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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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- Put on glasses
- Lean forward until glasses hang from your ears
- Get tense/angry, notice glasses move toward your face
- Relax, notice glasses move away from your face
- Repeat 3-4 until you isolate the muscle
Hah, that’s how I learned to do it as well.
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’.
Look at a dog or similar and think what muscles you would use to move your ears. Try to “listen” behind you.
I like this answer best because it is the most creative.
It is the best way I can describe for how I learned how.
When I was a kid I just tried flexing any muscle in my face, and if some made my ears move (even a little, or connected to other things), I’d keep trying to do that but also trying to isolate it to just my ears. After enough of that I was able to move them and switched to trying to control one at a time. Now I can do both independently pretty easily
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.
Jaw muscles. They extend up past the ear and over the head.
Not exactly wiggling the ears, but the stuff around it.
I don’t even know how to describe it… It’s like how would you describe how you can wiggle your butt? I just flex the muscles on the side of my head and it makes my ears twitch 🤷🏻♂️
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.
I had a friend who just started being able to do it while dropping acid. Talk about mind expanding drugs.
Because I’m happy and I know it.
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.
That’s possible because some humans have a stronger muscle around their ears, which enables them the ability to wiggle their ears at will.
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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.