who feels the urge to sneeze in bright sunlight?

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10 Mar 2010, 8:56 pm

need to sneeze at the sight of light?

this topic was broached in another posting somewhere on WP, the above link illuminates it a bit.

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10 Mar 2010, 8:58 pm

I wouldn't say I feel the urge to sneeze in bright sunlight, but glimpsing at the sun often makes me sneeze. I've always been curious abou that.

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10 Mar 2010, 9:29 pm

Yep.

And if I have a sneeze that's almost going to happen but not quite, I use looking at a light source to push it over the edge to get it over with.

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10 Mar 2010, 9:31 pm

I feel that urge, all the time. I think that I might be allergic to the sun.

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11 Mar 2010, 12:05 am

Sunlight is depressing and hurts my eyes, but it's never made me sneeze before.

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11 Mar 2010, 1:11 am

It happens to me, every summer, and than my skin itches.

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11 Mar 2010, 2:52 am

That is me. As long as I remember, if I go out of a dark building into intense sunlight, I am likely to sneeze. Used not to be sure of causation, but it has nothing tpo do with specific buldings or the season. It's light. If I leave the sam,e building after the sun moves to the other side it does not happen.

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11 Mar 2010, 5:17 am

I do, but I haven't voted on the poll as I don't consider it to be a problem. Like Apple said, it's useful to be able to trigger a sneeze sometimes.

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11 Mar 2010, 8:33 am

Hi, I just came across this article and figured I should post it here.

Why do we sneeze when we look at the sun? <- link

It's from 1997, and I just noticed the OP posted a more recent article. Still, this is a "phenomenon"(I guess that's the term) I never really thought about nor paid attention. Luckily, it's sunny today so I'll look up and see what happens!

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11 Mar 2010, 12:46 pm

I think this is relatively common. My guess would be that bright light makes your eyes water which is pavlovian-ly associated with allergies. You sneeze because you subconsciously think your eyes are watering from a physical irritant.

I never did this but I did used to sneeze if my hair had a strong static charge. Explain that one :lol:

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