Is it true that it is impossible to sneez with your eyelids open and if they were you eyes would pop out?
348729
I read something about it being impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Even if you try your eyes would automatically close. I think they would pop out if they were taped open.
469048
Your eyes will NOT pop out!  It is simply a protective reflex.  There is so much going on: abdominal contraction, sharp burst of air from the lungs, lunging movement that the body closes the eyes automatically to protect them.
480335
it is not possible looking normal or funny your eyes automatically close when you sneeze because your muscles contract
206981
It happens involuntary.  And the one up above who said it stretches the skin.  How big does your mouth go.  Opening your mouth does not stretch skin around the eyes. Don't know why.
72870
Sounds to me like you've got a condition called photic sneeze reflex.
469034
Because otherwise some 'thing' in your eyes will get damaged by the fastness of a sneeze, and therefore the eyelids react with shutting when sneezing.\nDon't really remember more than that, I read it 3 years ago somewhere... :S
252147
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.
224343
I whacked my back out of line sneezing...hurt like heck...took a week to get back to normal....so I suppose ,yes,it is possible.
1458
Researchers aren't sure exactly why the sneeze reflex happens, but whatever neurological message tells the eyes to close probably comes from a primitive part of the brain called the medulla oblongata in the brain stem.
486726
its not very difficult. Sometimes if i jaz feel like it i sneeze with my mouth close. Then all of the things inside my nose flies away. And also i can sneeze with my eyes open. \nIt is more dificult to not yawn if you see someone yawn in front of you.
722090
When you sneeze every muscle in your body tightens, The muscle in your eye might be more sensitive to the sudden spasm
320133
Not an expert, but it seems to be a kind of reflex action in a small percentage of people. If you experience the "sun sneeze" the same way that I do, it only occurs if I look skyward or toward the bright light of the sun.  If  I look away, I lose the urge to sneeze.  My best guess is that it may be a crossed wire of sorts in some people where an overload of the visual senses creates a reaction.  Since it is impossible to keep your eyes open during a sneeze, it could be that this reaction is the body's attempt to protect your eyes from exposure to the intense light.
799906
I don't see how sneezing underwater could be possible. I mean, getting the urge to sneeze occurs because something tickles our hair follicles inside our nose as we breathe. But because breathing underwater isn't possible without scuba gear, I don't think that getting the urge to sneeze underwater would be possible either.\n\nIf water did happen to get in your nose, your natural reaction is to immediately surface and breathe in air in order to clear your lungs. So if someone did somehow happen to get the urge to sneeze underwater, their reaction would be to surface and then sneeze.
747535
Wouldn't it be icky to have a runny nose in that case?  How would you see while you were blowing....that would pretty much make it impossible to blow while driving or walking wouldn't it?  EEEEEEk!  I don't even want to think of what a sneeze would do or how many extra germs you would get into your eyes...if you snored, would you snort your eyelids up and suffocate????  The logistical problems I can see from this are endless and very amusing!  LOL
336844
A sneeze happens with tremendous speed and pressure, and you can feel it coming, if a ball is coming at you extremely fast, or anything for that matter, it's our instinctive response to close our eyes. I was in a car accident and as soon as the car went off the road, I closed my eyes, there was nothing else to do. We're just people.
1090352
Yes, I have pulled rib muscles several times from sneezing. Once when I sneezed while I was lying down, I severely pulled a muscle in my neck. That was a really embarrassing way to be injured for several weeks!
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!!!!!