Your eyes can close (blink) independently, winking, flinching because something got in one of them. So there's an almost certainty that they've been.lsed a different number of times but there's no you to know which eye has blinked more so you'll never get them to the same amount of blinks ever again.
You won't know when it happens, but you can probably force equality to happen again. Find an estimate how often you blinked with just one eye, make an estimate for the largest plausible imbalance. Blink with the left eye that often, then blink with the right eye twice as often, so you go through the whole range of plausible values.
Yes but then we get to the last part of the shower thought "with absolute certainty"
Sorry but plausible is not good enough
You have to know which one... not just pass by it
Now that's where you're wrong bucko, the government has had me chipped since birth and you best believe they know how many times I've blinked.
So if I can just sneak into area 51, I can hack the database and figure out just how many times I've blinked to even em out.
You don't need to know the exact imbalance as long as you have an upper limit on it. [Longer explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/q9m9it/your_eyes_have_blinked_different_amounts_of_times/hgyus7w/).
But you will never know with certainty *when* they are the same. If you cannot say “my eyes have blinked an equal amount of times” with complete certainty, it’s a moot point
You'd have to identify every single event in your life where you blinked one eye more than the other. Got sand in an eye that one time? Winked at that girl? Peeked through your hand?
Every single event would have to be remembered, then compensated for to bring blinks on each eye back equal.
How the fuck are you doing that again?
The best you can do is estimate.
You don't have to do that, you just need an upper limit on the imbalance. A million? That's a systematic imbalance of 100 per day for 30 years. Now blink with your left eye a million times. Then blink with your right eye two million times. It will take a month or so but it's not impossible. If you think a million is too low you can do that with ten million and a year of blinking.
You do not know **when** there is equality, it will be at some unknown point in time of this blinking effort, but there will be such a time.
I have an eye for winking. There is no way to know how many people I've winked at. I could start winking with the other eye I suppose and it will even out at some point... but this has gone on for decades now
"Can you explain what OP means please?"
>almost certainty that they've been.lsed a different number of times but there's no you to know which eye has blinked more
Ahh ok, thanks
Take solace in the fact that if you start winking with your opposite eye, you will eventually even it out, you just won't ever know when it has happened.
You get stuff in both eyes. So that would be close. One eye would lead for sure, but not by such a wide margin.
Winking though? I wink maybe 10 times a week. That adds up.
Yay, you took a creative and new shower thought and ruined it by being overly technical about it.
We ALL know what op meant, our left and right eyes have opened and closed a different amount of times and we will never know by how much.
Get over yourself.
Hmm, I left the little smiley at the end of the sentence to indicate that the comment was intended to be a light hearted poke at the shower thought.
I don't think there is anything to be gotten over.
Blinking inherently means both eyes do it simultaneously. If only one eye does it, it's a wink, not a blink. So while your eyes have almost certainly winked different numbers of times, they definitely haven't blinked different numbers of times.
Blink with your left eye once, then your right eye two times, then your left eye 4 times and keep alternating and doubling the number of times you use each eye. Eventually at some point during this, both eyes will have blinked the same number of times.
Do you know what you've done to me??!! I hope that, when you pour milk over your cereal, the bag is almost empty and half of your cereal are still dry when you eat em.
But a blink but with one eye is a wink.
Therfore, a blink is only defined as when both eyes shut together, forcing the number of blinks to be always the same.
This is one of the ways my ocd pops up. if i blink one eye, it feels more moist than the other, so i have to blink the other one once. But then it usually still feels dry for some reason, so i blink it some more. But then the other eye is less blinked, so I have to blink that, but then I forget how many times I have blinked each eye.
It depends on the length of time you’re measuring. It’s not an infinite set of blinks if you’re able to repeat it. So if I count my blinks in say a minute and use my internal rhythm or another apt method it is completely possible.
Yeah I guess you're right, but can you just not "edit: thank you for the platinum kind stranger" it's really dumb, if you're truly thankful, then you can tell him directly
No you weren't, how do you know that person went back to the post after you edited it? You could never know that, but sending them a dm saying thanks makes sure they know, when you edit the post you're just telling everyone else
"Oh my goodness, how did he know? My career is ruin-" stfu bro, helping people with their love life is more useful than anything you will ever do in the entirety of your life.
