What would your superpower be? Aannnd GO!

Mine would be being able, at a second's moment, to shrink items and then unshrink them when I needed to. So, for example, I need to carry a large or heavy load from one place to another, BAM!! SHRUNK Get to where I need to be, WHAMMO UNSHRUNK!!  --Tess

To twitch my nose like Samantha does on the TV show, Bewitched and that heavy load would be where I want it.

Or magically I have beautiful flower gardens or vegetable gardens ...

Teleportation. Just walk through a portal and zooommmmmmmmm! - appearing at the destination in a blink of an eye.

I am in high summer and mosquito season and I would be thrilled to have just one power: vaporize nearby mosquitoes. All our mosquito eating buddies (birds, geckos, etc) have plenty of other things they can eat and won't go hungry, and mosquitoes literally bring nothing to the table other than disease.

Nina Surya wrote:Teleportation. Just walk through a portal and zooommmmmmmmm! - appearing at the destination in a blink of an eye.

Oh - I wanted that one!

How about to be able to see four dimensionally which plants are going to thrive and which fail? I'm getting better at it, but am always hopeful I'm wrong!

Fly!  I just want to fly effortlessly into the air.



Eric

Being a ruminant who can digest roughage could be a good one!

Nancy Reading wrote:
How about to be able to see four dimensionally which plants are going to thrive and which fail? I'm getting better at it, but am always hopeful I'm wrong!

Or better yet, the ability to communicate with plants to discuss their wishes and which ones are feeling super powerful and abundant, and which ones would like to rest for a season thank you very much

Ok, how about this: What would your superpower be if it were an exaggerated ability that you already have now?

I am pretty good at reading people--and many, many times they just tell me things.  This happens both in and out of school.  Maybe my superpower would be that I could read minds


Eric

I would like the super power of being forgotten.

Nina Surya wrote:

Nancy Reading wrote:
How about to be able to see four dimensionally which plants are going to thrive and which fail? I'm getting better at it, but am always hopeful I'm wrong!

Or better yet, the ability to communicate with plants to discuss their wishes and which ones are feeling super powerful and abundant, and which ones would like to rest for a season thank you very much

Oooohh!!! LOVE THIS ONE!!  Talk to plants... Oh the amazing things we'd learn!  --Tess

r ransom wrote:I would like the super power of being forgotten.

r ransom, I don't think that is possible, your posts are too unforgettable!!  Thank you for all your sharing & insight!!  <3 --Tess

Eric Hanson wrote:Ok, how about this: What would your superpower be if it were an exaggerated ability that you already have now?

I am pretty good at reading people--and many, many times they just tell me things.  This happens both in and out of school.  Maybe my superpower would be that I could read minds


Eric

Hhmmm...  I think mine would be... that's a hard one!!  I'll have to get back on this one!!  LOVE IT!  --Tess

I'd like to be able to tolerate other people, besides my own household, for more than three days.

I suppose I'd need to be able to grant that power to whoever will be around us for more than three days because it is a 2 way street.

Jackson Bradley wrote:I'd like to be able to tolerate other people, besides my own household, for more than three days.

I suppose I'd need to be able to grant that power to whoever will be around us for more than three days because it is a 2 way street.

I hear you Jackson!  Some days I am absolutely NOT wanting to see, hear or even sense another person.  I have had to work on my tolerance & patience towards others on the daily.  --Tess

Jackson Bradley wrote:I'd like to be able to tolerate other people, besides my own household, for more than three days.

Three DAYS?

Three hours would be excessive for me...

One hour, maximum, once a month or so. Also maximum.

I really have become a terrible hermit...

As for superpowers, I'd just like some more energy.

Burra Maluca wrote:

Jackson Bradley wrote:I'd like to be able to tolerate other people, besides my own household, for more than three days.

Three DAYS?

Three hours would be excessive for me...

One hour, maximum, once a month or so. Also maximum.

I really have become a terrible hermit...

As for superpowers, I'd just like some more energy.

Aahhh, yes, the elusive dream of anyone over 25... energy...  That would be a superpower!!!  --Tess

Being able to open or close any specific electrical circuit with my mind would come in handy.

Fluently speak and clearly understand animal languages.

I *know* my Gander is trying to communicate important Gander things, but I just don't understand him... sad face...

