š¤Æ INCRĆVEL: These 77 Weird Body Quirks Prove That The Human Body Is Fascinating And Just Plain Weird š²
Right as I’m drifting off to sleep and I’m in that in between state, I’ll sometimes get auditory hallucinations. I may hear someone talking or a door open or something specific. It’ll be very realistic, and I’m not quite asleep yet, but it’s all in my head.
I swear I can smell sickness on people. My husband smelled funny and I kept telling him to go to the dr he went they ran tests, and ultrasounds and said his prostate was enlarged no big deal. I kept nagging him and he ignored it. Christmas Day 2021 he came down with a 104 fever and we rushed him the hospital. Within 2 week he was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal metastatic kidney cancer. I also, can smell it on animals.
I can vomit at will. No pain, no fingers in my mouth. I can just regurgitate quickly and easily if I wanted to. I have no idea why. Could do it from a young age and still can in my mid twenties.
Sometimes I can’t find my itch for a while. Like, I’ll think it’s my leg that itches, but after scratching my whole leg I still can’t find it, and then I figure out that the itch was on like the back of my neck the whole time.
Sometimes if I wake up out of a super, super deep sleep . . . I lose all information and it’s terrifying. I don’t know where I am, who I am, nothing. It only last a few seconds but it’s indescribable fear.
Thankfully, it hasn’t happened in a while.
Every 36-48 hours i need to peel the top dead skin layer off my lips. No matter what i do, drink water, moisturize, my lips always go to that point that the top layer is dry and crumbly, and it will look nasty if i donāt peel it. And no my lips donāt bleed, theyāre perfect once the dead skin is off.
Itās kinda satisfying but at the same time i hate it and wish i had normal lips.
I can’t lie down on my left-hand side, it feels like all my organs are being crushed. Totally fine on my right side.
It’s not a secret, I’ve just never thought to bring it up with anyone. Is it just me?
I hear music in white noise. Like full-on compositions — It’s usually big band or classical, but I also hear jazz and rock. I can pick out the specific instruments, and it’s definitely compositions I have never heard before.
I have an eyelash that grows about an inch below my right eye. It only started appearing in 2018. Pretty sure that’s my absorbed twin finally breaking through. I pluck him every few months to make sure he knows who’s boss in this body.
Sometimes I just feel random sharp pains, at random times, on a random place of my body. Usually they only last a second, but sometimes I need to rub the area to get it to stop.
In the morning I canāt clench my fists? they really hurt if i try but itās been like that for years, whenever I ask people they always say that has never happened to themā¦.
Every morning about 1 minute before i get the urge to poo, I feel the gas in my lower abdomen move and it is excruciating pain for about 20 seconds. I have no clue why it hurts so much but itās how I know Iām going to need to poo. The poops are always normal.
I get flashbacks of embarrassing or traumatic events and memories and I absolutely have to do something physical to get them out of my head, either in the form of a twitch or a verbal outburst of some kind. I’m 30 and actually quite surprised no one has noticed yet. I have almost been caught a few times but usually play it off quite well.
Frequently when I scratch a tiny bump on my skin I will feel it somewhere else on my body. Itās a sharp feeling, just like I scratched a bump somewhere else.
ETA: Guys, Iām 51 and have never told anyone about this, but just looked it upā¦and thereās a German word for this (of course there is),Ā mitempfindung. Referred itch in English. My nerves are just being wonky and Iām not crazy after all.
I see a lot of people mentioning random sharp pains. I used to have random, sharp, lingering pains in my abdomen that would last several minutes at a time. I never mentioned it to doctors. Except – I have an explanation.
One day I bent over to pick up my dog’s poo in the morning and started feeling unwell, but okay enough for work. That stabbing lingering pain, but a bit more than normal, and some nausea. Pain on my right side, this time.
Went to work, was there an hour then I felt bad enough to go home. Told my boss, packed up my laptop, while walking out, thought, “I should go to an urgent care, not home.” Got to my car, and it had escalated to “Oh no. This is ER-level.” Got into my car, and “Oh no. I can’t drive myself.” Called a coworker who drove me to the ER, and I have *never* been through an ER so fast. Sudden abdominal pain on the right side so bad the patient is sobbing at intake just from pain + nausea? They thought my appendix burst, and so did I. Then, CT showed a massive 5cm x 7cm tumor in my liver that had filled with blood and was pressed against my diaphragm, every inhalation was pain.
