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.
Someone once mentioned slowing time for like 2 seconds as a terrible super power, but as a skateboarder, I think this would be amazing.
When I tell my wife to calm down, she gets in a better mood and not a worse one.
Instead of saying “calm down” try to say “I hear you” and actually listen. Might be the super power you seek
Geez calm down, I say it like once every two years.
But we think it way more often lol
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.
Skyrim IRL
There ability to fall asleep instantly, anywhere…
I used to have that back when I started work at 4am… Oh wait, you meant voluntarily.
If you get a full rest regardless of the sleep length, why sleep for more than a minute or two?
Airplane rides
Because I want to fall asleep and wake up with my wife. It’d be lonely staying up all night by myself.
I’d be too tempted to take a 10 year nap.
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
ability to spawn $100,000,000,000 into my bank account at any time :)
A small power, they said. $100 billion, you said.
I’d like to relax people around me, make them happy and communicative. Imagine entering public transport during rush hour, and all of a sudden, everyone around you puts away the phone and people start to talk to eachother, with a smile on their face.
That’s my nightmare scenario. I just want to get where I’m going with as little interaction as possible 90% of the time.
When extrovert and introvert collide.
That’s the whole point of this superpower. No nightmares.
But the having to interact with the other people regardless of how nice or relaxed they are is the nightmare for me. I very rarely want to interact with strangers beyond a hello.
Put some MDMA in a spray bottle.
But some of us get stressed out when people try to talk to us.
If you’re there, you’ll enjoy the conversation :) Superpower, remember?
You underestimate my power to not talk to people.
Remote restroom usage
Perfect for concerts
Your wish is granted. Here is a box of extra absorbent adult diapers.
Didn’t realize the monkey paw was granting these powers lol.
is that remote restroom usage, or is it a portable restroom?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Undo button.
what if you go back too much and accidentally undo your birth
Good.
same tbh
Nobody asked to be born
I’d never know.
Don’t see the problem
Oooooh yeaaaah!
The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.
You could make some serious money with this power. You could find anyone’s lost pet or keepsake.
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.
Not to mention the regular occurances of people asking you to locate something they’ve stuck inside themselves.
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!
Can’t you just think of the winning lottery ticket?
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.
[Breathing Intensifies]
- Captain Jack Sparrow
Hoffa?
I’m definitely thinking historic lost treasure hunter would be an amazing career!
Is breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)
Your purpose in life is now to supply power to the grid. At first it’ll be great, you’re celebrated as a neat way to keep the baseline juice coming as fossil fuels phase out. Then you’re asked to stay back a few hours as there’s a shortfall predicted, you oblige out of duty. Then one day you wake up in a drugged daze, strapped to a giant battery, your nutritional needs piped directly to your bloodstream as scientists ever so carefully cut you open to try and figure out how this works, because despite their best efforts to keep your wrecked body alive, one day you will die, and the utter reliance of the grid on your free energy will die with it, and with that kick off the downfall of humanity.
Have you published anything?
Get me out after a couple of decades of the torture and this is the tragic backstory I need to turn evil and plot the end of humanity. Make my savior a nerdy but hot chick (Gal Gadot will work - just put some horn rimmed glasses on her) and have her die while escaping. I think we can get two sequels out of it.
I’d pick charging batteries while holding them as well except only if it doesn’t affect the battery health of the battery. I’d never have to charge my phone again.
Phone, flashlight, gaming system, headphones, laptop, jump start cars, watch (though the Apple Watch wouldn’t be compatible with my super power…same as in real life with all normal chargers).
The real question is if it would transfer energy magically, or would I experience a calorie deficit. That could go both ways in my book.
As someone trying to diet, 100% the calorie deficit 😖
I’d be down for the calorie deficit, it’s like 2 powers in one
I’d like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying “bipity bopity boo” quietly.
We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.
Damnit…I’m in. The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there. Someone starts to annoy you while you’re out somewhere, poof. They go a scuttling.
The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there.
So, business as usual for men over 60? (Or so I’m told)
Prostate issues do exist. Hopefully you, I, and the rest of the world will get lucky
I’m a simple man with simple desires. I’m also probably chaotic natural.
Invisibility, with ability to hide IR and sound and can make recording video cameras invisible too. I’d expose all the corrupt politicians, judges, and CEOs!
That’s a fairly major power. The question was about a small thing as a power.
Like the ability to know what judges and politicians are corrupt… From reading the newspaper and their court filings, because they already tell everyone that they’re corrupt, like all the time. It’s not hidden, it’s just next to impossible to get people to care about it. Or to get the right people to care about it.
Like, look at Clarence Thomas, the fucker is corrupt as all hell, and since the Republicans don’t care, nothing can really be done. Because it’s technically not illegal, and Republicans are blocking any form of Ethics reform.
the ability to know the right thing to say in every conversation
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.”…
That’s way too op
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
Social engineering. I use it to get people to listen to be so they don’t die.
To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.
I wouldn’t advise you to get depressed with this superpower. 🙂
“Wake me up when the world is worth living in.”
It’s called alcohol
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
Yeah, I get this too kinda. I find I get really vivid dreams when wake up but fall back asleep
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.
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. :-/
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.
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.
Ugh brutal man. I hope one day you can sleep well :(
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.
You can do it. I believe in you.
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!
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
I have this power, and it is in fact… super
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!
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.
I have this one too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a new word. Thanks!
There’s some good English around Lemmy. Finally, a good crowd!
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?
i could see lies
Even better would be to make people’s lies visible to everyone.
“Something’s going on with this politician! It looks like he’s sweating literal bullshit all over his face! Oh my God the smell! The smell is awful! Oh the humanity!”
