twiTch
I have a new ailment that amuses me no end: twitching. My eyelid twitches. Not constantly. Only occasionally. But it is rather amusing to try to have a serious conversation when one eye is in convulsions. I try not to laugh. Maybe the other person will thinking I'm winking repeatedly very quickly.
[UPDATE: my twiTch is hiding from me. It spasms all day, at various times, but NEVER when I am looking in a mirror. I've tried to catch it working it's twitchy magic on my face, but no matter how spasmodically it was tweaking my eyelid, the instant I stare at it it becomes calm as the dead sea! It's laughing at me. That or I have a very calming effect on myself...]
[UPDATE: my twiTch is hiding from me. It spasms all day, at various times, but NEVER when I am looking in a mirror. I've tried to catch it working it's twitchy magic on my face, but no matter how spasmodically it was tweaking my eyelid, the instant I stare at it it becomes calm as the dead sea! It's laughing at me. That or I have a very calming effect on myself...]
posted by k_sra at 1/18/2007 03:17:00 PM
5 Comments:
Stress!
Eyes gonna twitch forever.
Yes, welcome to the weird maladies caused by our real american past time. Stress.
Anyone can experience the amusement of eye twitches--just eat too much calcium and not enough magnesium. (But, don't over-do it, or you might get heart twitches, which aren't so amusing.)
I've never noticed someone else's eyelid twitching before, but you've given me something else to laugh at about myself when I get the next eyelid twitch. :) They don't hurt, they just feel weird.
I've seen a girl's lip twitch one time while she was trying out for a solo at college. I didn't laugh, though, cuz I was already nervous about my own solo tryout.
Tara's got a good point - what feels like a facial earthquake to you is probably barely perceptible to anyone else.
I get mad twitchy-eye flutterings (to use the correct medical term) sometimes myself. No-one's ever remarked on it, and mostly I just enjoy being creeped out little a bit by the weirdness of the sensation. Like a mild electrical storm around the eye, or something. It sort of tickles, in a not wholly unpleasant kind of way.
That said, I bet that's how Dr Strangelove's condition started...
I've had that happen before-- still get it on occasion. As someone else said, once you do see it in a mirror, you'll realize it's barely noticeable.
Besides, the person you're talking to is probably worried that you're noticing their nostril-flare twitches and ear-wiggling twitches, so it all evens out in the end.
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