quick poll about sneezing and sunlight.

[alexr_rwx]

Bright sunlight tends to make me sneeze. This is called the photic sneeze reflex, and it's relatively common.

How about you?

[Poll #1352727]

Comments

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

I answered no because bright light doesn't cause me to sneeze if I don't have to already, but when and if I am about to lose a sneeze I make a point of looking at a bright light to help things along. My mom has always told me to look at a bright light if I'm about to lose a sneeze, and it wasn't until high school that I had an explanation for it.

An explanation I had to deliver when I once was talking to my advisor, suddenly stopped, blinked a few times, then ducked my head under my desk lamp and subsequently sneezed.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

I think this means you're a "yes" -- some people, if you bring this up, have no idea that there's a connection between bright lights and sneezing.

Or perhaps there are degrees of it, like Emily suggests?

It's not like every time there's a bright light, I sneeze.

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

Ah. There are certainly some people for whom something like a camera flash forces a sneeze, and that was the severity that I thought the quiz was geared towards.

To reiterate, bright light doesn't *make* me sneeze, but it can /assist/ a sneeze. I'd say it's good for the last 25% of the way there.

[britta43.livejournal.com]

I would say that at some point, anything can make you sneeze, right....

Plus, yes, plucking my eyebrows seems to make me sneeze too.....