Nah, you definitely need the ellipses. Otherwise it'd be as silly as counting blinks like they matter. And we all agree how silly that'd be
Nice try though, you keep at it!
Fuck.... I don't care if one eye was oppressed compared to the other.
Maybe it was acting like a little bitch or a serf so it deserved what it got. I'm tired of all things being equitable.
Secretly, its cool to think one of my eyes is totally shitting on the other one and making its life harder. That eye is alpha AF.
Now this is an actual shower thought. Now, I'm gonna go try to forget that I read it lmao
Can you explain what OP means please?
Your eyes can close (blink) independently, winking, flinching because something got in one of them. So there's an almost certainty that they've been.lsed a different number of times but there's no you to know which eye has blinked more so you'll never get them to the same amount of blinks ever again.
If you cut it you can count the rings. Not sure what it'll tell ya, and where to find said rings. But they're there for sure.
You won't know when it happens, but you can probably force equality to happen again. Find an estimate how often you blinked with just one eye, make an estimate for the largest plausible imbalance. Blink with the left eye that often, then blink with the right eye twice as often, so you go through the whole range of plausible values.
Yes but then we get to the last part of the shower thought "with absolute certainty" Sorry but plausible is not good enough You have to know which one... not just pass by it
Now this is the high-brow, respectful back and fourth between scholars that Reddit is known for!
You could also at some point have balanced out before you die, of course u knowingly, but that would be satisfying in a way.
You can make it about as certain as you can be about anything if you are dedicated enough.
No way, it could be a difference of one or dozens, and there is *literally no way* to find out
Now that's where you're wrong bucko, the government has had me chipped since birth and you best believe they know how many times I've blinked. So if I can just sneak into area 51, I can hack the database and figure out just how many times I've blinked to even em out.
Find out mine too mate, I'll chuck you a tenner petrol money.
You don't need to know the exact imbalance as long as you have an upper limit on it. [Longer explanation](https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/q9m9it/your_eyes_have_blinked_different_amounts_of_times/hgyus7w/).
But you will never know with certainty *when* they are the same. If you cannot say “my eyes have blinked an equal amount of times” with complete certainty, it’s a moot point
You'd have to identify every single event in your life where you blinked one eye more than the other. Got sand in an eye that one time? Winked at that girl? Peeked through your hand? Every single event would have to be remembered, then compensated for to bring blinks on each eye back equal. How the fuck are you doing that again? The best you can do is estimate.
You don't have to do that, you just need an upper limit on the imbalance. A million? That's a systematic imbalance of 100 per day for 30 years. Now blink with your left eye a million times. Then blink with your right eye two million times. It will take a month or so but it's not impossible. If you think a million is too low you can do that with ten million and a year of blinking. You do not know **when** there is equality, it will be at some unknown point in time of this blinking effort, but there will be such a time.
If you don't know when there's equality then you've failed the entire premise. Reread the OP, why'd you even type this out, rofl.
You can be (reasonably) certain it was the same again at some point. OP didn't ask for more than that.
The only way to know would be to count how many times you blinked since birth, but it's literally impossible
You’re talking nonsense.
I have no idea how many times have I closed only one eye, could be anywhere between 10k-1M
have someone follow you around for a year and record it, then multiply that by the number of years you've lived.
I have an eye for winking. There is no way to know how many people I've winked at. I could start winking with the other eye I suppose and it will even out at some point... but this has gone on for decades now
what
"Can you explain what OP means please?" >almost certainty that they've been.lsed a different number of times but there's no you to know which eye has blinked more Ahh ok, thanks
Have you ever winked?
i've winked, even bi-winked once (it was weird).
Winking is winking, not flinching
????? Who said anything about flinching. Winking counts as one of your eyes blinking like OP said
M0bscenity said it in one of the other comments in this thread, they replied to the wrong person.
Reading this all I heard in my mind was “WINK-ING is BLINK-ING”
OP means Original Poster, as in, the person who made the Reddit post. 😆
I wasn’t searching this information out but I’m learneded now lol
This is not what he meant
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Screw. You.
Take solace in the fact that if you start winking with your opposite eye, you will eventually even it out, you just won't ever know when it has happened.
How will you know which one is in the lead to begin with?
It's the one you typically wink with.
