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  hermitcrab
  Interesting site.I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... ). This is when you think you hear a sound as you wake up. For me it is normally an illusory door bell. It is very convincing. You rush down to the door and there is no-one there and my wife heard nothing. Maybe happens 2 or 3 times a year.I also get the occasional weird nerve shock. It feels like an electric shock down through my collar bone. It lasts less than a second, is always completely unexpected and is quite unpleasant, enough to make me flinch. It doesn't seem related to what I am doing. Maybe happens 6 times a year. Didn't see it mentioned. Does anyone else get this, or am I just weird?
• lpghatguy
  The artifacts from some of the AI-generated images are a pretty significant detraction. For a site with so many pictures of hands, so many of them being malformed or having the wrong number of fingers (hithhiker's thumb, palmaris longus) is really off-putting.
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  ulrikrasmussen
  The geometric nightmares! I had those as a kid whenever I was very tired or had a fever, and kept having them until my late teens. Never seen them described and didn't know it was a thing.
• RobotToaster
  Since you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite.Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
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  alexpotato
  An interesting story about the Photic Sneeze Reflex [0]:it's one of the things that fighter pilots are screened for. The reasoning is that they can't have a pilot looking down and dark ground, look up to scan for enemy fighters and start sneezing.Some people with the reflex can also have multiple sneezes in a row.I find this all fascinating as:- I have this- I was also born with no sense of smell0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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  robotnikman
  Random chest pains like you describe cause so much anxiety for me. And yet every time it turns out to be nothing.
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  cmehdy
  Awesome site! I didn't find canaliths on it so I might submit it to you eventually: roughly every winter I get vertigo when lying down, and apparently there is no "fix" except to "reposition my canaliths"[1].It all goes away during the summer somehow.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
• stronglikedan
  I can't read stuff like this, and I can't self diagnose anything online. Once I realized that everything is a symptom of cancer in some form, all symptoms will lead to cancer if researched thoroughly enough.That said, really good job here for those that can enjoy it without inducing panic attacks!
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  treetalker
  When I see someone else jump or fall from a height, I sense the fall in the bottoms of my feet and my lower legs. I feel both the drop and the landing. It also happens if I approach a ledge or dropoff.
• nonfamous
  Fascinating site! TIL the human eye can detect polarization of light (search for “Haidinger's brush”).
• vesterde
  You've been great with clicking yes/no on the oddities, and providing more examples! I've already added some more, and refined some texts. I'll give it some more attention after I'm home again later today.Thanks to everyone!
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  intrasight
  Sleep Paralysis is for sure my favorite oddity. I've not experienced it in 20 years and I miss it. It happened about once a year when I was young and into my early 20s. Mine often had weird noises and hallucinations and creatures floating around. The first few times it was rather scary but then I realized it was pretty neat. The trick I learned is to tell myself I just have to move my toe.
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  bonsai_spool
  Very cool site! It's got some Claude-isms but they're not overwhelming which leads me to wonder: how did the author get the overall aesthetic to be so un-Claude-like?
• tacodestroyer
  Here I am clicking on everything to see if I have it :D
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  VCFundedGenYer
  This AI website has very weak sources for many pages.As they said in school (and is still valid here) - Wikipedia is never to be your primary citation. This website commits the sins of citing Wikipedia and ONLY Wikipedia.
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  adamgordonbell
  Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything.https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...
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  xnx
  How is supertasting considered "rare" if it is 25% of people? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/kinds/rare-ability/
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  jwrallie
  Something not mentioned that I’m curious about, if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids.
• LiberaVeritas
  I get brainzaps sometimes, even when I take my SSRIs daily and with no withdrawal
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  IncreasePosts
  I wonder about these sites that appear to be vibe coded from a simple prompt. Has the author even looked at the data or just did a little sample and figured that looks about right and hit publish
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  yzydserd
  Only 30-40% of people encounter brain freeze?Fabulous site.
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  ksymph
  This is a really cool collection! I feel like it needs a manual once-over though, particularly in regard to the images. Having even a handful obviously wrong images makes the rest of the site feel less trustworthy.
• FergusArgyll
  Huh, call of the void is common and it has a name!Great site
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  tompark
  I immediately looked up whether it had "piss shiver" and it did. It was disappointing when Cecil (Straight Dope) refused to investigate it.(Don't suppose you'd include orgasmic quiver?)Synesthesia is multifaceted. When I was a kid I used to feel a shape in my hand whenever I felt a certain emotion. That went away in my 20's. Later as an adult I guessed it was a kind of synesthesia.
• phailhaus
  This is delightful! What a nice and wholesome resource.
• khazhoux
  I clicked on Supernumerary nipples. Interesting. In the Sources section, there’s a link to Mark Wahlberg’s Wikipedia page. There’s nothing about nipples on Mark Wahlberg’s Wikipedia page.
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  SA9G
  They left out "autoheadslap", the sharp pain you get whenever anyone mentions Nvidia and you smack your forehead as you remember cancelling your massive buy order back when it was $110 and had not split yet!! It is often accompanied by uncontrolled twitching and repeatedly saying "fuuuuuuuuu" as you bite your tongue.Yes, a rare but real human affliction.
• tobadzistsini
  Aw, a vibe coded site. Give Claude a cookie.
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  amelius
  Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)
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  lelandbatey
  You should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"
• java-man
  This should be taught in school.
• anon
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  tripdout
  Fascinating, but sadly LLM-assisted writing.edit: and apparently AI-generated site layout too. Either it doesn't bother me as much as the writing, or I haven't seen enough examples, but I didn't notice that.