Yes. Maybe for me it's because I tried preventing my yawns and sneezes, so even the sun-sneezes aren't quite as effective anymore. Sometimes I'll desperately need to sneeze but I'll leave my face passive and wait for it to pass.
its funny cause I completely forgot I wrote this comment and got a notification rn and it got better but a couple days ago it got worse so I'm just constantly trying to deep breath. (happened as I was writing this)
I'm 50 today but remember when I yawned in class. "am I boring you?" what a stupid question coming from a teacher to a teenager. Two reasons. Can't control that plus "yes of cause you're boring me" 😊
It feels so good to scream a little while yawning and stretching and I urge no clue why. All I know is that I learned it from my dad and he learned it from his dad.
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When I was young, I thought the reason I sneezed when I looked at the sun was because pollen collected around light because whenever I turned on a flashlight, I saw dust. Obviously that’s not right, but I tried 🙃
Does anyone else just randomly get a chill you can't control and like drop whatever's in your hands when someone's behind you, touches your hair, or it just randomly happens...
Brennan Kiely Just realized we animated the epiglottis (you're right), but if you pay close attention to the sensation in your throat that makes the "hic" it's actually a little lower in the vocal folds. Our mistake in the animation, but according to my research the hiccup does take place in the vocal fold region. Thanks for pointing that out, we'll be more careful!
I have travel sickness, and one thing I noticed is that yawning reduces dizziness, so I think yawning serves to recalibrate the labyrinth balance sensor and keep us awake or alert. Of course, this hypothesis needs to be tested.
same here 😂😂 but does anyone else sneeze when knocked on the head?.it happens when something hits the top of my head and i sneeze three times before stopping
If I'm about to sneeze, but it just won't come out, I can look at a bright light (usually the sun if I'm outside or near a window) and I sneeze almost immediately. It's basically a blessing. Sneezing (for me) is very satisfying for some reason lol.
As he said at the start, all the autonomous functions of the body are you doing something to yourself regardless of if you want to do it or not. But even the things you think you consciously do or think are also happening regardless your will. Free will is an illusion.
i had no idea it was a "thing" like this. i get my shivers pretty often, and i honestly thought it was a "This happens to everyone" kinda thing, and NEVER gave it a thought. .... Now on the other hand, im gonna end up asking all of my friends if they shiver when they take a wee wee.
I guess only guys do, it happens to me everytime. Ill be urinating and then my shoulders and back twitches. Maybe thatll help us figure out why males twitch
Defo. I get them especially if I've been holding in pee for awhile and then pee. It's gotten to the point I can anticipate and forcibly supress it (to varying degrees of success) lol
I thought the sleep start was when you begin to fall asleep and your muscles start to relax. Your brain realises this and thinks nothing is supporting you, leading to the falling effect that wakes you up.
+Joshua Yeung Believe it or not, there's a condition called Ondine's curse where the breathing center of your brain stem stops working (typically from a stroke) and you have to think about every breath, or you'll stop breathing.
+thedubiousbaker no they answered why you feel like you're falling causing you to wake up, what about when you are still awake and your body just... flinches. Almost as if you were startled by nothing.
The best theory I heard about yawning... When you are tired or bored, your rate of breathing drops. A yawn is the body's way of drawing in a big breath as it thinks it needs more oxygen. It also relates to why we yawn when we see others yawn. Our body sees someone yawn and assumes it's due to low oxygen levels in the air and survival instincts make us also take in more air via yawn.
Once when I was little I’ve yawned at the same time one of my teachers and we laughed cos we found it to be fun. Everyone liked her so much. Some months after it she died with her whole family in a car crash. My parents refused to let me see her in the funeral because I was distressed with the situation, but my friends saw her. They told me the coffin was nearly all closed, the exception being a small glass window over her face. I recall someone told me “she’s only sleeping”, and the only thing I could think about, beyond the sadness I felt, was we ‘yawned’ together and now she was ‘sleeping’ and I was awake. Dark story, I know. Still awake... twenty something years after. Thank God.