They sent me home with opiates since the bleeding had stopped at that point, told me to get an MRI later. Got one a month later, and found out my liver has 30+ similar tumors in it, any of which could burst and fill with blood. It’s called hepatic adenomatosis, and a rare side effect of the birth control I’d been on since age 12. The random, lingering stabbing pains were almost definitely smaller, better placed tumors bursting. I haven’t felt them since going off that BC, and my regular MRIs to monitor the tumors said they shrank. So…maybe be careful about those random pains. Mention them to your doctor. Maybe it’s nothing, but maybe it is something.
Edit: everyone keeps asking, I was specifically on Daysee (I think the name changed a few times, the one that only gives you a placebo every 3 months). However, this side effect is caused by *any* estrogen-containing birth control pill, so like almost all of them. But, it is very rare.
If I eat a heavy meal I need to be near a toilet for like 30-90 minutes because at some point in that window I will have an urge to poo that needs to be resolved within about 10 seconds of it arising.
Sometimes I get cramps around my heart. It hurts and I just hold still till they pass. Itās been happening off and on as long as I can remember.
I’m a habitual joint cracker. Fingers, wrists, ankles, back, toes, neck, shoulders. I cracked my neck like a year and a half ago and I suddenly got really hot and tunnel visiony and ever since then, every time I turn my head to either side, like to look around, the base of my skull crackles a little bit.
I refuse to say anything because I just got a GP for the first time in nearly a decade and have already spent several grand in copays and stuff to investigate every other problem and now have several outstanding bills and zero answers for anything.
Oh alsoāI can ādetect moldā in an old house/building in about 30 seconds bc Iāll get a sudden, RELENTLESS tickle in the back of my throat and start coughing (or else driving myself nuts trying NOT to cough..like eyes watering wildly, using all the self control I have to try NOT to start the coughing fit).
As soon as I get outside in fresh air, it immediately calms & stops.
And I HAVE told people about it in the past, but every single time theyāre so darn indignant that their 140 year old cottage in the woods in the Northeast DeFiNiTeLy dOeSnāT hAvE mOLd that Iāve simply stopped telling people and just say Iām having a weird allergy attack.
I have a pancreatic insufficiency. Itās annoying but basically the crux of it is, I just have to take enzyme pills with every meal to help my body break down fat. Anyway, since I developed this issue, a side effect is that I get very gassy after I eat certain foods. Iām talking like, bodaciously loud farts. So Iām constantly having to find ways to excuse myself at work or at home in order to avoid subjecting my family, friends and coworkers to the symphony of tubas after I eat. Itāa been like 3 years and even my wife has no clue. The kids know though. I donāt have to hide it from themā¦they think itās funny.
Theyāll be like, āOMG dad you fart so muchā¦daddy farts so loud.ā My wife always leaps to my defense like, ākids be nice yo your dad. Iāve known him 25 years and Iāve heard him fart like 5 times. Stop making things up.ā Itās because I spare you honey. The kids arenāt making it up. The tuba concertā¦.it exists, you just donāt have a ticket to the show.
I can feel people moving around a room even if I canāt see or hear them. I never understood why Marco Polo was a hard game as a kid.
If I scratch the area right above my booty crack, it immediately gives me the sensation that I have to pee.
I recently told my wife about it, we’ve been together for 11 years now.
Our 6 year old son literally told us out loud a few weeks ago: “If I scratch the top of my bum it makes me have to go pee!”
My wife and I laughed and I told my son, “Me too!” We laughed even more.
Derealization. I have many moments of feeling like I’m in a waking dream. It’s hard to explain but my doctor told me that’s what it’s called.
Randomly and rarely, when I start drifting to sleep, Iāll get a full body twitch so strong that I fear Iām having a seizure. Like an arm thatās resting at my side could fly up over my head.
When I was younger I often felt the āfallingā part of falling asleep, sometimes a leg kick here and there, but never something as intense as this.
