21Feb / 2003

Do this now

Look to the left, close your eyes, then touch the rightmost edge of your right eyeball with a fingertip. (Push gently on your eyelid, don’t touch the eye itself!) Wiggle your finger up and down. See anything off to the left? That’s the “image” of your fingertip, but the retina of your eye is feeling it, not seeing it. Move your finger UP, and the black/silver splotch moves DOWN. Use two fingertips, and you see two splotches. This is the realm where touching meets seeing.

Interesting things you might not want to try at a job interview.

[via Sugarfused]

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6 responses to “Do this now”

  1. sugar

    I noticed one they left out…musical armpits. Can’t tell you how many times my kids have had musical armpit competitions around this house. Gotta admit, I’ve tried it and just never could get the hang of it…but never at a job interview!

  2. francis s.

    Ouch, ouch, ouch.

    It can’t be good to touch your eyeball, can it?

  3. miguel

    well, i tried it with my eyes closed, and it worked pretty well and didn’t hurt too much…

  4. miguel

    i mean the touching the eyeball thing, not the armpit music thing, of course, which i do with my eyes open.

  5. andrea

    Hey, that’s pretty neat (slow day at work).

  6. miguel

    Hey, I was just thinking about you. I was standing in my kitchen waiting for the coffee machine to finish perking, and found another feather in my bellybutton, and I thought: Andrea!