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I have a heart condition that I get an ECG (electro cardiogram) done for every 6 months or so. It's just an ultrasound on your heart. They always take mine from a bunch of different angles and a bunch of different types of pictures.
But I was recently in the hospital and told the technician that their machine was loud. She looked baffled. I told her I can hear the ultrasound and hers is the loudest I've encountered. Apparently I'm the only person she's ever done work on (or however to say that) that's been able to hear it.
So I guess that is my super power. Or I'm just autistic, as apparently many autists can hear very high pitched noises.
But the ultrasound is pretty cool. The frequencies and the pitch will change depending on what photo mode they're in. Like a doppler mode is all pewpewpewpewpew while the normal mode is all eeeeeeeeeeeee. Lol. It's hard to explain.
That's a wonderful superpower! I can hear cars or footsteps approaching before my friends realise them, but high-pitched electric mole traps and ticking clocks can be annoying. Listening to music with good hearing is like taking drugs though. You should check out well-mastered music, commonly going as audiophile music.
My friends have called me sensitive to everything. Apparently most people don't love walking through neighborhoods just to smell other people doing laundry? Hahahaha. I love it.
I've wanted some really excellent headphones for a while now, but it's haven't yet been at a place/time where I can pull the trigger. It will definitely happen one day
I got some pretty nice headphones a while back. Not the really high end ones or anything, but good enough that I can get lost in the shapes, textures, and sometimes colors of the different instruments. Like someone else said, it's a bit like being high.
Cheap studio monitors are fun too because they really separate out the sounds. It can make me a little tired, listening to all that detail, but it's so fun.