"I Can Smell Sickness On People": 77 People Share Their Weird Body Quirks

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.

Frequently when I scratch a tiny bump on my skin I will feel it somewhere else on my body. It’s a sharp feeling, just like I scratched a bump somewhere else.

ETA: Guys, I’m 51 and have never told anyone about this, but just looked it up…and there’s a German word for this (of course there is), mitempfindung. Referred itch in English. My nerves are just being wonky and I’m not crazy after all.

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 don’t peel it. And no my lips don’t bleed, they’re perfect once the dead skin is off.
It’s kinda satisfying but at the same time i hate it and wish i had normal lips.

With the cost of medical visits in the US, there’s a list of things my body does that I haven’t told anybody and likely never will.

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.

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.

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.

Randomly and rarely, when I start drifting to sleep, I’ll get a full body twitch so strong that I fear I’m having a seizure. Like an arm that’s resting at my side could fly up over my head.

When I was younger I often felt the ‘falling’ part of falling asleep, sometimes a leg kick here and there, but never something as intense as this.

I can hear electricity. like a high pitched buzzing, or tinnitus, but it’s not tinnitus because it stops when i unplug.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes it feels like my rib slips out of place. Very painful, but goes away if I wiggle around a bit.

I have a pancreatic insufficiency. It’s 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. I’m talking like, bodaciously loud farts. So I’m 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. It’a been like 3 years and even my wife has no clue. The kids know though. I don’t have to hide it from them…they think it’s funny.

They’ll be like, “OMG dad you fart so much…daddy farts so loud.” My wife always leaps to my defense like, “kids be nice yo your dad. I’ve known him 25 years and I’ve heard him fart like 5 times. Stop making things up.” It’s because I spare you honey. The kids aren’t making it up. The tuba concert….it exists, you just don’t have a ticket to the show.

When I yawn sometimes air escapes my throat and makes a weird noise. I got made fun of in high school for it.

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 it’s how I know I’m going to need to poo. The poops are always normal.

If I am really hungry, I'll get nauseous all of a sudden, and then I'll end up sneezing. After I sneeze I feel normal again.