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hermitcrab 13 minutes ago [-]
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?
ulrikrasmussen 2 hours ago [-]
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.
hermitcrab 11 minutes ago [-]
I also had something like this. Again as a kid, with fever. Very unsettling. But I don't remember having it as an adult. Strange.
RobotToaster 1 hours ago [-]
Since you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite.
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!
alexpotato 20 hours ago [-]
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 think I just learned that I have this! I usually sneeze when walking out of the house into the morning sun. And regardless of what makes me sneeze, it's rarely just one or two at a time.
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robotnikman 2 hours ago [-]
Random chest pains like you describe cause so much anxiety for me. And yet every time it turns out to be nothing.
cmehdy 20 hours ago [-]
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].
I knew those as otoliths, and the vertigo they cause is so intense and annoying I never forgot the name: benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
Fortunately, the Epley maneuver is very effective, if done correctly. Unfortunately, if done incorrectly it can worsen the symptoms. It's all about identifying in which semicircular canal are the otoliths before moving them.
leafmeal 20 hours ago [-]
If I understand correctly this is the same as BPPV which is on there :)
cmehdy 20 hours ago [-]
You're right! I brought BPPV was just all benign cases of vertigo regardless of origin but the article does mention tiny crystals, good catch!
vesterde 20 hours ago [-]
Ah great! I'll put it on my list to read up on. Thanks
cmehdy 20 hours ago [-]
Another one I'm not sure how to fully explain: closing the nose without touching it.
I can fully block smells or breathing by doing something that feels like inflating a zone between the top of the mouth and the nose. When speaking it will sound as if I am pinching my nose without hands.
Comes in handy when having to face horrible smells.
I assume everybody can do it but many don't know how.
Everybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].
vesterde 10 hours ago [-]
Oh great point this will go on the oddity once I add it!
treetalker 23 hours ago [-]
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.
vesterde 23 hours ago [-]
Lovely! I mean odd… I will look into it, thanks!
treetalker 22 hours ago [-]
Is this not something everybody feels?
vesterde 22 hours ago [-]
I keep being surprised at both which feelings are universal, as well as which aren't. I think I know the one your'e talking about but from being kicked in the balls... For jumping I might have experienced it playing video games and falling further than I expected.
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quickthrowman 3 hours ago [-]
I experience the falling feeling in my legs and feet as well.
vesterde 2 hours ago [-]
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!
nonfamous 20 hours ago [-]
Fascinating site! TIL the human eye can detect polarization of light (search for “Haidinger's brush”).
tacodestroyer 2 hours ago [-]
Here I am clicking on everything to see if I have it :D
intrasight 20 hours ago [-]
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.
hermitcrab 5 minutes ago [-]
Why do you miss it? It is usually described as being terrifying.
BTW sleep paralysis is likely the cause of many 'alien abduction' reports: wake up, can't move, presence in the room, sexual element (e.g. probing!).
hnedeotes 1 hours ago [-]
Sleep paralysis is when you're having an intervention in the monitoring realm but your matrix being becomes aware while so. Sources can't agree if it's done on purpose or just the analgesic dosage that was too short.
Next time you have one pay attention to hear if there's sound of steps as if moving away from where you are.
Rendello 2 hours ago [-]
I've never seen someone miss sleep paralysis before. I get it, but the hallucinations that people describe never happen to me. I just become aware that I'm about to wake up, but I can't yet control my body or even breathing. I always know not to panic, yet I always panic and try desperately to start moving. I can always see the room, but it's a dream version because my eyes aren't really open and it looks different once I'm truly awake.
I don't have much sleep weirdness, but when I'm about to fall asleep, I frequently imagine 3D object spinning and rapidly changing size. Kinda like the 3D TempleOS sprites [1], but 5x faster and increasing/decreasing size at the same rate.
Mine was always accompanied by the sensation of being watched. I could 'see' where the watching was happening, but not the actual thing watching me.
Also always accompanied by fear.
hermitcrab 2 minutes ago [-]
I believe sensation of a presence in the room is very common in sleep paralysis.
Interestingly the belief of what the presence is has changed with culture. It used to be demons, now it is more likely to be aliens.
