Josh Clark

That's when you know you're in old man territory.

You have a sneeze and you're like, hold on, I can't get up.

Yeah, I'm going to have to lay down this weekend.

But your abdomen, your chest, your diaphragm, your vocal cords, you know, you mentioned that you take that deep inhalation.

That's that like right before you go.

And that builds up a lot of pressure in your chest.

And that happens because your vocal cords just initially clamp shut.

Right, yeah.

So you're sucking in a bunch of air, holding it, and so the pressure's building in your thorax.

And then when you release it, your vocal cord openings open up to allow the air out, but then also your diaphragm is pushing that air out really violently so that it's going out your mouth and your nose.

I saw about 100 miles an hour is the speed that that can hit.

Yeah, easily.

Around 100 miles an hour, that is crazy to think about.

Your eyes close, but we can go ahead and dispel the old myth that you can pop your eyes out if you keep your eyes open during a sneeze, right?

Yeah, not true.

And apparently there are some people who do keep their eyes open when they sneeze, and they show quite clearly that your eyes don't pop out.

That just would be impossible.

Plus, they usually close anyway, just automatically.

Yeah, it's a very small group of people who sneeze with their eyes open.

Most people just, it's like involuntary, it's part of the involuntary process of sneezing.