I can, but I notice it uses different muscles than a blink, and forces my cheek up, so it looks like a wink + smirk.
If I close my eyes and then open just one, I can do it without it, but my cheek tries to go up the second I open and close that eye again, albeit not as high as before.
As for eyebrows, I cannot raise either independently. What I can do, however, is lower both down (a half squint), and then release a little bit on the left side. But I’m not sure the eyebrow noticeably raises, and my left eye goes wide open. So I don’t think it’s really usable.
Easily with either eye. I can also raise either eyebrow. Sometimes I entertain small children by raising alternate eyebrows in quick succession. I can flair my nostrils and sort of wiggle my ears. Also I can tunnel my tongue in either direction. Somewhere there is a YouTube video of John Conway illustrating those tongue motions.
I can wink with either eye and do so fairly often.
I have dogs that will look at me and wink. I wink back so they think I am in on it. They have never let me in on what we are winking about, but it makes me feel included.
Gracie) It’s true Blanche, all the ladies find George irresistible. Why just last Saturday we went to the beach and every woman there gave George the ol’ double wink
Blanche) Double wink?
Gracie) Yes, when he walked by them in his bathing suit they closed BOTH eyes
Winking is easy for me. Independent control of both eyelids. Too bad I don’t know Morse code, I could insult people all day long and no one would ever know.
I can’t do the Spock fascinating eyebrow, though. It has been a sadness all my life. Can’t wiggle my nose, either.
My dad could wiggle his ears, but I never tried to learn how to do that.
I can wink as in closing one eye independently of the other. But whether I’m smiling or not, it just looks like I have something in my eye, or I’m about to sneeze - it doesn’t look like a suggestive, fun wink.
Mind you, looking up images of people winking, they almost all look like that when the wink is caught on a photo, so maybe I’m being too harsh on myself.
Presumably that’s what you were asking about, because there can’t be many people (except for some with disabilities that affect them in other ways too) who are incapable of closing one eye independent of the other.
Yeah, I can wink, I just can’t pull it off. The aforementioned stroke fears or the abovementioned restraining orders abound. Can’t do it smoothly, nor am I sure I would want to anyway.
I cannot raise one eyebrow or roll my tongue. I can whistle, but amateurishly, nothing like the opening to The Andy Griffith Show.
I cannot snap my fingers. Just does not work. No sound comes at all.
My late answer: I’m right-handed. And the right eye is my dominant one.
(In contrast, I put my left thumb above the right when I clasp hands, and my left wrist above the right when I cross arms. And I pronounce the sound /l/ with the tongue to the left. :))
I can wink with both eyes, but I can do it better with my left eye. No cheek muscles move when I wink with left eye, while my right cheek moves when I wink with right eye.
and FTR, I am talking about the cheeks on my face.
