What's something weird and mostly useless that you can do with your body?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 134 points – 1 months ago245Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsI can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way. Completely grosses people out when I do it. Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.Neat! Thanks for the name/info. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought. I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives onI think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;) Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.Ey wobbly eye gang here1 more...There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers. By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.I can do this but only a couple mm2 more...
I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way. Completely grosses people out when I do it. Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.Neat! Thanks for the name/info. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought. I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives onI think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;) Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.Ey wobbly eye gang here1 more...There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers. By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.I can do this but only a couple mm2 more...
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.Neat! Thanks for the name/info. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought. I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
Neat! Thanks for the name/info. I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought. I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
I think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;) Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;) Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers. By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.
I can twitch my eyeballs left and right really fast, and not just a little bit - but most of the way.
Completely grosses people out when I do it.
Edit: I can even do circles, but not as fast as left and right.
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.
Neat! Thanks for the name/info.
I’m the only person I’ve ever met who can do this. It’s apparently somewhat more common than I thought.
I’m an old man, but I still do it specifically to my sister because she cannot stand it. /sibling rivalry lives on
I think we have the same talent. Does it look like your eyes are vibrating?
I don’t know because I can’t see a thing when I do it ;)
Edit: I suppose I should make a video of myself - just never have. Sounds like I’ve got plans for the evening :)
Oh.........then maybe we have different talents. I can see the whole world having an earthquake when I do it.
Ey wobbly eye gang here
There used to be a subreddit for us. It was called /r/eyeshakers.
By the way, the scientific name for the eye shake thing, IIRC, is nystagmus.
I can do this but only a couple mm