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.
Perfect control over memory.
So able to remember anything with high detail, but also able to forget the cringey stuff from middle school
Honestly, this is not a minor super power.
Maybe if there was a limit to how much you can remember. Like your brain runs out of storage kinda lol
But you have all the permissions in your brain. If you’d like you can delete English and learn Chinese when you’re going on a trip. Maybe you can even forget how to breathe or forget what other food tastes like so I can go on a diet that has nasty food.
My biggest fear would be by the time I’m like 60 i would be attached to too many memories and wouldn’t be able to learn new things
Ig it’s not too different than regular older people lol. There are some people at work that I’ve taught them how to attach a file to an email like 5 times already and they just don’t learn
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
no garlic, no onions
Guess I’ll just fucking suffer then
~~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!
Not quite mind control, but I’d like the ability to blast common sense into morons minds by looking at them. Like a psychic mind dart that says, “maybe this line has a purpose and I should get in queue instead of trying to force my way in from the outside” or “maybe I should listen to the sign that says ‘don’t put your kid on a railing above tiger enclosure.’”
For people who are interested in the same things I am to glow faintly, the more similar interest, the more they glow.
When I tell my wife to calm down, she gets in a better mood and not a worse one.
Instead of saying “calm down” try to say “I hear you” and actually listen. Might be the super power you seek
Geez calm down, I say it like once every two years.
Ability to force anyone to objectively confront their own cognitive dissonance by maintaining eye contact.
Possibly too powerful. Some heads may spontaneously combust from a lifetime of preferring their own reality.
Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.
That would force you to selectively use it since often times reality is somewhere between our personal view of it and other opposing views.
Chose the wrong situation and you’ll both be crying in the corner with shatter worlds. Chose the ones where the people are truly disconnected from reality and perhaps you’ll change their lives - hopefully for the better.
Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.
I was actually tempted to include that in the original, but I didn’t want to belabor it. :)
I’m fine with this, and would prefer it that way.
Nah, I say that’s part of the superpower. After using it a bunch, the weilder will have little or no more cognitive dissonance of their own. Every time they use it will further purify their own thought process. That’s like a superpower where every time you use it it replaces a little bit of your body fat with muscle. After you use it a bunch, you end up ripped.
That’s not a negative, I think. It might hurt a little at first, but you’ll soon have removed most of your own errors and be a better person for it. What more could we wish for?
To be able to hear the soundtrack. Like, if I walk into a building and hear the Psycho “reep reep!” I’ll get the hell out. But if I walk into that same building and hear “bow chicka bow wow”, I’m staying.
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.
Take a mental note that I could review later without worry of forgetting it, for times when jotting something down normally isn’t practical such as while driving.
Neuralink notepad
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
I’d wave my hand and people arguing or hating in front of me or online, would suddenly be peaceful and conjointly coming up with solutions to their problems.
Whole political parties would cease to exist if that came true.
This would change my life more than any conventional super power.
Taking photos with my eyes. Would help a ton with getting pictures of cool bugs without having to fiddle with my phone and get defeated by autofocus
Ability to have perfectly control how awake i am
I would love to have the ability to know for any journey, no matter how complex, what time I need to leave to arrive on time.
I’d like to be able to double jump, platform video game-style. Mostly pointless in daily life, but imagine how good it would feel?
Are you as floaty as in some video games too? I think a double jump with crappy real physics wouldn’t be very satisfying.
At a minimum, I’d want to be able to unrealistically change direction in mid-air.