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.

Its seriously wild that you can do this!

Apparently, ultrasound machines can use frequencies that start just higher than human hearing, 20kHz.

Can you hear dog-whistles, bats, or other electronics?

Get a hearing test and call Guiness (c:

I was entirely confused for a moment- I think you might be getting an echocardiogram, rather than an electrocardiogram. If you could hear an electrocardiogram, there would be something seriously wrong with their machine- It's meant to be a passive electrical measurement. Echo on the other hand is exactly what you described, an ultrasound of the heart.

I was actually thinking you might have a strong interoception, which is when people have an awareness of their own heartbeat signals- super rare but super cool.

Annoyed by the commonly imperceptible sound an ultrasound machine makes? Possibly autistic

Facinated by how and why the machine works while it annoys you? Definitely autistic

I joke but im exactly like this too lol.

I had this exact experience and tried to ask the technician about it. She didn't understand what I was asking. I thought I was just explaining it poorly.

Lemmy needs to stop trying to convince me I'm neurodivergent.

That's awesome! I can't hear ultrasounds, but I can hear electronics, which gets really annoying

I experience the first set of powers, and I hate it. Every detergent, shampoo, deodorant I use is "sensitive", "baby formula" or whatever.

And a few years ago some deodorant company started using some I guess artificial compounds that just pushes the air out of my lungs, it's so bad. I can not only smell it, it digs into my forehead.

Every time I say I hear electricity, people think I lie. But it makes noise! I hear my blood too.

I've never been a big fragrance guy. When I found out about people like you, I decided to just go fragrance free. If it's not a big deal to me and it gives a few people headaches to be near me, might as well just not do it. There are some tangential benefits. My deodorant irritates my armpits less now. My hair oil used to irritate my skin if it got on my forehead. Now it doesn't.

I've got one light in a room that makes a quiet whining noise when on, seemingly only after a minute or so (maybe after it warms up a bit). Thankfully I can just keep it off just fine, but occasionally I'll turn it on for a bit more brightness, and realise it's still on a while later by the annoying noise.

The beeping on my monitors power led drives me insane if it’s on standby mode and flashing

All lights flicker. Just mostly we can't perceive them.

LED flicker is most noticeable tho. Incandescent the least.

Fun fact. They flicker at similar frequencies (per light output/lumens) but the light drop off is more dramatic for LEDs so we perceive it more.

People who are epileptic or prone to migraines usually are bothered more by LEDs.

I‘ve got this one too. It smells like dry hay or straw to me.

Same. If there's a fair amount of particular types of ants I can smell them still but not which corner of the yard has fire ants anymore.

Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light.

Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina.

The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that.

In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren't special.

Both my kids got this ability from me. We all wear sunglasses all the tome pretty much. Im approaching 50 now so my eyes aren't as good as they used tp be, but we all have 20/20 or better still. We are always asking people to turn off their flashlights so we can see.

I got the same thing. In the army I realized that I was the only one in my platoon who was able to read maps clearly at night without lights. And I never needed a flashlight to navigate the woods in the dark.

My night vision started to wane clearly in my early thirties, but being closer to 50 now I can still see a lot better at night than my friends whenever we go camping. Still, I bought my first headlamp a few months ago ;)

I'm not very sensitive to bright lights. But I can also see better in low-light conditions than anyone I know. Not sure how that works.

A friend sent me a casual lecture/talk a few years ago, and I remember that in one section the speaker talks about getting lens surgery and discovering they unknowingly had a similar-sounding condition, which the lenses had fixed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHzX6juGyLQ @ 17:36

Yeah I feel like i can't smell a foul old coffee cup better than anyone else, but everyone's sponges always smell bad to me. I always hate washing a dish at anyone else's house because the bacteria in their sponge leaves a smell on my hands that doesn't come off from a normal hand washing or three. Rubber gloves also leave a smell on my hands that will make it difficult for me to sleep that night it smells so strong. Latex ones only, though.

I destroyed an expensive monitor trying to fix that. It drove me insane it was so quiet because it just came from the.monitor but i couldn't unhear it.

Oh! I can also slow my heart rate, but I don't hold my breath, I just beath slowly and... will it.

Hey hey, same on a few of these.

Saline tastes like rubber bands smell, in my opinion.

I thought I was the only one that could not stand aspartame like how is it in so many things and no one says anything haha

So much this. I live in a country with a sugar tax, so almost every soft drink on the market has part of its sugar replaced with some kind of sweetener. I didn't drink a lot of soft drinks before, but now I can't drink them at all.

I can definitely taste the difference between aspartame and sugar but its not unpleasant to me.

This is so interesting, since I simply can not tell a difference between the aspartame/acesulfane and actual sugar in fizzy drinks. I guess I have it easy because of that, but I have a somewhat keen sense of taste otherwise, I cook a lot and can detect what the taste is missing or has too much of pretty consistently, and know the “opposite” tastes/ingredients to apply. And wines and such, it’s sort of a synesthesia thing too, since I kind of feel them as something close to colors. But sweet things I have trouble with. I thought, not sure why, this was a human thing, but it’s interesting to hear someone can detect the sweet things granularly! Cool!

Thats like a super power!

Are you good at telling cardinal directions as well? Maybe you have metal in your brain

Isn't this supposed to be how you keep the fey away?

The bar thing just sounds like they don't clean their taps very well.

As a trained musician I do this too. But it also means the "skill" spills over into other situations. If I'm in a restaurant, instead of being able to ignore the hum of background conversations, I will hear (and subconsciosly bounce around focsing on) every side conversation.

It makes listening to things VERY hard

I didn't realize that's not a thing everyone can do. There's a part of All I Want for Christians is You that's just someone mashing annoyingly on a piano, and it's so disgusting that I love it. It starts at about 0:58 on the YouTube Music copy, and then changes at about 1:05. It's such an annoying sound in isolation.

I used to be unable to do this but took an interest in music as a hobby at some point and developed the ability to do it over time. I think it really helps to have built music from the ground up in a DAW or some such to begin to pick up on that.

Human skin contains photoreceptors, so this makes perfect sense.

Found the vampire. Nostrafeu?