# Can you raise one eyebrow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840 "2005-11-01T02:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/41 "2005-11-01T14:56:08Z")
I can raise my left eyebrow alone. I think I could train myself to do the other, but it’s never been important enough to really devote any time to it. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/42 "2005-11-01T15:16:47Z")
I can raise either independently, but the right is both easier and goes up higher. In 6th grade, my friend Greg used to show up his eye-brow raising skills, something I could not do at the time, but then one morning I woke up and I had somehow learned the ttrick of it overnight. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/43 "2005-11-01T15:27:50Z")
I used to be able to raise either, but now I can only do the left. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/44 "2005-11-01T15:34:09Z")
I can raise the left one easily, but because of _cough_horribleeyesurgery_cough_ I can’t open my other eye too much or it hurts. Damn light sensitivity. I could probably raise the other eyebrow if I trained in the dark… ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/45 "2005-11-01T18:14:08Z")
I’m right handed. I do a wonderful right eyebrow raise, but nada on the left. I can wiggle my right ear with more elan than my left. I can also curl, twist, make a ladle of my tongue. Also have that cherry stem tying thing down pat. LilMiss can cross her eyes independant of each other. Yuck. She can also do the ear wiggles, but not the eyebrow. ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/46 "2005-11-01T18:33:15Z")
I can raise my left eyebrow with ease, my right, not at all (I’m right handed, so this seems backwards). I can also sneer on my left side, but not my right. I wonder if sneering is related to eyebrow raising? Are any other eyebrow raisers sneerers also? ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/47 "2005-11-01T18:39:46Z")
I’m right-handed, but I can raise the left eyebrow easily and the right one only if I squint the left one. I can also roll my tongue and have double-jointed fingers. I’m a MONSTER!!! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/48 "2005-11-01T19:22:39Z")
> [@Ultraviolet](#): > > I can raise my left eyebrow with ease, my right, not at all (I’m right handed, so this seems backwards). I can also sneer on my left side, but not my right. I wonder if sneering is related to eyebrow raising? Are any other eyebrow raisers sneerers also? Oddly, I sneer on the left. If I sneer and raise my right brow at the same time… well, it ain’t purdy. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/49 "2005-11-01T19:27:56Z")
Can lift my left eyebrow but not my right. I can also wiggle my ears (together or independently), curl my tonge or make a clover with it (3 leaves only, not 5), wiggle my nostrils (can’t everyone do that?), and sneer on either side. And now I’m going to be practicing lifting my right eyebrow for the rest of the day. I’ll let you know how it works out. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/50 "2005-11-01T19:34:08Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > Only my left eyebrow. When I try to raise my right eyebrow, my left eyebrow ends up being the one that goes up. :dubious: Me too. Also, I can wiggle both ears, but the left wiggles much better than the right. I can wiggle the right by itself, but it takes a lot more concentration. I’m working on the right eyebrow, but so far, no luck. Also, I’m right handed. ---
**Author:** ![rpinrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@rpinrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rpinrd)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/51 "2005-11-01T20:25:23Z")
My four year old daughter can raise her left brow, and has been doing it for years. No one else in the family can do it. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/52 "2005-11-01T20:37:36Z")
I can raise my right eyebrow! Ha! But the rest of my family can curl their tongues and they never, ever, ever fail to tease me about it. I’m an outcast, a black sheep, an exile from the fold. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/53 "2005-11-01T21:06:43Z")
Can roll my tongue, wiggle my ears and raise my right eyebrow to full, graceful arch that can be viewed easily from 100 yards away. This came in very handy as a teacher - never had to say a word during tests when the students would see me catching them glancing over to the next desk. That eybrow said it all and sometimes I had to catch myself from laughing when I saw their expressions of terror. ---
**Author:** ![homerlover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90db22/32.png) [@homerlover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homerlover)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/54 "2005-11-01T23:54:52Z")
I can raise one eyebrow, can’t roll my tongue, but my thumb is double jointed…so I’m good at video games and [speed texting](http://t9.com) . While regular thumbed-freaks are texting Hi Mom, I’ve already told her about my day. I can also recite three different time life record commercials from heart. Wow. I need to build up my real talents. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840/55 "2005-11-02T03:05:18Z")
Full eyebrow control, tongue rolls up fine. However, apparently auriculoplegic. Dem lobes have shown no sign of motion for 44 years now… Can’t fold my pinkies w/o dragging down also my ring fingers, either, but on that I never found out if that was the rule or the exception. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-raise-one-eyebrow/328840.md?page=2)