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Show HN: Bodily Oddities
When I was about 11 years old, my best friend and I were playing during recess at school, and I was carrying him around on my back, presumably pretending to be a multipart attack robot. All of a sudden, my heart started hurting, and I collapsed to my knees, and the robot was no more. Every time I inhaled, it would feel like a spike was being driven into my heart, and my breathing got completely shallow. I was sure I was done for, when all of a sudden, after an exhale, it disappeared.
It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I learned this was called Precordial catch syndrome and it happens to most everyone. Every friend I've told about it was surprised, and also most knew the feeling.
I collected a growing list of strange things bodies do ever since. And now finally I made it into a little page for others to see:
https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/
It includes a form to tell me about new things, if you think they belong on the page. Feedback welcome!
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- treetalker 23d agoWhen 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 23d agoLovely! I mean odd… I will look into it, thanks!
- treetalker 23d agoIs this not something everybody feels?
- vesterde 23d agoI 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 22d agoI experience the falling feeling in my legs and feet as well.
- eep_social 21d agoI definitely do not know the feeling you’re describing. My favorite quirk of mine is aphantasia but kids are more entertained by ear wiggling.
- cameronh90 22d agoI thought this was universal. It's pretty easy to trigger for me, even quite abstract geometric shapes that look a bit like something falling from a height can trigger it.
- riffraff 22d agoI do not have this, but at this point I couldn't say if it's you folks or me who are "odd".
- yzydserd 23d agoOnly 30-40% of people encounter brain freeze? Fabulous site.
- vesterde 23d agoSo it seems, it just happens to include everyone I've ever talked to about it
- pixl97 23d agoI have to be so careful eating cold things, it's like freeze++, brain glaciation.
- ksymph 23d agoI'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.
- Timwi 23d agoI 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.
- java-man 23d agoThis should be taught in school.
- PowerElectronix 22d agoThat everyone is different of special in their own way? That has no place in a classroom!!
- xnx 23d agoHow is supertasting considered "rare" if it is 25% of people? https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/kinds/rare-ability/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/kinds/rare-ability/
- vesterde 23d agoYou're right, I moved it
- IncreasePosts 23d agoI 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 23d agoTo 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 23d agoThey 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.
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- NDlurker 23d agoI remember choosing to not buy NVIDIA stock because Ethereum moved to proof of stake. Oops.
- BLKNSLVR 23d agoI remember waiting for that to buy a GPU. Still waiting...
- Terr_ 23d agoBut just think of how many many things you could have bought with the same knowledge which would have been mediocre or failed entirely.
- andai 22d agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE
- rvba 21d agoImagine you heard about bitcoin when someone bought 20 000 of them for a pizza...
- bonsai_spool 23d agoVery 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 23d agoPlease 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 23d agoI 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 'unknown. nobody has counted it'
- ball_of_lint 22d agohttps://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightmares/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/geometric-nightma... > One hypothesis joins the two.
- phyzome 21d agoI'm not going to help people make their AI outputs harder to detect.
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- lelandbatey 23d agoYou should add "exploding head syndrome" which sounds crazy but is mostly "phantom loud noise especially as you're falling asleep"
- vesterde 23d agoIt's there! :)
- galangalalgol 23d agoIs voluntary piloerection really that unusual? I thought everyone could give themselves goosebumps?
- Timwi 23d agoI 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 23d agoI can't do it either... Needs a good song or scene or situation to trigger it...
- amelius 23d agoDo we have a theory yet why people hiccup? Wait, I just see you have a page on it :)
- vesterde 23d agoNot 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 23d agoI 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.
- morningsam 22d agoI once met a guy who said the same thing and was convinced that this was the usual case, whereas me still getting them as an adult was very unusual (this came up when I got them, apparently his first time seeing an adult do so).
- OisinMoran 23d agoHave a friend who has never had a headache!
- HDBaseT 23d agoThat is insane to me, as someone who suffers from chronic headaches every single day.
- nvalis 22d agoI learned diaphragmatic breathing pretty early in childhood. Later, I noticed that whenever I got the hiccups, taking a deep belly breath early on, usually within the first two or three hiccups, would make them stop. Over time, I learned to do this unconsciously, so nowadays it's basically a reflex as soon as a hiccup starts. Since then, I haven't really had any hiccups longer than one contraction.
