I can wiggle my ears. I used to use it to entertain children, but today's children are jaded and cynical.
I found I can wiggle my ears enough to walk my glasses back up my nose when they've slipped down.
I can do it too! it was like discovering a new muscle! I can't do either independently though
I can rumble my eardrums. Mostly useless unless i wanna block out some annoying sound but i can only do it for like a minute at a time.
I think I have the same thing. Is yours also kinda connected to blinking? I can do it without blinking, but closing my eyes at the same moment as rumbling the eardrums feels easier and more natural than rumbling with eyes open.
Mine feels more connected to my jaw, I kind of tense my jaw right near the joint to activate the rumbling.
I can do it without closing my eyes but when i was younger, I remember closing my eyes or scrunching my face made it easier to do. If you can wiggle your ears without lifting your eyebrows, it kind of feels like its the same muscle group that causes the rumbles. The rumbling sounds like white noise inside my head. Its caused by constricting Tensor Tympani muscle in the ear voluntarily. From Wikipedia:
Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the muscle. According to the National Institute of Health, "voluntary control of the tensor tympani muscle is an extremely rare event",[5] where "rare" seems to refer more to the scarcity of test subjects and/or studies more than the percentage of the general population who have voluntary control. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply. This phenomenon has been known since (at least) 1884.[6]
TIL; I always thought it was temporarily spiking your blood pressure that made that rumble. Now I’m no longer scared to do it
I do this thing where I pop my ears (like when pressure changes from altitude) and then it's like I'm hearing my breathing inside of my sinuses or something. When I breathe this way, it effectively blocks conversations I don't want to overhear. Do other people do this, or am I odd?
I can do this. If I'm in a really quiet area, I like to take in a deeper breath and then exhale as slowly as possible while doing it, which then allows me to hear my heartbeat. Super nifty.
I can also use my soft pallet to block airflow from my throat to my nose. Can you do that too?
I can't block my nose in that way. I tried when your comment came in, but I can't conceive of how to do it.
With the ear popping thing, I just hear the rushing of my breath. I can see how you might be able to hear your heart. I might be making this up in my head, but I feel like maybe I could hear it when I was younger.
The trick is that while you hold your ears 'open', you have your lungs try to not breath out but you don't close your mouth. This lets the heart beating against your lungs be what pushes air in and out and then you hear the sounds of the air pulses as it moves past your eustachian tubes in your throat. Making sure your lungs are as full as possible is required so the lungs push against the heart.
I can do this! I forget the name for it but I can rumble my ears, and then I can also 'pop' them if I go a little further. I'm so grateful for it if I ever go through a pressure change, I can't imagine how people cope without being able to do it.
Wait a minute. If I hold my jaw right, I do get a very short rumbling apart from my breath. Is that what you guys mean?
Sounds about right. I would connect this action to my jaw, not anything with my eyes like some others have said. When you say short, do you mean the sound doesn't last very long? I can keep it going more or less as long as I want.
As long as I tense my jaw, I guess, but it's kinda awkward for me. I kinda have to pop my jaw down and hold it. I feel I'm making a silly face when I do it, so I'm not holding it long.
I guess there's multiple ways to hit it. I feel it in my jaw but it's the same process as wiggling my ears (though I don't have to do that at the same time if I don't want to).
Came here looking for the tensor tympani rumble cause I know it well; not sure what your thing is! If I notice sounds going quiet on a flight I'll pinch the nostrils shut and make an exhalation effort till I hear a pop in each ear, then sounds are normal. Almost like the reverse of yours.
Same. I hold my eyes shut and I can activate it. I like to think of it as my automatic ear-cleaning mode.
I can also ear rumble, it is not tied to my blinking at all, but if I vibrate my eyes while my ears are rumbling they both move at the same ~60hz frequency.
Gee, I can do this too! I've tried explaining it to others before but only one person ever got it
This is my time to shine, my body is full of useless, I can:
I remember when I was a kid we were all trying to gleek and some of us could do it easily. I never could, so anytime as an adult I accidentally do it, I can’t help but laugh.
It has “force”, but it’s not very impressive, I can shoot saliva in approximately a 1ft / 30cm arch.
Tongue clicks are absurdly useful. In my family we use then to communicate over long distances and to find each other in big crowds
I can also gleek but it's nowhere near what my grade 11 English teacher could do. I don't know how it came up in class, but, in front of the class, she turned sideways and made the biggest arc I'd ever seen: maybe 6 feet long
You know that feeling you get when you listen to really awesome music and your hair stands on end and your skin has like an electric tingle all the way up and down? I can do that feeling at will. It's called 'voluntary frisson', normally an autonomic response. Makes music a real.trip.
