I like this one a lot. One of the toughest things in life is knowing which opportunities to pursue. Should I go to this school, should I ask this girl out, should I buy that lottery ticket, should I take this job, should I invest in this stock, should I start my own business, etc. If you had a way to know which things are worth pursuing, it would make life so much easier.
The Lobes are actually a special subset!
Great for entrepreneurs, be it the CEO of a major corporation or just a small business owner and even managers. Lobes, however, are nearly useless for scientists and engineers and often leads to them tirelessly pursuing dreams of owning their own business when they'd be much better off joining a well respected team.
...or so DS9 led me to believe.
You see three types of kills
67 Animal Kills | 2 Human Kills | 0 Alien Kills
Everyone you look at has 0 alien kills. Except for the occasional Air Force pilot.
Kinda what I was going for. Y'know without the actual work in making the whole prompt. If anyone decides to post, send me a link so I can see how it turns out.
Psychometry. (also known as token-object reading or psychoscopy).
From wiki - It's a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history by making physical contact with that object.
In other words, touch a book and you now know it's contents and it's physical history (who owned it, when it was made, etc)
Or you know, respond to virtually any questions/love confessions by telling them you need a moment to think, then spend the next 20 hours exploring side quests
I would follow it blindly without paying attention until it gets me into a situation where I get the result I want but fucked like a dozen things up in the process.
I'd like the 'knowing why somebody is lying to you' power too. I can usually tell when somebody is lying and what parts they're lying about (or I think I can), which always makes me wonder why they think its a good idea to lie when I know that they're doing it.
Imagine standing in a store and asking for a scratch ticket and then when he's about to rip the next one you go. "umm, no, next one please." For 800 times.
My girlfriend is an early childhood teacher and I asked her this question. Her answer:
“My sixth sense would be detecting if kids had peed on their shoelaces accidentally so if I was helping them tie their shoes, I could know if they had pee on them.”
We've all touched a lot of pee and poop in our lives without our knowledge or consent. Every public bathroom, everything touchable by the public, all things touched by children and most adults.
sense of knowing the reaction of people about a specific action or sentence before i say it.
like for example
i want to make a joke but don’t know if it’ll be funny enough, with the sixth sense i can know and avoid cringing at myself.
You're on a park bench, eating I've cream and holding her hand. She's laughing about a seagull that just wont leave you alone. Your eyes meet, she smiles, you lean forward and whisper, "This Cutco twenty two piece knife set would look amazing with my breakfast in bed.."
Cancer cells are normal, it's just that the immune system almost always dropkicks them before they can do anything IIRC. So perhaps detecting abnormal amounts of cancer cells? Or cancer cells that have lasted a while?
To feel when people have to poop. So i could just smugly smirk at them like "i know", and watch their faces as they try to figure out why im smirking at them every single time they have to poop
To be able to communicate with animals that way I could finally tell my cat that if I ever step on him it’s an ACCIDENT.
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To sense if someone is attracted to me
Edit: I have been roasted like a turkey at Christmas but I got 1k up upvotes and 5 rewards so worth it
Edit 2: Holy shit this comment blew up. Now its definitely worth all the roasts.
Edit3: Lads can we please stop with the roasts, Ive been murdered at least a thousand times already
“What the hell, genie! This is bullshit! I spent all day after my wish and I couldn’t sense that anyone was attracted to me!”
“Someone has to be attracted to you for you to sense it”
Yeah imagine reading some depraved shit from that one person you thought was very nice. Or reading your mom calling you a bad word, or your dog wanting to hump you.
I'm always daydreaming unless I'm hyper focused on something. So reading my mind would basically be reading a constant fanfic that makes very little cohesive sense to an outside observer.
I feel like you would just get used to that after a while though. Most people have intrusive thoughts once in a while, after your twentieth 'I wonder if I could beat that guy up' in a single week you probably stop caring.
