Josh Clark

I don't know.

It feels ingrained somehow.

Yeah, like if you only do two, you notice, and does it feel incomplete?

It does, but that almost never happens.

Occasionally I'll do a four-banger.

But I don't know that I ever sneeze once or twice.

It's almost always three.

And speaking of incomplete, if you experience the afferent phase, but the efferent phase isn't triggered, but it's enough to drive you nuts, there's things you can do.

And one of those things that's recommended is to look at a bright light or don't look directly at the sun, but look toward the sun.

And that should help jumpstart that efferent phase, the second part where the actual sneeze takes place.

Oh, okay.

That makes sense.

But they think what's going on is that there's a crossover between the sneeze reflex arc and the pupillary light reflex arc, which basically is one nerve becoming so stimulated that it –

it stimulates by proxy the other nerve, the sneeze nerve.

So you're getting so overloaded with bright light when you see that sunlight that it accidentally jumps on over to your sneeze reflex as well and makes you sneeze.

It's like, are you getting all this light?

Are you getting this?

Get a load of this.

I think they've landed on about between 23% and 25% generally of people have this photic sneeze reflex.

Right.