What happens when you sneeze with your eyes open?

Pressure released from a sneeze is extremely unlikely to cause an eyeball to pop out even if your eyes are open.” Increased pressure from straining builds up in the blood vessels, not the eyes or muscles surrounding the eyes.
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Is it OK to sneeze with your eyes open?

Sneezing with Your Eyes Open: Should You or Shouldn't You? Yes, you can sneeze with your eyes open. And, no, the schoolyard legend, “If you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyeballs will pop out of your head,” isn't true.
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Why do you shut your eyes when you sneeze?

It has to do with our nervous system. When your brain send the message to your nose that “We need to clear this place out” and you sneeze, this action causes stimulation of the nerves in your head and along the way your eyes are involuntarily told to blink.
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Why do we close our eyes when we kiss?

Most people can't focus on anything as close as a face at kissing distance so closing your eyes saves them from looking at a distracting blur or the strain of trying to focus. Kissing can also make us feel vulnerable or self-conscious and closing your eyes is a way of making yourself more relaxed.
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Can you sneeze your brain out?

According to experts , the pressure caused by holding in a sneeze can potentially lead to the rupturing of a brain aneurysm. This is a life-threatening injury that can lead to bleeding in the skull around the brain.
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Can your eyeball fall out?

Not all popped eyeballs come from head trauma. A few people can luxate their globes on purpose, and certain others get “spontaneous globe luxation” when their eyelids are pushed in the right way. Someone with shallow eye sockets or floppy eyelid syndrome, for example, might pop his eyeballs during a regular eye exam.
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Does your heart stop when you sneeze?

When you sneeze, the intrathoracic pressure in your body momentarily increases. This will decrease the blood flow back to the heart. The heart compensates for this by changing its regular heart beat momentarily to adjust. However, the electrical activity of the heart does not stop during the sneeze.
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Is it possible to sneeze in your sleep?

A person may wake up and sneeze at night, but it is not possible to sneeze during sleep. Sleep causes paralysis of the reflex muscle contraction, meaning the relevant muscles become inactive.
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Can you sneeze underwater?

Sneezing is possible underwater - though not likely. This is rather like the duck's echo – just because you have never heard one, doesn't mean it's impossible. Sneezing underwater isn't very likely because dust, allergens and bright sunlight – the three things that normally provoke a sneeze – are all absent.
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Can u fart in your sleep?

People commonly fart in their sleep, although they usually are not aware of it. Research suggests pressure in the anal sphincter muscle 2fluctuates in cycles throughout the day. This muscle is more relaxed during sleep, and it controls whether or not gas present in the large intestine is released.
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Can you cry in your sleep?

Babies often cry at night simply because they have transitioned from deep sleep to a lighter sleep stage. For adults, a mood disorder or feeling overwhelmed emotionally can trigger tears while sleeping.
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How long can a human survive without a heart?

Man lives 555 days without a heart.
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Why do people say God bless you?

In ancient times, people believed that sneezing would allow evil spirits to enter your body, and saying “God bless you” kept out those evil spirits.
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Why do people say bless you?

The most popular theory is that it originated in Rome when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. Sneezing was one the plague's main symptoms, and it is believed that Pope Gregory I suggested that a tiny prayer in the form of saying, "God bless you" after a sneeze would protect the person from death.
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What do blind people see?

A person with total blindness won't be able to see anything. But a person with low vision may be able to see not only light, but colors and shapes too. However, they may have trouble reading street signs, recognizing faces, or matching colors to each other.
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Can your eyes explode?

The more correct medical term would be “rupture”. And yes, an eye can rupture. In the field we call this injury a “ruptured globe”, and it is a surgical emergency that needs to be fixed by an ophthalmologist right away.
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What is a glass eye called?

A prosthetic eye can help improve the appearance of people who have lost an eye to injury or disease. It's commonly called a "glass eye" or "fake eye." It's not really an eye, but a shell that covers the structures in the eye socket.
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What do you say in Japan when someone sneezes?

"Health!" 大丈夫? (Daijoubu?) Note: It is very rare for anyone to acknowledge a sneeze in Japan, and it is customary not to say anything at all. After multiple sneezes, they use these words.
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Why do British say bless you?

God bless you

This is what a Brit might say to you after you sneeze. They might even pass you a hankie too, if you're lucky. Not to be confused with: 'Count your blessings', meaning that you should be grateful for what you have.
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Why shouldn't you say bless you?

Please stop acknowledging my bodily functions. "Bless you" is a phrase so reflexively spoken upon hearing a sneeze that many of us forgot or don't even know where it came from. It has obvious religious connotations but they're archaic and no longer make any sense in our modern-day world.
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Can we live without brain?

The brain is made of soft nervous tissues which control all body functions. It is the center of the nervous system in all invertebrates and vertebrates. Since it controls vital functions such as breathing, swallowing, digestion, eye movement and heartbeat, there can be no life without it.
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Do artificial hearts exist?

There have been 13 artificial heart designs used in patients, but only one has received commercial approval from the FDA. Since the first patient implant in 1969, medical teams across the globe have developed 13 different artificial heart designs that have been used in patients.
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Can you live without a brain or heart?

Well, technically speaking, your body can still be alive without a brain. On the other hand, it's pretty difficult for your body to be alive without a heart. In either circumstance, the quality of life is pretty poor without one or the other!
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Is it possible to cry underwater?

No thats not possible, though its obvious to think that tear ducts should work really fine under water. Density of water is more than that of air. When you are under water that fluide pressure wont let tear to come out.
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What causes nightmare?

Trauma and nightmares

Nightmares can arise for a number of reasons—stress, anxiety, irregular sleep, medications, mental health disorders—but perhaps the most studied cause is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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