- cmehdy 23d agoAwesome 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver
- vesterde 23d agoAh great! I'll put it on my list to read up on. Thanks
- cmehdy 23d agoAnother 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. https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/ysd5o2/is_it_uncommon_to_be_able_to_turn_off_your_nose https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/ysd5o2/is_i...
- Timwi 23d agoEverybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].
- vesterde 23d agoOh great point this will go on the oddity once I add it!
- onestay42 22d agoI belive that this is closing your soft pallate to the back of your throat. It should also happen when you swallow.
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- nonfamous 23d agoFascinating site! TIL the human eye can detect polarization of light (search for “Haidinger's brush”).
- snailmailman 22d agoInteresting! I’ve definitely seen and noticed this but never looked into it further. The Wikipedia page has an example image that aligns with my experience pretty well. I get migraines and weird visual auras with them sometimes. I assumed that this phenomenon was related. Didn’t realize I was actually seeing light polarization. These things are often hard to describe and look up. Good to hear that this is likely benign.
- adamgordonbell 23d agoRare but useless Voluntary tube opener here. Ask me anything. https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustachian-tube-opening/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/voluntary-eustach...
- vesterde 23d agoMy friend who does free diving would kill to be able to do it! She can't learn it.
- adamgordonbell 23d agoI'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 23d agoYe ye, she is frustrated it's taking so long to learn it. It's so valuable for divers.
- andai 22d agoMy mum taught me the ear popping thing, while we were traveling by air, to relieve the ear pressure. I can do it on command but never paid attention to how before. It's basically "yawning manually". There's a couple different muscles activating at the same time, most irrelevant to the popping, I can't control them individually yet. (Probably learnable, if I practiced I could probably get the pop more efficiently.) But yeah, just yawn real wide, that should do it. A lot of stuff is learnable, like I couldn't move my ears but taught myself how to do it because I was bored.
- zhivota 22d agoFor me I describe it more as trying to open your jaw with the muscles near your ear, while holding the jaw in place with the main jaw muscles. Like an isometric hold. I actually didn't know I could do it until now, I could always get the click and it's how I clear ear popping sensations but I didn't realize it I push it harder I get the hollow voice thing and apparently it's useful for diving. Cool.
- intrasight 23d agoSleep 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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- pavel_lishin 23d agoI'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 23d agoI 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.
- Rendello 22d agoI'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. 1. https://youtu.be/LtlyeDAJR7A?t=451 https://youtu.be/LtlyeDAJR7A?t=451
- alexpotato 23d agoAn 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 smell 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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- stronglikedan 22d agoI 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.
- kraquepype 22d agoI have this as well, and all my kids seem to as well. Never knew that it was part of fighter pilot screening, that is interesting.
- avadodin 22d agoI'm the only one with the reflex in my family including parents and children. They all think I am insane blaming the sun for my sneezes.
- NoImmatureAdHom 22d agoDo you like to eat? Or do it out of a sense of duty?
- EvanAnderson 22d agoYeah-- no kidding. When I was anosmic with COVID I couldn't eat much of anything. Food was just terrible. I still remember the soulless paste that was peanut butter. (Ugh. It was so bad...)
- tripdout 23d agoFascinating, 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 23d agoOr maybe you could start focusing on the content instead of how it's made.
- jwrallie 23d agoSomething 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 23d agoWeird. 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 23d agoYes, 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 22d agoExploding head syndrome?
- jwrallie 22d agoThe sounds are real, for example someone will ring the doorbell while I’m about to fall asleep, I'll both hear and “see” the sound. I do get explosion head syndrome as well, but that is rare in my case.
- hermitcrab 22d ago>if I’m about to fall asleep and I happen to hear a loud noise nearby, https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-hallucinations/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-halluc... >I also see a flash of light with my closed eyelids. You might want to talk to a optician about that. It can be a sign of issues with your retina. I see flashes in a dark room when I wake up, because I have PVDs (posterior vitreous detachment) in both eyes. Edit: I just re-read your post. If they both happen together, I think it is something different.
- ksymph 23d agoThis 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 23d agoI agree, the images will need iteration.
- tompark 23d agoI 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 23d agoOoh 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 22d agoI started off having an nsfw tag, but it wasn't too populated, and decided for now to not include it. Might revisit.
- andai 22d ago>orgasmic quiver very interesting google results for this one lol
- phailhaus 23d agoThis is delightful! What a nice and wholesome resource.
