Blinks and thought-swatting - update

I did a Google on 'voluntary blinks,' which took me to a couple of scientific journal articles. I wrote to one of the authors and he very kindly replied, saying:

"The problem with blinks is that the muscle activity associated
with them sends out an electrical signal that interferes with the EEG signal. So we can't be sure whether there is also a true interference or not.
"However, you might be interested in this paper about blinks that we just published. This suggest that blinks may turn off consciousness briefly."

You can imagine how excited that last sentence made me! I interpret it as positive feedback from the scientific community that the blink is swatting thoughts. The paper, unavailable on line in .pdf format, is available as html: "Vision: In the Blink of an Eye" by David Burr"
ABSTRACT

Although we blink every 4 to 6 seconds, we notice neither the
act of blinking nor the mini-blackouts they cause. A new study using imaging techniques identifies the neural structures in humans involved in suppressing
vision processing and visual awareness during blinking.

I wrote a friend just now:

It all started when I watched H.H. the Dalai Lama on TV and noticed he blinked about four times more than I did. I started mirroring his blinks, and noticed that voluntary blinks seem to 'swat' thoughts. So I started using blinks in my
meditations whenever a thought didn't just float on by.
But I'd like a few more folks to try thought-swatting with voluntary blinks. Actually, I have to confess that I also have added a quick uvula-tug and mulabandha squeeze to the blink, but what the hey...
Let me know if you try it out.

That goes for anyone else reading this. And by the way, you don't have to do the triple-swat. Just blinking seems to work just fine all by itself!