Sometimes I half wake up in the middle of the night, with both arms in the air above me. I then spend about five minutes stroking my forearms before falling asleep again. I only know this because I filmed myself sleeping once out of curiosity.
Another one I remembered about me (because it happened today ahaha) is that I'm whistle-trained. Ever since I was little, if my parents didnt know where I was, they'd give this specific whistle--low tone rising up to high then back to low, then a second high-tone, like a wolf whistle in reverse. And I'd immediately drop what I was doing, whistle back, and run off to find them. To this day, if I hear anyone whistling, I stop what im doing and look around to make sure it isn't for me (I'll even stop mid-sentence when im talking to someone)
Basically the middle of my neck rotates a bit as I tense different muscle groups, but my head stays pretty much still. Sorry I can't explain better.
Ah, sort of like rotating your elbow while keeping your hand still? (Via rotating the shoulder and wrist in opposite direction)
My dad also liked to whistle to get my attention as a kid... but he'd use the classic dog-calling whistle so whenever people whistle at their dogs I also instinctively look around |P
Exactly. @sheridanielle Oh, speaking of dreams, once when I was a teenager I dreamed that I was a ghost. It was the scariest thing, because I was already dead and there wasn't anything I could do about it.
i once got shot in the throat in a dream. it was terrifying because i really felt like i was dying. edit: it was because i was wandering around an airport and i discovered that the sounds of airplanes taking off and landing were actually two guys playing a tape recorder into a microphone that broadcast over the entire building. they saw me and were like "you know too much" and then POW. it was extra terrifying because i "died" scared and confused of why they would need to cover something like that up.
14k yellow gold is standard in Asia and I couldn't figure out why I could wear some but not others. Most jewellers mix silver into the gold for durability but I'm allergic to silver, causes boils after a few hours of resting on skin. At first I thought it might be the nickel content or impure metals, but no. I used to wear a pair of pure silver ankle cuffs complete with bells and engravings, but always hobbled. (It's a traditional set of jewelry, and silver is not as holy as gold, therefore it can be worn below the navel.) My parents couldn't figure out that the cuffs were causing it and attribute it to supernatural causes. So it took me until I was in my late teens to see a doctor specifically about it to figure out, yeah, allergic. Not as bad or as severe as my nickel allergy though.
Ouch. Fistbump of solidarity over the metal allergy, I can't wear anything but gold without reacting either. Made it really hard to get earrings when I was little, that's for sure.
As a machinist I would have a heck of a time with metal allergies. Ick. A guy I used to work with has a nickle allergy and used to run a nickle plating line. He was red and blistery all over until he switched jobs. I once had a dream that I was waiting at a city bus stop when some gang fighting broke out nearby. I got shot in the chest and felt the bullet burning in my chest. I hit the ground and tried to use the curb as partial cover but got hit three more times. I probably had heartburn.
So on the subject of dreams, here's an odd one: Prophetic dreams. I've had them in the past, though none recently. (Although there is a music video I'm still keeping my eye out for.) It's not necessarily something coherent, mind you, usually just an odd moment in a dream that is later present in reality. Such as a instant from an anime or a wall ornament that I would later see in a Buddhist temple that I had never been to before or since. The main reason I'm inclined to believe such things are real, oddly enough, involves Homestuck: I'd been skeptical about a dream predicting part of Jade: Wake up. , the part near the end with the horrorterror corridor, and ended up concluding that the dream wasn't of that moment, due to being "too noisy, and too cluttered." And then, several months later, Seer: Ask came out. And the answer/corridor scene matched perfectly. (I'll grant it is pretty unbelievable though: If I hadn't personally experienced it as I did, I wouldn't believe it either.) And I've been wondering for a long while: Has anyone else had dreams like that?
I dreamed an anime epic once which took place mostly in the afterlife. Maybe I'll have to see what I can remember and commission someone to flesh it out. Basically a hard-headed woman refusing to be separated from her girlfriend when they both died in a motorcycle accident, and fighting through hell and purgatory to get to heaven only because that's where her love was.
!! i one time had a dream where I got stabbed through the throat by a person with wolverine-like claws. it was very scary
