eyeballs !!!

[reacher]

is it possible for your eyeballs to pop out of their sockets ? and if they did what would happen?

[indian]

uh.....you'd go blind?

[landie]

Often, during operations on the eye, it is ejected from its socket to ease the process and returned afterwards.

[double-blade]

you would always be keeping your eyes on the road :-]

[toecrusher]

when i worked in a casualty dept 20 odd years ago, we had an alcoholic who regularly used to pop his eye ball out, and we just used to pop it back in again, (not me personally, it used to make me cringe, i always got someone else to do it)

[MargeB]

Yeah, your optic nerve would still transmit, so, you would get a weird view. You would feel dizzy pretty quickly, because your vision relies on feedback from the movement of the muscles that control the eyes (afferent feedback???). This is one of those amazing things that you don't think about, but your vision has to deal with all the time.

Example. Look at the top left of your monitor, then over at the right. What your mind 'saw' is the top left of the screen, then the top right. But your eyes saw this crazy motion that was flying all over the place. Your brain has to 1) take picture from eyes 2) build 3d map of world 3) take signals from muscles that moved the eyes 4) subtract 3 from 1 using 2, to build a 'picture of world and movement.

You can  work around this. Cover one eye. Look at top left of screen. Now 'move' your eyes. Not by 'looking' buy by using your finger to move your eye's fixation (on the eyelid). See? World moves! This is what it's like when your eye is popped out.

[long john]

i can pop my eyeball out with my finger, but only so far, and it makes me dizzy.  my friend snezzed at Glastonbury and her eyeball popped out and in again and she shat her pants. great fun

[Weaza_cfc]

I have heard that if you do not close your eyes while sneezing then your eyeballs will indeed pop out of their sockets. However as it is a reflex action to shut your eyes while sneezing, i imagine few have been able to prove that correct!

[lizzierose]

it happened on ER last week and Dr Kovac pushed it back in with a paperclip. the bloke that did it sneezed when his eye was being held open for a glaucoma test. It was on telly so it must be true : )