: When we are about to sneeze and the feeling goes away, what actually happened? Also, what is it we are feeling that tells us we are about to sneeze?

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: When we are about to sneeze and the feeling goes away, what actually happened? Also, what is it we are feeling that tells us we are about to sneeze?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Sticking your little finger up your nose & aiming for the brain tends to help initiate a good ol’ sneeze!

Anonymous 0 Comments

i look at the sun when i feel a sneeze coming on. bright light seals the deal
and sends me over the edge

Anonymous 0 Comments

My husband sneezes every time he has a strong mint!

Usually when he’s driving my car and thinks ‘ooh, mints…!’ in my cup holder and forgets that the reason he doesn’t keep them in his car is that he almost causes an RTA sneezing at the wheel every time he eats one!

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve learned that sometimes you can trick yourself into not sneezing. Different people have different tricks, my go-to is pressing my finger against the area between my nose and upper lip, pressing up towards the nose with the finger held sideways. You see it a lot on old cartoons. The theory I was told was there’s a nerve there that reacts to pressure by canceling a sneeze. I personally don’t think there’s any science behind that until someone proves it, but either way this method has been reliable for me in preventing sneezes.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Thanks for asking this question, because I am hoping to find more ways to sneeze, haha. I love the feeling of sneezing. I have found that if you wiggle the very top of your nose you can build up to a sneeze. It doesn’t always work, but I was doing it in middle school once and this kid next to me goes “whoa, are you trying to make yourself sneeze?” I never knew it was a known thing. Anyway, I take my thumb and pointer finger and place them on the bone where you can gently wiggle it back and forth. That, combined with some slow inhales through the nostrils, will usually produce a sneeze. An almost-sneeze is such a tease for me. Can’t answer your question, but thanks for asking it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I just know that the time I’m most likely to feel like I have to sneeze is when my arms are full/occupied. 🙂

Anonymous 0 Comments

Can anyone keep their eyes open while they sneeze?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Why do I sometimes fail to finish a sneeze, I’ll gulp air like I’m about to sneeze and then never sneeze. This can happen a few times in a row

Anonymous 0 Comments

If you feel a sneeze going away and you don’t want it to breath in quickly through your nose. It will help trigger it. Vice versa if you want it to go away, quickly breath out.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Another interesting thing that I like to do sometimes (at times when I do not want to sneeze), is to quickly distract your brain when you feel a sneeze coming on. I think a common thing to think about is ‘pineapple’, since for most people it’s just some random thought that gets you distracted. I still think about pineapple, and even though I know what I’m going to think about, it still distracts me enough for the urge to sneeze to go away.