I make facial expressions while having fake arguments or scenarios in my head. Iāll be walking down the street looking like Iām winning a Nobel Prize or having a breakdown, but itās all just happening in my mind. I hope no one ever catches me.
I get exhausted and genuinely need to lay down, been to the doctors blood tests all the stuff, everything comes back normal, I have no idea what it is, Iām not overweight and I work out but never over workout I know what Iām doing on that front and I look around at other people similar ages and I just donāt get it, even people older than me by 15-20 years donāt get tired like I do. I absolutely know something is up because it makes no sense to crash like I do but I just donāt know what it is.
I have partial seizures while at work, doing customer service and no one knows.
After I chug a bunch of water if i shake my body I can hear the water sloshing around in my stomach.
My right knee feels very weird, like almost like I hurt myself
But there’s no pain and I can walk and do everything normally
I don’t have insurance so all is well.
When I have really bad period pains I can feel the pain travel down into my legs and feet. I guess it’s nerve related?
Same during labour. That’s how I knew labour was starting. Feet are tingling now just thinking about it.
Earwax just drops out of my ears randomly, I could have cleaned them 10 minutes before but it still jumps.
I get really bad panic attacks and it causes my entire body to get tingly and eventually lock up. my hands look like crab claws.
When I see someone get injured I feel it, usually in the back of my legs, like a little jolt of discomfort. Itās very quick, not painful, just a weird uneasiness.
Sometimes I can hear my own eyeballs moving when the room is completely silent. Itās the weirdest squelching sound.
Sometimes when I yawn or open my mouth in some specific way, saliva squirts out from under my tongue. It’s random and I can’t control it.
If i eat too much protein, my whole body gets a slight achiness for an hour or so.
I have endo and can feel the exact moment I begin ovulating. Thereās a āburstingā feeling from either my left or right ovary. That side thats released an egg is sore for about 12 hours, then it goes away. I write down which side releases an egg every month for funsies.
I’ve told people but yet to find someone who experiences something similar or has a proper explanation.
Sometimes my mind just goes into this state where it seems like everything is happening at 3x the speed. Like… I’m experiencing things at a faster rate. If I focus on it, it stays longer, if I focus away, it goes in about 10 mins. It’s harmless, doesn’t seem to be dangerous experience-wise, but surely very different.
Occasionally, while drifting off to sleep, I experience a sensation of free-falling. This results in involuntary limb movements where I strike out in all directions. I have inadvertently hit partners and my children quite forcefully because of this
It’s called hypnic jerks, and it’s quite intense.
I sometimes get something like an electric current go through my body, from my head down. It only seems to happened when Iām poorly.
A few things.
Sometimes when I take my first bite of food in the morning or after not having eaten for a while, my mouth and jaw kind of hurt? My guess is that I’m feeling the saliva come out and it hurts for whatever reason?
Also, when I’m about to cry or my eyes are about to water, I smell a smell that I can only describe as “hospital smell”.
I’m autistic and have some interesting sensory quirks (I can hear my phone charging and some radio signals) but I’ve never quite understood those two things.
I have hidradentitis suppurativa. Itās embarrassing and hard to explain to people. So many people think itās something else entirely and itās been embarrassing to deal with. Lots of scarring and deep pitting around my arm pits, groin area and buttocks. Itās not pretty at all.
With the cost of medical visits in the US, thereās a list of things my body does that I havenāt told anybody and likely never will.
When I get overstimulated visually and audibly or am way overtired ā I start seeing as though everything is moving in slow motion. I donāt even know how to describe it properly. As if a strobe light is constantly going and life isnāt moving at the proper speed.
Itās very weird.
I canāt burp. My mom swears I burped as a baby, but at some point I stopped because even as a kid I would get so uncomfortable after drinking soda or eating certain foods.
I didnāt even realize it was a whole thing until I was an adult and found a name for the condition on reddit of all places. My doctors never understand it.
If I eat/drink anything sweet with alcohol, especially sweet drinks like Smirnoff Ice, I get a radiating pain that starts at my mid back and up to my neck and jaw. Can put me on the ground for an hour or two.