- VCFundedGenYer 23d agoThis 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 22d agoIn 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.
- LiberaVeritas 23d agoI get brainzaps sometimes, even when I take my SSRIs daily and with no withdrawal
- tacodestroyer 22d agoHere I am clicking on everything to see if I have it :D
- vesterde 22d agoYou'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!
- robotnikman 22d agoRandom chest pains like you describe cause so much anxiety for me. And yet every time it turns out to be nothing.
- kraquepype 22d agoI would get that as well - I ended up at the urgent care a few times just because it was so painful and unsettling. It was never diagnosed but I'm pretty sure it was costochondritis - something in my sternum area was inflamed and would give off this awful shooting chest pain.
- khazhoux 22d agoI 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.
- ulrikrasmussen 22d agoThe 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 22d agoI also had something like this. Again as a kid, with fever. Very unsettling. But I don't remember having it as an adult. Strange.
- guessmyname 22d agoSame here. I also recall them when I had fevers in my childhood. I attribute them to the fact that, while trying to sleep with a fever, my eyes are half-open, and any sharp object becomes a visible geometric shape that my brain attempts to comprehend but almost fails to. I still experience them in adulthood. I’ve never had sleep paralysis, but whenever I think of people who have it, I imagine it feels as debilitating as these half-sleep experiences where you’re unable to move while your brain processes distressing memories. “Geometric Nightmares” is not a scientific name. It is simply the name given to this phenomenon in forums [1][2] where people discuss and share their experiences. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreams/comments/7ofu86/x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreams/comments/7ofu86/x/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/geometricnightmares/ https://www.reddit.com/r/geometricnightmares/
- Alex-Programs 22d agoInteresting. I recently discovered that my sister and I have identical geometric nightmares, down to every detail, while everyone else I mention this to thinks it's insane. I wonder whether there's a genetic aspect?
- chaps 22d agoLast time I stopped smoking cannabis I got these for a couple days. They are intense. The most recent was kind of like taking a slow rollercoaster ride through three black hole sized perfect spheres orbiting nothing. Another one was less geometric but was basically me getting sucked into a black hole. Both had this almost lucid dreaming feel where my entire sense of self became condensed into a single point... but I was still there, aware of what was happening... it was incredibly memorable.
- tobadzistsini 22d agoAw, a vibe coded site. Give Claude a cookie.
- FergusArgyll 22d agoHuh, call of the void is common and it has a name! Great site
- RobotToaster 22d agoSince you have deja vu, you could add Jamais vu, the opposite. Also prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
- andai 22d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu The feeling that you haven't experienced something before, which should by all accounts feel familiar to you. >A study by Chris Moulin of Leeds University asked 92 volunteers to write out "door" 30 times in 60 seconds. He reported that 68 percent of volunteers showed symptoms of jamais vu, such as beginning to doubt that "door" was a real word. I also like this poster: https://files.catbox.moe/ejj1jl.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/ejj1jl.jpg
- abustamam 22d agoThats an interesting poster. Is it real? Im just trying to understand what an MTA employee would do with that information. This seems very portal-y. On the jamais-vu front, I once had to write "school" a few hundred times in detention and it stopped having meaning because I began to just see it as the jumble of letters id been writing for the previous hour, perhaps as a coping mechanism, rather than doubting it was a real world. Thats interesting though.
- abustamam 22d agoMy wife swears that I have prosopognosia because whenever she shows me a celebrity face I'm like who's that? And shes like "Brad Pitt!" I dont think I actually have it, because there's enough times where I'm at a social gathering and I know i recognize a lot of people but I may not remember their names, but it's funny nonetheless.
- stronglikedan 22d agoI 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!
- hermitcrab 22d agoInteresting site. I get the occasional Hypnopompic auditory illusion ( https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/hypnagogic-hallucinations/ 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?
- K0balt 22d agoI get the someone pounding on the door at night thing, wakes me out of a heavy sleep. Never anyone actually knocking.
- hermitcrab 22d agoHypnogogic and hypnopompic auditory hallucinations occur when you are falling asleep or waking up, so it might be something different if it is happening if you are in deep sleep. (not an expert on this)
- K0balt 22d agoWell, I wake up lol, so ??? But I definitely feel like I was awakened from deep sleep. Wieerd stuff.