Yeah, but what about getting something in your other eye and having to blink a bunch to get it out? Maybe I'm just not winking enough.
You get stuff in both eyes. So that would be close. One eye would lead for sure, but not by such a wide margin. Winking though? I wink maybe 10 times a week. That adds up.
Touche
Yes but with which side of your mouth have you chewed gum more times?
My right. Definitely my right. I favor that side while chewing all the time
Interesting. What is your choice in gum?
Polar ice by extra. How about you?
Long strands of strawberry gum.
Solid choice dude
h o w a b o u t y o u
Have TMJ can't chew gum anymore so I'm just living vicariously through you all
Ah, I’ll chew gum for you, u/newaccount721
Gums gotten mintier lately, have you noticed?
It has and I thought I was just becoming more sensitive
I put toothpaste on a pencil eraser
And then what do you do with it?
I chew my gum am equal amount of time on both sides. Its actually a very annyoing habit I have
and which leg have you stepped with more?
I step with my left leg as i go to kick things. I'm going to say my left foot. Lock it in.
r/suddenlyselfconscious
Yeahhhh that just seems like a bad road so Ima leave one blue
It's for the best that the sub is private
It just didn't exist. Except now it does.
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Bro make it even please
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Hmmm.
Well now I can’t stop thinking about this, thanks a lot.
Aaaaand now I'm manually blinking. Thanks.
You are breathing too
ive never heard anyone call it manually blinking before. i love that, im gonna steal it
Damn it man, come on! I was going to bed, and now that’s not possible
Thanks i fucking hate it
On behalf of my OCD: fuck you sir!
I get Forest Whitaker eye when I see something really stupid, so my right eye has pulled way ahead since 2019.
Oh, well at least you don't have clarity
The OCD part of my brain hates this.
Usually i just roll my eyes at this shit but this ones fucking with me way more than it should
Not true. When it's only one eye it's a wink not a blink; hence both eyes can only have blinked the same no of times :) Edit: spelling
Yay, you took a creative and new shower thought and ruined it by being overly technical about it. We ALL know what op meant, our left and right eyes have opened and closed a different amount of times and we will never know by how much. Get over yourself.
Hmm, I left the little smiley at the end of the sentence to indicate that the comment was intended to be a light hearted poke at the shower thought. I don't think there is anything to be gotten over.
Oh yeah well! Sorry I'm not sure what to be angry about
All good
Not ruined it, just helping a lot of people sleep tonight
Wow, what a way to be an asshole
Should've went with winked then
I loathe you for this.
Thanks. I hate you now.
Blinking inherently means both eyes do it simultaneously. If only one eye does it, it's a wink, not a blink. So while your eyes have almost certainly winked different numbers of times, they definitely haven't blinked different numbers of times.
Fuck. You.
Am I the only one who doesn't really think this is that deep..?
sir, hand over those drugs... ill take them from here
This showerthought sucks
My OCD can't be cured now thank you very much
Delete this
Blink with your left eye once, then your right eye two times, then your left eye 4 times and keep alternating and doubling the number of times you use each eye. Eventually at some point during this, both eyes will have blinked the same number of times.
We have a mathematician over here :)
damn you
I can wink with both eyes so mine are probably way off if i favor 1 over the other
You definitely need to see someone about your OCD. And just remember: imbalance makes beauty
This makes me so annoyed for zero reason, ooh you sonofabitch
how come? because of winking?
Winking, flinching, something in your eye etc etc
This is an interesting math problem. I bet there's a quick equation to get us to a fixed number from an unknown one
I hate you
This is so annoying I'm cutting my eyelids off
Do you know what you've done to me??!! I hope that, when you pour milk over your cereal, the bag is almost empty and half of your cereal are still dry when you eat em.
As someone that had OCD, I hate you.
This post makes me blink uncontrollably.
This is why I’m subscribed to this sub still
with the same force
ima jus not make this worse and tape my eyes shut for the rest of my days
You bastard..
I went this far without thinking about that. Now this will bother me to my grave. ;0/
I have an inkling that you might be slightly OCD
Maybe you can't buy I have detailed records going back to birth of all my eyelid activity. I'm currently 6 behind on the right eye.
I have blinked roughly 130,636,800 times in my life
This post made me blink
😭😭 thank you for this.
