Let's talk about sneezing.

[Jenny A]

There's a name for it: photic sneeze reflex. It probably has to do with proximity of the optic nerve and nerves at the top of the nasal passage. Spill over from the optic to the nasal nerves triggers the sneezes.

"Today, scientific attention has mainly focused on a hypothesis proposed in 1964 by Henry Everett, who was the first to call light-induced sneezing “The Photic Sneeze Effect.” Since the nervous system transmits signals at an extremely fast pace, Dr. Everett hypothesized that the syndrome was linked to the human nervous system, and was perhaps caused by the confusion of nerve signals. The genetic basis of photic sneezing still remains unclear, and single genes for this condition have not been found and studied. However, the condition often occurs within families, and it has been suggested that light-induced sneezing is a heritable, autosomal-dominant trait. A 2010 study demonstrated a correlation between photic sneezing and a single-nucleotide polymorphism on chromosome " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

My husband has it and so does one of our children.

[brewer]

Well, god bless you all!

Edit: So no one will fess up to sex sneezing. That's just proboscis blowing.

[Jenny A]

Well, god bless you all!

Edit: So no one will fess up to sex sneezing. That's just proboscis blowing.

Nope, never encountered that. Uncontrollable post coitus giggling yes, sneezes no.

[brewer]

Thanks for making me laugh out loud.

[robvalue]

This came up the other day while driving with my wife and an attack came on.

When I sneeze they typically come in bunches, three to five, sometimes more. Mouth open, very loud (sometimes scares the dogs), eyes closed, whole upper body contracts. Used to get crap for it at work when other people were on the phone. Apparently it's a little distressing for passengers when I'm driving. Especially when doing 70mph.

When driving the thing that sets off the attack is most often is the sun. Specifically, when I'm traveling north or south and turn into the sun. Googled it and I guess it's common but I've only met one other person that sun sneezes. Apparently sex will set off attacks in some people but none that I know or at least have admitted to.

Any one else have similar experiences? Not just with sun but with anything that sets you off (not including allergies/pepper/........)? Can you make yourself sneeze? Anytime I pull a nose hair it's a given, sometimes eyebrow. Are you a singleton or buncher? A loud sneezer or a sneeze stifler? Do you actually say a-choo like I do?

Maybe I'm an aberrant sneezer and this thread will go nowhere.

Yeah! The sun sets me off big time.

When I was younger, I used to get chain sneezing like you. It would usually be at least ten. It happened once during a lecture! Fuck knows what people thought of me.

I remember hearing somewhere that a sneeze is 10% of an orgasm. Something like that.

[J a c k]

This came up the other day while driving with my wife and an attack came on.

When I sneeze they typically come in bunches, three to five, sometimes more. Mouth open, very loud (sometimes scares the dogs), eyes closed, whole upper body contracts. Used to get crap for it at work when other people were on the phone. Apparently it's a little distressing for passengers when I'm driving. Especially when doing 70mph.

When driving the thing that sets off the attack is most often is the sun. Specifically, when I'm traveling north or south and turn into the sun. Googled it and I guess it's common but I've only met one other person that sun sneezes. Apparently sex will set off attacks in some people but none that I know or at least have admitted to.

Any one else have similar experiences? Not just with sun but with anything that sets you off (not including allergies/pepper/........)? Can you make yourself sneeze? Anytime I pull a nose hair it's a given, sometimes eyebrow. Are you a singleton or buncher? A loud sneezer or a sneeze stifler? Do you actually say a-choo like I do?

Maybe I'm an aberrant sneezer and this thread will go nowhere.

Yeah! The sun sets me off big time.

When I was younger, I used to get chain sneezing like you. It would usually be at least ten. It happened once during a lecture! Fuck knows what people thought of me.

I remember hearing somewhere that a sneeze is 10% of an orgasm. Something like that.

So... multiple sneezes..

[robvalue]

Lol yeah!

Maybe it's my way of trying to even things out

[ignoramus]

My sister in Law has a funny sneeze routine. All her sneezes have no final climactic endings. They just fizz out. It's like she absorbs the implosion.
You can barely hear them... From the other side of the room, you basically just see her pulling faces.

[Goosebump]

My sister in Law has a funny sneeze routine. All her sneezes have no final climactic endings. They just fizz out. It's like she absorbs the implosion.
You can barely hear them...  From the other side of the room, you basically just see her pulling faces.

Humans are so damn weird.

[FebruaryOfReason]