- nurbl 22d agoFunny, that happened to me just this morning, I awoke from some kind of alarm signal, very close by. But I could not find any possible source for it, so I am sure it was part of a dream. In fact I forgot about it until now. About the second thing, I have felt something similar. Especially the part about it originating around the collar bone and neck. It's probably something like a nerve misfiring. I sometimes think it's weird that the body doesn't misbehave more often than it does, it's an enormously complex system after all.
- lpghatguy 22d agoThe 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.
- bogwog 22d agoIt should be illegal to publish AI horrors like this: https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/gleeking/ Life in prison (at least) But more on topic, this site is a cool idea but with the lamest execution ever. Whatever effort you might have put into collecting these phenomenon is overshadowed by the lazy AI slop. It doesn't seem like you're earning anything from this, so you just donated money to Anthropic/OpenAI/whatever in order to underwhelm/revolt/possibly-mislead some people. You could've done that with a simple goatse link for free.
- smusamashah 22d agoI know someone who can literally vibrate their eyes sideways. It is very odd to see. You can see his eyes rapidly moving left/right but only a centimeter or less. Don't know if this has a name.
- andai 22d agoNah, it's cool.
- hermitcrab 22d agoProctalgia fugax (https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/proctalgia-fugax/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/proctalgia-fugax/), also known as "shooty arse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USB90D7ywiE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USB90D7ywiE
- andai 22d agoThe video is oddly comforting. "Everyone gets it!" I remember reading about the phenomenon, that it was colitis (inflammation of the arse, presumably due to gut flora imbalance).
- EGreg 22d agoJust because LLMs can write copy for webpages doesn't mean they should. A landing page should not warrant a tl;dr.
- minimaxir 22d agoIf you're going to mock me by repeating my own words on a different HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665394), at least make it make sense because this is not analogous other than the Claude-esque design (which to be fair could be better). There is human intentionality in terms of how the information is presented (e.g. using Astro.js) and wit and it is not verbose or the output of just telling Claude to output as much detail as possible, and per the comments from the author, fixing any Claudisms instead of embracing them.
- rideontime 22d agoHow bizarre. He's attempting to troll you by leaving a negative comment on a different person's post?
- minimaxir 22d agoThe logic is supposed be that "someone else did the same thing as I did, so what I did was correct and your criticism is therefore wrong". It's on me for randomly checking comments to see if people are acting in bad faith. Sometimes, they are.
- EGreg 20d agoAlright since you’re going to express moral indignation, allow me to say what I really think. I think it is incredibly rude to go on a SHOW HN where a person may have (as in this case) spent months on an actual project and finally shows it, only to completely ignore everything about the actual project and snarkily announcs to everyone that it was “TL;DR” or these days “it smelled like LLM wrote the front page, so I didnt read anything! Haha nyeh nyeh.” Imagine someone raised a child to play the piano, they ask you to listen to their performance and you leave a comment “didn’t bother watching — the thumbnail sucks, and this child is wearing unappealing clothing”. In real life, you’d never do that. You know it’s wrong. You would probably get ostracized and rightly considered a jerk or in any case the parents would really take it badly. You can just privately ignore the post. But to announce it as the first comment and make sure everyone else sees it — I would never shit on people’s projects like that. In frustration, I left your exact comment on another SHOW HN that happened to have a nice AI-generated page, but the difference was … it was already trending and had many comments, so my comment barely registered. So I did what you did — which was wrong and uncouth — but on something where it was the 20th comment, all the way on the bottom. But here’s the best part. Then you show up, and explain, in your self-righteous way, that, you see, actually, what you did was right, but the exact same comment on another AI-generated website is totally wrong, because of ad-hoc nuance analysis you just made up. And everyone should be aware of this exact nuance, which you are now handwaving, because you are morally right and the other person than you shit on is morally wrong. Suffice it to say that I think your whole analysis is backwards. What you did was rude, and what I did was a milder version of that. The bad faith is you then trying to further invent nuance as to why what you did is great and I’m in bad faith. Sorry buddy. Totally backwards.
- smusamashah 22d agoI can move my ears. But it's not ears alone, whole scalp skin seems to move and ears get pulled from behind as a result. I learned it from my uncle as kid though by trying to do the same as him.
- ColinWright 22d agoI can do each ear independently.
- andai 22d agoI was unable to do this, and was promptly angered by my own incompetence, and overcame it through sheer force of will. (Made funny faces in the mirror for an hour.)
