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An interesting story about the Photic Sneeze Reflex [0]: it's one of the things that fighter pilots are screened for. The reasoning is that they can't have a p
by alexpotato 23d ago
An interesting story about the Photic Sneeze Reflex [0]:
it's one of the things that fighter pilots are screened for. The reasoning is that they can't have a pilot looking down and dark ground, look up to scan for enemy fighters and start sneezing.
Some people with the reflex can also have multiple sneezes in a row.
I find this all fascinating as:
- I have this
- I was also born with no sense of smell
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
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- stronglikedan 23d agoI think I just learned that I have this! I usually sneeze when walking out of the house into the morning sun. And regardless of what makes me sneeze, it's rarely just one or two at a time.
- kraquepype 22d agoI have this as well, and all my kids seem to as well. Never knew that it was part of fighter pilot screening, that is interesting.
- avadodin 22d agoI'm the only one with the reflex in my family including parents and children. They all think I am insane blaming the sun for my sneezes.
- NoImmatureAdHom 22d agoDo you like to eat? Or do it out of a sense of duty?
- EvanAnderson 22d agoYeah-- no kidding. When I was anosmic with COVID I couldn't eat much of anything. Food was just terrible. I still remember the soulless paste that was peanut butter. (Ugh. It was so bad...)
- alexpotato 22d agoI def have taste preferences e.g. I like grapefruit better than orange juice. Another example is Sriracha tastes great to me as it's spicy but not too spicy. Too spicy and I just can't taste anything. In other words, I have the same 5 basic tongue tastes that you do e.g. salt, sweet, bitter, sour and "umami". Flavor is usually taste + smell and that's the part I'm missing. If you are more interested, I wrote a Twitter thread about all of this here: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1559865770515087360 https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1559865770515087360
- NoImmatureAdHom 20d agoNeat, thanks for the reply
- embedding-shape 22d ago> Some people with the reflex can also have multiple sneezes in a row. I think that is unrelated to the sun-sneeze reflex though, some people that don't have that reflex can sneeze multiple times in a row, and vice-versa too.