Jay Angler wrote:Fluently speak and clearly understand animal languages.

I *know* my Gander is trying to communicate important Gander things, but I just don't understand him... sad face...

I feel the same way, Jay.  I would love to know what the animals are saying... except my cats, as I think knowing what they think would make me cry every day!! LOL   --Tess

M Ljin wrote:Being a ruminant who can digest roughage could be a good one!

I don’t know- for me, maybe being able to breathe underwater, or fly,-or honestly, on a less fantastical note, just being better at drawing, or climbing trees(apples!) I don’t know if those count as superpowers, but… they do to me.

Although, being able to digest roughage? No thanks… ruminants have to spend most of their days eating to get energy from roughage. I can’t spend my life munching grass. And, you would have multiple stomachs? Doesn’t seem like a very good idea for a human.not to mention, I think roughage seems rather icky.
LoL

Jackson Bradley wrote:I'd like to be able to tolerate other people, besides my own household, for more than three days.

I suppose I'd need to be able to grant that power to whoever will be around us for more than three days because it is a 2 way street.

That's a good problem to have, at least--not the other way around!

Nancy Reading wrote:

Nina Surya wrote:Teleportation. Just walk through a portal and zooommmmmmmmm! - appearing at the destination in a blink of an eye.

Oh - I wanted that one!

How about to be able to see four dimensionally which plants are going to thrive and which fail? I'm getting better at it, but am always hopeful I'm wrong!

Similarly, I'd love to have multi spectral vision. Being able to see near infrared / infrared would be a survival game changer

Daphne Rose wrote:

M Ljin wrote:Being a ruminant who can digest roughage could be a good one!

I don’t know- for me, maybe being able to breathe underwater, or fly,-or honestly, on a less fantastical note, just being better at drawing, or climbing trees(apples!) I don’t know if those count as superpowers, but… they do to me.

Although, being able to digest roughage? No thanks… ruminants have to spend most of their days eating to get energy from roughage. I can’t spend my life munching grass. And, you would have multiple stomachs? Doesn’t seem like a very good idea for a human.not to mention, I think roughage seems rather icky.
LoL

Daphne, I think a superpower can be whatever you want it to be!! I would LOVE to be a great sketch artist!  I have five sketch books and as much as I love drawing, it can definitely be improved upon, even after several years (on & off) of sketching.  --Tess

There’s the fun ones and then there’s the practical ones. I got three weird ones. First is ‘instant adaptation’ power, second is ‘genetic modification’ power, third is ‘accelerated aging’ power. I like the idea of the accelerated aging one cause then you can make trees and veggies grow overnight. Instant sourkraut, instant vintage wine, instant fat pig for the freezer, instant established ecosystems, instant trash disintegration, instant compost, instant oil spill and radioactive contamination dissipation.

Nick Mick wrote:There’s the fun ones and then there’s the practical ones. I got three weird ones. First is ‘instant adaptation’ power, second is ‘genetic modification’ power, third is ‘accelerated aging’ power. I like the idea of the accelerated aging one cause then you can make trees and veggies grow overnight. Instant sourkraut, instant vintage wine, instant fat pig for the freezer, instant established ecosystems, instant trash disintegration, instant compost, instant oil spill and radioactive contamination dissipation.

These are amazing Nick!!  Love the accelerated aging one.  Wouldn't that be awesome to be able to grow a healthy ecosystem overnight?!  Rid our Earth of all the filth accumulating.  Wonderful!! --Tess

Perfect visual assessment of volume. I’d never choose the wrong container for leftovers.

Eric Hanson wrote:Ok, how about this: What would your superpower be if it were an exaggerated ability that you already have now?

I am pretty good at reading people--and many, many times they just tell me things.  This happens both in and out of school.  Maybe my superpower would be that I could read minds


Eric

I have always been good at adapting and overcoming things. Seeing something and then realizing what the true problem is, then making something no one wants into something really useful.

But as I have aged, now 52; I noticed I have succumbed to overthinking more and more. A superpower-enhanced would be to adapt and overcome, but with much less over-thinking.

Maybe that does not make sense but I can be my own worst enemy somedays.

To be able to ask a genie (not Google) any question and receive a reply that accords with the absolute, objective truth.

More valuable than Superman's powers, and I find it compelling even as a thought-experiment...

