I’ll start: I can pull my tongue back far enough to enter the nasal tunnel from behind. It has helped me…

yes, pretty gross

…scrape off particularly dry or large snot that blocked my airway but was too far up the nose to use a tissue for

  • IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    I can ‘pull’ my eyes with their connective thingy, causing them to rapidly shift side-to-side, as if they were shaking.

    A friend when I was younger could do it and when I asked how the only description he had was, “idk I just… Pull them back?” Later I was practicing my half-cross-eye-rotations and it just sort of clicked.

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      That sounds pretty wild and reminds me of my wife who firmly says “with enough concentration, you can control any single muscle”, then proceeds to stay still awkwardly for a bit and suddenly a thing on her body twitches and she goes “Told you!”