Me, I can take any high minded concept and drag it through unheard of levels of stupidity until you can no longer think of that greatness without having to make a pit stop in the pithy levels of my mind.
I never said it was an ability I could use for good.
Also I can open a book to exactly the page I’m looking for. But that’s like a lama levitating while meditating before the great unwashed. I don’t like to brag. (But then why did I start this thread?)
When I worked as a cashier, I used to memorize peoples drivers liscense, credit card, and checking account numbers. Never did anything with them, I was just really bored. Good with the numbers, I am.
I have a near-photographic memory, or a completely photographic memory that occasionally runs out of film. I can remember about ninety percent of all facts I read. The rest I just make up.
I can also stick my entire fist in my mouth. I’m not sure if that is because I have small hands or a big mouth, but some people seem to find it impressive!
I have an uncanny ability to decipher and remember song lyrics. This is big waste as the US government decided that using my singing to question Al Queda suspects would be too inhumane.
I can swallow a banana whole. I can shadow someone for hours without them noticing (I’m a copper, not a stalker!). I can close doors on a draughty day with my mind! I can see through my eyelids and react to things in my sleep that I shouldn’t be able to see (e.g. blocking a rolled up newspaper being swung at me)! I have a fantastic sense of smell and when I worked as a chemist I would identify many compounds by smell alone. I have a 90kg grip strength. I can track animals and set snares. I can tell you whether it’s going to rain tomorrow without looking at the forecasts.
Oh, and I’m very, very, very lucky. (And luck is one of the three non-physical things I believe in, even though most dopers laugh at it!)
I have the special ability of sitting in my office for 7.5 hours a day and doing no work whatsoever, thanks to all you interesting dopers out there that keep and hold my attention!!