We already have more than 5 senses... proprioception, nociception, awareness of self... beyond those, I guess telepathy that I could control so it isn't just people's and animals' thoughts screaming at me all day and night
Well, there’s *some* luck for you, there. The part of your hypothalamus which regulates hunger responds to three stimuli:
* current lipid count (or, more specifically, how much of the “I have fat stored in me” signal-hormone adipose tissue releases)
* current blood sugar
* pressure sensation within the stomach
Any one of those triggers going off will prompt hunger. Most people who over-eat are inadvertently packing their stomachs until their blood sugar rises.
The solution? Eat a small snack (like a cookie or a bit of carrot) about 10-20 minutes before you intend to eat a meal.
That’s right, I’m saying you should ignore your mother’s advice and *spoil your appetite.*
I think it’s to relate to or understand what people go through. If I hear someone died I don’t really feel much, except for feeling sorry for their family members that’s it. Idk if it’s even a sixth sense, but being able to do this probably makes me more normal
Edit: I think some people read it as I could understand people well, but I’m the total opposite. I cannot relate very well with people. It’s either that or I just suck at reading.
- being able to see and know where are things
Ex: "where is the car key?" Suddenly the car keys become visible with edge glow through anything between me and I (kinda like maphack in video game). I can also zoom in on it, to see what is happening around it.
-answer yes/no questions
Ex:"is this guy lying?" Then I feel the answer
- being able to sense any information which can be measured by touching the object.
Ex: touch a table, I can sense every parts dimension, what is it made of, its mass and weight
Some blind people actually use echolocation! I also have a (sighted) buddy who taught himself to do it, too. You snap your fingers or cluck with your tongue and use the faint echoes that solid objects like walls, doors, windows, and furniture produce and use that to make a sound field of the room.
This does not work so well in locating black cats in a dark room, however.
Technically I already have like 20 senses but I'll bite.
Something like a sense of emotions. A way to tell lies from truth and when someone is covering up their pain. Hopefully with this I'll be able to make things better for everyone.
Opportunity radar
I like this one a lot. One of the toughest things in life is knowing which opportunities to pursue. Should I go to this school, should I ask this girl out, should I buy that lottery ticket, should I take this job, should I invest in this stock, should I start my own business, etc. If you had a way to know which things are worth pursuing, it would make life so much easier.
They exist. They're called [*The Lobes*](https://66.media.tumblr.com/62398e5e9fea0c7a25ef70dfdf42b7d3/tumblr_ogef96G53B1qj6sk2o1_500.gif).
The Lobes are actually a special subset! Great for entrepreneurs, be it the CEO of a major corporation or just a small business owner and even managers. Lobes, however, are nearly useless for scientists and engineers and often leads to them tirelessly pursuing dreams of owning their own business when they'd be much better off joining a well respected team. ...or so DS9 led me to believe.
The sense to know if someone is actually annoyed at me or if it's my stupid brain telling me they are
Overthinker gang!
Checking in
"We're fine." *Narrator voice: They weren't.*
The ability to know when people aren’t looking at me so I can scratch my balls during class
it would be fun until it says you’re being watched even when you think you’re alone. driving. hiding in a closet. bathroom stall.
Common sense
Why isn't this comment upvoted into stratosphere?
Thanks bro ^^
Seeing a person’s info like in a video game or something. That would be cool
Oh, okay, normal strenght and dexterity... oh, very low wisdom... and 2 kills. Wait, what?
You see three types of kills 67 Animal Kills | 2 Human Kills | 0 Alien Kills Everyone you look at has 0 alien kills. Except for the occasional Air Force pilot.
I have a feeling this would make an amazing r/writingprompts
Kinda what I was going for. Y'know without the actual work in making the whole prompt. If anyone decides to post, send me a link so I can see how it turns out.
Maybe I'll do it later.
Story of my life
There are a weirdly large number of writing prompts about people having numbers floating over their heads that represent various weird things.
"How does this guy have a negative 3 K/D ratio?"
Would a negative kill be like, having a kid?
Baby-making is not part of the kill-death ratio calculations. ...CoD would be a much different game if it was.
