will your eyes pop out if you hold them open when you sneeze?
371550
No, but if you can keep your eyes open, you will not sneeze
395451
No it doesn't kill brain cells. Sneezing is an automatic reaction to an irritation of the nasal passages. You should never suppress a sneeze. It can cause major ear problems, eye problems and does your vascular system no good at all.\nAs an example of how strong a sneeze is, I fractured my eye socket when sneezing and it wasnt a suppressed sneeze. I couldn't believe it. My socket was fractured and the tear duct popped out of the corner of my eye!
125102
Apparently it's impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time....reflex thing.
1013060
i tried that the other day...and i had no problems doing it. \n\njust keep practicing. it'll be all worth it. anything in life worth havin is worth some sacrafice..and pretty soon you, too, will be able to sneeze with your eyes open. just believe
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.
750600
A sneeze is a reflex that you can do even during sleep but considering you are sleeping you yourself won't know that you had sneezed while asleep, perhaps another person around could tell you or perhaps you can keep a recorder running while you are asleep to know. Anyway, if you sneeze while asleep I believe it will be a reasonable cause for you to awake so in that case you sneezed and you know you did but not in a sleeping situation anymore.♥
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
271416
It 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.
106896
Why would you want to?\nYou would be better off sneezing into a hanky than to attempt to stop yourself from sneezing.
1049826
It is a superstition.  People used to believe that the devil could enter you when you sneezed.  God Bless You was a way for others to try to help prevent that.
389251
I don't think so, and I've never heard this before.  I have heard that your heart stops momentarily when you sneeze though.
1141521
This has been recognized in medical journals for at least 40 years, and is called different things, including the "photic sneeze reflex" and even the "ACHOO syndrome". In a few instances the reflex has been documented by shining bright lights at people to make them sneeze, so it probably really does happen. \n\nNobody is really sure why.  Apparently, somehow, the nerve pathway associated with sneezing is stimulated with the exposure to bright light.
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.
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My brother sneezes every time he walks into the sunlight. It's called "Autosomal dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic". \n\nHere's some info on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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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
660864
on school picture day! you always want to looked poised and perfect, but you usually end up with that face where your eyes are half closed and your mouth is open because you were about to sneeze.
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Usually the sneezing relex make your eye lids to close.