Two types of lid movements, lid saccades and blinks, have discrete kinematic properties and physiology. These differences are reflected in distinct phenomenology of disorders affecting their neural substrate. Proof of this principle was seen in two cases, one with parietal eyefield epileptiform discharges and the other with temporal lobe seizures. The lid movements in the patient with epileptiform discharges in the eyefield were rhythmic, yoked, and had rapid upward component that instantaneously followed slow downward drift. These cyclic movements strikingly resembled nystagmus, but unlike typical eye nystagmus, the rapid upward component was pathological and seemed to involve saccadic mechanism. We suggest terms “ictal lid saccade” or “ictal lid nystagmus” to describe such phenomenology. In contrast, the patient with temporal lobe seizures had ipsilateral lid movements with rapid downward trajectories resembling reflex or spontaneous blinks. The term “ictal blink” is appropriate for this phenomenology. Schematic organization of the underlying neural circuit for lid saccade (A) and blink (B). The caricature of trajectory of lid saccade (C) and blink (D). In the caricature of the lid saccade caricature, vertical lid position is schematized in blue color, while corresponding lid velocity is schematized in brown color. The bottom row schematized EMG activity from levator palpebrae (LP, green color) and orbicularis oculi (OO, light brown color). In schematic in panel C, D, the x-axis always represents time, and schematized EMG activity is temporally matched with schematized lid position and lid velocity.