An Exploration of Best Super Power and Their Possibilities

Understanding Super Powers

Super Powers are often defined as abilities, often supernatural, that are inhuman and defy nature. Defying nature, means these abilities do not adhere to common forces and influences of nature, making these abilities beyond normal and atypical as with common beings. While this definition might sound highfaluting, we can simply describe super powers as abilities that you don’t quite get as a human and defy the logic of science and physics. 

In mainstream media and entertainment pop culture, super powers are often depicted as superheroes or mutants. Like in movies and novels, super powers are possessed by very few humans. Although in real life, there are also a few people that we may consider possessing super powers but not entirely the same with movies and cartoons.

Super Powers of Human

We humans are among the amazing creatures that thrive in this world. While we do not possess super powers that allow us to fly or control the weather, we still have innate abilities that we can consider super powers for every one of us. Below are some of the super powers of humans that you didn’t know we had.

Speaking

You heard that right, one of the amazing feats that humans possess is being able to communicate through speech. Animals, in general, can communicate with one another. But humans can not only communicate but relay specific information through words. For example, a bat can create noises or streams of sounds to warn other bats of danger, while humans can speak and directly identify specific thoughts or information about the danger. That is just one of the many possible ‘powers of speaking’.

Speech, however, is an evolved trait that humans developed as they evolved in time. However, being able to speak and form words is still an amazing ability that only humans possess.

Adaptability

All animals have the inert instinct to adapt and eventually evolve based on their surroundings (that’s why some animals learn to live on land and in water). But humans can adapt to almost any place intentionally. For example, some people train themselves to hold their breath for extended periods when diving into deep waters. The Sea Nomads, often known as Bajau, are a group of indigenous people from Southeast Asia who have adapted to the ocean waters so well, that they can dive without breathing under the ocean for straight 13 minutes! Now that’s a super power.

Other people trained their bodies to adapt to harsh cold environments. Wim Hof, also known as the Ice Man, can submerge himself in freezing ice for more than two hours without his muscles being frozen or cramped. He climbed Mount Everest shirtless and wearing only shorts.

Memory

Memory is not an exclusive ability for humans. There are a lot of animals that defeat humans in terms of memorization such as chimpanzees, elephants, and dolphins. The mentioned animals can easily recognize patterns and identify or sort the patterns correctly based on scientists’ experiments. But what makes human memory a super power?

Unlike tests on animals, humans tend to store a lot of information in their brains. This includes language, coherence, experiences, arithmetic, and skills. However, some humans can easily memorize a single picture or page without the need for patterns. We call this ability as Photographic Memory. A photographic memory is a very uncommon super power. It allows a human to recall, in complete little details, a scene, an image, an event, or a set of sentences on a page. They can visualize almost anything as a photograph, capture it, store it in their brain, and recall and re-read it for later. It is said that fewer than a hundred people possess this ability which is also known as HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory). Just imagine a friend having this memory and being able to recall a detailed page of a book. That is extremely useful in exams!

Green Thumb 

The term Green Thumb is an idiomatic term referring to the ability to grow plants. Scientists have debunked that being a green thumb is an exclusive ability because any human can learn and grow their plants. However, of all the creatures on Earth, it is humans who can intentionally germinate and populate an area with trees and fauna. This is because humans understand biology and know the behavior of plants in terms of producing and germinating it. That is why humans are successful in agriculture and farming to create sources of food. And because humans are the only ones to do this, we can say that it is a super power exclusive to only humans.