Why Does Looking Up At The Sun Make You Sneeze?

[ChickenHawk]

Okay, maybe not DIRECTLY into the sun 'cuz that'll just make you blind, but if you look up into the sky on a sunny day you sneeze. It just happens. It's automatic. It's great for those times you really feel a sneeze coming on but you just can't get it out. Just look up toward the sun and your problem is solved. I even remember seeing an episode of "Pete & Pete" that mentioned this phenomenon. How the hell does this work?

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[TooCute]

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[reeshy]

I suffer from something similar. When I unexpectedly run into my first wife, I start to hyperventilate!!!!

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[FUNKMAN]

when the intial contact of sunlight on the tearduct in the corner of the eye occurs, it begins to have a drying affect on the tearduct which causes tickling of the nerve sensors in the nostril, sometimes in turn causing a sneeze...





AHHH! I just made that up.

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[reeshy]

Hey Funk,
You had me sold!! you should have left off the disclaimer so I could have told all my friends at work why you sneeze when you look at the sun and I could have been the most popular guy at the water cooler-Damn!!!!!

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[FUNKMAN]

reeshy,

i could have done that but i just like to "keep it real" sort of speak...

that's the advice i get from my buddy too,
The Weathercutioner...

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[sr71blackbird]

I hate it when Im driving towards the sun and I start sneezing, its always happend that this happend at the same exact time that some jackass in front of me will do something that requires my concentration and there is a bend in the road and debris in my lane and pot holes and Im sneezing and fumbling around blinded looking for a tissue and trying to control the car.
Its what I call a "cluster fuck".

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[FUNKMAN]

I hate it when Im driving towards the sun and I start sneezing, its always happend that this happend at the same exact time that some jackass in front of me will do something


did you ever have to sneeze right after you took a big bite of something and you have your mouth full... if i can't delay the sneeze then i'll try to get as control of the food as i can, open my mouth as little as possible and sneeze...

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