I have the uncanny ability to pre-cognize insignificant incidents.
Whenever I initiate plans for an event or travel that is not part of my usual mundane routine, I will have a dream within a week of that initiation. In that dream there will be an especially vivid and detailed scene of some kind of behavior that I am not accustomed to seeing or doing. Upon waking, I will clearly remember the unusual scene, often remarking upon how weird it was.
Weeks or months later, when I’m actually on my trip or engaged in my nonstandard activity, the unusual scene from my dream will unfold and I will remember that I had dreamed of the situation earlier.
This precognition has never been useful to me. I have never seen lottery numbers, met significant people, foreseen a disaster or miracle, accomplished any particular feats, or avoided any particular misfortune in these dreams. They are not lucid dreams – though I’ve had those, too; my lucid dreams and prophetic dreams seem mutually exclusive – so I don’t seem to be able to hone the ‘skill’ in any way.
—G!
Now here I go again
I see
A crystal vision
. Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)
. Dreams
. Rumours
I have no feeling in the soles of my feet. I once freaked out the doctor when I had been climbing a church fence and the spike had gone into my foot. I could see bone, and tap it, but I didn’t feel a thing. I only realised there was something wrong when my foot felt like I’d peed on it: it was my shoe filling up with blood. The super power is useful for emergency running on gravel (my feet end up bloody, but hey, I can’t feel it), and for the super-resistance to tickling. It’s funny: I can feel pressure and temperature a little, that’s usually how I know when to take my weight off that foot. Got it from my aunt. We call it “schellevissenvoeten”.
My other super power is my super nose. I can smell if someone has been in a room, I can smell where I am, or where someone else is. Sometimes I can smell that people are related, or living together (it’s not the washing powder). A lot of the time it’s not much of super power, because lots of stuff is stinky, and it upsets me.
I love all of your super powers. We should all have a tv show where we rescue puppies stuck in wells with our super powers.
I can blow bubbles down to them to help calm them down (animals somehow love the bubbles I’m able to blow, they find them very impressive, much more so than humans typically do).
You can jump down there with your incredible painless soles, it won’t hurt!
I have an “internal alarm clock”. If I need to be up at a certain time, I just think about it for a few minutes before bed, then automatically wake up at that time. I always set a real alarm for 10 minutes past my internal alarm, and have never needed it, even for crazy things like a 3:42 wake up time for an early flight.
When driving, I am immune to getting lost. Amazing sense of direction that vanishes the second I get out of the car. As a pedestrian, I’m well below average at directional ability. I have no idea of the reason for the discrepancy.
When I was in my early twenties I could drink/partake of whatever all night, pass out on some random floor/ bed, wake up in the morning with no alarm, and walk back to my appartment across town in time to get ready for work. Was never late for work due to being passed out in someones bed/kitchen/garden/bathroom that I can think of. Keeping in mind if I was in my own bed, hadn’t drank or taken anything, and my alarm didnt go off, I might over sleep and be late for work.
Now am old and don’t engage in such behavior, not sure if i still got it or not.
I can burp at will. I also have the loudest hiccups you will ever hear. I once stopped a Country & Western band with my hiccups. People giggle their butts off when I hiccup. A woman with only 20% hearing spun around like she had been shot when I hiccuped behind her. She told me she had never heard another person hiccup before.
Edna: No capes!
Bob: Isn’t that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen, E…
Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when his cape snagged on a missile fin!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb…
Edna: Stratogale! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can’t generalize about these things…
Edna: Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! No capes!
My super power will come in handy in the clubhouse, because I can find anything. I’ll be able to sort out the lost capes and watch you all go out to fight super villians. And then run back inside to find the hidden chocolate and porn.
Bread slicing. Give me one of those uncut, rustic, crusty loaves and a functional bread knife. I can do neat, even slices that look like they were machined. I can do thick or thin. I can slice whatever you want, perfectly, time after time.
This is an iso-skill. It’s literally the only skill I have with regard to cooking, baking or food prep of any kind.
Remembering conversations. I don’t claim to have a great memory in general. But I track conversations very closely, perhaps because I’m fascinated by language, communication, words and voices. I pay particular attention to small but significant semantic distinctions, such as knowing whether you said, ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’ or ‘I’ll do it by tomorrow’.
As you can imagine, this facility has, from time to time, played its part in ‘discussions’ and arguments. However, in every single case where there is independent corroboration available, I’ve been shown to be right. I’m not right about everything or anything else. But I am always right about what you actually said versus what you claim you said.
Scent trails get me all the time. Folks wander around with what may not be a strong scent to others, but to me, I can smell everywhere they’ve been. Oh, and the scent of cucumbers; I knew the first time I’d ever mentioned that they had a scent and folks looked at me funny that this was an unusual level of scent detection ability.
My “super power” would probably be my *accidental library ninja *skills. I unintentionally sneak up on people all the time. I can talk, make what seems like a lot of noise, or be actively in what I assume is their line of sight, and I will still make people startled once they finally realize I’m there. (My boss gets caught in this cycle more often than not. I try to be noisier, but it doesn’t seem to help much. Am I Mrs. Cellophane?)
I make an awesome hunter-gatherer. Need help finding something? I’ll probably spot it first. Want help harvesting ripe items? I’ll only pick the nicest ones, and find more than you thought were there.