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pavel_lishin 20 hours ago [-]
I've experienced it once or twice, and mine was the classic "can't move, malevolent presence just barely in the corner of your vision". Once, I think I was actually still half-asleep-ish, and trying to yell and my wife woke me up.
Definitely not pleasant, even when I'm rationally aware of what's going on.
krapp 20 hours ago [-]
I had it happen twice that I can remember. Once I hallucinated that I had a third arm that snaked around to my desk lamp, and just last night that someone whispered "hello" into my ear. Apparently that last one's pretty common.
I've never seen the shadow man or anything.
bonsai_spool 21 hours ago [-]
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?
vesterde 21 hours ago [-]
Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all.
V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish.
Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.
bonsai_spool 21 hours ago [-]
I don't think you can fix the Claude tells without rewriting everything on your own - but I do read/write a lot for work, so I think about voice a lot. Here's a handful of sentences that I feel a human would not have used but which are common Claude constructions:
"the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis
'quietly' - overused by Claude
the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example
"none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd
People downvote me when I say we're back in the "Geocities era" / "indie web" of the 90's and 00's, but LLMs have enabled us to build cool side projects to completion and give them love.
This is 100% a good thing.
I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.
royal__ 19 hours ago [-]
I agree that this is an example of interesting and good AI usage. The person who made it obviously put thought into it. Unfortunately a lot of vibe coded sites do not have that same level of care
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VCFundedGenYer 19 hours ago [-]
What world are you living in where you’re okay with this?
Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.
Code something yourself on neocities.
echelon 18 hours ago [-]
This is not slop. It took effort. This is not a one shot fire and forget project.
krapp 20 hours ago [-]
People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI.
You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.
echelon 19 hours ago [-]
People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough.
Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early.
I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc.
I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement.
We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.
krapp 19 hours ago [-]
But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web.
There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species."
FFS we've stood on the moon.
echelon 18 hours ago [-]
> was already possible.
The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.
And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need.
This is like 3D printing for software.
I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.
I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now.
> FFS we've stood on the moon.
And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.
fwip 2 hours ago [-]
> And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.
We're really, really not.
krapp 17 hours ago [-]
>The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.
Learning to program has never been easier or more accessible. Being able to build a website has been accessible to non-techies for years. I'll admit using an AI is convenient but "beyond remarkable" is pushing it. If anything it's a bit of a tragedy. In exchange for that convenience people are buying into a closed, third party mass surveillance infrastructure generating code they can't understand, can't repair, can't edit or redistribute. From a FOSS point of view AI is objectively worse than what we had. And that's not even getting into the flood of slop and disinformation destroying the web.
>I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.
I can't imagine you needed all of this done within a month and couldn't find existing solutions for most of it. It seems more like you're addicted than being productive.
And I still don't see the line between you vibe-coding a productivity app something something holograms and brain uploads and surfing on Titan.
>And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.
No, we aren't. We're no closer to than than we were 60 years ago. If you think Elon Musk is actually going to accomplish anything of the sort I think you're bound for disappointment.
VCFundedGenYer 18 hours ago [-]
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.
ASalazarMX 1 hours ago [-]
In this case, I'd prefer Wikipedia links that have sources. To be honest, this is also what students do when they can't cite WP directly, they cite or follow the sources.
adamgordonbell 20 hours ago [-]
Rare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything.
For me, I'm pretty sure it's related to having just awful seasonal allergies as a child - I'd quite often get stuffed up and have an unfortunate amount of pressure in my sinuses and ears. So then I'd pinch my nose and try to adjust it, eventually realizing I didn't need to pinch my nose.
adamgordonbell 37 minutes ago [-]
My story is similar!
vesterde 20 hours ago [-]
My friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
adamgordonbell 18 hours ago [-]
I'm not a diver but I suspect it can be learned. I have allergy issues that cause my ears to not equalize when allergies are hitting and I think I just learned how to do this. its just sort of muscle that can sort of be lightly controlled. Controlling one side vs the other I can't really manage.
vesterde 10 hours ago [-]
Ye ye, she is frustrated it's taking so long to learn it. It's so valuable for divers.