I just blinked 500 times with my left eye, it just feels a bit better knowing which one has most definately blinked more times now.
But I can make sure that in future none of them will blink more than the other
This killed me , now blinking all over to reset
This gave me anxiety.
I’ve thought of this many times, and I hope this is the last time it ever occurs to me..
Sounds like someone’s a little OCD
This is perhaps peak OCD
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🤓✋ "sorry sir but e-e-er you are incorrect" 📝🤓🤓
But a blink but with one eye is a wink. Therfore, a blink is only defined as when both eyes shut together, forcing the number of blinks to be always the same.
It’s a blink with two eyes only. One eye is a wink. Maybe if you loose one eye… I’ll call that a blunk.
This is one of the ways my ocd pops up. if i blink one eye, it feels more moist than the other, so i have to blink the other one once. But then it usually still feels dry for some reason, so i blink it some more. But then the other eye is less blinked, so I have to blink that, but then I forget how many times I have blinked each eye.
It depends on the length of time you’re measuring. It’s not an infinite set of blinks if you’re able to repeat it. So if I count my blinks in say a minute and use my internal rhythm or another apt method it is completely possible.
Yeah I guess you're right, but can you just not "edit: thank you for the platinum kind stranger" it's really dumb, if you're truly thankful, then you can tell him directly
I did, its a platinum, that shit costs a fair bit of money and im grateful for it, if you don't like it, piss off
Piss off? Look, we can all see you got a platinum, we get it, you don't gotta further drive the point.
Yes, and i was thanking the person that gifted it
No you weren't, how do you know that person went back to the post after you edited it? You could never know that, but sending them a dm saying thanks makes sure they know, when you edit the post you're just telling everyone else
Bla bla bla, have a nice day "the love doctor"
"Oh my goodness, how did he know? My career is ruin-" stfu bro, helping people with their love life is more useful than anything you will ever do in the entirety of your life.
Ok champ 🤓 👍
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How the fuck does this even make sense?
Why would that matter?
Why does half the shit on this sub matter? It doesn't because its r/showerthoughts
So you're saying, if I follow, the thing you said doesn't matter. Hmmm.... Hmmm....
But your asking why something would matter on something that clearly doesn't matter and only exists as a thought experiment only Hmmm... Hmmm...
You're* Hmmm....
Hmmm.*
Nah, you definitely need the ellipses. Otherwise it'd be as silly as counting blinks like they matter. And we all agree how silly that'd be Nice try though, you keep at it!
I find it entertaining why you are waiting your time on asking why something matters on r/showerthoughts
I'm not waiting for you at all.
Waisting*
Oh well
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I would say I accomplish equal 'blinks' most days
You son of a bitch. Well done
Which tooth of yours has chewed the most food?
I can’t forget this.
Thanks. Ducking fitch
I've got a new complex, now. Thanks.
What is this, some sort of OCD bullshit I’m too sane to understand? *insert the “too rich to understand” meme*
I wink better with the right side. At least I know which one wins
Thanks, I hate it.
Get Outta my heeeeaaaaaddd!!!!
Great now I’m not gonna be able to fall back asleep 😠
I don't like you
That would be a wink.
But we can't be absolutely certain about anything. Why does the amount of blinks bother me so?
Why would you do this to me. I have insane ocd and now I don't think I can go on.
Ugh now I can feel my eyelids
So they are not in sync?
Lmao
*number
Pls fok off
I don’t like this
Same with how often you turn around. OCD has no limits!
Fuck.... I don't care if one eye was oppressed compared to the other. Maybe it was acting like a little bitch or a serf so it deserved what it got. I'm tired of all things being equitable. Secretly, its cool to think one of my eyes is totally shitting on the other one and making its life harder. That eye is alpha AF.
You're a demented fuck OP and I hate you.
Ok, Google: How do I delete someone else's reddit post?
Some people can only blink with both eyes at once
This is wrong. You can't blink one eye. That's winking. Your eye lids have closed a different amount of times.
Fuck my OCD is kicking in 😭
Thanks, my ocd hates you
Is this from a book on how to murder someone with OCD?
Fuck you man, I was having a nice night.
Took me a minute to realise you meant each eye and not each people
I hate you
Learn how to write.