How long can you hold your blink for?

[Justgivemethehobnobs]

I went to the opticians a few weeks ago for a contract lense check and I mentioned my eyes felt dry. The optician put some dye in my eye and agreed that I did indeed have very dry eyes. They start drying over after a couple of seconds, other people can get to 8-10 seconds apparently (very impressive of them)

This just got me wondering if I have to blink more regularly than the more wet eyed people? So using the very scientific one elephant...by three elephants I need to blink but I can hold it, by five seconds it's getting fairly uncomfortable but by nine elephants my eyes are burning and I have to give in to the sweet sweet blink.

Anyone else care to join my experiment, am I really the most dry eyed of them all?

I got to eight elephants. But they were speedy elephants. On rollerskates, not strolling by.

Thanks everyone for responding to my experiment! You've put a smile on my face this morning

I somehow just made it to sixteen elephants, I'm so tired though it could be that I just fell asleep with my eyes open?

Apparently the world record for a person not to blink is 49 minutes, 59 seconds????? I'm not even sure how that's possible. Looks like we all have a lot to learn.

I could possibly manage that, if I accidentally rubbed my eyelid after touching superglue.

You need a cat Justgivemethehobnobs, maybe it's just the weird cat lady in me but I can't help occasionally getting into a competitive human/cat stare-out I'm so banking on other people admitting they do this too, it can't be that weird . See it as blink suppression training

@thatwould
Ah i have been in training for the MN world none bilking championships without even knowing it as me and Dpuss often have staring comps

14 elephants

I don't normaly post pictures of myself on here but this is me NOT blinking

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17 elephants.

We should televise it AlCalavicci, regional heats, national championships, no one has to leave the house we could live stream it. Obviously sponsored by Optex other brands available

My first go was 19 elephants.

I used to practice this sort of thing at the end of exams while waiting for the time to finish. Holding my breath was another post-exam entertainment.

19 elephants!

I made it to 15 elephants

Timed myself. I really wanted to blink at fifteen seconds but it passed off.

42 elephants!

I cannot wait til my husband comes home to tell him.

19 seconds before it started to get uncomfortable, I blinked at 26.

@Thelnebriati oo that has just made me wince!
@thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter I don't have a cat, but am willing to consider investing in one to get to champion starer status!

@ClashCityRocker hope your husband was suitably impressed!
@soupforbrains soo how was your meeting?

18 and I stopped because I was bored 😃. I also have dry eyes.

I have a hobby where I have to glue bits together and so far I have superglued my fingers to the arm of the sofa, my jeans, a spoon, and each other

@Thelnebriati Hahaha, that is very impressive! I've superglued my fingers together before and remember the panic! You've actually just reminded me that the first time I really saw my husband annoyed was when I kicked a bottle of nail varnish remover all over his wooden floor that I had been using to try and get superglue off his duvet cover.
What happened to the spoon? Did it survive?

@Justgivemethehobnobs annoyingly my meeting was very interactive.

I work in Health & Safety so i think you can imagine how much fun we’re having at the moment 🙄 I then ended up rushed off my feet all day. Hopefully tomorrow will bring new opportunities to improve on my PB.

@ClashCityRocker a) was your husband impressed and b) what is his PB?

27 elephants here.

damn it. I have an eyelash in my eye this morning which i can't get out and it is severly hindering my blink-holding attempts.