I get brainzaps sometimes, even when I take my SSRIs daily and with no withdrawal
jwrallie 20 hours ago [-]
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.
autoexec 19 hours ago [-]
Weird. A spike in blood pressure maybe? Can you do reproduce it consistently on purpose with an alarm or by holding something as you fall asleep that will make a loud noise when it falls?
jwrallie 17 hours ago [-]
Yes, I have never tried to reproduce it on purpose, but it happens consistently enough that I would be surprised if it does not happen at this point.
It happens simultaneously with the sound, so I would guess it is purely a weird form of synesthetic hallucination.
antii 33 minutes ago [-]
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FergusArgyll 2 hours ago [-]
Huh, call of the void is common and it has a name!
Great site
IncreasePosts 22 hours ago [-]
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
vesterde 22 hours ago [-]
To either my credit or against it, wikipedia provides a lot of the raw data. However that makes you feel.
I've been making this list for years as markdown files with a few sentences and links to wikipedia (or xkcd for his visual field comic), but the site is indeed made with the help of AI.
SA9G 22 hours ago [-]
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.
NDlurker 22 hours ago [-]
I remember choosing to not buy NVIDIA stock because Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Oops.
BLKNSLVR 21 hours ago [-]
I remember waiting for that to buy a GPU.
Still waiting...
Terr_ 22 hours ago [-]
But just think of how many many things you could have bought with the same knowledge which would have been mediocre or failed entirely.
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ksymph 20 hours ago [-]
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.
vesterde 10 hours ago [-]
I agree, the images will need iteration.
yzydserd 22 hours ago [-]
Only 30-40% of people encounter brain freeze?
Fabulous site.
Timwi 12 hours ago [-]
I experienced mild brain freeze as a child but it went away in adolescence. It doesn't seem pleasant so I don't envy those of you who get intense versions of it.
vesterde 22 hours ago [-]
So it seems, it just happens to include everyone I've ever talked to about it
ksymph 20 hours ago [-]
I'm surprised it's so few! I'm in the 60-70% here -- I've never gotten it (despite many deliberate efforts), but I've never known anyone else who seems to be immune.
pixl97 22 hours ago [-]
I have to be so careful eating cold things, it's like freeze++, brain glaciation.
khazhoux 2 hours ago [-]
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.
tompark 20 hours ago [-]
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.
OisinMoran 19 hours ago [-]
Ooh this is the closest description I've heard to one odd thing I had which was a satisfying feeling associated with two specific thicknesses (one around the thickness of a school copy book, the other around the thickness of a school maths book). At some points it could be activated by thinking about the thickness but long gone now.
Also had 3 more complex emotions/feelings/states that were a blend of certain particular things, not always that connected. For example one was mostly a combination of memories of my grandad's past (he died before I was born), and the Ratchet and Clank level "Metropolis". Similarly, the actual feeling of these is now gone. Anyone else have something similar?
The closest I've heard to that was Brian Eno in his film talking about something similar he seemed to have growing up with the colour purple.
vesterde 5 hours ago [-]
I started off having an nsfw tag, but it wasn't too populated, and decided for now to not include it. Might revisit.
phailhaus 20 hours ago [-]
This is delightful! What a nice and wholesome resource.
tobadzistsini 2 hours ago [-]
Aw, a vibe coded site. Give Claude a cookie.
amelius 21 hours ago [-]
Do we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)
vesterde 21 hours ago [-]
Not that I know of. But some people so far visiting the site have voted that they do no get hiccups, which is very odd.
jwrallie 20 hours ago [-]
I used to have them as a kid, even long stretches that prevented me from sleeping. I don’t remember having hiccups in the last 15 years. It just stopped happening at some point.
OisinMoran 19 hours ago [-]
Have a friend who has never had a headache!
HDBaseT 19 hours ago [-]
That is insane to me, as someone who suffers from chronic headaches every single day.
lelandbatey 21 hours ago [-]
You should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"
vesterde 21 hours ago [-]
It's there! :)
galangalalgol 20 hours ago [-]
Is voluntary piloerection really that unusual? I thought everyone could give themselves goosebumps?
Timwi 12 hours ago [-]
I certainly can't, and until now I'd never heard of it either (I'm over 40).
It's not uncommon to assume that other people's experiences are like one's own until told otherwise. For me, it took until at least age 10 before I realized that other people aren't near-deaf on the left side.
vesterde 11 hours ago [-]
I can't do it either... Needs a good song or scene or situation to trigger it...
java-man 22 hours ago [-]
This should be taught in school.
