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This phenomenon made me convinced I was unable to move my eyes as a child. I thought I had some strange condition where I could move my focus without my eyeball

This phenomenon made me convinced I was unable to move my eyes as a child. I thought I had some strange condition where I could move my focus without my eyeballs moving. I remember my elementary school teacher saying "don't roll your eyes at me" and me trying to explain I couldn't move my eyes and her awkwardly going "right..." Then continued to believe it for another few years.

mgdlbp 4y ago
> move my focus without my eyeballs moving This is a thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_spatial_attention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_spatial_attention I discovered this when I accidentally performed an experiment that showed how paying attention to a bright light in my peripheral vision without moving my eyes caused my pupils to constrict. That was after I became aware that my pupil size affected how blurry things were from nearsightedness (the same effect as in cameras). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary_light_reflex#Cognitive_influences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary_light_reflex#Cogniti...