{{Lale}}: Having hyperacusis is a nightmare! I can hear the music from everyone else's headphones when riding a bus, I rarely go to parties or dances where there'll be loud music, and since a tv or loud conversation anywhere in my house or dorm sounds like it's in the same room, it can take me over an hour to fall asleep at night ''with earplugs!''

This Troper has over-sensitivity to high pitched noises , cat scarers and other ultrasonic devices can hurt my ears.

This Troper has a funny nose. Even though it's always clogged or something, I can smell very faint sents but when I'm in the kitchen, I can't smell anything. Oh, and I once saw something no one else did...when I wasn't wearing my glasses...halfway down the hall...and without my glasses I can barely see two feet beyond my hand when it's fully extended.

When the T.V is on, but its mute, or the cable isn't on, my friend and I can hear this horrible high pitched sound coming from it. I'm so sensitive to it that i can walk into the house and tell that someone left the T.V on in the next room.

Indeed. This Troper has done this on many occasions.

Same here. There's a TV in my grandma's house I can't stand to watch because (for whatever bizarre reason) it has a really loud high pitched note whenever it's on.

And the same here. My parents never believed me though.

Happens to me too. It's caused by high voltage and complex circuitry, like a CRT TV.

Yes, especially the high-frequency switching elements. Also, while cameras used ultrasonic rangefinders for auto-focus, I could hear this insistent, rapid little clicking noise from the rangefinder before the servos moved the optics into place.

This troper has this, too. His friends find it creepy that he can tell if a computer's been left on from halfway across the house. It's high-pitched enough that it doesn't ''feel'' like hearing, though.

Count me in if this can really be scientifically proven.

Me too. I hate having to repeatedly ask people to turn off their muted [=TVs=] because of the horrible noise they make.

Modern [=LCD TVs=] usually don't have this problem... except when they do. Especially annoying when said [=LCD=] is on a ''cell phone.''

This troper always knows where everyone in a house is at all times, from footsteps. He gets scared incredibly badly when someone actually sneaks up on him.

Does synesthesia count as an example? This troper has it, and most non-synesthetic people find it cool that she sees colors in graphemes. I only find it useful for art purposes, where knowing the word "slow" is pinkish, light blue and indigo comes in handy.

I have a weird cross between Super Sense, SpiderSense and SpeakOfTheDevil. Whenever my dad says my name in the same building/floor, regardless of distance or noise, I can hear it. I have the sneaking suspicion this is the result of some sinister pavlovian conditioning, will investigate after I scrub his pool.

Wow. Super senses can really mean BlessedWithSuck. When I read a few of the examples, my first thought was that I hadn't edited this page before. My nose has been (in)famous for near constant discharge or stuffiness, yet I often smell things most people miss. In contrast, smells that might be pleasant for other folks absolutely REEK to me. I can't stand the detergent aisle at the store, certain flowers are only pleasant outdoors, and I can smell people smoking cigarettes ''across the street!''\\ I can really empathize with the Hearing examples too - I hear the screech of horizontal output transistors in [=TVs=] and CRT monitors; a stereo at low volume upstairs is too loud for me to sleep through.\\ And finally, vision... although I wear glasses, I noticed that when the refresh rate on my computer display is set to 60hz refresh rate, I can see a flicker from the screen. It's better if I can set the monitor to 85hz or higher. I know an older lady who has the same problem.

Ugh, if a TV screen is left on I can hear it. I can generally tell where people are in the house, either because of their footsteps or because my family's kind of inactive I'm not sure which. I can usually tell when something's odd, a light left on or a computer, despite being in a different room. And certain foods smell awful to me but have no smell to anyone else in my family or friends, ie. Cucumbers. Nasty, nasty cucumbers.

