Can you wink with both eyes?

[Alan Medic]

Having a possible stye on my right eyelid I wanted to have a good look.I soon found that I could close my left eye and see through my right eye. But the other way around, I couldn't.Meaning I couldnt close my right eye and keep my left one open.I'm left handed. Has this something to do with it?

Try it and let's see the results.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I am ambiwinkerous

[red devil]

Me too. You're not normal Meds...

[Alan Medic]

Either of you left handed?

[red devil]

Not me, can kick a ball with both feet though...

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I play squash right handed, write left handed, golf right handed, pool and snooker left handed, lift a pint right handed. What does it mean...

[Mick Mac]

I can wink with both eyes. I can even do it with both eyes at the same time but it's blinking difficult and you probably shouldnt try it without appropriate training.

[Alan Medic]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> I play squash right handed, write left handed,

> golf right handed, pool and snooker left handed,

> lift a pint right handed. What does it mean...

You're sporty and like a drink?

[Seabag]

Alan, basically you're stupid

I bet you can't sneeze without looking at the light

Really, a one eyed blinker...whatever next

Btw, thoese Euro/pounds were well used in the last week or so

[Alan Medic]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> I can wink with both eyes. I can even do it with

> both eyes at the same time but it's blinking

> difficult and you probably shouldnt try it without

> appropriate training.

Is this what you mean Mick? If so when would do this? Extract from Winkapedia:

Both eyes (bat/flutter)[edit]

To close and open, or "wink", both eyes is usually an involuntary action known as a "blink". Though if done intentionally, in a particular way (such as once slowly or a few times in a row quickly), while giving a sweet or suggestive look with the eyes, often with the head tilted or at an angle in combination with the shoulders, is known as to "bat an eyelash", "bat/batting eyelashes", or "flutter/fluttering eyelashes". This is most commonly done by girls, as a way of flirting, showing interest, or in an attempt to persuade the receiver.

[Crokes]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> Having a possible stye on my right eyelid I wanted

> to have a good look.I soon found that I could

> close my left eye and see through my right eye.

> But the other way around, I couldn't.Meaning I

> couldnt close my right eye and keep my left one

> open.I'm left handed. Has this something to do

> with it?

> Try it and let's see the results.

I'm a lefty and can only do the opposite to you! (if trying to look through just one eye, can only close my right eye. My left one won't open/close independently, it's a tad frustrating).

[Otta]

Maybe it's one of those things that some people just can't do. Like rolling your tongue (I can't).

[uncleglen]

my relative can move his eyeballs independently as well- very bizarre to watch

[Otta]

I can do that. One of the "good" things (along with a freedom pass) that comes with having my weird eyes.

[Alan Medic]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Alan, basically you're stupid

>

> I bet you can't sneeze without looking at the

> light

>

> Really, a one eyed blinker...whatever next

>

> Btw, thoese Euro/pounds were well used in the last

> week or so

Eh? What light Seabag?

PS The pounds certainly will be by my son. Trust you had a good trip.

[steveo]

I'm pleased to say I can do the Jack NIcholson raised eyebrow thing but only on the left.

If I try to force the right eyebrow up I look like I've had a stroke

[Jeremy]

So.. can any of you do this?

 

[Loz]

I used to know a girl that couldn't wink at all. Much fun was had encouraging her try when we were out drinking.

[steveo]

Was that the Croydon facelift effect?

[numbers]

Jeremy that is absolutely bloody gross and could give people nightmares!!

Alan I can do it with both eyes (including Sean Connery 007 eyebrow raise with my right eyebrow but not left). I am right-handed. If that helps.

[DaveR]

Only being able to wink on one side is very common - it's linked to which is your dominant eye for 'sighting'

It's also pretty common for your dominant eye to be on the opposite side from your dominant hand; lots of right handed people find they have to shoot left-handed because they can only close their right eye.

[Jeremy]

numbers Wrote:

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> Jeremy that is absolutely bloody gross and could give people nightmares!!

Yep. Actually my wife can do it (no comments please). Properly freaked me out when I first saw it..

[steveo]

I was pretty handy at target shooting as a kid and fancied I might have been a sniper, except I couldn't kill an ant without begging for forgiveness or more importantly keep my left eye shut.

It was a common problem in the rifle club and some of the shooters sported pirate eyepatches

[Laddy Muck]

Well I have learnt something today because I thought that a "wink" was only a "wink" when executed with ONE eye.

I can blink...I mean...wink with both eyes. I write with right hand, pluck eyebrows with right hand, saw branches with both right and left arm and play football with left and right foot.

[mikeb]

I can wink with both eyes and move both eyebrows and both ears, all independently. If only I could monetise this somehow ...