Why dont people sneeze when they are asleep?
111395
I have heard babies sneeze while they were sleeping.
376593
No one knows the reason you close your eyes when you sneeze. There are many possibilities.  the reason held by most doctors is that closing your eyes when you sneeze is a reflex and it's very difficult to change that.  Actually when you sneeze the velocity at which the air comes out is about 99 mph.   During this part of the sneeze, we tense some of our facial muscles an d by doing this tensing (tightening) of our muscles causes our eyes to shut. therefore, i think that closing your eyes is just part of the reflex of sneezing.
371550
No, but if you can keep your eyes open, you will not sneeze
480335
it is not possible looking normal or funny your eyes automatically close when you sneeze because your muscles contract
312636
As in humans, sneezing is normal. It's a reflex for expelling something in the nose that doesn't belong there.
80603
because scientists studied that if you dont close your eyes when you sneeze your eye balls pop out.
332206
Some people think it does. but really, the simple fact of looking up is opening your nasal cavities, making it easier for your body to complete the sneeze. It seems logical for people to try to make the connection between sneezing and looking at light... The sun and light are just making you squint when you look at it.
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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?
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A sneeze is the fastest known action that a human can perform.  It is involuntary and can make the head mover VERY sharply.  Maybe our eyes close so that we don't get anything in them when our head jerks forward?  Dust, leaves, branches, etc. would be both painful and dangerous if they got into our eyes while we were moving our head at high speed.\n\nAccording to Wikipedea:\nIt is almost impossible for a person to keep their eyelids open during a sneeze, although some rare individuals report having little if any trouble doing so. The reflex of shutting the eyes serves no obvious purpose: the nerves serving the eyes and the nose are closely related, and stimuli to the one often trigger some response in the other.
125102
Apparently it's impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time....reflex thing.
333376
Closing your eyes is a natural reaction for several reasons: strong wind blasts and, of course, sneezing. It's mainly to keep your eyes protected from the resulting dust and mist. Your eyes will not pop out of your head, your actual sockets would hold them in! This is a myth. I don't know how it got started, but it's not true.
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I have never knowingly sneezed in my sleep, but my cat has. The end result is that it woke her up.
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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!
681014
Yes... But you will not knowing that you have sneeze
760689
If you did manage to sneeze with your eyes open, your eyes would pop out of your head.   Er, no. As discussed above, some people do manage to sneeze with their eyes open, and they don't go blind from it. Eye sockets are made of bone, they aren't connected to the nasal passages, and there are no muscles behind the eyes that contract when you sneeze, so there's really no mechanism involved in a sneeze that could force your eyes out of their sockets. Even if there were, human eyelids aren't particularly strong, so simply closing your eyes during a sneeze wouldn't be sufficient to keep them in their sockets if a sneeze truly had enough power to dislodge them. (In any case, some people — due to circumstances such as birth defects or injury — do not have eyelids. Were the "eye-popping" rumor true, all of those people would have to spend their lives in constant mortal fear of sneezing.)
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No it is not possible.  There have been studies done that at the exact moment you sneeze, all other brain function ceases.  You have no brain waves, no heartbeat and the only breathing that occurs is the air that is forced out of your lungs.  For a split second, you are dead.  Just a bit of usless trivia I picked up a few years back.
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You sneeze with your eyes open.