Need to sneeze, like you can practically taste it, but it just ... won't ... happen? When this happens--and it happens to all of us more often than we'd like--it's instinct to want to tilt your head back and squint your eyes nearly shut and make hang-on-I-need-to-sneeze faces. But hark! I am here today to tell you to resist that instinct!
Instead: Try staring into the nearest brightest light source. If you are truly on the very precipice of sneezing, within that tortuous, squeezy-faced region a nostril hair's breadth away from sweet release, then peering open-eyed into the nearest 100W--or out the window up at the sun-- will give you that last extra little twinge you need to get the full-on blast. I don't know why it works, but it works. Something maybe to do with the way our pupilary sphincters are wired to our sinuses.
And when looking at a bright light doesn't work, which is to say, occasionally, I find it's only during those near-sneezes that, eh, probably didn't NEED to happen. The light-gazing technique is for squeezing out those particularly moment-ruining sneezes that otherwise get left fizzling and itching in your lower frontal brain space.
Hey, it's cool, you're welcome.
--Towel
Posted by suppletowelcuddle at January 15, 2010 6:42 PM