what causes “double vision” when I’m intoxicated. And why does it help when I shut (wink) an eye
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One reason could be that alcohol interferes with your ability to move your eyeballs naturally. That’s why police officers will have you follow their finger with your eyes during a sobriety test — once intoxicated, your eye movement is no longer fluid when tracking an object. Your brain does a lot of work to coordinate each of your eyes to produce a singular image. Hold your finger in front of your face, and focus on it. Now move it closer to your head so you kind of go cross-eyed. Everything in the background is now double vision, kind of like when you’re drunk. Alcohol can make it more difficult for your eyeballs to sync up and for the brain to merge these two images, so the result is double or blurry vision. Closing one eye solves this problem since your brain no longer has to coordinate two eyes to make one image.
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