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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's like me figuring out after 23 years that most people don't sneeze looking at the sun

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Same for me. If I feel a sneeze coming on I look at a bright light to hurry it up. I thought this was normal but appetite isn't.

[–] Death_Equity 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bright lights, especially flashing ones, stimulate the same nerve cluster that the urge to sneeze comes from and can help trigger a sneeze that is loading. Some people are more susceptible to that stimulus than others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Flashing lights. I have to try that now.

Years ago me and my sister walked through our newly built town centre together. They had installed bright white stone on the ground and both of us couldn't stop sneezing (sunny day, stone reflects sun back up). It's not as shiny now it's not new but I hate walking through that area to this day.

[–] Death_Equity 3 points 6 months ago

My usual strategy to force a sneeze over the edge is to look up with my eyes(not at the neck, more effective) and put a flashlight on strobe and it is highly effective.

Another funny human quirk is the clinically proven most effective method to cure hiccups. Especially great if your partner has them and you are willing to help. It doesn't matter how the stimulation happens either, but they were more appropriate with their testing methodology than a couple needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I wiggle my fingers in front of my nose in a sort of “multilegged gallop” motion, as if ky hand were trying to scramble up the bridge of my nose and slipping. But with no touch.

[–] Valmond 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are a couple other ones, like cilantro tastes like soap (took me some time to figure that one out) and apparently one that makes pee stink when you eat asparagus, and you need another to actually smell the pee stink (I don't know if it's true, I just got em all and collected info in the internet).

[–] PriorityMotif 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cilantro tastes like bathwater/ wet washcloth to me.

[–] Death_Equity 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am so sorry for your loss. Cilantro tastes amazinging fresh and plantey in a great way, for those of us without a genetic defect.

Do you taste that with cooked cilantro in a dish or just with raw cilantro?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Bro that's not a defect, it means they can actually smell some molecules you can't.

[–] skipmorrow 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another famous one.... bookstores make a lot of people need to poop. https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/urge-to-poop-in-bookstore-mariko-aoki-phenomenon

[–] Valmond 1 points 6 months ago

That was a crappy article.

TLDR: in a bookshop you relax, maybe sit down, maybe have tea was the reason...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

do you mean like in the morning when the sun rays hit your nose you must sneeze?

[–] rainerloeten 15 points 6 months ago

He means the photic sneeze reflex.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

🎶 When-the-sun hits-your-nose and you sneeze un-con-trolled IN THE MORNIIIING 🎶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought of that song. XD

[–] Valmond 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't its scientific name is some goofy SNEEZE acronym too?

[–] clickyello 4 points 6 months ago

The photic sneeze reflex (also known as ACHOO syndrome, a contrived acronym for Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Biting into a piece of dark chocolate for the first time will cause me to quickly sneeze similar to how people do when the step out into the sun or inhale black pepper.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Wow, interesting