• Question: Why doesn't blinking affect our vision?

    Asked by shanna banana to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      We blink really quickly basically. We see as a stream of individual still pictures that run together – like a flick book. When we blink it’s fast enough that it’s just one of these still pictures that is of the inside of our eyelids.

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