MSD

To resurrect a question for years ago, being outside of the normal range doesn't feel unusual on a personal basis, but it definitely highlights differences when it comes up in conversation. I'm statistically among the tallest 150,000 people in the US, but I'm used to seeing everything from up here so I don't have a constant feeling of being tall, it's just normal. Like I mentioned in a previous post, I have at least trained myself to recognize color differences very well. I can look at a test pattern on a projected image and not only know what's wrong with a signal, but I notice subtle variations in color across each of the bars that most people don't see, even when I point it out.

I also have much better than average hearing; while the normal range is considered 20hz to 20khz, I could hear down to about 12hz and up to almost 22500hz when I was last tested. I hear things that most people simply can't and people sometimes accuse me of imagining things that I can hear distinctly. It comes in handy sometimes but can also be annoying. A few months ago I felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack for what would appear to be no reason were I not able to identify the pulsing 15hz vibrations from a nearby highway construction project. I can hear a TV left on down the hall because of the scream of the flyback transformer (although most young people can hear this.) At such extremes it's almost more of a feeling in my head than a normal sound, but it's just another aspect of what my senses pick up.

I've been fascinated by extension of senses, and I still really want to find a safe way to try the magnetic implants pioneered by Steve Haworth a few years ago Boing Boing: Implant gives artist the sense of "magnetic vision"