Odd or humorous facts about yourself

[YadaYadaYada]

@Begonia, no we never do but it was a good thing you posted that because it reminded me that people would bring her plants to resurrect all the time, looked like we lived in a rainforest sometimes!

 

[1ofakind]

I‘m a fairly healthy person and rarely get sick with anything other than an occasional cold or mild seasonal allergies. Unless I go on vacation and then I WILL get sick or injured (often combined with having my period as an extra bonus). I’ve had flu, respiratory infections, kidney infections, pneumonia needed a walking boot (That’s loads of fun at the beach!), discovered new allergies, etc. I was on crutches for my daughters wedding so the trend may be expanding to special occasions. Although it was an out of town wedding so it’s hard to say for certain.
Once I thought I was going to make it but not quite... 2 days before our trip ended I got the flu. It lasted a week after we got home. Another time I felt a little off on the morning of the trip and again it was the flu...full blown fever, chills and aches by the time the plane landed in Hawaii. I don’t like taking any meds but I don’t travel without emergency antibiotics because I’ve learned that on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon it’s a little difficult to get an Rx if you need one! When we plan a trip hubby picks the outings and I check to find the closest urgent care centers.

Odd but less troublesome than the above is sleep paralysis which causes hallucinations as I sometimes incorrectly transition between sleeping and waking. But I don’t think that has ever happened on a vacation.

 

[Bron357]

I have a weird brain even though I technically have brain damage.
I have a type of photographic memory and I subconsciously recall a “picture” of say a room and compare to what I’m seeing, so if something is different or even moved an inch I immediately know it.
I speed read and can proof read at the same time. So I do read every word BUT I process at a slightly slower rate. So I can be reading on page 25 and go “there’s an extra space between words back on pg 23” and can go straight to it.
And I could (though aging has affected my vision) stand on the other side of a desk and read, with a series of subtle and momentary glances, a document upside down. It was sort of a party trick I’d do at the office and no one could work out how I did it.
And I can find stuff. I once found a sapphire that had fallen out of a woman ring on a huge grassed oval. I lost an earring and found it outside, not only the setting but the diamond that had separately fallen out of it.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Same here but I'm a southpaw and here's my ambidextrous list:

Left handed;
Write
bowl a cricket ball
hold a knife to prep food or clean fish
Cut Opals by holding the dop in my left hand

Right handed:
Throw a ball (seems so stupid with the cricket bowling being left handed)
swing a bat
Kick a ball
Play guitar
Wind the fishing reel handle
Hold the knife right hand when eating (again, stupid compared to prepping food)

I can operate power tools with both hands, neither way feels more comfortable.

The cricket one is hilarious as I played as a kid and my dad tells me about a conversation he had with the coach where the coach was befuddled by me

Coach: so he bowls left handed, but bats and throws right handed. Is he right handed?
Dad: no, left handed
*Coach laughs in bewilderment and puts his head in his hands*

its hard being left handed in the army
you get the wrong way round in a shell scrap and you get your buddies hot shell casings in the face
lucky i had a left handed sargent who spent extra time with me on basic doing drill because that's hard as a lefttie

im kind of the opposite of ambidextrous - neither is great but i was changed over as a wee kiddie and my hand writting is disgusting
bat cricket left handed but play tennis right handed


i eat left handed - first thing i do when i sit down is change all the cutlery over - i do not know why that upsets people so much ? - im like its this, or ill have to eat with my fingers

its a funny old world

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I‘m a fairly healthy person and rarely get sick .....

.....Odd but less troublesome than the above is sleep paralysis which causes hallucinations as I sometimes incorrectly transition between sleeping and waking. But I don’t think that has ever happened on a vacation.

its good this did not happen at the grand canyon

 

[Matata]

I have a type of photographic memory and I subconsciously recall a “picture” of say a room and compare to what I’m seeing, so if something is different or even moved an inch I immediately know it.
I speed read and can proof read at the same time.

That's interesting Bron. You could parlay your abilities into a number of money-making ventures.