Sometimes if I havenāt eaten for a full day or more, when I finally eat something the roof of my mouth aches like hell, like a really bad muscle cramp on the roof of my mouth. But it also feels sensitive to touch. Itās like my mouth is freaking out that thereās food in it lol.
Not something ive never told anyone else before but something i havent seen in anyone else before: ice cream makes me cough SO BAD. not sure if it’s genetic but my great grandmother had the same issue, she had a crazy sweet tooth and would occasionally stand over the freezer sneaking a couple spoonfuls and whenever my great grandfather would hear a muffled cough coming from the kitchen he’d yell “get out of that icecream!” (affectionately of course) i think of her every time i get cough attacks trying to have a milkshake lmao.
My body made a whole baby AFTER I had both of my fallopian tubes REMOVED. The same doctor who did the bilateral salpingectomy, also delivered the subsequent baby via c section, so he verified that they hadn’t grown back, and there wasn’t any obvious failure of the surgery.
Pretty wild!
When I drink really cold drinks (think slushy or slurpee) it will sometimes trigger a vasovagal syncope where my heart actually stops and I pass out. Heart monitor showed a pause of 13 seconds during one of these episodes.
One of my daughters saliva is so acidic that it ate through her braces. We moved and I told the new orthodontist this and he rolled his eyes and said that wasnāt possible. A few weeks later he learned that it was. They had to use a special gage wire.
Every single time I brush my teeth, my right nostril runs.
Every. Single.Time.
I couldnāt burp my entire life until I had my first child. No one believed me.
When I blow my nose, sometimes it comes out of my right eye. I mentioned it once to my ENT and he said āhuh, thatās weirdā and moved on.
Lipidema. No cause, no cure, no knowledge sometimes so I get shamed for not hating myself enough to make it go away. It’s delightful.
My allergist laughed at me because he was surprised I was alive.
It been 20 years and heās still my doctor.
When I pee I cry. Itās not painful and itās fully involuntary. Google said the nerves in my brain grew too close together so when I pee sometimes the signal gets confused and makes me cry
I had perimenopause at age 24 and now Iām 31 postmenopausal and I havenāt had a period in 7 years and my doctors still doesnāt know why or how. On top of that, Iāve had a lot chronic pain for years and auto immune issues with no official diagnosis. So fun.
My daughter used to have chronic hiccups. To make them stop immediately we found out if she held non carbonated liquid in her mouth and tilted her head back, to let the liquid slide down!(avoid swallowing until you absolutely have to) it works every time.
Desaturates at altitude for no reason my whole life, even though I was born in a state that has higher altitudes naturally.
I get a sinus infection every 90 days like clockwork. But apparently Iām not allergic to anything according to the tests.
Sometimes as iām just standing somewhere i can feel my ears draining. like a fluttering wet noise. then it goes away. happens probably twice a week.
When I was younger than I am today I had a tendency to consume various street elixirs typically in powder form….these …uh…. white lines would keep me up, sometimes for days.
during my longest stretch I knew I’d been up for over 100 hours. and since I had not been drinking much water i became extremely dehydrated.
like… extremely
so extreme was my dehydration that my ball sack hardened and became ‘shell like’….a shell that eventually cracked and then peeled off like One of those nuts Marlon Brando peels and eats in Apocalypse now… near the end.
it was, as they say, quite the experience.
I’m not in the game anymore, and there’s never happened to me again. however, since no one I’ve ever known has described quite such an experience I feel my physical response was somewhat unique. who knows?
life is strange.
When Iām cold, my heart shivers. Feels like itās rattling around in my ribcage. No idea if this is normal or not
Also about 20 min after I eat a beyond burger, my hair starts to smell like burgers. Just my hair. And itās pretty long so idk how tf
Lastly I canāt crack my knuckles, but I can crack my toes on command.
The most interesting is that after a partial nephrectomy (~75%), my kidney grew BACK. Not hypertrophy, regeneration. I was young so it was likely very lucky timing.
My daily heart rhythm is such that when any doctor other than a Cardiologist sees my EKG, they think Iām actively having an heart attack and rush me to the ER. It is a TOTAL PITA.
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