# People want to see my "crazy eyes"!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 31, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040 "2024-07-31T02:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/1 "2024-07-31T02:56:20Z")

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Well, here it is! Here it is! HERE IT IS!

> o\_o\<

By popular demand!

Just finished up a happy hour not too long ago. And the subject of crazy eyes came up. And having weird moods in general. Im no stranger to those. My friends agreed. I told them my mom said I had crazy eyes if I had too much sugar or red dye 40, in my youth. They were like “WE have never seen your crazy eyes, we want to see them LOL”

That is some Skibidi Ohio Rizz, right?

No, really. They are saying that they want to see me in poor mental health in so many words. Dont you think? It seems like there are people out there who like to see other people go off the rails. I therefore question THEIR mental health. 😉

Do you have any people like this in your life? People who want to see you in your less presentable moments?

Midwest Degen  
-Erotic, exotic, and a little psychotic.

Not really. I saw that on a keychain at Spencer’s in the early 2000’s. Ramble, ramble, ramble…

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/2 "2024-07-31T20:22:31Z")

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The wall outside my house isn’t 4ft high.

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**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/3 "2024-08-01T20:02:00Z")

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So what do your eyes do when they’re crazy? Are they unable to focus somehow or some other effect maybe?

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**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/4 "2024-08-01T21:17:33Z")

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Not crazy, but I can do 2 eyeball “tricks” that some find amusing while others find vaguely off putting.

The first starts by looking over to one side, say to my left, then while keeping my right eye looking left I can move my left eye all the way to the right so I’m now cross-eyed, then keeping the left eye hard right, move my right eye all the way to the right, and then reversing the direction and going back the other way.

The second is similar but starts by rotating both eyes to look up as far as possible, then bringing them to look down as far as possible, but in the middle to either go cross-eyed again, or to move them so both are looking out to their respective sides. This is the one that more people find disturbing for some reason.

I’ve never been able to move them independently in the vertical plane, one up and the other down.

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**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/5 "2024-08-01T21:47:04Z")

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Your eye tricks are neat! I can see how you wouldn’t want to do it a lot but they sound fun to watch.

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/6 "2024-08-01T21:49:35Z")

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> [@moes\_lotion](#):
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> The first starts by looking over to one side, say to my left, then while keeping my right eye looking left I can move my left eye all the way to the right so I’m now cross-eyed, then keeping the left eye hard right, move my right eye all the way to the right, and then reversing the direction and going back the other way.

In the after-credits scenes from To Be or Not To Be (the 1983 version with Mel Brooks / Ann Bancroft), she does that. It looked like insta-headache!

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**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/7 "2024-08-01T22:02:28Z")

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I usually get a mild headache doing either for more than about 10 seconds, but I’m a slave to my art. I’ll have to check out the movie again, haven’t seen it in many years.

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**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/8 "2024-08-01T22:11:07Z")

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A friend can make his eyeballs jiggle, vibrating short distances side to side very rapidly. It looks like he’s holding a powerful vibrator to his temple and the pulses are travelling straight to his eyes. He can’t really explain how he’s doing it, and I’ve never been able to. I got him to try walking forward while doing it and he nearly tripped onto his face.

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**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/9 "2024-08-01T22:51:07Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wz2IN7Gn-ys/maxresdefault.jpg "Invasion of body snatchers (1978) - Eye roll scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz2IN7Gn-ys)

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**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/10 "2024-08-02T23:55:17Z")

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Now, THAT is crazy!

My mom used to describe my eyes as “wide open”.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/11 "2024-08-03T00:11:30Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_H6_pMMz_uw/hqdefault.jpg "This cringy thing has been in my drafts😂☺️") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H6_pMMz_uw)

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-want-to-see-my-crazy-eyes/1005040/12 "2024-08-03T00:12:12Z")

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When I think Crazy Eyes, this is what comes to mind:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lSj66d7uWVY/maxresdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lSj66d7uWVY/maxresdefault.jpg)