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

[praetorian42.livejournal.com]

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.

[poodleface.livejournal.com]

I don't think I suffer from this. Then again, I'm not in bright sunlight very much.

Kung Fu movie tonight if you are interested!

ERF OUT

[britta43.livejournal.com]

There should be a category for "sometimes". I don't think that's necessarily a yes or no question.

[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.

[deepdistraction.livejournal.com]

One of my sisters sneezes if she plucks her eyebrows.