I mean small like I sneeze and a 20 dollar bill appears in my hand or something like that. Not classic answers like flying or super strength.

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        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!

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        I have it too. It took me a few years to figure it out but now I average 12 minutes to fall asleep and can sometimes do it in less than 3.

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      I used to have insomnia that came from anxiety about my future (I’m guessing.) When I started doing carpentry and started truly exhausting my body I gained the ability to sleep ANYWHERE ANY TIME FOR HOWEVER LONG I WANTED.

      It’s seriously amazing. I’m 33 now and don’t have to work quite as hard, plus am used to the long shifts that are hard on your body. I can still sleep pretty much whenever, wherever.

      I flew to England once (it was like a 14 hour flight) and seriously slept the entire time. I didn’t even have a window seat.

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        I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion… Insomnia hit even in those times.

        The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I’ll sleep like a baby come Saturday.

        Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn’t high enough to cover prescriptions and I don’t have regular health insurance so… can’t afford them. :-/

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          I’ve used ambien and that L one. Benefit/negatives = not worth it. My husband and friends switched to trazodone (safer and cheaper) and really like it. I’ve learned to put myself to sleep quickly by focusing hard on relaxing each body part for 3 breaths, starting with feet, ankles, lower legs, … When i wake up in the middle of the night it’s harder, but i can usually do it if i concentrate. Oh, when I’m really struggling, adding cannabis helps.

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            Trazadone works really well. The only drawback I find his if I need to use the bathroom during the night (getting older sucks) - makes me feel really unsteady kind of like I’m drunk.

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            Here’s hoping. Cracking away at nursing prerequisites, so assuming that path goes as planned, I’m a couple years away from a job as a nurse, which will hopefully translate to a large enough pay check to afford health insurance.

            Light at the end of the tunnel.

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                Thanks! It’s going well so far! Actually rocking a 4.0, but the class I’m in now (microbiology) will likely be putting an end to that. Confident in a passing grade at least, and that’s all I really need for admission into the nursing program. Things are moving along!

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                  Fuck yeah! I’m a stupid tradesman so I don’t exactly know what 4.0 means, but it sounds high. I know from TV that it means good. But I don’t know why haha

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      I have the monkey paw version of this where I can fall asleep instantly but can’t stay asleep, I wake up several times throughout the night

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        Yeah, I get this too kinda. I find I get really vivid dreams when wake up but fall back asleep

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        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.

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          Not to mention the regular occurances of people asking you to locate something they’ve stuck inside themselves.

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          Oh shit. Didn’t think of that angle. But it’s okay, they’ll never recognize me because I’ll wear glasses while not using my power and take them off when I go all super and shit. That’ll work!

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          I guess but I would still use it to find missing pets and stuff. Other people are talking about finding missing people but imo that’s more tricky. Finding 1 missing person is just luck but if you are some how finding 10 or 20 people you are going to be lopked into.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        Nah, I say that’s part of the superpower. After using it a bunch, the weilder will have little or no more cognitive dissonance of their own. Every time they use it will further purify their own thought process. That’s like a superpower where every time you use it it replaces a little bit of your body fat with muscle. After you use it a bunch, you end up ripped.

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        That’s not a negative, I think. It might hurt a little at first, but you’ll soon have removed most of your own errors and be a better person for it. What more could we wish for?

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    Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.

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        For me I’d also like to add that I wouldn’t wake up just because a loud car drove by. I can sleep fast, but staying asleep is difficult

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        ok debuff maybe, it’s the right thing according to the current time period moral standards and not based on what I want to say

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      I was thinking the inability to speak falsehoods would be useful for troubleshooting. “The problem is with the router.” Nope. Not the router. “The problem is with the modem.”…

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    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.

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      There’s a French idiom for this: “Avoir l’Esprit d’Escalier” which means “The Wisdom of the Staircase”. Basically, you often think of the best thing to say after you left and are walking down the staircase.

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    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.

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      If you get a full rest regardless of the sleep length, why sleep for more than a minute or two?

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        Gotta hope they check your pulse right or they might just bury you after a few years. Imagine trying to figure out where you could lay down for 10 years. Immediately got overwhelmed thinking about paying rent and all the work I’d miss. House over run by plant life and roof started leaking until the black mold set in and half of the house collapsed on you laying there… yikes

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      There ability to fall asleep instantly, anywhere…

      I used to have that back when I started work at 4am… Oh wait, you meant voluntarily.

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    Cleaning up / scrubbing / etc. is as effortless as it appears on commercials.

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    Perfect control over memory.

    So able to remember anything with high detail, but also able to forget the cringey stuff from middle school

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        Maybe if there was a limit to how much you can remember. Like your brain runs out of storage kinda lol

        But you have all the permissions in your brain. If you’d like you can delete English and learn Chinese when you’re going on a trip. Maybe you can even forget how to breathe or forget what other food tastes like so I can go on a diet that has nasty food.

        My biggest fear would be by the time I’m like 60 i would be attached to too many memories and wouldn’t be able to learn new things

        Ig it’s not too different than regular older people lol. There are some people at work that I’ve taught them how to attach a file to an email like 5 times already and they just don’t learn

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    To be able to hear the soundtrack. Like, if I walk into a building and hear the Psycho “reep reep!” I’ll get the hell out. But if I walk into that same building and hear “bow chicka bow wow”, I’m staying.

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    I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.

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      God I feel this. I’m probably not nearly as bad, but I’d like to not have to carefully analyze what I eat anymore

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          ~~What in the pseudoscience is this crap? Avoid garlic entirely, but no limit on the foi gras? ~~

          Edit: FODMAP is not a ‘diet’ in the traditional sense, it’s a diet tailored to avoid triggering flare ups of medical conditions such as IBS. Wish the article had been more clear for those without knowledge of what FODMAP is.

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              I know this is ancient history at this point, but I wanted to circle back.

              I was not familiar with FODMAPs at all before reading the article. And since the article starts by calling it a ‘diet’ I made what I thought was the reasonable assumption that it was a traditional diet.

              After you responded I looked it up more generally and now understand that it’s less of a traditional ‘diet’ and instead used to help prevent some medical conditions from flaring up.

              That’s on me for not doing full research, and on the article for assuming everyone knows what FODMAPs are and why they are so important to some people.

              Sorry for my ignorance.

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                Props to you for coming back to this. Totally understand your incredulity to this if you thought it was some fad or weightloss diet though haha!

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                  I questioned my sanity for a bit after your first response until I realized what the diet actually was. I was properly confused!

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      Makes you think that the things you take for granted on a daily basis can be a super power for someone else

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    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.