Don't know if this counts as a urban legend

[Darklight_1248]

Someone told me that your heart stopped beating when you sneeze.Anybody eles heard of this?

[jabberwocky]

On a similar subject, is it true that if your eyes were open when you sneeze, your eyeballs would fly out?

[Red-eye Dragoon]

^^While a sneeze has enough power to stop your heart, it doesn't actually stop it when you sneeze.

[Pax Unum]

no, your heart does not stop when you sneeze. check your pulse next time to prove this to yourself...

[Pax Unum]

On a similar subject, is it true that if your eyes were open when you sneeze, your eyeballs would fly out?

Eye sockets are made of bone, they aren't connected to the nasal passages, and there are no muscles behind the eyes that contract when you sneeze, so there's really no mechanism involved in a sneeze that could force your eyes out of their sockets...

Sneezin'

Edited May 1, 2006 by Pax Unum

[Master Sage]

That sounds pretty unrelisitic.

[crouton]

Interesting link, thanks. I heard one could break their 'face bone' (apparently the front of the skull) if one suppressed a sneeze. Don't believe it.

[Pax Unum]

Interesting link, thanks. I heard one could break their 'face bone' (apparently the front of the skull) if one suppressed a sneeze. Don't believe it.

Halting a sneeze in progress, by pinching your nose, could result in the rupture of an eardrum though...

[Immortal Norway]

On a similar subject, is it true that if your eyes were open when you sneeze, your eyeballs would fly out?

Unfortanly, this is true, also, if you sneeze to hard, you can break a rib.

[Pax Unum]

QUOTE(jabberwocky @ May 2 2006, 12:35 AM) On a similar subject, is it true that if your eyes were open when you sneeze, your eyeballs would fly out?

Unfortanly, this is true, also, if you sneeze to hard, you can break a rib.

could you please supply a link, to 'eyes popping out from a sneeze'...

Edited May 2, 2006 by Pax Unum

[GIDEON MAGE]

No, but if someone slaps you on the back when you are "making a face" it's permanent.

[Wookie McFly]

Good lord. No your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze, that would send you into ventricular fibrulation or tachycardia, which requires a defibrulator to get it to start again (I'm an EMT)...

[najaesouljah]

No, but if someone slaps you on the back when you are "making a face" it's permanent.

LOL thats funny

[GreyWeather]

Someone told me that your heart stopped beating when you sneeze.Anybody eles heard of this?

I heard this was true, it stops for only half a second when you sneeze. even my bio-science teacher stated it was true.

but if you sneeze, burp and fart at the same time you die.

Edited May 2, 2006 by Leliel

[R3LOAD]

but if you sneeze, burp and fart at the same time you die.

no......you dont.....

[crouton]

No, it's just that if you sneeze, burp, and fart at the same time, you WANT to die!!

[Darklight_1248]

Thanks for the replies folks. And since we on the topic of sneezing i have one more question; how come people say "bless you" after you sneeze? I never understood that.

[Jeenuh]

some cultures believe that when you sneeze part of your 'soul' or 'spirit' escape, and youre supposed to bless it.

at least thats my understanding.

[Tray]

I've heard the same thing as Jeenuh.

[coldethyl]

Thanks for the replies folks. And since we on the topic of sneezing i have one more question; how come people say "bless you" after you sneeze? I never understood that.

Hey this explains it all, in great detail:

Bless You

[MisterBlueSkies]

Eh... a note to Jeenuh and Tray: Just because the Simpsons say it, doesn't make it true. I honestly believed for several years that the epedermis is your hair...

[Darklight_1248]

Hey this explains it all, in great detail:

Bless You

Thanks. Good read

[Snowball]

That's where we get the word respiration. They believed there was a connection between breathe and spirit/soul.

[c3tse]

Someone told me that your heart stopped beating when you sneeze.Anybody eles heard of this?

Yes, i heard it before. This the reason why when you sneeze, people will say

"God Bless You".