Human eye blinking in slow motion-- be prepared!! It's WEIRD

[ailsagirl]

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. That is fascinating, in a weird way. n/t

[ailsagirl]

3. Weird is right

I never knew the eyelids actually ripple!!

[Anny61]

2. Isn't that interesting. Ha ha.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Damn. I blinked and missed it.

[dhol82]

5. That is seriously cool!

[Doodley]

6. That is quite a skill. I tried, but just can't do it in slow motion.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Very interesting ! But it makes sense ...

The eyelid basically wipes any dust, discharge, old tears, and other debris toward the "drain". There is a continuous flow of tears from the tear glands above the outer (temporal) side of the eye towards the duct at the inside corner.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/-/media/kcms/gbs/patient-consumer/images/2013/11/15/17/42/ds00463_-ds01096_im02751_r7_tearglandthu_jpg.ashx

This raises an obvious question: Do reptiles, and other animals with a nictitating membrane, blink in a different fashion ? I suspect they do, and that what we see in the video is the mammalian alternative to that "third eyelid". (According to Wikipedia, some mammals, mostly aquatic to some degree, do have a nictititating membrane as well.)

[Binkie The Clown]

8. Now if they had filmed a real human instead of a reptilian alien... nt