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Quote: Original post by SeymourClearly
I actually thought it had something to do with my sight

That makes sense as auditive-lacrimal-nasal-oral ducts are somehow connected.

It wouldn't surprise me if it did play a part in it. I do sneeze an awful lot. I have no allergies, no hayfever nor cold symptoms. I just sneeze like crazy if even the colour on the T.V. changes from dark to light. :) I've got used to it really.

I feel sorry for one of my sisters though. When she sneezes, she literally keeps sneezing over and over, completely unable to breathe and carries on for about 30 seconds. She's done that for as long as I can remember.

I have it, I always thought it was pretty normal.
Even wierder though, I sneeze EVERY time I eat a raw carrot, no exceptions.

I also get this. It's a handy trick if you're stuffed up and can't sneeze. Just look at a bright light and it's all over [smile]

I dont have it, but when i have an annoying sneeze that is hanging around but wont come out, ive found that staring into the sky or a lightbulb does help a whole lot. And i had never heard of photic sneezing before, so thats a blind trial.

Same with me. I don't sneeze when moving from a dark to a bright place, but when I have the feeling that I've got to sneeze and it won't come out, looking into the light helps to induce the sneeze. I found that out in my childhood, never heard of it before.

Quite interesting though, I'll have to pay attention next time I see people leaving tunnel or when someone turns on the light!

I have that. I thought it was a normal reflex everyone else had.

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I dont have it, but when i have an annoying sneeze that is hanging around but wont come out, ive found that staring into the sky or a lightbulb does help a whole lot.

That means you have it.

I have this fairly badly. I get at least a tickling sensation in my nose every time I go into the sunlight. I don't know if it's related, but if it's especially bright then my eyes seem to have some sort of reaction and get watery for a minute or two.

I enjoy sneezing, though. It usually feels "good" in some bizarre sense. So sometimes I'll intentionally glance up at the sun to make myself sneeze.

Edit:

With me, however, only sunlight does it. I can stare into a really bright light indoors and not have the slightest sneezing sensation. Looking at the sun through a window from inside doesn't seem to have an effect either.

[Edited by - nilkn on April 9, 2009 12:53:28 PM]

Quote: Original post by Dmytry
Does anybody here have it?

I do! Whenever I leave my Survey of Jazz class (which is in a dark auditorium) and go outside I sneeze. Every single time. It's the worst when I'm walking around campus on a bright sunny day and I have like 5 or 6 sneezes come one right after the other. If I've got a lingering sneeze I love to look at bright lights; they'll extract that sneeze out of there like it's nobody's business.

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Quote: Original post by Eelco
I dont have it, but when i have an annoying sneeze that is hanging around but wont come out, ive found that staring into the sky or a lightbulb does help a whole lot.

That means you have it.

A mild form then. I only sneeze when i have an infection of some kind; just bright light by itself wont do squat.