Why do we blink over loud noises?

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We’ve all been there. You hear a loud noise somewhere, and you blink. You hear a loud noise in a song, you blink. But what I can’t understand, is that even when the noise is completely anticipated, we still blink or you can fight it back but your eyelids still twitch. A good example, for me, would be in the song Fall- Eminem. The beat in the beginning makes me blink even when I know the snare is coming. Any thoughts?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Risk reward. Any loud noise will most likely not cause us to lose our eyes. But the steaks are so high and the effort so low, that it’s worth it for our body to output minimal energy for the off chance there IS a sharp object violently flying toward our cronia. Blink on, little brother.

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