- abustamam 22d agoSo you can move the entire ear rather than just wiggle the tip? I can wiggle one ear, very slightly, and it looks like im having an aneurysm when I do it.
- troupo 22d agoThere are two motions you can do. One is the "smile". When you smile, your ears (mostly the lower part, the lobule) go up. You can isolate the muscles that pull the skin/ear and donit without smiling. The other one is the "surprise". Extreme surprise pulls the skin towards the back of the skull. The upper part (the lobe) goes back. You can isolate those muscles, too. John Hamm has this often in Mad Men
- smusamashah 21d agoNo. It's like the skin behind ears is pulled moving ear slightly back. Can't move tips.
- andai 22d agoBrilliant website. And Bodily Oddity is a great name. I wish I had kept a notebook of this stuff as a kid, I remember having a lot of odd experiences and sharing them with my friends, but it was so long ago now. I think most of them were visual oddities. I remember seeing floaters for the first time, and asking my mother about them. "Oh, that's just [neighbor] throwing trash out the window." The delights of growing up in Eastern Europe! I also get these "worms", bright glowing white. I heard they might be white blood cells moving through capillaries, but why would they be glowing? I usually see them after cardio. Another fun thing to do is to stare at one point until your entire visual field goes grey (the afterimage cancels out the image... "neurons get tired" or something), then slightly move back/forward or slightly rotate your head, producing very interesting patterns from the interference... I should write a book...
- Retr0id 22d agoAhhhhhh! Thank you for mentioning Precordial catch syndrome. I read about it some time ago, and experienced it several times, and then forgot what it was called. Even with the help of LLMs I was unable to re-discover the name of it.
- Segv77 22d agoThe geometric nightmare thread is wild. Getting the same shifting shapes across unrelated people suggests it's wired into how the visual system fails, not learned.
- wewewedxfgdf 22d agoI get those brain zaps from anti depressants. Bzzzzzzt! I also get floaters in my eyes sometimes which is weird because they appear outside your primary point of focus, which you move to get a better look, but because the floater is in your eye then it moves away as you shift your direction of focus. A strange experience. I also get hypnic jerks in my legs when I am tired - the leg twitches - it's a sign I'm at absolute peak need for sleep. I once revealed to friends that I get Pee Shivers, assuming everyone does - they do not and I was laughed at. :-) Oh. and I am a voluntary burper. Now you know more than you ever wanted to.
- moonshinefe 22d agoVery cool website. I'm not sure if this is worthy of adding, but sometimes if I eat something extremely salty I get a pain in what feels like my saliva glands for 3-5 seconds or so after the first taste (it then goes away). I think it's the same as in this reddit post where others describe it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DAE/comments/1hw4xx3/dae_ever_get_an_uncomfortable_sensation_in_their/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DAE/comments/1hw4xx3/dae_ever_get_a...
- riffraff 22d agoI share this (in hindsight, hasn't happened in a while). I always assumed it was the saliva glands going into overdrive. I didn't think/realize it was limited to salty things, to me it was connected to things I really like.
- baxuz 22d agoSorry, AI slop
- riffraff 22d agoThere's a nice booklet called "experimenting with babies" which covers a lot of these in, well, babies and small children. The book is not as good as the title, but it may contain some oddities you're not aware of.
- ToriTech 22d agoI've had closed-eye hallucinations my entire life. When I was a little kid, I used to be able to see geometric patterns or just sparkles. If I pressed my palm gently over my eyes, I'd be able to change those patterns or make them pulsate. I would spend a lot of time trying to figure out what exactly I was seeing, and then end up falling asleep. Nowadays I still have them, but they're less vivid and mostly appear as colorful specks or just as lights. It's kind of hard to put into words.
- thinkingemote 22d agoIt's very common for people to get the pressure on eye thing by the way there's a wiki page somewhere.
- SamBam 21d agoWere your geometric figures Form Constants? I learned about those from the novel Blindsight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
- ToriTech 21d agoKinda? They sometimes do sort of look like cobweb or tunnel patterns but not always. They're different every time.
- teekert 22d agoWhen I slowly shake my shoulders I feel and hear air going from one lung into the other. But not 100% sure if that is what it is.
- WA 22d agoMonday is a light brownish, Tuesday black, Wednesday blue, Thursday ochre, Friday dark blue, Saturday white/silver, Sunday black. January blue, February brownish, March is black and white, April green, May black, June yellow, July darker yellow, August dark green, September ochre, October blue, November brown, December black. Thanks for coming to my synesthesia TED talk.
