Monday 7 May 2012

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SNEEZE WITH YOUR EYES OPEN...

It's just about impossible to hold your eyelids open while you sneeze. They snap shut by reflex. The reflex serves no purpose, so far as anybody knows; it's just the way you're wired up. The nerves serving the eyes and the nose are closely intertwined, and stimuli to the one often trigger some response in the other.

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