I can do this too.
It's fun to watch people freak out when one can raise his body hair up on command. And since I have an abundance of body hair, the effect is pretty profound.
That's actually pretty cool, I haven't felt that in a pretty long time so I'm pretty jealous of you there
Lol I just tried that to see how it works.
It's hard because if you close your lips too much to whistle it restricts the airflow and kills the hum.
I can make my left elbow sound like biting down on dry cornflakes, just by doing a push-up.
I live in West Michigan where the anti-masturbatory quaker started it all. It's so weirdly mixed between religious zealots and the rest of us in the cities lmao
Rookie. I hit puberty with nothing but a 56k modem, and SEARS catalogs. I could jerk off to the curved surface of two basketballs placed next to each other under a bedsheet.
I had a complex fracture in the elbow twice, 34 and 30 years ago. There's no pain, no loss of function, and it didn't get worse in all that time.
Nothing I can really do but hope it will stay like that for the next 30.
I just remembered this, I can open my eyelids and look in a direction where only the whites of my eyes are visible. Apparently it's very creepy
I can voluntarily open my eustachian tubes and hold them open, without needing to yawn or swallow. Makes it much easier to clear the pressure in my ears when changing elevation (like when flying in a plane).
Huh I think I can do the same. I always thought it was one of those things that everyone could do.
Feels like a super power when you’re scuba diving and you see all the other divers holding their noses!
Same. Sometimes I can't, such as when congested, and it's super annoying and unbalanced.
I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way.
Completely grosses people out when I do it.
Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.
Neat! Thanks for the name/info.
I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought.
I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;)
Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)
Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers.
By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.
Apparently there's a thing called lucid dreaming that many people try very hard to achieve.
Most of my dreams are "lucid".
I can also, using only my facial muscles, pull my eyelids back extra far so it looks like my eyeballs are popping out.
I have a hypothesis that there is no such thing as lucid dreaming (before you get the wrong idea, I've done it before. My meaning is that it's misunderstood, not that people are lying about having done it).
That feeling that you're in control? You're just dreaming that you're in control. You're just dreaming that you have the experience of choice-movement-feedback.
How is the feeling of being in control any more real than other sensations you experience in a dream?
When you experience the sensation of enlightenment in a dream, do you say you were really enlightened, or were you just dreaming that you were enlightened?
When you experience the sensation of blue in a dream, do you say there was actually blue, or were you just dreaming there was blue?
Your brain telling you you're in control is just as suspect as your brain telling you there's blue. They are both creations of your brain for the purpose of the dream.
Whatever action you're taking in an attempt to demonstrate control is just as easily explained as something your brain created as dream decoration.
Remember, this is just a hypothesis.
The question is, is there a practical difference between lucid dreaming and dreaming about being lucid? I like to think it's the memory afterwards that counts.
Lots of things that ultimately come down to hyper-mobility (thanks Ehlers-Danlos!), including:
I can dislocate my shoulder to the music of Billy Joel. The Pawnee Journal once called it, "Why would anyone do this?”
I can flex some muscle in my head that causes a roaring sound in my ears. Not sure what that's for.
Is it the same muscle that lets you wiggle your ears? Because I can do that, and I get a similar roaring.
I get mine to make a clicking sound. Audible to someone else if they stick their ear next to mine.
I can hammer nails and icepicks into my head. I'm very fire resistant and eat fire. I have a split tongue. I can keep my eyes open for a VERY long time.
TBF I'm a sideshow and fire performer so I'm cheating
Psssshhhhhh, look at this guy, existing! Not like the rest of us simulated humans! Buy ovaltine! Just sitting around in society. Pretending to exist, so we can slip subtle advertising into daily conversations. Buy ovaltime! Bet you didn't realize that we're all in the matrix, and your entire purpose for existance is to be made to be miserable. Currency is worthless outside the matrix. We're only doing this to make all in the matrix suffer!!!
Mwahahahaha!!!! Thats my evil laugh! Do you like it?
I can whistle from my throat, I figured out how to do it from yawning and just kept practicing, the wife hates it because it hurts her ears but every time I yawn I have a habit of trying
Yeah more airy or something I can't really do it on command that well
Found a video that shows it, didn't know it was a beat boxing thing now I have a goal haha https://youtu.be/_uQDmZmvvSY?feature=shared&t=120
I have this! For ages I've been trying to figure out how to do it on command but so far I can only do it while yawning.
I can whistle while either exhaling or inhaling
Idk how special or weird it is but everyone I've tried to teach the skill to seems entirely incapable of doing the inhale one
It's super useful for whistling complex songs or long bits without stopping, though