JET73L has the "hearing high-pitched noises, feeling low-pitched noises, percieving lots of distinct noises, yada yada" thing with the whole "migraines, focus problems, etc." thing that so often goes with it. However, the troper's true power is the ability to smell things (almost always comestibles) from inside sealed containers. Its only weakness is being masked by something else, such as vanilla or lavender, or an aluminum or tin-plated container. Even sterilization doesn't stop it, and the ability is refined enough that the troper was able to describe three distinct sealed wines, their subtle differences, and which would go best with the dinner it was to be served with ''based on the cook's personal style''... despite never having smelled or tasted any of the three wines outside the still-sealed bottles (even if I were of age to drink recreationally where I live, I don't like the taste of uncooked wines, or really, even grape juice for that matter). On a related note, cucumber skins, meats, and (at least if dried, scraped clean, or cracked) seeds all have different scents, which change based on how old it is and if and how it has been cooked or chilled. I don't know what the above troper's family is thinking.

This troper has hyperacusis and can only function outside with earplugs. Even then, overwhelmingly loud sound can still send him into panic.

I have super-sensitive, er, ''senses'' of hearing, smell, and taste, though that last one isn't really as relevant as the other two. I also hate hate hate hate hate loud noises (especially screechy or shriek-y ones), smokers are the bane of my existence, and I've recently started getting migraines. I'm also slightly photophobic, but my vision is the exact opposite of a super-sense. (And there definitely seems to be some sort of correlation between a great sense of smell and an excess of snot, because my nose does that too.)

...Except for the near blindness, this is ME....THAT IS SCARY. Although, my hearing seems to be failing me, now.

I used to be so sharp with my senses that I could distinguish people by their footsteps, types of fabric by only touch and even taste words. Then, I went to elementary school and my senses got numb. Turns out it was the isolation.

This Troper is in college and can still tell some people apart by their footsteps, particularly if they have a unique walking pattern. Apparently they find it a tad creepy when they walk into a stair well a flight above me and I call out a greeting to them, sight unseen. Also the 60 cycle hum from some lamps drives him quite mad.

Zig-zagged with this troper. He has horrible situational awareness, but on the rare occasions when he's paying attention to something, he can hear footsteps from across the house while wearing headphones, count pine needles at ten feet with his eyes crossed, and perform other sensory feats. However, he has very little sense of taste, to the point that everything he eats has to be ridiculously spicy, sweet, or bitter for him to enjoy it.

I most likely have some form of Sensory Integration Dysfunction (along with a host of various other issues), which results in some things being over-sensitive and some things being under-sensitive. And mostly...it just sucks. Being over-sensitive to touch means that I can't wear clothes if they're even a little tiny bit too small, and can't eat a lot of foods because even if I like the taste the texture of it makes me want to gag. My hearing's over-sensitive too (I can hear the above-mentioned sound of a muted TV from a floor away), as well as my sensitivity to light. Honestly I've yet to find any kind of advantage to it. It's really just annoying.

This Troper was told by an eye doctor that he had 20/13 vision. This was a few years ago, though, so it's probably not as good now.

This trope basically describes my sister (who I sometimes call Supergirl because of it). She has great vision, can hear things from rather far away, and is sensitive to smells. She also can just ''feel'' things more. For example: #QUOTE#'''Sister''': Do you guys feel that? #QUOTE#'''Me/My mother''': Feel what? #QUOTE#*3 seconds later, decent-sized earthquake happens* #QUOTE#'''Me''': Oh, ''that''.

This troper somehow has 1.5 (about 20/13) vision despite how much of his awake time he spends in front of a computer or TV screen. This is about the only one of his SuperSenses that comes in handy; the rest have some sort of BlessedWithSuck attached.

This troper is incredibly sensitive to touch. When she was little, even light pokes were slightly painful, though it's gone down a notch from then. There are many, many textures she simply cannot stand like crushed velvet or the texture of a certain chair or toilet paper roles after they've been in dry, cold air... although it makes up for itself in certain other ways.

Thie troper has three. My eyes are more sensitive to light than most, allowing me great night-vision. I can identify most foods from the second story of my house through there smell. And I can notice slight sounds, noticing once how my glass was producing a tone from the resonance produced, I assume, by the popping bubbles of the soda in the glass.