Why "blinked" in this context?

I originally asked this over on gaming.stackexchange.com as it concerns terminology used in a video game, but I was told it belonged here instead, so here goes.

In the video game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky (and possibly Red/Blue Rescue Team as well; it's been a while), whenever the ability Illuminate activates, spawning a new enemy pokémon on the floor, the text "(pokémon with illuminate) blinked!" is shown.

Why the use of the word "blinked" here? I don't understand the connection between blinking and a new enemy appearing.

Is this perhaps some text left over from other (non-Pokémon) Mystery Dungeon games, in which context it perhaps makes more sense? I've not played any of them, but that's the only explanation that I can think of that would make sense.

"Blinked" refers to the Pokémon briefly shining with light to attract other Pokémon, like a flare. It makes sense because the ability that causes this is Illuminate. It can't be interpreted as blinking eyes, since Staryu and Starmie probably don't have eyelids, even if they see out of the crystal in their center.

In the Japanese versions, the word used is またたいた, the past tense of a verb translates as either "to blink (one's eyes), to wink, to bat" or "to twinkle (e.g. stars), to flicker, to waver".

The actual visual effect in the game isn't very big, but I assume this was a design choice; having something bigger would be needlessly distracting.

It's a red herring to suggest that this has anything to do with teleportation or magical summoning. When this ability activates, the Pokémon are not spawned near you; it is supposed to look like they saw the signal and came to the floor. (After all, enemy Pokémon are always spawned somewhere randomly, instead of coming up the exit stairs or something like that.)