I can make the sound of one hand clapping.
Seriously.
Okay: make a fist; maybe hold a pencil in it, pointing up. Now - instead of a pencil, imagine you could bend your pinky finger up, across the base of your other fingers, and grab it in your fist - so it looks kinda like you’re holding a finger you found or something, with the tip peeking out of the top of your fist.
I can do that.
Man, was I popular with the ladies in 3rd grade…
I can’t believe the ear-clickety thing is an actual talent! Now my life has meaning!
Being a computer geek and male, my natural flexibility has been permanently shot. I am the stiffest, most (physically) inflexible person you’ll ever meet. Except that through many years of scratching my back and being in a private school that demanded shirttails to be tucked in at all times, I have developed the ability to scratch any spot on my back at any time. How? I can bend my arm up over and behind my head until the elbow touches the other shoulder.
I can do that too! I didn’t know other people couldn’t do it. I can also flip my tongue upside down.
I can’t do that; I am therefore more inflexible than you. 
Me too! I didn’t know that some people can’t do that. Live and learn.
It’s not exactly a secret talent, but more of an unused one: I have quite a bit of training and experience doing theatrical makeup. Special effects and stuff. Since I don’t do theatre anymore, it’s not something that most people know about me, and it’s not something that often comes up in conversation. Fun for Halloween, though.
(Hey, this is probably my last post until the free time starts, and last one as a Charter Member. Huzzah! See you all later!)
Hi Velma! That’s cool. I bet it would be a hit for Halloween.
If I hold my nose shut and blow, I can make air come out of my right eye, near the tear duct. Haven’t tried smoke, don’t think I’d want to.
OMG! I have nephews, little ones, and I would give my eye teeth (if I knew what they were) to be DANGER COW! They’d love it. For whatever reason, I get all self-conscious around little kids, and not half as fun as I wish I could be.
winterhawk11, I have the same visualization thingum! I never really thought about it until I read it here… I mean, I assumed -everyone- had that! It explains some things, mainly my ability to do math and measure distances and times very well because I see them as actual shapes and colors in my head! How keen!
Seems like that’s what happens with a lot of people. I didn’t realize it was odd until I was in college, and didn’t even know it had a name until a couple years after that when I was working for a newspaper and came across an article on synesthesia. It was just so much a part of me that R’s are purple and 5’s are blue that I didn’t even question the fact that most other people would look at me funny if I mentioned it (even other synesthetes, who might argue forcefully that 5’s are, in fact, a lovely shade of chartreuse).
Edit: And yes, looking back, I attribute to synesthesia at least some of the reason why I almost never misspell words once I’ve seen them written out. If they were misspelled, the colors would be off!
I can belch on command. When my kids were little, I’d belch songs for them.
For a less common talent, I can predict which elevator is going to come when there is an elevator banks, without looking at indicators. I developed this talent when I worked as a messenger one summer in New York, and spent a lot of time waiting for elevators.
I can waggle my eyebrows independently of each other. Also, my fingers are crooked, so I can hook them behind their webbing. They look like the flanges of a danish. Very gross and weird.
Add me to the growing list. Though I always thought I trained myself to do it from an early age, didn’t know everyone couldn’t “teach” themselves this ability. (You just sorta flex this muscle near your jaw, but it feels like you’re moving your tongue but not… It’s a fun and weird thing to do).
And I can do the Air-through the Eyeball thing too!
I am irresistible to anybody who walks into any movie theater that is completely empty except for me. He or she will sit either immediately in front of or behind me every time.