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Mine has always been vision and hearing hard sounds, like doors closing. I can hear all the stupid little sounds like that. And I'm just weirdly good at deciphering shadows at night as long as there's some light.
I'm sure in ancient times this variation of who has good senses for what served a purpose.
I am oddly good at hearing engine noises. If a motor or piece of machinery starts doing something different I usually hear it. I worked in manufacturing and I could usually call out a machine that was about to breakdown. Also when a part has been replaced I usually hear the difference in noise.
Now you've got me wondering if your super hearing stops at machinery or if you could hear the human body doing it's thing, provided a stethoscope and test subject- I mean willing participant.
Sounds gross lol
It's not necessarily that you hear more than someone else, but you have the experience to have trained your hearing to discern those sounds.
It's something I also experience from my time working around machines. Works on all sorts of things.
That makes sense spend enough time around them you'll become adept to their ways.
I have really annoying hearing. I'm not sure how to fully describe it but my ears are super tuned into sounds. Very often I will be sitting with my wife or somebody else and I am like "do you hear that?" and they are like "wtf are you talking about?" and I have to be like "Shhh... That! Did you hear it?" and they are like "no wtf" and then I'm like "Wait no no... Wait... That! Did you hear it?" and they are like "Wait yeah... How tf did you hear that while we were talking? Were you paying attention?" and I'm like "No, I wasn't because I kept hearing this noise"...
Like... Sometimes people's voices just sound like noises and I can't hear them unless I focus because my ears are listening to the noises around me. It can be really frustrating.
Oh yeah, I get that too, where my brain just decides not to decipher spoken words suddenly. At any rate, noise cancelling headphones are awesome.
Have you ever been tested for Sensory Processing Disorder
No, they probably just rolled all of that into the ADHD diagnosis.
I don't think the shadows at night thing is genetics. Think that's more of a paying attention lol. People say they can't see and that's because they're looking for details and colour. In the dark you're looking for outlines and shadows. I learned this from my flight instructor. But it's a skill more people need to learn. This isn't to say night blindness doesn't exist.
Nah, I figured this out in the military. I was always the last guy to start using my night vision device. Now, to be fair this was 20+ years ago and night vision devices have come a long way since then. Even in my years we got an upgrade that was much better and I used it a lot more. But I was also the one guy hitting all the night fire targets. So there was definitely something there before I went and got old.
Likely red/green colour blind, less cones but more rods (better resolution, also night vision). Your ancestors may have done night watch in the village or been hunters.
duping above so you read.
Yes, I do have severe deuteranomaly. Diagnosed when I was 6 years old.
I've read quite a lot about this, there are many cases where red/green blind people have exhibited above average night vision.
I was also very good at spotting camouflage, since the patterns were designed to fool people with normal colour vision. The only time my colour blindness was a disadvantage was in a contest between regiments, I had to direct artillery fire as fast as possible and the targets were big red boxes in front of the treeline.
Our lieutenant lost his shit when he realized that he had a colour blind forward observer. We still won the contest, my squad handled the measurements impeccably and I verified them on the map. There was discussion of transfering me to other duties after this, but when I asked "Sir, how many big red box targets are there are in real war?" they quickly dropped the issue.
During my military service I also discovered that I had exceptional night vision. I never stumbled in the dark forest and I could even read maps when others couldn't see shit. I didn't pay much attention to this quirk, but my commanding officer realized this and put it to good use. The following overnight recon patrols on foot and skis felt endless.
Mmm yes I solved that problem by being a mortar guy in headquarters company. They had access to far better scouts than me.
Likely red/green colour blind, less cones but more rods (better resolution, also night vision). Your ancestors may have done night watch in the village or been hunters.
You would hate this goddamn bird outside my window that doesn't shut up from 5:30-10:30 every morning
Haha, I sleep like the dead.
guess that's why you're all.. maggoty
Lol yeah. Part of it anyways.
I think I've read the latter is due to a higher concentration of rods in your eye.