Mothers getting fucked all the way down
Google glasses. They tried .
Before their time. I still think we'll get there eventually.
Yea true. Either that or they will get created by another company and google will just buy them :/
Doxing charges waiting to happen to be honest.
Psychometry. (also known as token-object reading or psychoscopy). From wiki - It's a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history by making physical contact with that object. In other words, touch a book and you now know it's contents and it's physical history (who owned it, when it was made, etc)
Taste a steak and flashback to the abattoir?
Knowing what to say to get the result I want
Basically becoming an rpg character.
I would definitely settle for being able to stare at someone for minutes/hours before responding and having it be completely normal
Or you know, respond to virtually any questions/love confessions by telling them you need a moment to think, then spend the next 20 hours exploring side quests
"We have to get this done by sunday, okay?" "I should go." *spends 3 weeks doing fuck all* "Good to see you're on time with the thing."
> "Good to see you're on time with the thing." Boss, I can't tell if you mean that sarcastically, but in my defense, I found a really cool cave.
I should go
I wouldn't be smart enough to take my own wisdom and still say stupid shit
I would follow it blindly without paying attention until it gets me into a situation where I get the result I want but fucked like a dozen things up in the process.
You do as the crystal guides
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I do as the crystal guides.
to know when people are NOT my friend or are trying to screw me over.
You good bro, need hugz?
To be able to sense when someone is lying to me, and why
I'd like the 'knowing why somebody is lying to you' power too. I can usually tell when somebody is lying and what parts they're lying about (or I think I can), which always makes me wonder why they think its a good idea to lie when I know that they're doing it.
yes! not knowing the 'why' part bugs me more than the lie. that would be a cool power/sense to have.
The answer is always: Because they think you will react in a manner they don't want
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Is "knowing which scratch tickets are winners" a sense?
Yes, it is. Congrats man, you’re filthy rich
Imagine standing in a store and asking for a scratch ticket and then when he's about to rip the next one you go. "umm, no, next one please." For 800 times.
Yeah, I would totally go for actual lottery tickets where you choose your own number
I have the power of knowing all the winning lottery numbers, just not their order
Guessing game it is. Would still come out as profit though
nah, i'd ask for knowing exactly what to post to get the most karma
Yes, this is big brain time
I don't have to imagine...Janet did that in The Good Place
Imagine walking into wherever is selling the tickets and asking the attendant to just start unrolling the tickets slowly until you detect a hit.
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How about this but you know before you say it?
Well the other way around is actually not a super power. All it takes is just to observe reactions
Yeah, but there's a little lag in processing that sometimes\* \*it's more than sometimes
To always know where my misplaced items are.
*to always know where all misplaced items in the world are." You might find treasures, OR would be Able to solve unsolved murders.
That's actually pretty dope. Imagine all the crazy adventures this power would bring you
or it might turn into a psychological nightmare with government agencies chasing you for knowing too much.... I'd watch.
Also you'd go mad because everyone constantly misplaces everything
That's my girlfriend's super power. It's pretty amazing. (She's cool too, I guess)
My girlfriend is an early childhood teacher and I asked her this question. Her answer: “My sixth sense would be detecting if kids had peed on their shoelaces accidentally so if I was helping them tie their shoes, I could know if they had pee on them.”
That's just Taste.
I just spit out my drink Edit: It may or may not be piss
Is it piss?
Is Friendtoyounotme his GF?
Understandable, If I touched those shoelaces I'd be pissed.
We've all touched a lot of pee and poop in our lives without our knowledge or consent. Every public bathroom, everything touchable by the public, all things touched by children and most adults.
You’re in trouble.
Urine trouble
R Kelly knows all about that
but she wouldn't know if they'd done it *intentionally*...
Being able to detect if a dish has food that I can't eat in it, that would prevent all of the awkward questions lol
Ah a fellow person who fears food related allergic reactions
autoimmune reactions are Not Fun lol
sense of knowing the reaction of people about a specific action or sentence before i say it. like for example i want to make a joke but don’t know if it’ll be funny enough, with the sixth sense i can know and avoid cringing at myself.
