If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

To actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.

The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.

Ability to force anyone to objectively confront their own cognitive dissonance by maintaining eye contact.

Possibly too powerful. Some heads may spontaneously combust from a lifetime of preferring their own reality.

Any insect that touches my skin realizes the error of its ways and peacefully leaves me alone.

Undo button.

Sleep for 1 hour but with all of the benefits of 8 hours.

the ability to know the right thing to say in every conversation

You know when you have a discussion or confrontation, and six hours later you realize what you should have said? My superpower would be the wits to always think of the right thing immediately.

Remote restroom usage

The ability to fall asleep instantly, anywhere, and choose exactly how long to sleep... And get a full rest regardless of how long that is.

Cleaning up / scrubbing / etc. is as effortless as it appears on commercials.

Perfect control over memory.

So able to remember anything with high detail, but also able to forget the cringey stuff from middle school

I have a disease which limits what I can eat, therefor the ability to digest any food or drink comfortably.

To be able to hear the soundtrack. Like, if I walk into a building and hear the Psycho “reep reep!” I’ll get the hell out. But if I walk into that same building and hear “bow chicka bow wow”, I’m staying.

When in an argument I want the ability to know what my opponent has to say in advance so I can always interrupt and finish their sentences. Every single one of them.

For people who are interested in the same things I am to glow faintly, the more similar interest, the more they glow.

Not quite mind control, but I'd like the ability to blast common sense into morons minds by looking at them. Like a psychic mind dart that says, "maybe this line has a purpose and I should get in queue instead of trying to force my way in from the outside" or "maybe I should listen to the sign that says 'don't put your kid on a railing above tiger enclosure.'"

The abilty to change the color of anything.

Anything that would be improved by paint is on the table at a thought.

Likely way to powerful in a combat sense. You could tag enemy combatiants on a battlefield in dayglo orange or turn the whole landscape into that zebra ship paint they used in ww2. Hell, just turn everything bright white during the day and black at night. Would be a nightmare.

Still, really neat.

I'd like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying "bipity bopity boo" quietly.

When I tell my wife to calm down, she gets in a better mood and not a worse one.

Only needing an hour or two of sleep per night, but getting all the rejuvenating effects of a perfect night’s sleep. I hope I would be productive with that time.

I'd like to be able to double jump, platform video game-style. Mostly pointless in daily life, but imagine how good it would feel?

I'd like to relax people around me, make them happy and communicative. Imagine entering public transport during rush hour, and all of a sudden, everyone around you puts away the phone and people start to talk to eachother, with a smile on their face.

No tendency to procrastinate

Knowing which of the last two pieces of fruit on my plate is sweeter.

Instead of sleeping at night, let me just plug in to a charger. It would be much more convenient and reliable.

I would like to know every song's lyrics upon hearing the first 10 seconds, think of the karaoke nights 🎤

I would love to have the ability to know for any journey, no matter how complex, what time I need to leave to arrive on time.

Knowing everything about my body.

What is my current blood sugar? O2 level electrolyte status? How much shit do I have in my colon?

Be able to see 5 seconds in the future

Take a mental note that I could review later without worry of forgetting it, for times when jotting something down normally isn’t practical such as while driving.

Is breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)

The ability to turn most traffic lights green (not all of them just, like 90%), would basically be the reverse of my current super power of turning most traffic lights red

1 pound telekinesis in my line of sight. You won't be opening any safes or stealing anyone's gun, but you can do plenty of incredible stuff with even the weakest supernatural power.

I think I would be robbing casinos and thumbing the scale all over the place. It doesn't take much to make marginal opportunities into steady gains if you can cheat physics and break probability.

I'd wave my hand and people arguing or hating in front of me or online, would suddenly be peaceful and conjointly coming up with solutions to their problems.

The ability to accelerate my speed of thoughts so I could come up with witty comebacks in real time and not hours later.

Ability to have perfectly control how awake i am

Taking photos with my eyes. Would help a ton with getting pictures of cool bugs without having to fiddle with my phone and get defeated by autofocus

Exactly once a month, I find a 20 on the ground. It can be anytime of the month and it can only be once a month. How great a feeling to find a 20 on the ground and no one is around?

The 20s are coming from scumbag people like jerks who don’t pick up their dogs poop or are mean to customer service people.

Being able to find the exact book page or moment in a Netflix series where I was when I fell asleep last night.

Or when my cat starts to make her first vomit sounds being able to beam her from the carpet to a floor with tiles in a split second.

The ability to control the temperature (and perhaps humidity and/or composition too) of air within 1mm of my body. Like a personal air conditioner. Would make going outside right now so much more bearable, pretty sure it would help with sleep too... Sigh, one can dream...

Not require sleep, ever, with no ill effects (fatigue, mental issues, shortened lifespan, etc).

So much time is wasted sleeping. I have too much shit to do! It's 2am because I was up getting some code working for another team at work, and we just moved, so I have tons of unpacking to do!

oof.. i'm gonna go with slightly above average luck

Being able to manually adjust my focus on and interest in what I'm doing.

Lie detection

Someone once mentioned slowing time for like 2 seconds as a terrible super power, but as a skateboarder, I think this would be amazing.

Control my apettite at will would be nice.

With the example given, I feel like my go-to super power would still be applicable here:

Whatever I draw, I can make real. The first thing I'd draw is a pill that allows me to draw better.

Zoom with my eyes! I love birding, having prismatic eyes would be neat.

I want an audibe achievment fanfare everytime something i do goes according to plan.

To be able to stockpile time up to 24 hours. For example, if I'm running late on a project, I can dip into a time stockpile for 8 hours to get it done. At a later time I can then lose 8 hours from my time

The ability to know exactly the right thing to say at any given time. Because I often do the opposite right now.

