i read in a paper last year that tests had been done on the effectiveness of psychic influence, that the easiest results were to make people twitch without realising it. signals could be transmitted through people without them realising it. have you ever been in the focus of public attention? from a central point then it is easy to determine the subtle effects we have on each others sub-conscious, perhaps you need to be a bit psychic i don't know, but maybe the increase in blinking is due to the increase in viewers causing a rise in the frequency of electro-magnetic feedback, ie a kind of reverse butterfly effect.