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?

Yeah! I can do both and also make just one eye go cross-eyed (i.e towards my nose). The first joints of my fingers also bend independently of the others and I used to spend hours sitting comfortably with my knees out at right angles (don't do this, even if you can, I've learned the hard way that it fucks them 😂) As a fully grow responsible adult I still desperate to be able to wriggle my ears though . . .

I can do the shaking thing, and so can my dad and sister. Always assumed it was a genetic oddity.

I can't move my eyes independently, I can't even go cross eyed. I can shake them but only for a second

I can wiggle my ears.

I can shake mine.