Can you sneeze when your sleeping?
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You can't sneeze. Well the fact is that humans cannot sneeze while asleep.
Sneezing requires a reflex mechanism, wherein the sensory nerves in our
upper respiratory tract, esp nostrils, are stimulated by some stimuli
(mechanical or chemical or other)and these nerves then go to the CNS (i.e
brain) and as a final process excite the nerves which supply muscles pf our
respiration and the pharngeal region and the man sneezes thus. You must
know that this reflex is a natural means to protect our sensitive upper
respiratory tract from harmful influnces or, more appropriately, external
influences, be it a solid or a gas or as a response to some infection.
Now when the man sleeps, his brain is not working at its normal levels and
so even though the man's nerves have some external factor acting upon them,
no reflex is initiated and the man doesn't sneeze.
You must also know that when the stimuli continues or crosses a particular
level, it changes from an irritative agent to a source of maybe say pain
and the the man can have a disturbed sleep; there is a threshold for every
thing.
no you can't.
i dont think so..but i guess i would have been asleep;p
not me, never have that happened to me...
yes because ive actually heard somebody fart when they were sleeping. im not sure about sneezing though.
not necassarily.
Don't think so but the rest u can surely can do lol
no
Never happened to me, if it did it would scare the sh!! outta me, lol.
I cannot imagine you can sneeze while asleep. However, i know you can pass gas! When i was 10, i stayed the night over my cousins, and both of them kept me awake with it. He actually did not know he was doing this, but he was having a night mare and he lifted his leg and said, "one more time." This is when he passed the gas. But never have i heard of sneezing when asleep.
No, you cannot sneeze, cough, fart, or any other involuntary action while sleeping. And to T♥ree, because you heard them fart doesn't mean they're asleep. o_O
Most people claim to say you can, but the person DOES wake up, even if it's only for a short period of about a minute.
lol farting and coughing but sneezing never heard of it
i dont think so.
Ehh yes and no. You would have been affected in some way to have to sneeze and at that point you would have been awake. Whatever brought on the sneeze would have woken you, enough to have the reflex to sneeze it out of the nasal cavity. If you're a groggy sleeper, then you may have sneezed before and just not remembered it. However, you would definitely have been awake for a moment due to how intense a sneeze is.
On more than one occasion, I've been woken up by the sensation that I'm going to sneeze, so I'd have to say no, because it would wake them up.
well its a tricky question..becasue when im usually sleeping .... i often do the odd sneeze n fart n cough but the thing is im not sleeping when i do then...!
It is pretty confusing at first when you think about it but then when you look at it again it makes a bit of sense.
You wake up to sneeze and then you fall back asleep as you were just before you sneeze.
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