SNEEZING...I've heard it's impossible to sneeze without closing your eyez....anyone here done it before?
550647
i do it all the time!  \n\nthe people who think it's impossible are uniformed. \n\nclosing your eyes is the natural involuntary response, but when i was young i realised that i could voluntarily keep my eyes open. \n\nIt is possible, and i have had no ill effects from doing it.  I think it is a fun way to impress my friends.  They all think I'm weird, and i like it like that!
673477
Laffin...I am below average....and I have no idea about the sneezing/yawning....except that I do yawn alot most mornings....Lack of sleep?...Boredom?.....or just mere sugestion?....\n:)
513368
No, but I have farted while sneezing, from sheer force!  Very embarrassing!
1088641
It really serves no purpose - however, it seems that the nerves to the nose and the eye are closely related - strong smells make your eyes water, bright lights can make you sneeze, and sneezing automatically makes you shut your eyes because the nerves are all so close.
1165185
yes.  you sneeze when something irritates your inner nose.  all that happens is that a little piece of dust gets in the wrong place, and you wake up sneezing--but this does not happen very often.  it is very rare
545364
If you try to stop a sneeze you could rupture a vein in your brain or neck and die.\nIf, by force you keep your eyes open while you sneeze, they could leave their sockets
640985
Sneezing helps u to remove an irritation from your nose.It is more of a response than a voluntary action. Like all other involuntary actions in our body sneezing also involves a lot of muscles. Some of these muscles may be involved in the closing of the eye lids. Being an involuntary action we are unable to keep our eyes open when sneezing. \nHowever we do find yogis who have control on many of their muscles - may be they will be in a better position to keep their eyes open when sneezing.\n\nOn the lighter side - what do you really expect to see when u are sneezing!!!!!
178849
The actual reason is to combat the pressure build up in your sinuses. \nSneezing releases alot of force.\nYour eyes are linked to your sinuses, and well - you wouldn't want to blast them out of your head now would you?
736877
As they all say that's false. However...when you have a heart attack a strong sneeze can *stop* the heart attack! It really works (I've had to force a sneeze a few times).
888998
sneezeing out of my butt, gets by buttt, and underwear all wet...\n\npeeing throught my nose, would be painful, but if you go o blow your nose, you might acidently start to pee.\n\nfarting out of my mouth, i might be making-out with some guy, and i have to fart, and it comes out of my mouth, that would be soo discusting..\n\ni would have to choose sneezing throught my butt..   ♥
853475
Sneezing contracts a lot of the muscles in your face, including the ones controlling your eyelids.\n\nAs for the people answering with the popping eyeballs: LOL!
726608
Everyone has their own unique style of sneezing.  Based on what you are saying I am guessing that when you sneeze you put pressure in your throat and on the back of your neck and into your shoulders.  The spinal nerves that control your arms are in the back of your neck just at the area where if you put your fingers on the back of your neck and tilt your head backwards, your fingers would be sort of pinched between your back and your head.  If, when you sneeze violently, you put a lot of pressure on your head downwards and bring your shoulders up, it could pinch off those nerves enough to send pain down your arms and even into your hands.  In order to avoid this, just try to do the impossible--change your style of sneezing.  Good luck with that.  If I have not described the way you sneeze, then, I'm sorry, I don't know why you get pains in your arms.\n\nSherril H.,  R.N.
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Sneezing is actually a reflex action to a stimuli.The nerves send the message to the brain and then you sneeze. During sleep the reflex part of your brain rests too. The irritant still annoys the nerves but  no message is sent to the brain. However if the stimuli builds the irritant to  a level registered as pain the brain will wake you and you will sneeze (but to have this part of your brain working  you need to be awake!!)Scientific Fact! :)
88528
It is an involuntary reaction.  I wonder if it is to keep our eyes from popping out!  But, really, that's just how our brain directs our bodies during such a complex human action.  Do animals close their eyes when they sneeze too?
1013060
i tried that the other day...and i had no problems doing it. \n\njust keep practicing. it'll be all worth it. anything in life worth havin is worth some sacrafice..and pretty soon you, too, will be able to sneeze with your eyes open. just believe
323959
Usually the sneezing relex make your eye lids to close.
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No...have you? (why don't you add some details to your question so we can find out if you have heard one)\n\nThanks for the explanation...I have no idea why you're hearing sneezes. Maybe it's a ghost or a spirit...