Asklemmy

I can smell iron in the soil from a distance (depending on how much there is), and if there's a lot of iron I feel very sick, almost like I'm going to vomit, and I want to get away from it. There was one place like that where the closer I got the more sick I felt and the more iron I smelled, I could taste it like there was blood in my mouth, some months later did they start digging there and found a lot of iron.

I do not really like lager (love other types) for the same reason, the taste has a lot of iron in it especially some brands but I seem to be the only one who can taste it. I kind of rank lager as less or more irony taste lol.

Sometimes at some bars does one or multiple beers on tap taste weird and sweet regardless of type or brand. No one else of my friends seem to be able to tell. I where at a bar once where only one beer tap tasted as it should... The rest had the same sweet weird taste.

I also do not like coca-cola or Pepsi so my taste buds may just be weird.

Despite having tinnitus, I can still hear very subtle sounds and identify them.

• For example, a long, deep hum means a garage door is opening/closing.
• I can also hear (and feel) footsteps and movement from people around a building, even very subtle movement.
• I can also pick up on all the little creaks a building makes.

However, despite being able to hear subtle sounds, I cannot hear "no" sound or silence due to the ringing. :/

I can smell your fabric softener, no matter how long ago you used it. Artificial perfumes of any kind just murder my sinuses. It suuuucks.

I also can hear electronics, even just the lights, if that's all that's on. Maddening, because I can almost never find real silence. It's why I love camping.

apparently no one i know can sense the chemical/marker(?) taste in artificial cherry flavouring like dr. pepper or cherry coke/pepsi

i seriously don't know how anyone can get past that taste, so i figure people either enjoy it, or don't notice it

Coil whine

The tragedy of my life

Back in my youth when I ruined my teeth by drinking 5-6 liters of Coca Cola a day, I could smell if a bottle was three or less months from expiration date, or if it was fresher.

I can see lights flicker when others can't.

I used to operate a drill rig for taking soil and water samples. I learned to read all the utility markings and to spot the telltale markings of previous drill work. I can walk around an urban area and tell you where all the gas stations and drycleaners used to be just based on a look at the pavement. In that sense I can "see" things others can't.

Low light vision.

I was always very sensitive to bright lights and sincerely fear I'll go blind at my last years but I can see at higher definition under low light conditions.

My vision stops processing color and I get higher definition of contrast. I've walked through dark areas with no difficulty, where others simply said they could not see a thing.

I think maybe I'm sensitive to some bad smells other people don't get. One time someone was demonstrating to a group (including me) making chocolate and it smelled like vomit to me and I had to leave. The others weren't bothered.

This might be a personal preference thing rather than a sensing-something-undetectable thing but I've always hated the flavour of dairy—can't stomach dairy milk, dairy cheese, dairy butter, etc. The vegan versions of these things are fine to me though because they don't have that distinct "dairy" flavour whilst still having the other qualities of the product.

I think I can see more colours in the stars than most people. I can also tell the northern lights are coming up earlier, so probably just low-light cone sensitivity.

A wasp died in a vent a bit ago and it smelled awful to me, but nobody else could perceive it at all.

My nose is more sensitive than average to certain types of foul smells mostly in the poop and rotting organic material categories but also things like mouse / rodent urine, skunks, and cigarette smoke. Oh joy.

Mostly it makes me feel like I'm going crazy because I smell these things when nobody else seems to notice leading me to wonder if I'm just hallucinating the smell. But sometimes I put it to good use by being the early warning system of skunks in the area and sometimes I'm the first to notice when the milk is starting to go bad.

The ringing in my ears is my own personal sensation. There are many others with a ringing of their own, but this one is mine and it undoubtedly is as unique as my fingerprint.

I can taste water, irl no one I met really can feel the different tastes of plain water but i can

I see certain shades of blue as grey, while my partner can distinguish more shades of blue than the average person, leaving me often feeling like I'm being fucked with

I wear almost exclusively grayscale clothing, except for a pair of pants that are apparently navy blue, and a shirt that's supposedly slate blue

If it's dark and I see a light at just tge right angle, I see an image of the blood vessels inside my eyes.

Not exactly sense, but my brain's processing. I can easily pick out the melody of only 1 instrument in music. It's like Fourier transform but on instrument level.

I can tell where a laser is pointed on me without looking. Like if you blindfold me and got a laser pen and shined it on my arm, I can point to where it feels like it is with pretty good accuracy. It’s easier to detect motion than precise placement, and sensation wise it’s not touch or heat like you’d expect it’s more like raw proprioception.

Also it felt the same regardless of the color of laser we used which seems odd since you’d think higher frequency light would be easier to detect.

Tbf I haven’t done the experiment since I did it with my siblings when I was pretty young. Not sure if I can still do it, but my siblings and cousins couldn’t do it even back then.