trying
Does it sound different than a normal lip whistle?
Yeah more airy or something I can’t really do it on command that well
Found a video that shows it, didn’t know it was a beat boxing thing now I have a goal haha https://youtu.be/_uQDmZmvvSY?feature=shared&t=120
I have this! For ages I’ve been trying to figure out how to do it on command but so far I can only do it while yawning.
