

Scare and thrill people with your new talent!ĭidn't work for you? Try the methods in this Ask MetaFilter thread or this Yahoo! Answer. Practice this in the mirror intil you get it just right 4. Once you are familiar with this and can do it quite well, try it with out using your hands. Keep practicing this in the mirror so you can detect the correct muscle movement to obtain one eyebrow up. Start by keeping one eyebrow down with one hand and holding one up with the other. Here's the trick, according to wikiHow:ġ. Spock: I'm talkin' to you), it turns out that you can learn to raise one eyebrow. (Source: David Givens / Center for Nonverbal Studies).įor all of you who want to do this (and yes, geeks who want to imitate Mr. The ability to raising eyebrows may be an evolutionary trait: baboons, mandrills and cebus monkeys raise their eyebrows as a threat gesture. Some people call this the eyebrow cock, and it is known as the universal sign of O RLY. Spock: "Fascinating, Captain"), Sean Connery, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and Stephen Colbert. Well, her and of course Leonard Nimoy (Mr.

In fact, I know only one person in my life who can do this: my mother-in-law, who said that her ability just came to her during the pain of childbirth - and that this superpower was very useful in raising kids. I can raise both of my eyebrows in bewilderment on how some people can raise just one. Here is a list of things that are impossible to do with your body, and the few mutants who can do 'em: 10.

But if you're like 99.9999% of people in the world, no matter how hard you try, you just can't quite manage to do it. There are things that you think you should be able to do with your body.