 

[1ofakind]

its good this did not happen at the grand canyon

Fortunately I’m paralyzed (unable to move or speak) while I am hallucinating so I won’t hurt myself by falling in a canyon, lol. That’s good...but also terrifying. If I’m aware enough I can talk myself through these episodes now (in my thoughts only) so while it is still terrible it used to be much worse. If I’m aware enough to do that the recovery time is down to an hour or so. I’m not afraid to fall asleep now but as a kid I had a terrible time.

 

[Matata]

Has anyone experienced synesthesia? For a short period in my pre-teen years, I could smell a certain shade of purple. Unfortunately it wasn't a pleasant aroma and it also happened to be one of my favorite hues. The oddity lasted about 6 months. Today when I look at that shade, I remember what it smelled like but I don't actually smell it. I have no idea how one remembers an odor without experiencing the odor. As this thread goes on, I'm realizing I'm weirder than I give myself credit for

 

[elle_71125]

I‘m a fairly healthy person and rarely get sick with anything other than an occasional cold or mild seasonal allergies. Unless I go on vacation and then I WILL get sick or injured (often combined with having my period as an extra bonus). I’ve had flu, respiratory infections, kidney infections, pneumonia needed a walking boot (That’s loads of fun at the beach!), discovered new allergies, etc. I was on crutches for my daughters wedding so the trend may be expanding to special occasions. Although it was an out of town wedding so it’s hard to say for certain.
Once I thought I was going to make it but not quite... 2 days before our trip ended I got the flu. It lasted a week after we got home. Another time I felt a little off on the morning of the trip and again it was the flu...full blown fever, chills and aches by the time the plane landed in Hawaii. I don’t like taking any meds but I don’t travel without emergency antibiotics because I’ve learned that on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon it’s a little difficult to get an Rx if you need one! When we plan a trip hubby picks the outings and I check to find the closest urgent care centers.

Odd but less troublesome than the above is sleep paralysis which causes hallucinations as I sometimes incorrectly transition between sleeping and waking. But I don’t think that has ever happened on a vacation.

And here I though I had it bad. I get sick for every vacation too. For our last trip, I finally landed illness free only to catch a cold from my husband (who I thought was whining a little too strong about his allergies...oops). As an added bonus, I’m essentially guaranteed to have my period. I swear to God that my period goes off course the months before a trip just to F me up when I get there.

 

[elle_71125]

So I don’t know if this is normal or not but I don’t hear a lot of people talking about it. I taste fragrances. Like if someone is wearing perfume or I smell a candle, I can taste it on my tongue. In fact, I’m using a bath bomb in the tub right now and I can taste it on the tip of my tongue. It’s never a pleasant taste either.

 

[RunningwithScissors]

I have synesthesia. Numbers, letters and other non-colored items seem to have intrinsic colors to me.

You know those brightly colored plastic refrigerator magnets of letters and numbers? I've always HATED those! They deeply disturb me because they are THE WRONG COLORS! Looking at them is like hearing nails scraping a chalkboard.

 

[RunningwithScissors]

@elle_71125 Do you think you are tasting the molecules floating around from the fragrant item?

Or do you have synesthesia like me? Synesthesia can manifest in different ways. Some people taste sounds, some see colors in abstract concepts, its very possible you could be "tasting" smells through a cross wiring of your brain.

 

[1ofakind]

I swear to God that my period goes off course the months before a trip just to F me up when I get there.

Yes this...WTH!!!!

When I was a baby my very Methodist Grandmother took me to witchdoctor of some sort (as my mother described) because I had a birthmark. Maybe they accidentally cursed me or something, lol.

 

[elle_71125]

@elle_71125 Do you think you are tasting the molecules floating around from the fragrant item?

Or do you have synesthesia like me? Synesthesia can manifest in different ways. Some people taste sounds, some see colors in abstract concepts, its very possible you could be "tasting" smells through a cross wiring of your brain.

Beats me. I know taste and smell are very closely related so I just assume that’s it. I’ve brought it up before, at a family gathering, but nobody seems to notice it. I think I’m probably just sensitive to smells.

