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alexpotato a day 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

stronglikedan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I 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 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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.

NoImmatureAdHom 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do you like to eat? Or do it out of a sense of duty?

EvanAnderson 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah-- 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...)

7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]
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