Unique Facts About Wink Eye

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

Apparently someone blink frequency also varies, largely influenced by age. Lacrimal gland in older men will decrease performance, so the eyes become dry faster. As a result, they blink more often. Conversely, babies blink less often because they spend more time to sleep, so that condition humidity is maintained eyeball.
 
In addition, there are other unique facts about the lag blink of an eye. What are they?



1. Women can set the blink time
Allegations that women more often than men turns blinking hard to prove with scientific facts. But the fact is, women blink twice as much than men. The blinking every different person every minute.

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

As quoted from Mens Health researchers say that women who are taking birth control pills will blink 32 percent more often than those who do not eat them.

2. Wink inspired the creation of the wiper system 
It turns out that the human eye blink frequency every second of Robert Kearns inspire, to create a windshield wiper on a car. The idea of ​​the wiper is going on her wedding night in 1953, when the champagne corks bounced into his left eye.

The incident led he blinked with irregular. He concluded that the mechanism of action of windshield wipers on cars similar to the human eye blink.

3. Babies rarely blinks
Until now there has been no research that could explain why babies than adults seldom flashes. Infants blink only twice or less per minute her. However, the flicker frequency will increasingly frequent due to its growth.



However, the normal blink will begin obtained when the child is aged 14-15 years. In theory, babies blink less often because they spend a lot more time to sleep, so the baby does not need to lubricate the eyes as often as adults.

4. Influenced flicker 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.

U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the flight simulation will blink more often when it is in the safe zone, compared to when it is in the enemy zone. This triggered the fear of lack of information obtained at the enemy.

Dr. John Stern, professor emeritus in psychology from Washington University, said that George W. Bush blinks faster when under fire from political opponents, John Kerry, in the first presidential debate of 2004. Kerry, more rarely blinking, eventually won the debate.

5. Animals were flashing
Like humans, animals apparently were flashing, but animals such as fish, snakes, and other animals that do not have eyelids. There are also some other animals such as hamsters only blink with one eye. In 1927, WP Blount published a book about animals blink, Studies of the Movements of the eyelids of Animals: Blinking.

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

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