 

[elle_71125]

I have synesthesia. Numbers, letters and other non-colored items seem to have intrinsic colors to me.

You know those brightly colored plastic refrigerator magnets of letters and numbers? I've always HATED those! They deeply disturb me because they are THE WRONG COLORS! Looking at them is like hearing nails scraping a chalkboard.

That’s so interesting. I can’t even imagine what that must be like for you.

 

[arkieb1]

I can accurately predict things that will happen, have dreams of events that then later happen. I described my father in a car crash to my best friend at University over and over that was a dream I kept having and a few years later he was in the crash I had many dreams about.

Sometimes I can "tune" into dead people, or just "sense" or "see" things.

Some of the more interesting times this has occurred is, we were in a bar with a guy my husband knew and he was telling the guy I am clairvoyant. The guy looks at me skeptically in a room full of people listening and says what do you see about me. I touch his arm and it's a vision, a full cacophony like being sucked into a moving swirl of naked young bodies of children. Girls and boys and this guy. So I stand there and say nothing absolutely nothing. The dude says to my husband well your wife isn't very good at this is she?

My husband says to me afterwards well that was disappointing it's not like you not to see anything and I'm like oh I saw stuff alright, it was like a graphic semi violent very disgusting pornographic movie that I didn't think appropriate to actually mention in a room full of listening people.

The next time my husband talks to that dude knowing that is what I saw he asks him a number of leading questions and he finds out he'd been in Thailand on a sex tour and he admitted he has a "thing" for younger people ie children.....

Two interesting ones from here that were PSers - I had a girl contact me randomly and said I read you can sometimes "know things" is that true, because a family member of mine has just died. I said yes that is sometimes true, it's your Dad that died isn't it. She said yes and without telling me anything else I asked he died in controversial circumstances didn't he? And she said yes. I say are the police investigating because if they are not then they should be. Turns out her father married a younger woman and then died in suspicious circumstances. I won't go into graphic detail but without telling me that I described to her what I believe happened.

The second one I still get upset about, I still to this day wonder if I could have done more. Another girl randomly read on the "can you find things" thread years ago that I can sometimes talk to dead people. Her mother had just died and she and her siblings wanted some closure. She and her family asked me if her mother had any messages from them, they I think were expecting me to give them messages of love and reassurance she was at peace and so on.

I tuned into her mother and all I got over and over again was please be careful of the of the children near the pool of water. I said I got a cold chilled feeling and of utmost urgency she is saying the water, don't let the children go near the water. I see an image of snow on the ground we walk through a forest down to something like a lake she takes my hand and she tells me one of your children is going to drown in a large dark pool of water. Over and over again the message is protect the children from the pool or body of water.

The girl was quite disappointed, we discussed the properties her and her siblings owned lakes, swimming pools and so on, we discussed all of the children in the family I told her please keep an eye on all of them, tell your siblings she was adamant I tell you this, that is the only message she wants to tell you. I'm pretty sure the family had no idea what to make of the message, there were no lakes, dams and pools they thought could be any sort of threat to their children, and that it was not what they wanted me to tell them.

About a year later I get a message from the PSer her sister was moving house, they took their eyes off their son for a moment, he has autism and in the moving he had somehow wandered away without anyone noticing him. He drowned in a neighbour's pool. She was so upset, I was so upset. I said I'm so sorry I couldn't help you more. I wish I could have saved him.

Sometimes being able to "see" and "hear" things other people cannot is not a good thing. I do not use it to make any money and I rarely if ever agree to do readings or talk to dead relatives for family and people I know, examples like the last two are why.

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

I woke up in the night to tell my mother of the death of my great grandmother in another state when I was 4 or 5. I went to her room and stood in the doorway- and solemnly told her how sorry she was but it was time for grandma to go 'the next place' and how much her grandma loved her etc... I remember it, the way my mom was looking at me, like a part of her already knew, because as I was telling her the phone rang and it was my grandma to tell my mom the sad news. She broke down on the phone before she even said hello and I slowly closed the door.
Apparently, I did all kinds of different empath type stuff as a little kid that I mostly don't remember.
These and other gifts run through many(but not all)of the women in my family.
My parents used to joke and call me Carol Anne(Poltergeist) because I used to unselfconsciously do it a lot around everyone, until I realized it scared some people badly. I hid it after that.

