What is something you can sense that few-if-any people you know can sense? Literal answers only.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    High pitched noises sometimes. I have an audio spectrum visualizer app installed to confirm these. But they can be pretty weird as they bounce around. You’ll get these heat spots. Unfortunately, I feel like my ears are degrading now.

    Anyway, dimmable LED lights are often a problem due to PWM. Only full brightness is quiet.

    Smell, I don’t even know what the hell that was. There is or was something in the back of one bus. I wouldn’t say it’s smell, but… something. Just a spicy punch that doesn’t quite let me breathe in. I noted down the license plate if I’ll experience it again to confirm it’s the same vehicle, but this wasn’t the first time, though unfortunately I didn’t copy it that first time. Same line though, so possibly same vehicle as well.
    But I am not sure if I was the only one, no one was visibly bothered, but who knows.

    • Luc@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      As someone who can’t hear high pitches at all, I do recognise this funky bouncing of frequencies at the edge of my hearing range (probably around 15 kHz, I haven’t precisely measured it). It’s surprisingly hard to locate sound sources when you only hear them when you’re facing a certain angle in a certain spot in the room! These are always too quiet for my phone to pick up, so that’s no help sadly

      I wonder if there’d be a market for a variant of a phone model that is just all-round decent, but has a better microphone and other sensor upgrades. I run into the sensor limits a lot (probably weekly) but also don’t want to permanently run around with a bulky sensor board in my pocket :<

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      22 hours ago

      That high pitch sound from lights and power packs drive me crazy. It’s so loud and high.