Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.

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      Wow, I can do this too! I thought it was just a human thing, like being able to evenly split something in half or hang something on the wall level without a level.

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    After over half a century of action, a lot of it in “extreme sports”, and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.

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    I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses…, in full 3D and a victorian setting.

    In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).

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    I’ve been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.

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        Not too bad. But to be honest, I started mixing trail running into my schedule. It’s fun, better for your joints (even though I’ve never had problems), and as a runner gets older, longer distances become more appealing. I’m beginning to consider some easier ultras, and they are usually on trails.

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          I was a fairly regular runner up until about year ago, and I’ve not had too many knee or ankle issues either. Trail running sounds fun. Might give it a go (once it’s not fucking freezing here).

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        Running is beneficial for knees and ankles over medium to long timeframes. There’s a 100 year old guy that runs 10k every day and his knees and ankles are doing fine.

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    Communicated from California to E. Europe via SSB during solar maximum aka worst possible RF condition’s with only 5 watts. Plus I communicate about 200 miles with a half dead 9v battery and and 100miliwatts. ✅QRP / QRPp

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    I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.

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      So this means you hear your thoughts as if they were on speaker, right? I don’t, which is a form of aphantasia, which i also have.

      I this is why i mumble to myself all the time, my brain has no speakers

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      Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?

      To me it’s as easy as it is to stop talking. I feel like I’m misunderstanding you.

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          I wouldn’t say that I stop thinking, but I can act out thoughts, pay attention to things or have new experiences without internally processing them verbally, although it does help with more complex issues.

          If I’m having a shower, I just put soap on a flannel, I don’t internally verbalise “put some soap on the flannel, I’m putting soap on a flannel now”.

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            Nah it’s more like putting soap in a flannel and thinking “where is the soap, oh that’s a nice smell, did I feed the cats? Why is he snoring again? Oof it’s cold. What was that song? All of the things that I said that I wanted, come rushing back in my head when I’m with you…”

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        Yeah, for some (like me) it’s almost impossible.

        But then, there are also people that do not have any inner monologue at all…

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          Yeh, me. I don’t really think in words. More like visualisations of what I’m doing, have been doing, or are going to do.

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        Some people can’t turn off their inner monologue?

        Apparently not. I struggled with that as a kid and I remember having some sleepless nights when my head would be yapping nonstop. Then one day I learned to stop it.

        But I mostly remember this in threads where people on either side of the inner monologue vs no inner monologue discussions discover the opposite exists. And so I’m like, what, you guys can’t just turn it on or off? I’ve concluded that we must be in the third group looking on, who can do either at will.

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        Yeah I can’t. I think in words, in English, very occasionally Spanish, but always language, words words words.

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      That’s really awesome, that is one of the main goals of most meditation techniques! Sometimes I‘d really like to do that as well.

      Have you actively worked on this or were you just able to do this?

      Is it difficult to „turn your thoughts back on“?

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    Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.

    Sometimes I’ll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone’s clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it.

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      wtf 😅 eww?

      You sound like some kind of Anime villain

      What’s actually happening is they’re breathing my spores, and they love it

      What is your final goal when you have successfully bred enough spore-bearing drones out of us, huh?

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        Already have, it’s definitely not diabetes. Apparently it’s a genetic thing, but it’s both pretty rare and just isn’t caught by people that “have the gift”.

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        Haha, it’s so weird that the only people that have caught on that are my sneezes are my wife and my parents. My wife used to think it was cute, until she realised that her smelling it basically means she’s breathing in my sneezes, which is pretty grim.

        It’s maybe 1 in 5 sneezes, but I can almost always tell when it’s going to be a “smelly” one.