I would love the power to know what I'm looking at, whatever it is that I'm seeing.

I'm working on that power right now, it seems everything that looks interesting tends to be pokeweed however!

Steve Zoma wrote:

Eric Hanson wrote:Ok, how about this: What would your superpower be if it were an exaggerated ability that you already have now?

I am pretty good at reading people--and many, many times they just tell me things.  This happens both in and out of school.  Maybe my superpower would be that I could read minds


Eric

I have always been good at adapting and overcoming things. Seeing something and then realizing what the true problem is, then making something no one wants into something really useful.

But as I have aged, now 52; I noticed I have succumbed to overthinking more and more. A superpower-enhanced would be to adapt and overcome, but with much less over-thinking.

Maybe that does not make sense but I can be my own worst enemy somedays.

Steve, I fall along the same lines!!   I'm pretty good at assessing & solving, but I, too, have come to overthink things of late.  Not sure where that comes from. May be our later life stages (as we get closer to 'aging out of life') we have a tendency to evaluate & then re-evaluate things.  But one thing I have come to trust to help me are the Permaculture ethics & principles!  

I got so caught up in my problems that I lost sight of the idea that "problems are just solutions waiting to be found"!  Just this week or last, I 'remembered' Permaculture principles that helped me resolve a personal dilemma.  Now I am on a clearer path and boy am I joyful about that!!  As Permaculture ethics & principles are primarily based on learning from Mother Earth, I know that She has never failed me.  I had to get back to Her ways, to the Perma way of thinking and voila!  

I hope that you find your way through all the mindrace (what I call my overthinking) and find that simple clarity waiting for you on the other side!! --Tess

Tess Misch wrote:

Steve Zoma wrote:

Eric Hanson wrote:Ok, how about this: What would your superpower be if it were an exaggerated ability that you already have now?

I am pretty good at reading people--and many, many times they just tell me things.  This happens both in and out of school.  Maybe my superpower would be that I could read minds


Eric

I have always been good at adapting and overcoming things. Seeing something and then realizing what the true problem is, then making something no one wants into something really useful.

But as I have aged, now 52; I noticed I have succumbed to overthinking more and more. A superpower-enhanced would be to adapt and overcome, but with much less over-thinking.

Maybe that does not make sense but I can be my own worst enemy somedays.

Steve, I fall along the same lines!!   I'm pretty good at assessing & solving, but I, too, have come to overthink things of late.  Not sure where that comes from. May be our later life stages (as we get closer to 'aging out of life') we have a tendency to evaluate & then re-evaluate things.  But one thing I have come to trust to help me are the Permaculture ethics & principles!  

I got so caught up in my problems that I lost sight of the idea that "problems are just solutions waiting to be found"!  Just this week or last, I 'remembered' Permaculture principles that helped me resolve a personal dilemma.  Now I am on a clearer path and boy am I joyful about that!!  As Permaculture ethics & principles are primarily based on learning from Mother Earth, I know that She has never failed me.  I had to get back to Her ways, to the Perma way of thinking and voila!  

I hope that you find your way through all the mindrace (what I call my overthinking) and find that simple clarity waiting for you on the other side!! --Tess

To beat Overthinking I try and remember a few things…

1. Ask myself, will this really matter in five minutes, five days, five months or five years? In doing so, sometimes the question answers itself.

2. As I said in another post, everything is “figuroutable”. In life it is actually pretty rare that things cannot be undone. So does it really matter if you do the “wrong” thing now?

3. Evaluate the information that I got that led to overthinking, then… act in two minutes on it.

A case in point is our new bathroom in our small house. Because of clearance issues we considered a bifold door. In overthinking I over analized this type of door and know that it is not ideal for a bathroom. It has gaps on the sides unlike a traditional swing door. It has no lock. It is an awkward exit since a bifold door is made to be a closet door.

But applying overthinking #2; everything is figuroutable.

Flexible seals can be put on the sides and hide the gaps. A hook latch can be used for a lock. And a bifold door can be pushed out to exit. Finally… if we don’t like the door, we can always replace it at a later time.

But it is easy to type this now: in the midst of a decision-making, it is easier said than done.

But I truly APPRECIATE your commiserating with me on overthinking. Overthinkers unite (or at least join in therapy together) 😊