I remembered hearing that the sleep starts were the brain thinking you're dying or something and tries to "jumpstart" your muscles, so had to check and found this: "hypnagogic jerks (or hypnic jerks) and are most likely to happen as you first begin to fall asleep, and during the light stage of sleep immediately following. One theory is that this stage of sleep is light enough that your brain may misinterpret it as wakefulness - but it also recognizes that your muscles aren’t moving. This leads your brain to send a message to your muscles as a check-in of sorts, to wake them up or keep them active or reactive as a means of protection."
when you shake while peeing. It happens to me, i start to pee, and i can't control the urge to shake and i end up peeing all over the toilet and some even lands on the floor.
It's that glorious moment right after a satisfying piss that out of no where you feel a shiver go through your whole body and it's awesome. Imagine that feeling of relief you normally get in just your bladder but instead it's fluttering throughout your body
I've stared at the sun and bright light from time to time I also used to put feathers up my nose because I found sneezes satisfying, and I'm doing the same thing with yawning because it's also satisfying and addicting
I once read that yawning is when our bodies/mind start to feel tired or bored, so our brain triggers a yawn to draw in more oxygen and expell more Co2 in an attempt to keep us more alert. It can also sometimes be a sign of adult onset asthma.
Here's an interesting thing: I used to reflexively yawn when I saw someone else yawn, or even when yawning was discussed. Animals yawning had the same effect on me. I never noticed when this ceased, until now. After watching the segment on yawning, I did feel a slight urge to yawn, but had no trouble ignoring it. This is actually something new and (not really very) exciting for me, as it used to be completely uncontrollable.
I've found that my hiccups are always caused by mental chaos. When there's too much tumbling around in my head (especially just barely below my most conscious thread of thought) it causes hiccups. When I realize I'm hiccuping I can take just a second or two to sweep away the mental debris and the hiccups stop. Every time. No need to try to control breathing or breathe into a bag. This method has been working for me for nearly 15 years since I first discovered it.
Back in 1997 I had a cervical fusion done on C5, 6 & 7. One of the interesting side effects of that surgery was that I could no longer complete a yawn. I would start to yawn, but then it would get stifled before getting to the finale. You have no idea how frustrating it is to not be able to complete a yawn. It literally took me 5 or 6 years before I could "get used" to that feeling...
What I personally found as a great solution for hiccups is taking the deepest breath you can and hold it in, it takes usually less than 30 seconds to make it stop Nobody seems to ever talk about it so if it works for you pass along the idea
Weirdly enough I have a pretty good theory on hiccups at least a reason you can fix. When I eat a lot I get hiccups too and I found that if I take an NSAID it tends to stop my hiccups. My bouts usually last an hour to hour and a half, but if I take an NSAID they will be gone in about 30 minutes. Therefore, I would say that inflammation also plays a part in hiccups.
I suspect that the majority of our brain is not in our control at all. I've even gone so far as to say we are given a portion of control merely because having a consciousness is beneficial to critical thinking. I think the subconscious has more control than we want to believe. Give this a try: Without any outside stimulus (dim room, low noise) close your eyes and ask your subconscious mind to converse. You can start by asking it (literally, ask yourself in your thoughts) to show you someplace or something you'd like to see, a landscape like a nice sun-shiny meadow, or something. You may be surprised what happens.
Your comment seems to suggest that you think the subconscious and the conscious minds are separate entities. They are the same entity. Putting them together is what creates us, our thinking brains. There's no spirituality to it.
Could you do a video explaining narcolepsy, cataplexy and the sleep cycle in the amazing depth that you do? I would find it really beneficial and helpful
I want to know why when I'm falling asleep, all the sudden my whole body twitches. It's crazy and wakes me up like someone threw ice on me, it is immediate. Let me know if any of you have this issue.
