Well, I can still do a cartwheel, it’s good for surprising children. Thumbs bend backwards.
I can also reach all of me, which my husband seems to think odd, can put sunscreen on my own back so I don’t think it’s useless.
We have a couple things that run in the family. All men in my direct family (so me, my dad and my brother) can twist our mouths in both directions at once, so upper lip one side lower lip the other side, looks funky. We can also do eyebrow dances with moving only single eyebrows but I think that’s more common.
I can crack the knuckles of my big toes at will (only moving my toes, no hands involved).
Me too! But only the ones on my right foot.
I can dislocate my shoulder to the music of Billy Joel. The Pawnee Journal once called it, "Why would anyone do this?”
Why especially the music of Joel?
It’s a quote from Parks and Recreation.
You know that feeling you get when you listen to really awesome music and your hair stands on end and your skin has like an electric tingle all the way up and down? I can do that feeling at will. It’s called ‘voluntary frisson’, normally an autonomic response. Makes music a real.trip.
I can spiral my tongue, so that the front part is fully upsidr down - but only to the left. I can’t rotate it to the right at all for some reason, it’s like the equivalent muscles are missing.
I can hum and whistle at the same time. Makes me sound kinda like a Theremin
There’s a bit of me that I can put in certain other people, and it will cause a smaller version of us to form.
I can put both my hands In a “pray” position behind my back between my shoulder blades. I can vibrate my eyes. Perpetually crack my right ankle. And pull my arm out of it’s socket.
I can vibrate my eyes.
Oh shit. You just gave me a memo of middle/high school. I use to be able to do that. I just checked and maybe if I keep practicing, but it’s not there anymore.
Someone I knew did it to me in school. Like just vibrated their eyes while looking at me. Then asked if I could do that. Well no, but it intrigued my young ass enough to figure out how he did it. He told me and after a few days I was able to do it pretty easy.
I can snap with my toes the same way people snap their fingers, but only with the right foot for some reason.
I can make fart sounds by squeezing my palms together
I can do the same by cupping my hand in my armpit then jerking my arm down like a chicken wing real fast. Is this still a thing? I haven’t been a kid since the 70’s
I’m in my 20s but totally still a thing when I was a kid.
I can flex some muscle in my head that causes a roaring sound in my ears. Not sure what that’s for.
Same here. Someone else in the thread said that’s your tensor tympani muscle.
I can make a rumbling sound in my ears just by concentrating on it.
Congratulations you have voluntary control of your tensor tympani muscle.
huh. I didn’t know others couldn’t do this