Can you do this with your eyes? What is it?

[Peachmelbourne7]

Can anyone else do this with their eyes? I was chatting to my friends and this somehow came up- I was surprised they couldn’t do it as I honestly thought everyone could! Just thought I’d ask here!

2 things-

1. one of my eyes can turn out without moving the other. It’s NOT like cross eyes or squinting my eyes inwards, one of my eyes stays straight and when I want to the other just goes out. I’m still focusing with both eyes, I’m just looking at 2 separate things and get a roaring headache from it. I don’t even know what changes or what I’m doing with my eye, I’m not defocusing them because everything is sharp in both eyes but I just do something and I can move my eye all the way out. Then I can move back it in and out again while keeping the other just looking straight and it looks quite cool haha. Weirdly I can’t make my eyes squint or cross in together like some people though, I can only move one eye out
2. I can shake both eyes in a very very tiny way, not like moving them massively just very tiny movements in all directions, sort of like they’re shaking or shivering

can anyone else do these? And if so, do you know what’s behind it?

I have found my people. My sister and I can both shake our eyeballs. My brother can’t. Possible genetic element?!

I have never met anyone else who can do this!!

I can do this too. The first time I did it was in a long airport queue in Greece and I just idly thought 'I wonder if I can do this..." Showed Bf and he was horrified haha. But he got over it, he's been DH for 20+ years 😁

I can hold one eye still and rotate or flip the other from side to side independently.

Apparently it looks revolting, I still show off with it sometimes at 53, so childish

My sister can shake her eyes, though she doesn’t like to, she says it kind of aches after a while. I remember asking her to do it as a kid bc I thought it was fascinating.

I can shake my eyes, but it's big shakes, not small ones.

A friend can do it but only tiny shakes like you suggest.

I think I'm a freak 🤣

Haha I’ve found my people!

Haha that’s cool. I can do big shakes too! For some reason I found smaller shakes a bit more strenuous for me (if that’s the best word? Haha) because it felt like it took more effort to make the shakes small and fast and really sharp!

What are you concentrating on to do the shaking thing? How do you discover you can do it?

I can turn them in separately but don't like to too often in case something breaks and they don't go back.

I honestly don’t concentrate on anything, I just move them really sharply and fast and it’s very short sharp movements. Just feels like moving my eyes like normal but very very very fast and it’s like they are shivering/shaking!

My daughter can shake her eyeballs. She enjoys doing it to gross people out and it makes me want to puke!

Yes, definitely harder work with small shakes. Hurts my head 😂

AFAIK its down to muscle control; I can wiggle my ears as well (both or one at a time) and make my scalp move.

Have you got a YouTube/TikTok channel OP? you could call it EyesWideRound or something and do tricks!

Changing body parts slightly, I can wiggle my ears up and down……

DH and DD1 can shake their eyeballs, myself and DD2 can’t. DD2 finds it nauseating apparently but I think it’s because she’s jealous. When they both do it at the same time, the backs of my eyes hurt in sympathy.

No but I would like to! 😂

The first is a very important skill needed by Apache pilots, so I was once told. Congratulations

My sister can move one eye independently of the other. It's quite odd!!

No, but I have quite bad eyesight and if I press down on a certain spot on my eyelids my vision returns to perfect (until I let go of course)! Quite useful if I'm trying to read small print without my glasses 🤓

No, but I can go cross eyed and then make either eye slowly return to a normal position matching the angle of the eye that stayed in the middle.

No and yes

Thought I was the weird one being ae to shake my eyes

2 is voluntary nystagamus.

1 never heard of it.

I can't do 1 but I can do 2.

I can shake mine too