To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.
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I have this power, and it is in fact... super
A friend of mine does too.
I'm ready to form a supervillain league with the sole motivation of performing unethical research experiments on your kind. This power must be brought to the masses!
The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.
You could make some serious money with this power. You could find anyone's lost pet or keepsake.
You could also find missing people. This one has serious potential for good. Realistically, though, the CIA (or your country's equivalent) would take you into custody and force you to do their bidding.
[Breathing Intensifies]
- Captain Jack Sparrow
Ability to force anyone to objectively confront their own cognitive dissonance by maintaining eye contact.
Possibly too powerful. Some heads may spontaneously combust from a lifetime of preferring their own reality.
Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.
That would force you to selectively use it since often times reality is somewhere between our personal view of it and other opposing views.
Chose the wrong situation and you'll both be crying in the corner with shatter worlds. Chose the ones where the people are truly disconnected from reality and perhaps you'll change their lives - hopefully for the better.
Ok but to balance it: it forces you to confront your own on the topic as well.
I was actually tempted to include that in the original, but I didn't want to belabor it. :)
I'm fine with this, and would prefer it that way.
Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.
How about any insect that smells you? I don't want curious insects all over me even if only for a second.
You know when you have a discussion or confrontation, and six hours later you realize what you should have said? My superpower would be the wits to always think of the right thing immediately.
Remote restroom usage
Your wish is granted. Here is a box of extra absorbent adult diapers.
Cleaning up / scrubbing / etc. is as effortless as it appears on commercials.
The ability to fall asleep instantly, anywhere, and choose exactly how long to sleep... And get a full rest regardless of how long that is.
Perfect control over memory.
So able to remember anything with high detail, but also able to forget the cringey stuff from middle school
To be able to hear the soundtrack. Like, if I walk into a building and hear the Psycho βreep reep!β Iβll get the hell out. But if I walk into that same building and hear βbow chicka bow wowβ, Iβm staying.
I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.
When in an argument I want the ability to know what my opponent has to say in advance so I can always interrupt and finish their sentences. Every single one of them.
For people who are interested in the same things I am to glow faintly, the more similar interest, the more they glow.
The abilty to change the color of anything.
Anything that would be improved by paint is on the table at a thought.
Likely way to powerful in a combat sense. You could tag enemy combatiants on a battlefield in dayglo orange or turn the whole landscape into that zebra ship paint they used in ww2. Hell, you could just turn everything bright white during the day and black at night except the enemy. Would be a nightmare.
Still, really neat.
Not quite mind control, but I'd like the ability to blast common sense into morons minds by looking at them. Like a psychic mind dart that says, "maybe this line has a purpose and I should get in queue instead of trying to force my way in from the outside" or "maybe I should listen to the sign that says 'don't put your kid on a railing above tiger enclosure.'"
I'd like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying "bipity bopity boo" quietly.
When I tell my wife to calm down, she gets in a better mood and not a worse one.
Instead of saying "calm down" try to say "I hear you" and actually listen. Might be the super power you seek
Only needing an hour or two of sleep per night, but getting all the rejuvenating effects of a perfect nightβs sleep. I hope I would be productive with that time.
I'd like to relax people around me, make them happy and communicative. Imagine entering public transport during rush hour, and all of a sudden, everyone around you puts away the phone and people start to talk to eachother, with a smile on their face.
Knowing which of the last two pieces of fruit on my plate is sweeter.
I'd like to be able to double jump, platform video game-style. Mostly pointless in daily life, but imagine how good it would feel?
Instead of sleeping at night, let me just plug in to a charger. It would be much more convenient and reliable.
I would like to know every song's lyrics upon hearing the first 10 seconds, think of the karaoke nights π€
Knowing everything about my body.
What is my current blood sugar? O2 level electrolyte status? How much shit do I have in my colon?
1 pound telekinesis in my line of sight. You won't be opening any safes or stealing anyone's gun, but you can do plenty of incredible stuff with even the weakest supernatural power.
I think I would be robbing casinos and thumbing the scale all over the place. It doesn't take much to make marginal opportunities into steady gains if you can cheat physics and break probability.
I would love to have the ability to know for any journey, no matter how complex, what time I need to leave to arrive on time.
Ability to have perfectly control how awake i am
Take a mental note that I could review later without worry of forgetting it, for times when jotting something down normally isnβt practical such as while driving.
Is breathing underwater too exceptional? Iβd settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)
Your purpose in life is now to supply power to the grid. At first it'll be great, you're celebrated as a neat way to keep the baseline juice coming as fossil fuels phase out. Then you're asked to stay back a few hours as there's a shortfall predicted, you oblige out of duty. Then one day you wake up in a drugged daze, strapped to a giant battery, your nutritional needs piped directly to your bloodstream as scientists ever so carefully cut you open to try and figure out how this works, because despite their best efforts to keep your wrecked body alive, one day you will die, and the utter reliance of the grid on your free energy will die with it, and with that kick off the downfall of humanity.
I'd wave my hand and people arguing or hating in front of me or online, would suddenly be peaceful and conjointly coming up with solutions to their problems.