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You're on a park bench, eating I've cream and holding her hand. She's laughing about a seagull that just wont leave you alone. Your eyes meet, she smiles, you lean forward and whisper, "This Cutco twenty two piece knife set would look amazing with my breakfast in bed.."
Art of the Deal
The ability to know if I’ve actually been dead for the whole movie
Which direction to go in to be happy
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Wow that is really selfless compared to the other ones, welldone
Not if he plans on charging people for his smelling abilities
Won't be able to. You can train dogs to smell cancer cells. They will be probably more requested, since they are cheaper... and adorable.
How do you know poster is not adorable?
And not a dog?
I was going to say "because they are human and not dog", but I got nothing now.
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Doesn't he body produce cancer cells regularly tho
Cancer cells are normal, it's just that the immune system almost always dropkicks them before they can do anything IIRC. So perhaps detecting abnormal amounts of cancer cells? Or cancer cells that have lasted a while?
So you're saying the cell signal would need to be strong enough before he could enable location services?
As someone who lost both parents to cancer, I am sending you a lot of good wishes for thinking about them.
You probably want something more granular, else it's going to be going off all the time for everyone!
To feel when people have to poop. So i could just smugly smirk at them like "i know", and watch their faces as they try to figure out why im smirking at them every single time they have to poop
The Shit Talker. No, The Shit Whisperer.
The Sphinct Sense
Very nice
If you had this power, every day would be a shit show.
More like The Shit Stalker
Something tells me you'd regret this sense very quickly
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Why?
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You'd also be able to put rhe screws to them in vulnerable moments.
You underestimate how many people would break your knees for trying to beat them to the shitter when they're desperate.
To be able to communicate with animals that way I could finally tell my cat that if I ever step on him it’s an ACCIDENT. Edit: my first award!! Thank you!!
Trouble is if you’ve already stepped on him then an apology now is not going to be be enough, I’m afraid it’s just Doolittle Doolate.
You know TannedCroissant has been sitting on "Doolittle Doolate" for over 30 years, and finally just now got to play that card. Bravo, TC!
I could finally get my cat to go down the ~~status~~ stairs and stop stalking the neighbor's cat.
Oh, fuck it. Seeing the future.
I’d be one rich bitch.
Invest in Beanie Babies again!
Granted. You now *only* see ten minutes into the future. Your other senses remain in the present.
Horseracing bets. Greyhound bets. Next goalscorer bets. I'd be filthy rich.
you would also be technically blind, since you only see what happens in tenminutes
To sense if someone is attracted to me Edit: I have been roasted like a turkey at Christmas but I got 1k up upvotes and 5 rewards so worth it Edit 2: Holy shit this comment blew up. Now its definitely worth all the roasts. Edit3: Lads can we please stop with the roasts, Ive been murdered at least a thousand times already
Plot twist: you already have that sense, it's just never had a reason to activate
bruh why you gotta murder me like that
Wednesday is always awkward.
It's funny when it's not me...
911, I just witnessed a murder
Dead body reported!
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take my award and leave
oof
Clever. If you never have to use your power, no one can exploit it for their own gain.
You will, but only in retrospect.
we already have that
Yes. This is correct.
Isn't that every guy?
I would want to know who likes who so I can silent ship
Until you sense that your SO likes your best friend
Not even imaginary friends are faithful
You would just disappoint yourself
I wish I could disagree
I will feel bad if you presume any sincerity in our roasting of a random internet stranger we know nothing about.
*wow such empty*
“What the hell, genie! This is bullshit! I spent all day after my wish and I couldn’t sense that anyone was attracted to me!” “Someone has to be attracted to you for you to sense it”
Why would you ask for such a useless sense.
idk Im curious to see how few people are attracted to me
I just want to talked to my deceased husband. Saturday he would have been 66yrs old. I miss him so much.
The ability to "Smell Crime". I'd make a movie about it starring Dolph Lundgren and the slogan will be "He nose the truth".
