Asklemmy

I can see dead people.

I have Synesthesia. When I hear certain sounds, I see these little bubbles of color. It’s sort of similar to the eye-floater things you get sometimes, that’s the best way I can describe it. I’ll also get a taste in my mouth looking at specific colors.

I’m not sure if that counts, but it’s the first thing I thought of.

I'm very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

I can sense when it's time to wake up, while asleep.

It's likely just confirmation bias, but I almost always wake up minutes before my alarm if I have a stressful or unusual appointment, like an early flight or interview.

I assume most people has this with their routine wake-up time, that the body learns when to wake up right on time... but this is like: if I usually wake up at 8:30 but now have to wake up 5:45 or 6:15 or whatever, I'll wake up on my own right before the alarm goes off. I just need to think about it somewhat thoroughly (wake-up time and approx. how many hour of sleep until then) before falling asleep.

Mold, or at least some types of mold. Used to smell it on food but other people couldn’t, so just assumed it was something else. But did the experiment by putting things in their own containers and leaving them out for a while, while probably not the best sample size, the muffins that smelled like mold eventually visibly showed it.

I can smell carbon monoxide.

Idk if it's rare, but my wife thinks it's weird that I can smell on the breeze if we are near a winery. It's kind of an astringent smell

Before I lost my sense of smell I was absurdly sensitive to ranch. If my ex opened a ranch dip in the apartment I would be dry-heaving very quickly. When I was a kid I would sometimes move seats eating lunch at school because other kids had ranch doritos. Not having to deal with that anymore was a rare positive to come out of my awful experience with covid.

I can enjoy coldcuts and cheeses, but they'll make me sick if they're not extremely fresh. In some cases they already smell and taste like they've gone rancid fresh off the slicer.

Pancreatitic sepsis fucked my tastebuds, my hospital stay was extended a full week because I couldn't keep down foods other than sweets. They actually restarted me on the feeding tube because of that. When I went off the NPO and got to eat again for the first time I asked for a spicy sandwich from Chick-Fil-A, I'm pretty sure it was just an ordinary spicy sandwich but in that moment it tasted like the spiciest thing I had ever eaten in my entire life. I don't like the taste of water anymore, which is miserable.

The tragedy of my life