Independant Eye Movements

[SaveFerris]

This has been bugging me for a few days now since I started searching for techniques of learning to move your ears. Anyway I slipped away from my original target and now am keen to learn how to move each eye individually.

After much effort I can just about move one eye at a time slightly, keeping the other one centred. So I was just wondering if you guys have any tips or instructions on how you learned to do it. I'm hoping there's at least a handful of active members here who can perform this trick.

[Mr JP Fugley]

"So I was just wondering if you guys have any tips or instructions on how you learned to do it."

:genious:

The clever bit is that it's written in a manner to suggest that everyone has learned to do this mental thing. It would be wrong not to. It's a sort of reversal of expectations. An inversion if you will. "eyes unclosed" means so much more than "eyes open".

[Cheese]

I get a lazy eye when I get drunk, does that count?

[Mr JP Fugley]

I get a lazy eye when I get drunk, does that count?

It's more your brain that does the actual counting. The eyes just pick up the data for it to use. If it's lazy it's probably not even doing that.

Did you know that you only actually look at stuff about 10% of the time. The brain stops you picking up data the rest of the time as it would make you feel sick. It's called fixation or somesuch.

[tralalala]

I can move my ears independently

moving the eyes that way just seems freaky... where'd you learn how to do it?

[CrabGirl]

I can move my eyes independently. I didn't learn it, I can just do it. I think it's because I have hypermobile joints which bend weirdly. It means that other bits of me like my optic nerves are affected. Great for party tricks, shit for retaining mobility in my joints or my eyesight as I get older.

[Sextent]

You'll always have your memories.