Superhuman patience.

Not have a panic attack when someone is mildly displeased with me

Every morning when I wake up my clothes and dishes from yesterday are cleaned and put away

• never be bored.
• fall asleep instantly.
• pee and poop teleported straight into the toilet.
• grow fingernails back quickly.
• know how to do anything, but lose all memory of the thing when trying to do it, tell anyone, or record it.
• ability to shapeshift, but your bones and muscles are going to hurt like hell. You think breaking a bone is bad? Try having all the bones in your face rearrange themselves.

Maxed out luck stat

I don't want to know something would go well, I want to be surprised when something goes well

Shark hands, because it would be awesome

That I could tell someone to stop doing something and they'd actually listen and stop.

The ability to mute any sound I hear. Baby crying, annoying hum, someone snoring, obnoxious drunk? Muted.

Any species of insect of my choosing within 12 inches of my body instantly die and I can activate or deactivate this power at will.

Or the ability to be fresh out of the shower and perfectly dried off clean instantly whenever I choose.

Overwrite my personality. It would help me so much to become normal dude.

Add +1 to the Credit Score of anyone I positively interact with.

to instinctively know what a person wants.

To get my kids to fall asleep at their bed time.

The ability to know if a fruit is going to taste good just by holding it. Perhaps being able to experience the taste of it (when it ripens) by holding it. Perhaps also being able to tell peak ripeness. But that may be op. I’d settle for the first part.

The ability to not mind driving a car. Like whenever I need to drive somewhere, I just completely black out and my body drives perfectly while my mind is full out. Then my mind awakens as soon as I arrive hand have finished parking.

Apparently nobody here knows what a "small thing" is.

The ability to instantly make anyone stub their toe.

I want to be able to build an endless tower of blocks that will never fall over

i could see lies

I'd want a pen or pencil to come out of my fingertip. Retractable, of course. I'm always looking for something to write with and never can find anything that works decently.

The ability to know all of someone's usernames and passwords by only looking at a photo of their face.

The perfect ability in the modern age for a secret life as either vigilante or villain.

Kill every insect within 10 yards of me with a thought.

I could hold my poop indefinitely until I got home.

I could save so much time if I could tell how much voltage is in a circuit just by touching it

One of the biggest ones that still classifies as small?

The ability to sneeze and get the relief even if the feeling fades.

Weak earth-bending. Like just enough to like dig garden furrows or build sand castles. Even at the same speed that it would take with hand tools it would be pretty fun to mess around with.

I'd take perfect aim when throwing something. You always hit the garbage can, you're unstoppable playing darts. You never miss flinging a playing card at your friends.

I want a power that if someone looks at my back I die but in return if someone looks at their back, they die and pass it on to the next user.

Being able to set a timer for when to sleep and wake up

Drawing sth in a way that explains a picture I have in my brain in a very short timeframe.

mustard seed size faith 😄

You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”(Matthew 17:20)

To be able to dream, or at least be able to remember my dreams if I actually am having them. I used to be able to remember my dreams pretty vividly right after I woke up and I could tell when I was having them. Now, nothing.

Being able to choose the best fruits/vegetables when shopping for groceries. No more moldy Avocados.

I know that there are indicators that I can already use to determine this, but I want to be able to just pick the best ones every time on first try without even thinking or touching them all.

Not needing to sleep.

An infinite money credit card would be pretty small, I think.

But I get it. I would honestly just pick an ability like being able to match other people's problems with the ideal solution if one already exists closeby. So, say, someone comes to me looking for a job, and I just magically happen to know exactly of a phone number for a company that needs them. Someone looking for love, and I just happen to know that if we walk down a certain street and make a certain joke, someone else will overhear and love it. I would eventually have a reputation.

The Levant.

Wait, are we not roleplaying powerful countries?

the ability to just barely lose any match.

I already have a minor superpower. Sort of a weak form of telepathy. I can alter people’s thoughts and emotional state with my mind.

As for how my best guess is I got abducted by aliens and they altered me somehow. I do have a bunch of small identical scars scattered around my body.

As for why, I’m not sure. I suspect it might be a scientific study of human morality. Hopefully I’m giving them a good view of humanity with how I use it.

I only use it to help people. I can help people calm down when they’re panicking. I even did it with a dog once: it was a little dog in a shopping cart and it seemed terrified of everything so I just transmitted what it’s like to realize everything’s okay, and immediately the dog stopped shivering and looked around with wide eyes of wonder, then looked at me. There you go little guy.

I’m in sales, and I never use my powers to swing a sale. That’s unethical.

My favorite use of the powers is to enhance parties and concerts. Thought recently I’ve been toning that down too because it’s also kind of unethical. I do feel like operating on a crowd bothers me less than operating on a person.

I went to Ninja Sex Party in Boulder last fall and I helped drive the crowd wild. They said we were their best crowd ever and they’d never had a better concert.

If the DJ sucks I can just activate more of his brain and suddenly he’s on fire. If someone’s looking threatening toward me I can just instill a little irrational fear of me. Their mind fills in the details: “why am I suddenly afraid of that little guy? He must have powerful friends, or I’m being watched or something”

Overall, having a superpower is really weird because people don’t think it exists, and I can’t talk about it without being labeled crazy.

Invisibility, with ability to hide IR and sound and can make recording video cameras invisible too. I'd expose all the corrupt politicians, judges, and CEOs!

ability to spawn $100,000,000,000 into my bank account at any time :)

If I put on someone's shoes and walked one mile in them, I could magically perfectly understand everything they're going through.

If I put on someone's shoes and walk one mile in them, I can instantly perfectly understand what they're going through.

If I put on someone's shoes and walk one mile in them, I can instantly perfectly understand what they're going through.