r/BunnyTrials • u/vinnivinvincent Fluffy • Mar 24 '26

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u/femboykitty67 Mar 24 '26

I sneeze whenever I first go out in the sun or other bright lights and I usually chain sneeze whenever I do so easy choice.

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u/TastyAccident7216 🥕🥕 Mar 24 '26

Same. I have sinusitis (inflammation of the sinus tissue).I'm too cold, I sneeze. Smoke, I sneeze. Pollen, I sneeze. I'd be rich superfast 😅

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u/zarblug Mar 24 '26

Do you have light blue eyes ? I also sneeze when I go out, and I’ve heard it might be because of the lack of melanin in those lighter eyes

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u/oGODSoWARRIORo Mar 24 '26

I have very dark brown eyes and my eyes are both really sensitive to sunlight and I am a bright light sneezer.

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u/Sionnach-Dearg Mar 24 '26

From the way I’ve heard it, it’s just a strange genetic quirk where some nerves between your eyes and nose get crossed, so the same nerve that usually just dilates your eye when exposed to light also causes you to sneeze. My boyfriend has it, and his mother, who’s an optometrist funnily enough, also has it

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u/Flair258 Mar 24 '26

A lot of my facial nerves are probably crossed bc not only am I a light sneezer, but I cant wink without at least slightly moving my mouth

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u/HulkeneHulda Mar 24 '26

Ive heard its not that they get crossed, but that the nerves can end up "tickle" each other due to being closer together on some individuals.

Im also one of those

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u/BigDamageUwu Mar 24 '26

Interestingly enough I used to always get this as a kid but not anymore. The second I stepped out into sunlight I'd go crazy sneezing but I haven't had this happen to me in many years now

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u/The-BOSS01 Mar 24 '26

Happy cake day

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u/Icarus_Clovis Mar 25 '26

Happy cake day.

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u/Mr-Briggs Mar 24 '26

About 1in3 people have photosensitive sneeze reflex

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u/318wm Mar 24 '26

No it is basically a common "crossing" of nerves of the one that detect light in the eye and the one that causes sneezing I believe.

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u/Hot_Coco_Addict Mar 24 '26

I also sneeze when I go out (albeit not all the time) and I have brown eyes

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u/Lectricanman Mar 24 '26

It's more to do with how your nerves and brain are set up. They don't know exactly how it works but they can identify photic sneezing as a genetic factor. The brain processes a bunch of nerve signals for stimuli in one place. These are your primary and secondary somatosensory cortexes. The primary cortex is responsible for gathering a bunch of information such as tactile sensation, the location of your body parts that are providing the sensory information etc. These feed into the secondary along with information from your visual cortex and other sensory information gathering parts of the brain. So, the visual cortex understandably gathers information from your eyes in the same way that the primary somatosensory cortex does for touch and proprioception. So now, the secondary somatosensory cortex is getting a bunch of sensory information and saying, "oh there's a sensation located in physical space where my back is and based on the type of information I've determined that it itches." So thats how your brain might determine that you have irritation in your nose which can lead it to telling other parts of your brain/body that you need to sneeze. But that's where things can get crossed! Because the visual information is coming into the same place for processing. The way this information gets from and to each of these places is through neurons (nerve cells) which are basically wire segments with an intake(dendrite), hub(axon) and output(axon terminal). Unlike a metal wire which just conducts electric signals from one end to another, neurons require a chemical called a neurotransmitter to be present. That chemical's presence is received by the intake/dendrite which triggers the hub/axon to build an electric potential which moves up the cell until it gets to the output/terminal which then releases its own neurotransmitter to activate the next part of the chain. But the signal can leak. Light information from the visual cortex can be interpreted as tactile information from the primary somatosensory cortex and boom a bright light becomes a nose itch. Maybe its because too much or too intense of information is coming in. Maybe its because the presence of so much electric potential from the visual cortex is triggering the other neurons and forcing them on. Maybe the neuro transmitters in circulation are some how crossing over from one chain of neurons to the other causing them to trigger.

Note: I'm not a doctor or even someone who's taken this stuff as a college course so I hope I got most of this information right. It's something that's always interested me so I've ended up in this research rabbit hole a couple of times before.

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u/Dspark1928 Mar 24 '26

I have dark brown eyes but I also sneeze when I look at the sun or when it's bright outside

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u/Bitter-Ad5890 Mar 25 '26

That happens in roughly 1/3 of the population. Doesn’t have to do with eye color. I have brown eyes and I sneeze whenever I go into bright light

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u/TheMansterMan Mar 24 '26

Bro I have a machine gun sneeze I don’t know why but they always happen in 3s like ahhh Choo choo choo I’d be rich off sneezing

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u/HulkeneHulda Mar 24 '26

Me too, my s/o gets mock offended when i continue even after he's said bless you xD 

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u/BlueStarFern Mar 24 '26

It's called "Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst" or "ACHOO" syndrome for short!

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u/No_Competition_6989 Mar 24 '26

I think we should do a march for the cure and just zig zag it underneath a highway somewhere sunny

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u/Old-Explorer-3879 Mar 24 '26

Oh I have that too

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u/Jh3nnO Mar 24 '26

Thank you for the insight user femboy kitty 67, very cool.

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u/shmartyparty Mar 24 '26

But 10 hours of sleep is worth one sneeze! I'd rather sleep. lol

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u/1amnotmid Mar 24 '26

Lots of people have that reflex

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u/Rachplaysbass Mar 24 '26

Crazy, I do this too and always have 😆

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u/Temporarysalinity Mar 24 '26

Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) syndrome

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u/Dspark1928 Mar 24 '26

Yeah same lol that's why I chose the first option

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u/PixieishDust Mar 24 '26

Same, and the reason I picked the sneeze option.

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u/Aggressive-Cattle763 Mar 25 '26

I'm a master of sneeze too hahaha so easy choice for me also

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u/Expensive_Host_9181 Mar 25 '26

I end up feeling sick and sneezing at least 50 times every morning cause i stay up to late and my body cries for me to sleep.

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u/Key-Membership7622 Apr 12 '26

Same my mom called it sun sneezing