 

[Matata]

@arkieb1 and @ItsMainelyYou, Thank you for sharing those experiences. I know from experience that it can be difficult to open yourself up to potential judgment by skeptics who reject any notion of senses beyond those we call "normal".

 

[YadaYadaYada]

@ItsMainelyYou
@arkieb1

You both have some serious gifts, I find it fascinating although I know it can be a double-edged sword.

After my mother died, maybe when I was 9 or 10 I had a dream where she was sitting in a chair and she told me I could ask her questions and she would answer them but each time I asked the chair would rise until I couldn't see her anymore. I don't remember any of the questions unfortunately but have always remembered the dream.

 

[elle_71125]

I can accurately predict things that will happen, have dreams of events that then later happen. I described my father in a car crash to my best friend at University over and over that was a dream I kept having and a few years later he was in the crash I had many dreams about.

Sometimes I can "tune" into dead people, or just "sense" or "see" things.

Some of the more interesting times this has occurred is, we were in a bar with a guy my husband knew and he was telling the guy I am clairvoyant. The guy looks at me skeptically in a room full of people listening and says what do you see about me. I touch his arm and it's a vision, a full cacophony like being sucked into a moving swirl of naked young bodies of children. Girls and boys and this guy. So I stand there and say nothing absolutely nothing. The dude says to my husband well your wife isn't very good at this is she?

My husband says to me afterwards well that was disappointing it's not like you not to see anything and I'm like oh I saw stuff alright, it was like a graphic semi violent very disgusting pornographic movie that I didn't think appropriate to actually mention in a room full of listening people.

The next time my husband talks to that dude knowing that is what I saw he asks him a number of leading questions and he finds out he'd been in Thailand on a sex tour and he admitted he has a "thing" for younger people ie children.....

Two interesting ones from here that were PSers - I had a girl contact me randomly and said I read you can sometimes "know things" is that true, because a family member of mine has just died. I said yes that is sometimes true, it's your Dad that died isn't it. She said yes and without telling me anything else I asked he died in controversial circumstances didn't he? And she said yes. I say are the police investigating because if they are not then they should be. Turns out her father married a younger woman and then died in suspicious circumstances. I won't go into graphic detail but without telling me that I described to her what I believe happened.

The second one I still get upset about, I still to this day wonder if I could have done more. Another girl randomly read on the "can you find things" thread years ago that I can sometimes talk to dead people. Her mother had just died and she and her siblings wanted some closure. She and her family asked me if her mother had any messages from them, they I think were expecting me to give them messages of love and reassurance she was at peace and so on.

I tuned into her mother and all I got over and over again was please be careful of the of the children near the pool of water. I said I got a cold chilled feeling and of utmost urgency she is saying the water, don't let the children go near the water. I see an image of snow on the ground we walk through a forest down to something like a lake she takes my hand and she tells me one of your children is going to drown in a large dark pool of water. Over and over again the message is protect the children from the pool or body of water.

The girl was quite disappointed, we discussed the properties her and her siblings owned lakes, swimming pools and so on, we discussed all of the children in the family I told her please keep an eye on all of them, tell your siblings she was adamant I tell you this, that is the only message she wants to tell you. I'm pretty sure the family had no idea what to make of the message, there were no lakes, dams and pools they thought could be any sort of threat to their children, and that it was not what they wanted me to tell them.

About a year later I get a message from the PSer her sister was moving house, they took their eyes off their son for a moment, he has autism and in the moving he had somehow wandered away without anyone noticing him. He drowned in a neighbour's pool. She was so upset, I was so upset. I said I'm so sorry I couldn't help you more. I wish I could have saved him.

Sometimes being able to "see" and "hear" things other people cannot is not a good thing. I do not use it to make any money and I rarely if ever agree to do readings or talk to dead relatives for family and people I know, examples like the last two are why.