- robinduckett 22d ago“Prime numbers are bright orange” - Sheldon Cooper
- ProllyInfamous 20d agoHaving read plenty of Dr. Oliver Sacks (e.g: Man Who Mistook Wife for Hat), there has almost-certainly been a savant ("idiot," or not) with this actual ability – and nobody knew how it worked (it just did), similarly to the documents Sacks-patient that immediately knew how many toothpicks were on any table (in the hundreds-to-thousands)... but could otherwise not talk. ---- To explain this with a DCC metaphor: NEW ACHIEVEMENT: All prime numbers now glow bright orange, including entire mobs (if they contain prime number of living members). This includes those cute little toes of yours, Carl. Don't question this, it just is. ---- My favorite Sacks patients were the non-verbal aphasics laughing at Nixon's public TV appearances (because they were experts at telling if people were lying [by laughing at non-verbal cues]), otherwise disconnected from society.
- gyomu 22d agoWhat does that mean? Like if it's Monday, do you see light brownish everywhere throughout the day? Or is it when you see the word "Monday" written out that the color comes to your mind? And/or if someone says the word "Monday"? If it's Monday and I tell you "want to grab lunch tomorrow", do you see black? If I tell you that Monday in Japanese is pronounced "nichiyoubi", do you see light brownish when seeing "nichiyoubi" now? Actually I lied that was Sunday, Monday is pronounced "getsuyoubi" - do you see light brownish when I write "getsuyoubi" now? If not for Japanese and you've learned a foreign language, how long until Monday in that language was light brownish? Questions coming from legitimate curiosity! I really want to understand what you mean by "Monday is a light brownish". If someone asks me to come up with a color for say March, light green comes to my mind instantly - probably because of the association with spring (same with eg Christmas and red, or January and white) but I don't think I would say that "March is light green", so you're probably talking about something else.
- vixen99 22d agoWhat a great idea recording & collating these remarkable instances. It tells us so much about actual and, who knows, potential human capabilities. Rather exciting!
- AFF87 22d agoReally liked your "toys", Demjan. I am on a similar quest, it's so good to be able to prototype fast with AI those silly ideas
- prmph 22d agoInteresting project. One small suggestion though: try to always make the first sentence show fully in the card. Several times I was a bit miffed I had to actually click to find out what a card was about, when it would have been better for me to get the gist in advance to know if it was something I wanted to read about.
- vesterde 20d agoThat makes sense, thanks!
- marton78 22d agoAmazing webpage. Now do commonly occurring dreams!
- jgalt212 21d agoDisappointingly, no results for penis or vagina.
- CableNinja 21d agoInteresting, something that wasnt covered on your site, although the inverse is. I sometimes get the opposite of the troxler effect, the center of my vision goes "black" while the edges stay visible. The black center gets "worse" if my eyes stay still, and is usually accompanied by a halo of various colors. It goes away after a few minutes. Ive never found a consistent trigger for it, sometimes light changes will do it (going from outside to inside) but not consistently, it can also just seemingly randomly happen
- saulpw 21d agoSounds like a migraine.
- CableNinja 21d agoNo migraine associated with it when this happens, just "inverted tunnel vision", goes away after 5-10 minutes
- saulpw 20d agoMigraines don't have to be painful, and 'inverted tunnel vision' is one of the effects I've experienced.
- readergreader 21d agoSuch a great idea and implementation! I found out I had Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child, after being sick with a 107+ fever - https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/alice-in-wonderland-syndrome/ https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/oddities/alice-in-wonderla.... It lasted for a few years, occasionally recurring. I guess this was teleopsia, although my experience was that I could not tell what the distance was to an object. Very odd feeling, and pretty scary. Nobody I told about it had any idea what I was talking about.
- Minimaator 21d agoThe geometric patterns and checkerboards you see when pressing gently on your closed eyes as a kid (phosphenes). As a child, I used to treat it like a built-in screensaver or kaleidoscope before sleep, completely unaware that it was just mechanical stimulation of the retinal cells producing false electrical signals.
- travishcronin 20d agoI had this exact same thing happen as a kid and thought it was asthma related. Never knew what it was until now!
- scamdrill 17d agoLove this. Thank you for making something fun and educational.