Why can't we sneeze with our eyes open?
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Its to keep your eyes from popping out of their sockets! Just kidding.\n\nActually, ASK Yahoo already adresses this question at http://ask.yahoo.com/20050721.html\n\nHere's a copy of their answer:\n\nDear Yahoo!: \nWhy is it impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? \nKevin\nEl Monte, California \n \nDear Kevin: \nThe received wisdom states that if you don't blink when you sneeze, your eyes will fly out of your head. Thankfully, as is often the case with urban legends, this theory is a load of hooey. Your eyeballs are safe and sound in their sockets. For a funny pictorial representation of this hypothetical scenario, check out this urban myth page from MTV: http://www.mtv.com/onair/big_urban_myth/birth/index.jhtml?choose=Sneezing+To+Blindness\n\nIn reality, a sneeze is simply an involuntary nervous response to nasal irritation. According to this nifty science blog entry (http://sxxz.blogspot.com/2004/12/sneeze-science.html), the sneeze impulse affects a variety of body parts, including the abdomen, chest, neck, and face. During a sneeze, the impulses that travel through your face cause your eyelids to blink. This response is entirely automatic. There's nothing you can do about it. Sneezing puts a lot of pressure on your head and respiratory system, so blinking is probably a protective mechanism. \n\nThe point is that all of these responses (the abdominal contraction, the sharp burst of air out of your lungs, the general lunging movement) are intertwined. When you sneeze, you can't do one without the other.
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Sneezing in sleep occurs only when you are about fall asleep and about to wake up but when you are not aware of it. In other  words, due to your breathing rhythm, you can not sneeze in the REM states. For further information please refer to;\n\nhttp://www.anderson-college.edu/ pdf/documents/Healthservice.pdf
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due to the force with which u sneeze ,ur eyes will automatically close.try it but u will not succeed.\n\nGOOD LUCK!
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Some people can sneeze with their eyes open and some people can’t. Sneezing is a reflex and so is closing our eyes. We have no control over whether or not we close our eyes when we sneeze. Some people don’t have reflex, so when they sneeze then their eyes won’t close. Some people try to close their eyes so when they sneeze their eyes won’t pop out. Your eyes don’t really pop out. People without the reflex to sneeze with their eyes open can try to train themselves to sneeze with their eyes open. One good way to do this is if when you sneeze you hold your eyes open.\n\n    People think that when you close your eyes when you sneeze that you are blocking germs and bacteria. That is not true because your eyes deal with germs all the time. If you close your eyes during a sneeze, then it is just a reflex. During this part of the sneeze, we tense some of our muscles. The tensing (tightening) of our muscles causes our eyes to shut.\n\n    People that sneeze a lot can prevent sneezing. If you feel a sneeze, then use saline solution. You can also softly hold your nose at the end. These things can help your body remove things it does not want without sneezing.\n\n    No one knows the reason you close your eyes when you sneeze. There are many possibilities. Some people think it is to protect your eyes from flying goop. Most doctors think that it is still a reflex, or we just can’t help it.\n\n    Sneezing is very good for you and your body because it removes things from your body like bacteria and germs. It also is good because it keeps the tubes that carry the air from your nose to the lungs healthy. Sneezing makes your nose clear when you have a cold. If you used to hate sneezing, then I hope this has changed your mind.
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I think its physically impossible to sneeze while you sleep, without waking up.
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From the website linked below: \n\nSince the detailed answer below got kind of long, I will summarize the main points up front. About 25% of people do actually sneeze when exposed to bright lights like the sun. We do not know exactly why this happens, but it might reflect a "crossing" of pathways in the brain, between the normal reflex of the eye in response to light and the sneezing reflex. There is no apparent benefit from "sun-sneezing", and it probably is nothing more than an unimportant (but annoying) holdover of evolution. \n\nRead the whole article for detailed information.
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In a way "yes" and a way "no". Yes, most of the time it is physically imposible, yet, there are those rare cases in which u can sneeze with your eyes open. It has yet been proven that the eyes pop out, yet the sneezing with the eyes open does occur. I learned in my Psychology class that there is a disorder called the Conversion Disorder. In most cases of this disorder there is uncontrollable sneezing, and in such cases as these, the persons eyes DO NOT close during a sneeze.\n\nAlso, even though u may think that the eyes arent connected to the nose, throat, etc. They in fact are connected. Have u ever taken eye drops and allowed the whole entire eye drop get completly absorbed by the eye?? If u have did u taste anything?? Did u smell any thing?? Im not sure exactly what its called, it could possible be the tear ducts, i dunno, but there is an entry/exit way at the corners of your eyes, when u take eye drops and the eye drop "mysteriously" dissolves, most of it went down that entry/exit way. Hence, it sliding down your throat and into your mouth (just a lil bit) tasting it and smelling it at the sametime. If yer tasting yer smellin as well. (unless those sensory organs are usless) This doesnt werk on Visine and water-based eyedrops. \n\nSo, the answer is "NO" on the eyes poppin outta the dome.
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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!
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It's probably dust. You can clean all you want but dust is still in the air. When you clean your house you are cleaning the dust that has fallen out of the air and landed on furniture. You can't clean your air unless you have a special filter.\n\nDo you have any animals in the house? It could be an allergy to an animal.\n\nDoes it only happen in your house, or other indoor places?\n\nAs far as sneezing fits, that's how it effects some people. There isn't much you can do about it.
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Superstition had it that at the moment of a sneeze, all thoughts are momentarily banished from the concious mind, leaving an opening for the Devil to get in. I think it goes back to the second century.
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It is said that all bodily functions stop when you sneeze... save the actual sneezing function itself. \n\nDon't know if this really answers your question, but it seemed applicable.\n\nHave a good one!\n\n-Jordan
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YA:\n-Cover your mouth and your nose\n- Sometimes hold your nose so you dont get this really loud sneeze!\n- And try not to make it noticable in public!\nHope i helped!
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Heck if i know. I'm asleep. Seriously though. There's no reason whatsoever why a person can't sneeze while asleep. What if you're dreaming about petting a cat and you're allergic to cats? Yes is your answer.\n-\nOk, I read a few articles on sneezing while asleep. They all say a person can't. I still say just because people don't sneeze while asleep doesn't mean they "can't". Tell you what. Let me put some pepper under your nose while you're asleep and let see if you don't sneeze. =)\n.\n.
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It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open!
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hey read these scientific reasons why do people bless them:\n1- when you are sneezing the heart stop within it\n2- the sneeze's speed is 100 km&#92;h\n3- if you are sneezing hard maybe you will broke one rib of your body ribs\n4- if you block the sneeze maybe will happen blood throwback in the neck or the head then that will be your death\n5- if you lift your eyes opened within sneezing maybe they will be out of them place\n6- and for your knowledge :\n   within the sneeze all organ of body stop although the time of the sneeze a second or part of second\nthen if god (Allah ) wants you to live,he will let our organ work after stopped \nquestion to you : if don't believe in spirit what the thing let you live ,think and distinguish you from the animals?
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it is not possible looking normal or funny your eyes automatically close when you sneeze because your muscles contract
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Probably because your face contorts (even if only slightly when the light source is mild), and that adds to the irritation in your nostril, triggering off a sneeze.