I’ve often been curious to talk to someone who has that kind of gift. To find out what they may “see” about me. Hearing you talk about your side of it makes me realize what a challenging gift it is to have. I can only imagine how helpless you must feel, when things have happened / may happen and you have no control over them.

 

[PreRaphaelite]

I have synesthesia. Numbers, letters and other non-colored items seem to have intrinsic colors to me.

You know those brightly colored plastic refrigerator magnets of letters and numbers? I've always HATED those! They deeply disturb me because they are THE WRONG COLORS! Looking at them is like hearing nails scraping a chalkboard.

I have this too and it really screwed me up during math class. Addition and subtraction were bad enough, because 5 (green) plus 7 (purple) equal 10 (black) of course. Imagine mixing oil paint, and it suddenly becomes obvious.

But how on earth did they expect me to divide and multiply?!

I failed math class repeatedly. Had to transfer to private school in order to get through at all, with all the tutoring and extra help possible. Barely scraped by. Never understood any of it.

Fast forward to college, and honors level Logic, Statistics, and non-computational classes made perfect sense and I aced ‘em.

Meanwhile I’m looking forward to receiving my pale 3 (orange) coral necklace soon...

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

@arkieb1 and @ItsMainelyYou, Thank you for sharing those experiences. I know from experience that it can be difficult to open yourself up to potential judgment by skeptics who reject any notion of senses beyond those we call "normal".

Thank you, I sat on that response for four hours before I hit post.
I have had many experiences that I have no explanation for but cannot deny.

 

[SandyinAnaheim]

This is such a great thread! So many interesting anomalies between us.

For me, like @missy, I can feel people thinking of me. Someone I haven't thought of or spoken to for some time will come to mind, and within a day or two I will see or hear from or of them. My husband thinks it's really eerie. I kept telling him to call his sister in January within a day of when she passed suddenly from a brain aneurysm.

But the oddest thing about me is my inexplicable connection to animals. My first REAL memories are of reaching through my crib to my family's German Shepherd, who was always within inches of me. He was my security blanket. My family life was highly physically abusive, so in retrospect, it's not surprising that I would adhere to the beings that wouldn't hurt me. And those were my dogs and cats. My father insisted I see a psychologist for jumping from moving vehicles to help injured animals by the side of the road. I would yell and scream to stop and they would not, so I would open the door and jump out. I am inordinately sensitive to animals. I feel their anguish, and their joy and love. I am involved in rescue and cannot possibly explain the depths of agony I've experienced from trying to help other sentient beings. I lived in FL during the housing crisis of 2005-2008. There were immigrants going around carving up pet horses for their rear legs in the middle of the night to sell them for $5/lb. Volunteering for the ASPCA put me front and center to see and hear of the thousands of atrocities committed against not only horses tied to fence posts to starve, but dogs and cats, abandoned and locked inside homes when families left, and have nothing to eat but carpet and baseboards. I can't even tell you how many months of sleep I lost, or how many fantasies of revenge I had.

Having been a paralegal and accounting manager for many law firms over the course of my career, I finally reconciled with my deepest passions and went to grooming school at the age of 50 (mid-life crisis?) to be able to do what I've always wanted to do, work with animals. I feel regenerated every day being with them. I spent 12 days not working through this crisis after the stay at home order and realized I couldn't do it. I need to see and be with my clients' babies. Money is not a factor. I have a lot of clients that haven't been able to afford me during this time, and I still see them pro bono. I am in tune with them and can feel their energy. Luckily for me, most of my clients take excellent care of their babies, but I have confiscated/forced surrender from more than one owner who was neglectful. I will risk my life to save animals in traffic and have been on the news more than once because of those actions. I will NEVER stand by and watch abuse occur, or do nothing in a difficult situation if it involves an animal or a child, regardless of the cost. My husband thinks I'm off the rails on this subject, but I simply cannot fathom any other response but to be of assistance to a creature in need. I was once a creature in need and no one came to help me, so now I try my best to be the difference for other sentient beings. I won't even go into the pain and agony caused by what happens at slaughterhouses or in asian wet markets....those situations make me want to end it all so as to not experience that reality.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

some of you - as lovely as you are - are creeping me out

i count things as i eat them
i will not eat certain numbers of things - Gary knows to give me a nice number of M&Ms - never 4 or 8 - dont like 6 much either, 9 is a bit ugly but better than 14

 

[YadaYadaYada]

@SandyinAnaheim, the world needs more people like you, the animals especially.