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tripdout 20 hours ago [-]
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.
Timwi 12 hours ago [-]
Or maybe you could start focusing on the content instead of how it's made.
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?
Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
That said, really good job here for those that can enjoy it without inducing panic attacks!
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 smell
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
It all goes away during the summer somehow.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
Fortunately, the Epley maneuver is very effective, if done correctly. Unfortunately, if done incorrectly it can worsen the symptoms. It's all about identifying in which semicircular canal are the otoliths before moving them.
I can fully block smells or breathing by doing something that feels like inflating a zone between the top of the mouth and the nose. When speaking it will sound as if I am pinching my nose without hands. Comes in handy when having to face horrible smells.
I assume everybody can do it but many don't know how.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/ysd5o2/is_i...
Thanks to everyone!
BTW sleep paralysis is likely the cause of many 'alien abduction' reports: wake up, can't move, presence in the room, sexual element (e.g. probing!).
I don't have much sleep weirdness, but when I'm about to fall asleep, I frequently imagine 3D object spinning and rapidly changing size. Kinda like the 3D TempleOS sprites [1], but 5x faster and increasing/decreasing size at the same rate.
1. https://youtu.be/LtlyeDAJR7A?t=451
Also always accompanied by fear.
Interestingly the belief of what the presence is has changed with culture. It used to be demons, now it is more likely to be aliens.
Definitely not pleasant, even when I'm rationally aware of what's going on.
I've never seen the shadow man or anything.
V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish.
Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.
"the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis
'quietly' - overused by Claude
the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example
"none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd
'unknown. nobody has counted it'
> One hypothesis joins the two.
This is 100% a good thing.
I love this website. It's fantastic. I don't care if it's AI. The world is better for it existing.
Phoned in websites / AI slop is not a good thing.
Code something yourself on neocities.
You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.
Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early.
I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc.
I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement.
We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.
There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species."
FFS we've stood on the moon.
The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.
And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need.
This is like 3D printing for software.
I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.
I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now.
> FFS we've stood on the moon.
And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.
We're really, really not.
Learning to program has never been easier or more accessible. Being able to build a website has been accessible to non-techies for years. I'll admit using an AI is convenient but "beyond remarkable" is pushing it. If anything it's a bit of a tragedy. In exchange for that convenience people are buying into a closed, third party mass surveillance infrastructure generating code they can't understand, can't repair, can't edit or redistribute. From a FOSS point of view AI is objectively worse than what we had. And that's not even getting into the flood of slop and disinformation destroying the web.
>I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.
I can't imagine you needed all of this done within a month and couldn't find existing solutions for most of it. It seems more like you're addicted than being productive.
And I still don't see the line between you vibe-coding a productivity app something something holograms and brain uploads and surfing on Titan.
>And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.
No, we aren't. We're no closer to than than we were 60 years ago. If you think Elon Musk is actually going to accomplish anything of the sort I think you're bound for disappointment.
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.
https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...
For me, I'm pretty sure it's related to having just awful seasonal allergies as a child - I'd quite often get stuffed up and have an unfortunate amount of pressure in my sinuses and ears. So then I'd pinch my nose and try to adjust it, eventually realizing I didn't need to pinch my nose.
It happens simultaneously with the sound, so I would guess it is purely a weird form of synesthetic hallucination.
Great site
I've been making this list for years as markdown files with a few sentences and links to wikipedia (or xkcd for his visual field comic), but the site is indeed made with the help of AI.
Yes, a rare but real human affliction.
Still waiting...
Fabulous site.
(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.
Also had 3 more complex emotions/feelings/states that were a blend of certain particular things, not always that connected. For example one was mostly a combination of memories of my grandad's past (he died before I was born), and the Ratchet and Clank level "Metropolis". Similarly, the actual feeling of these is now gone. Anyone else have something similar?
The closest I've heard to that was Brian Eno in his film talking about something similar he seemed to have growing up with the colour purple.
It's not uncommon to assume that other people's experiences are like one's own until told otherwise. For me, it took until at least age 10 before I realized that other people aren't near-deaf on the left side.
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.