I mean small like I sneeze and a 20 dollar bill appears in my hand or something like that. Not classic answers like flying or super strength.
I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.
God I feel this. I’m probably not nearly as bad, but I’d like to not have to carefully analyze what I eat anymore
Yeah… It’s crap
~~What in the pseudoscience is this crap? Avoid garlic entirely, but no limit on the foi gras? ~~
Edit: FODMAP is not a ‘diet’ in the traditional sense, it’s a diet tailored to avoid triggering flare ups of medical conditions such as IBS. Wish the article had been more clear for those without knowledge of what FODMAP is.
FODMAPs are pretty well understood. There aren’t any in meat.
I know this is ancient history at this point, but I wanted to circle back.
I was not familiar with FODMAPs at all before reading the article. And since the article starts by calling it a ‘diet’ I made what I thought was the reasonable assumption that it was a traditional diet.
After you responded I looked it up more generally and now understand that it’s less of a traditional ‘diet’ and instead used to help prevent some medical conditions from flaring up.
That’s on me for not doing full research, and on the article for assuming everyone knows what FODMAPs are and why they are so important to some people.
Sorry for my ignorance.
Props to you for coming back to this. Totally understand your incredulity to this if you thought it was some fad or weightloss diet though haha!
I questioned my sanity for a bit after your first response until I realized what the diet actually was. I was properly confused!
no garlic, no onions
Guess I’ll just fucking suffer then
Makes you think that the things you take for granted on a daily basis can be a super power for someone else
Yup. Health is the most important thing you can have.
The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.
Hoffa?
I’m definitely thinking historic lost treasure hunter would be an amazing career!
You could make some serious money with this power. You could find anyone’s lost pet or keepsake.
Can’t you just think of the winning lottery ticket?
I guess but I would still use it to find missing pets and stuff. Other people are talking about finding missing people but imo that’s more tricky. Finding 1 missing person is just luck but if you are some how finding 10 or 20 people you are going to be lopked into.
You could also find missing people. This one has serious potential for good. Realistically, though, the CIA (or your country’s equivalent) would take you into custody and force you to do their bidding.
Oh shit. Didn’t think of that angle. But it’s okay, they’ll never recognize me because I’ll wear glasses while not using my power and take them off when I go all super and shit. That’ll work!
Not to mention the regular occurances of people asking you to locate something they’ve stuck inside themselves.
[Breathing Intensifies]
- Captain Jack Sparrow
Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.
How about any insect that smells you? I don’t want curious insects all over me even if only for a second.
I already have this power.
HOW?!
Hell if I know. My father and two of my kids are similarly immune to flying insects. They just avoid us.
They simply bathe in mothball filled water
For people who are interested in the same things I am to glow faintly, the more similar interest, the more they glow.
Knowing everything about my body.
What is my current blood sugar? O2 level electrolyte status? How much shit do I have in my colon?
Kinda like a performance monitor for your body. I would like that too
The ability to mute any sound I hear. Baby crying, annoying hum, someone snoring, obnoxious drunk? Muted.
Being able to set a timer for when to sleep and wake up
You know when you have a discussion or confrontation, and six hours later you realize what you should have said? My superpower would be the wits to always think of the right thing immediately.
There’s a French idiom for this: “Avoir l’Esprit d’Escalier” which means “The Wisdom of the Staircase”. Basically, you often think of the best thing to say after you left and are walking down the staircase.
Drawing sth in a way that explains a picture I have in my brain in a very short timeframe.
Sleep for 1 hour but with all of the benefits of 8 hours.
Just the ability to fall asleep instantly would be a godsend
For me I’d also like to add that I wouldn’t wake up just because a loud car drove by. I can sleep fast, but staying asleep is difficult
Apparently nobody here knows what a “small thing” is.
If I put on someone’s shoes and walk one mile in them, I can instantly perfectly understand what they’re going through.
If I put on someone’s shoes and walk one mile in them, I can instantly perfectly understand what they’re going through.
If I put on someone’s shoes and walked one mile in them, I could magically perfectly understand everything they’re going through.
To be able to dream, or at least be able to remember my dreams if I actually am having them. I used to be able to remember my dreams pretty vividly right after I woke up and I could tell when I was having them. Now, nothing.
I am having pretty big dreams. I know it because sometimes I don’t get out of the effect after I wake up. But I forgot after 5 minutes or so. Today I woke up, and I remembered initially. It was some huge legendary tale or something, or it felt like it. But I woke up, and knew I would forgot. Maybe I should write it down so I won’t forget it.
And I used to dream like that too. I’d wake up remembering the dream initially and then gradually it would fade away if I didn’t write it down. There would be times I would wake up right from my dreams, it was incredibly jarring. Now… it’s just a blank slate, like I don’t even have the inkling that I dreamt something or a vague impression, just nothingness.
I do voice memos whenever I really enjoy the dream