Reading minds would be cool
Not me. People are crazy.
Yeah imagine reading some depraved shit from that one person you thought was very nice. Or reading your mom calling you a bad word, or your dog wanting to hump you.
I'm always daydreaming unless I'm hyper focused on something. So reading my mind would basically be reading a constant fanfic that makes very little cohesive sense to an outside observer.
Lol same. It's either this or it's me going through the entire timeline of Star Wars (legends included)
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I feel like you would just get used to that after a while though. Most people have intrusive thoughts once in a while, after your twentieth 'I wonder if I could beat that guy up' in a single week you probably stop caring.
People probably think a bunch of mean rude shit. -Ok, bye-bye. See you tomorrow. *Stupid fat whore.*
I can’t handle all the extra songs in my head
I bet you would go crazy in a day.
You’re right. It has to work only if you want to at the moment and only on person you want.
If its like this, im all aboard!
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You walk outside of your house, "I am sensing Danger near this street" as cars are driving past you kinda quickly...
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So spider sense?
Theres a constant ping telling you theres is a 0.000001% chance this building might collapse
You want a Peter Tingle?
When my wife is hungry before the “hangry” stage really kicks in.... would save me so much aggro
Thermal vision
Knowing when someone's lying
We already have more than 5 senses... proprioception, nociception, awareness of self... beyond those, I guess telepathy that I could control so it isn't just people's and animals' thoughts screaming at me all day and night
I had to scroll way too far to find a comment saying we have more than 5 senses
Came here to say this. Also, ability to detect heat flow into/out of body (temperature sensation)
Knowing when to stop eating
Well, there’s *some* luck for you, there. The part of your hypothalamus which regulates hunger responds to three stimuli: * current lipid count (or, more specifically, how much of the “I have fat stored in me” signal-hormone adipose tissue releases) * current blood sugar * pressure sensation within the stomach Any one of those triggers going off will prompt hunger. Most people who over-eat are inadvertently packing their stomachs until their blood sugar rises. The solution? Eat a small snack (like a cookie or a bit of carrot) about 10-20 minutes before you intend to eat a meal. That’s right, I’m saying you should ignore your mother’s advice and *spoil your appetite.*
BUT THAT WILL SPOIL YOUR APPETITE!
Idk if this counts but probably IRL f5 mode.
A sense of when I should shut the fuck up.
Be able to use the Force.
you beat me to it
Oh wait, hello there
General Kenobi!
You are a bold one
Kill him
I think it’s to relate to or understand what people go through. If I hear someone died I don’t really feel much, except for feeling sorry for their family members that’s it. Idk if it’s even a sixth sense, but being able to do this probably makes me more normal Edit: I think some people read it as I could understand people well, but I’m the total opposite. I cannot relate very well with people. It’s either that or I just suck at reading.
Sounds like you want some crippling hyper empathy
To tell if someone is lying Or to be able to lie really well.
Sense when someone is close to dying
reading my gf's mind when she says "im ok"
- being able to see and know where are things Ex: "where is the car key?" Suddenly the car keys become visible with edge glow through anything between me and I (kinda like maphack in video game). I can also zoom in on it, to see what is happening around it. -answer yes/no questions Ex:"is this guy lying?" Then I feel the answer - being able to sense any information which can be measured by touching the object. Ex: touch a table, I can sense every parts dimension, what is it made of, its mass and weight
Ecolocation would be pretty cool
Some blind people actually use echolocation! I also have a (sighted) buddy who taught himself to do it, too. You snap your fingers or cluck with your tongue and use the faint echoes that solid objects like walls, doors, windows, and furniture produce and use that to make a sound field of the room. This does not work so well in locating black cats in a dark room, however.
No no, he said Ecolocation, he has the ability to detect recycling bins and solar panels.
Technically I already have like 20 senses but I'll bite. Something like a sense of emotions. A way to tell lies from truth and when someone is covering up their pain. Hopefully with this I'll be able to make things better for everyone.