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BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

People that can wiggle their ears, how???

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People that can wiggle their ears, how???

BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    You are really moving your scalp by pulling various muscles in jaw, forehead, back of neck, eyebrows, etc, and your ears go long for the ride.

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    1. Put on glasses
    2. Lean forward until glasses hang from your ears
    3. Get tense/angry, notice glasses move toward your face
    4. Relax, notice glasses move away from your face
    5. Repeat 3-4 until you isolate the muscle
    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOP
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      Ah I know those muscles to pull your glasses back. Don’t notice the ears moving but I’ll practice.

      • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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        Yep, it’s the same muscle. If you’ve noticed your glasses moving, then you’ve got it and you just need to practice.

        • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOP
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          Success! According to my family.

          • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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            Congratulations man!

    • Drusas@kbin.social
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      Hah, that’s how I learned to do it as well.

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    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      I feel the flex from the tip of my eyebrows through the temples to the top connected part of my ears.

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    Genetic difference. Just like people who can raise one eyebrow. Not all of us have the same muscle control. Likely a leftover from days where we could point our ears towards a sound like small-eared dogs can.

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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      Wait until y’all hear about ear rumbling and eye wiggling…

    • Drusas@kbin.social
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      Anybody can learn to use these muscles. It doesn’t just come naturally.

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        Some people say maybe. Some say maybe not.

        https://www.livescience.com/33809-wiggle-ears.html

        https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/science/wiggle-ears.html

        “Some people can reportedly improve their ear wiggling by concentration and practice, but they have to have the ability to begin with.”

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          The things that it requires most is patience.

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    Everyone can do it if they want. I learned how to do it in my teens. It took about a week of obsessively trying until I finally honed it. I even can move the scalp back and forwards due to that same ‘training’.

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      This is how I learned to wiggle my eyebrows.

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    The muscles that flex for me are the ones in the back of my head. If you place your hand on the back of your head directly between your ears (so just about where your skull begins to curve in and your neck muscles begin) it’s the ones just on either side of the center line that do the flexing and pull my ears back. Try imagining scrunching up the back of your head.

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    Jaw muscles. They extend up past the ear and over the head.

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      So you’re flexing your jaw muscles?

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        Yes. But not the “main” jaw muscle that gives up/down biting force. It’s the ones that let you move your jaw side-to-side and forward/back. Especially the forward/back ones.

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          • MyOtherUsername@lemmy.world
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            Finally found out I use the anterior auricular muscle. There are various vestigial muscles around the ear, but this is the one I ended up training.

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      Not exactly wiggling the ears, but the stuff around it.

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    To find the muscle that does this go above the ear 2 inches and to the rear 2 inches.

    Try to “look surprised” or flex your scalp and move that muscle.

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    I had a friend who just started being able to do it while dropping acid. Talk about mind expanding drugs.

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    Smile. Your ears just pulled back. Now do it without your mouth.

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    Not only it’s fun, it helps me hear better because I’m literally perking up my ears. That’s what it really is and maybe if you think along these lines you muscles will respond.

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    I listened to a science podcast recently that said anyone can learn to do it in a few hours. The trick is looking in the mirror and trying various things until you get it, then practising that thing.

    But it has to be in front of the mirror.

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    Because I’m happy and I know it.

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    Not everyone can do it, because the necessary muscles (auricular muscles) are considered vestigial at this point, meaning not everyone has them or doesn’t have large enough ones to wiggle their ears. In other words, evolution is slowly deleting them from our bodies as a species, with some of us being “further along” than others.

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