No- but there was a character in Pete & Pete that had that... condition...
She used it to her advantage in the group's quest to achieve the world record for staying awake. Whenever she tired, she looked at the sun, sneezed, and was awakened. This failed eventually, because the sun goes away sometimes.
I wonder if it'd be worth it to go back and watch old Pete & Pete episodes. It may be best to let them hang out in our shared cultural memory, but it did seem like a pretty clever piece of television. Maybe it's aged well?
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.
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.
Per http://www.allergycapital.com.au/Pages/Sneeze.html:
Some people sneeze when they pluck their eyebrows, get cold or go out into the sun. "Sun sneezing (Photic sneezing)" often runs in families, and occurs in around one in four people. The world record for sneezing is held by Donna Griffiths from Worstershire in the UK, who sneezed for 978 days in a row, stopping on 16 September 1983 (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com )
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She used it to her advantage in the group's quest to achieve the world record for staying awake. Whenever she tired, she looked at the sun, sneezed, and was awakened. This failed eventually, because the sun goes away sometimes.
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http://www.tv.com/the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete/nightcrawlers/episode/166550/recap.html
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Kung Fu movie tonight if you are interested!
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I wonder if it'd be worth it to go back and watch old Pete & Pete episodes. It may be best to let them hang out in our shared cultural memory, but it did seem like a pretty clever piece of television. Maybe it's aged well?
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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.
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Or perhaps there are degrees of it, like Emily suggests?
It's not like every time there's a bright light, I sneeze.
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But do you know the feeling? Many people just don't see the connection.
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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.
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Plus, yes, plucking my eyebrows seems to make me sneeze too.....
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Some people sneeze when they pluck their eyebrows, get cold or go out into the sun. "Sun sneezing (Photic sneezing)" often runs in families, and occurs in around one in four people. The world record for sneezing is held by Donna Griffiths from Worstershire in the UK, who sneezed for 978 days in a row, stopping on 16 September 1983 (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com )