@Daisys and Diamonds, my husband has to count the M&M's too!!! They have to be an even number before he shoves them in his mouth as I yell "stop counting them just eat the damn things" lol. Of course I'm only teasing him.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

@SandyinAnaheim, the world needs more people like you, the animals especially.

@Daisys and Diamonds, my husband has to count the M&M's too!!! They have to be an even number before he shoves them in his mouth as I yell "stop counting them just eat the damn things" lol. Of course I'm only teasing him.

i also insist on all the blue and yellow ones, because blue and gold is Otago - then the orange, then green then purple

 

[YadaYadaYada]

@Daisys and Diamonds, Whaaaat, purple is last!! That's it we can't be friends lol! My husband is very OCD especially when it comes to food, he can be a PIA but we've been together almost 20 years. The secret is when I make brownies he likes the middle part and hates the edges and I'm the opposite. That's why we work!

 

[arkieb1]

I’ve often been curious to talk to someone who has that kind of gift. To find out what they may “see” about me. Hearing you talk about your side of it makes me realize what a challenging gift it is to have. I can only imagine how helpless you must feel, when things have happened / may happen and you have no control over them.

Hmmmm, in my experience when people go to see clairvoyants they either have no gifts at all, and are simply taking peoples money, are good at asking questions and reading body language and have no gifts at all, or they are clairvoyant, there isn't much in the middle and the many with no skills give the people that do have any types of skills a bad name.

I went to a psychic fair once, because it was on next to a shopping centre I go too, I paid some money, sat down, and a woman asked me questions and asked what I wanted to know. She didn't tell me anything I thought was particularly good or visionary, but I did ask her with out her telling me, about her disabled son, a partner that had cheated and left her and a heap of other things from her life. She ended up saying wow, you are really good at this, and I'm like perhaps you should give me my money back and you should be paying me to read you not the other way around.

For people that really can sense things or get messages from dead loved ones that's a doubled edged sword, it is something I mostly try not to do and think about because, again, in my limited experiences what people want you to tell them or what they really want to hear might be a long way from the messages, the real messages, that I actually pick up on.

I'm like a radar for knowing things like when people are going to die, how they are going to die, when one person is cheating on another or has a cheating spouse, if something is out of order that isn't noticeable to others, I usually notice it. And dead people sometimes have agendas - they want to tell the people they love messages that those people frequently do not wish to hear.

 

[RunningwithScissors]

I have this too and it really screwed me up during math class. Addition and subtraction were bad enough, because 5 (green) plus 7 (purple) equal 10 (black) of course. Imagine mixing oil paint, and it suddenly becomes obvious.

But how on earth did they expect me to divide and multiply?!

I failed math class repeatedly. Had to transfer to private school in order to get through at all, with all the tutoring and extra help possible. Barely scraped by. Never understood any of it.

Fast forward to college, and honors level Logic, Statistics, and non-computational classes made perfect sense and I aced ‘em.

Meanwhile I’m looking forward to receiving my pale 3 (orange) coral necklace soon...

That's awesome! I'm laughing about your "pale 3" necklace

 

[PintoBean]

Idk... I'm just odd and funny... I cant think of anything of note to share lol.

It's 150am and I cant fall asleep so let me try...

-3rd gen widow. Paternal Grandma (first time in her 20s, 2nd time when I was a tween or teen), paternal aunt, and me.

-i dislike most people. Most people like me and instantly feel comfortable enough to tell me anything.

-im a cat lady but a dog magnet. Strange dogs walk by and steal kisses. Weird.