Our eyes have to close everytime we sneeze?
2007-11-16 11:46:35 · 15 answers · asked by Viviana 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I saw this on Mythbusters...your eyes don't bulge out or pop out of the sockets. They held their eyes open while they sneezed and used slow motion cameras to watch what happened...and nothing happened.
It's just a natural reflex I guess.
2007-11-16 11:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by pbJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sneezing is a gift of nature, in that what ever poisonous ans hazardous substance we are exposed to and tries to get into lungs, then to bring out the dangerous stuff with our effort or concern we get sneeze.
This sneeze originates deep in the lungs and comes with so much of pressure that it brings out all that inhaled dust like poisons along with moisture from out of lungs through nose.
This action is not known to us or not done by us with ant effort. So we have to travel inside and close ourselves to the external world. Thus in an effort to concentrate inside, and deep inside, the eyes automatically get closed and all concentration is kept on inside to bring out the sneeze.
2007-11-17 04:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by kbk_murthi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. It's very hard to do, but you can hold them open. I saw it on Myth Busters. But.....if you don't hold them...then they do...it's just a natural reflex...probably to protect them from the stuff we sneeze out...as gross as that thought is...
2007-11-16 19:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anthem Demon R&S addict 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if they didn't close, our eyeballs would shoot out due to the force of the sneeze.
2007-11-16 19:56:05 · answer #4 · answered by jamoncita 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw the same episode of Mythbusters...just a natural reflex.
2007-11-17 02:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Carl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The pressure from our nasal cavities would make them pop out
2007-11-16 19:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by Marie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good grief, if you didn't close them your eyeballs might fly across the room.
2007-11-16 19:52:20 · answer #7 · answered by andyg77 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because both neighbours cant see eye to eye
2007-11-17 09:29:19 · answer #8 · answered by villager 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it has to so with our sinuses being close to our eyes sockets
2007-11-16 19:54:10 · answer #9 · answered by cs2005 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they kinda bulge out from the pressure if you keep them open
2007-11-16 19:50:03 · answer #10 · answered by Kenny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