Self-awareness

[Peter]

Post things you've noticed about yourself.  Over the years, I've gotten the impression that most people are largely oblivious to what's going on with their own minds and bodies.  Once, while drinking in a bar, I mentioned to a girl that alcohol makes my lips numb, and she was surprised to find that it made hers numb too; she'd never noticed before.

Other things I've noticed:

When I'm dehydrated, my heart and pulse are much more noticeable, to the point of being intrusive.  My eyes get dry and bloodshot when I'm tired.  Salt makes me pee more.  My ability to produce body heat is greatly reduced when I'm hungry.  Moderate doses of alcohol have a powerful analgesic effect on me (which I demonstrated once by holding a flame directly under my left forearm for 5 seconds; I didn't feel any pain at all, and I still have a scar from it).  Capsaicin irritates my intestines.  Often my brain stalls and puts me into a semi-lucid, inattentive state for 5-10 seconds (my mum has the same problem, but she's not aware of it unless I point it out to her, while I'm always aware that it's happening).  Grapefruit makes my lips tingle.  Kiwi fruit makes my tongue sore.

[Callaway]

Kiwi fruit makes my tongue sore.

Kiwi fruit has an enzyme that digests protein called actinidin, so I wonder if it may be starting to digest your tongue.  Does fresh pineapple do the same thing to you?

Asparagus makes my urine smell funny.

[Nocturnalist!]

Drinking tea makes my urine smell of tea.

I no longer drink coffee, but when I did my urine smelled of coffee.

[Pyraxis]

I'm pretty bad at noticing physical things about myself.

Um... when I was little my eyes were green, and now they're more like hazel brown.

[Callaway]

My irises are light blue like crackled glass with dark blue rings.

My daughter's eyes are green with dark rings.

[Nocturnalist!]

I have a slightly twisted nose but it has never been broken... it just developed that way.

When I was a teenager, my Mother was scared of me

I have a longing to be wanted by people... though when certain people do want my company, I tend to discount it and find it difficult to believe or accept.

PS... I have never even considered drinking urine to check whether or not my urine will then smell of urine :lol:

[Pyraxis]

  My nose is twisted as well, but it's because of a trampoline accident when I was about eight. We were playing crack the egg (where one person sits crosslegged with their arms around their legs and the others jump as hard as they can, to make the "egg" fall over and let go). I sat with my knees too high and my nose slammed into one of them.

[Nocturnalist!]

I sat with my knees too high and my nose slammed into one of them.

Ouch! Poor you.

[klox]

Kiwi fruit makes my tongue sore.

Kiwi fruit has an enzyme that digests protein called actinidin, so I wonder if it may be starting to digest your tongue.  Does fresh pineapple do the same thing to you?

I have that problem with tomatoes, at least just the pips/juice.

[punkdrew]

I am currently drinking acai berry juice with a splash of vodka. I am, as Dave Lister (RED DWARF) would put it, "nicely drunk."

[Peter]

Kiwi fruit makes my tongue sore.

Kiwi fruit has an enzyme that digests protein called actinidin, so I wonder if it may be starting to digest your tongue.  Does fresh pineapple do the same thing to you?

Pineapple does it too, though I notice it irritating the skin around my mouth more than my tongue.  Raw onion makes my tongue sore, but that's from the sulphuric acid, rather than enzymes.

I can voluntarily flex my stomach (not my abdominal muscles, but the actual stomach wall); doing it too vigorously uncomfortably strains the ligaments in my chest cavity though.  When I'm dehydrated, the skin on my face dries and flakes off.  I get an electric buzzing sensation through my body when I'm very tired, and see coloured lights if I close my eyes.

[Nocturnalist!]

Pineapple does it too, though I notice it irritating the skin around my mouth more than my tongue.

My wife is deadly allergic to pineapple. Her mouth, tongue and throat would swell up... it would be a real hospital emergency if she accidentally ate some. We keep it well out of house, and check ingrediaents to make sure pineapple isn't in it. Our biggest surprise was that some brands of Carrot Cake contain pineapple... go figure.

[Peter]

When I was a teenager, my Mother was scared of me

Any particular reason for this?

[Icequeen]

I get really cold when I'm over tired, confused when I'm totally exhausted.

Black walnuts give me blisters on the roof of my mouth.

If I cry my eyes turn from green to emerald.

I can burp at will. 

I can touch my chin with the tip of my tongue.

[Peter]

I can barely get my tongue out of my mouth.  I can burp at will though.