Quirky Facts About Wink Eye

The human eye is designed always blinks every few time serves to flatten the eye of oxygen-rich water to the entire surface of the eye. What for? course to banish dirt in the eye, especially the cornea.

Apparently someone blink frequency also varies, largely influenced by age. Lachrymal glands in older people will reduce its performance, so that the eyes become dry faster. As a result, they blink more often. In contrast, babies blink less often because they spend more time sleeping, so the moisture conditions of the eyeball is maintained.

In addition, there is a lag other unique facts about the blink of an eye. What are?

1. Women can set the time blink

The notion that women more often than men turns blinking hard to prove with scientific facts. But in reality, women blink twice as much than men. The blinking every person is different every minute.

However, on average we blink 15 times every 4 seconds. This will increase the amount of flicker when someone in an atmosphere of anxiety, anxiety, and fatigue.

As quoted from Men's Health the researchers said that women who are taking birth control pills will blink 32 percent more often than those who did not.

2. Wink inspired the creation of the wiper system

It turned out that the frequency of the human eye that blinks every second inspire Robert Kearns, to create the wipers on the windshield of the car. The idea of ​​the wiper is happening on the eve of her wedding in 1953, when the champagne corks flew into his left eye.

The incident led to his blinking eyes with irregular. He concluded that the mechanism of action of wipers on the windshield of a car much like the human eye blink.

3. Babies rarely blinks

Until now there has been no research that could explain why babies rarely blink compared to adults. Baby flashes just two times or less per minute of her. However, this flicker frequency will be increasingly frequent due to its growth.

However, wink "normal" will begin to accrue when the child is aged 14-15 years. In theory, babies blink less often because they spend less time sleeping, so that the baby does not need to "lubricate" eyes as often as adults.

4. Wink affected by the condition

Someone flicker frequency was also affected by the conditions and the surrounding environment. For example, when getting important information, usually we rarely blink, or vice versa.

Aircraft pilots in the US Air Force flight simulation will blink more often when in the safe zone, compared to when it is in the enemy zone. This triggered fear of a lack of information obtained on the spot the enemy.

Dr. John Stern, professor emeritus in psychology from Washington University, said that George W. Bush blink faster when under attack from his political opponent, John Kerry, in the first presidential debate in 2004. Kerry, rarely blinking, finally won the debate the.

5. Animals also flashes

Like humans, animals also turns blinking except animals such as fish, snakes, and other animals that do not have eyelids. There are also several other animals such as hamsters blink only one eye. 1927, WP Blount published a book about the animals that blink, Studies of the Movements of the eyelids of Animals: Blinking.

In this book, Blount found that monkeys Sudan blink very often, rats blink when sneezing, and goats flashes with a pause of 30-60 seconds.