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Old 15-October-2007, 07:06 PM
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I can see my own eyes move in the mirror. Well, *one* eye can watch the other move. I've always been borderline "lazy eye" since I was a kid, and that allowed me to learn how to move my eyes independently which I've exploited for comedic effect.

What's going on is I'm very left-eyed (doesn't that correlate with the opposite handedness; that is, if you're right-handed, you tend to be left-eyed?), and when I'm looking at something closely, my brain will start ignoring the right eye, and it can easily just "relax". I learned how to consciously let an eye "relax", ignoring the input, and I can move it while continuing to ignore the input. If I ever lock in on its signal so to speak, I loose that ability.

However, the funny thing that works only works close up. For far field, my right eye is actually better than the left, and it actually dominates. IOW, one eye is nearsighted and the other is farsighted, or something like that.

-Richard
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