Is it impossible to keep your eyes open while you sneeze??

Answer 1

While it is possible to keep them open they shut for a reason:
Your eyes shut so they dont pop out under the pressure!

Answer 2

It is impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze. The pressure from the force of the sneeze will pop your eyes out if they were not closed.

Answer 3

It's possible to train yourself not to close them:

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/sneeze.asp

Other widely believed things about sneezing include:
# You can't keep your eyes open when you sneeze. While it is impossible for most people to keep their peepers from shutting during the process, some rare folks are capable of it. (By the way, about those not physically wired that way, Muriel Simmons of the British Allergy Foundation said: "If you sneeze while driving at 70 mph, you will travel 300 feet with your eyes closed.")

# 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.)

Answer 4

I have never tried it or never even thought of it. But now that you mention it my eyes always close when i sneeze. The next time i sneeze i'm going to try to open my eyes and then i'll let you know.

Answer 5

i'm incredibly confident that's by using fact your sneeze is going maximum of mph which you in basic terms immediately close your eyes.Your eyes are linked on your sinuses.i did no longer come across a "solid" internet site on your question yet i'm hoping this helped.I additionally asked around and a few stated it wasn't provened that no person won't be in a position to have their eyes opened whilst sneezing.

Answer 6

I don't think so. I always have sneezing fits when I wake up in the morning, so I'll test this tomorrow. That should be interesting.

Answer 7

its not impossible...i tried once but my eyes started burning like hell...nywayz closing ur eyes is just a reflex action...i mean do u rly think about keeping ur eyes open when u sneeze? doubt it

Answer 8

It is impossible. I think if you sneezed with them open, the force would make them come out.

Answer 9

yes. it has been proved that your eyes will like pop out if they are open when u sneeze

Answer 10

yes, but it isn't because they would pop out of your head. the reason is because when you sneeze, things tend to fly from your mouth or nose and your eyelids act as protection.