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  • 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.
    by treetalker
  • Lovely! I mean odd… I will look into it, thanks!
    by vesterde
  • I 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.
    by cameronh90
  • Very 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_a...

    by moonshinefe
  • I 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.

    by riffraff
  • 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].

    It all goes away during the summer somehow.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver

    by cmehdy
  • Ah great! I'll put it on my list to read up on. Thanks
    by vesterde
  • If I understand correctly this is the same as BPPV which is on there :)
    by leafmeal
  • 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.

    by ASalazarMX
  • I 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.
    by smusamashah
  • I can do each ear independently.
    by ColinWright
  • So 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.

    by abustamam
  • Interesting 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.

    by prmph
  • That makes sense, thanks!
    by vesterde
  • The 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.
    by lpghatguy
  • Most of them are pretty good. He just has to hunt down the bad ones and fix them.
    by BeetleB
  • Generating those has been its own little project inside the project. Many iterations to go.
    by vesterde
  • 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
    by IncreasePosts
  • 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.

    by vesterde
  • 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?

    by hermitcrab
  • I get the doorbell too, super weird.

    Headcanon: Cortisol spike right before you wake up. Brain goes, "something must have alarmed me", and cooks up phenomena: loud noise, feeling of falling/tripping, etc.

    by andai
  • I get the someone pounding on the door at night thing, wakes me out of a heavy sleep. Never anyone actually knocking.
    by K0balt
  • Funny, 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.

    by nurbl
  • 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.
    by ulrikrasmussen
  • 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.
    by hermitcrab
  • I had a recurring abstract nightmare as a small kid (don't think it was related to fever but I guess those were pretty common) which was basically about a line, gradually becoming messier and messier until it was all just a big jumble. I could never explain it to anyone else, but it terrified me for a time.
    by nurbl
  • Last 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.
    by chaps
  • Interesting. 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?
    by Alex-Programs
  • I used to have something like this as an adolescent/teenager, but while I was awake. It’d feel like my whole body became enormous and numb, and if I closed my eyes I’d see cascading geometric shapes collapsing in on themselves, and it would feel like I was falling constantly.

    So I’d just slowly put my head on the desk and ride it out until I was returned to my body

    by ycombinete
  • Had them as a kid. A canvas in beige that spanned my whole view and was the entire world. There was an invisible opponent and we played a game. You filled half of the seemingly infinite canvas with black or a dark blue. Then the other person until no beige remained. I always lost.
    by WA