Sneezing with your eyes open

[hazyhazy]

Is it true that if you sneeze with your eyes open the force will pop your eyeballs out?

[ilovetaz]

no, I've done it before.

[Chessman]

Its a medical impossibility, and the odds are, they will, to put the previous answer to the test, why not ask as many people as you can, if they've ever done it.

[bernardo]

As far as I know, it is impossible to keep one's eyes open while sneezing.

[Peter Pedant]

no

but if your eyes do pop out for any cause,

it is quite easy to get them back in.

 

(the ER prog is a bit unfair on this)

[coyn]

I cant give you a link to this hazyhazy because it was a long time ago, but a man who was charged with causing an accident whilst driving his car was aquitted because his defence was that at the unfortunate moment he had sneezed and a doctor testified that it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open, therefore the ensuing crash was not his fault.

[hazyhazy]

Thanks! That's a weight off my mind during sniffles season...

[El D]

what if your eyes were held open?

[Narolines]

Maybe the converse applies, El D - holding your eyes open stops you sneezing! Maybe not........

[bernardo]

About 20 years ago I heard about an experiment which was done on monkeys (or possibly chimpanzees?) in which their eyelids were sewn open. They were made to sneeze, and the force of the sneeze was enough to tear their eyelids out of the stitches, so they closed their eyes anyway. This is something that someone told me at school, and I have no idea whether it is true, or just an urban myth.

[Baronvhb]

if your eyeballs did pop out could you turn them around and look at your own face??

[PrazHymn]

What if you had your eyelids removed, and wore goggles when you sneezed? Are any of you willing to try.

[jedimistress]

Bernardo it isn't a myth unfortunately, it's what goes on behind the closed doors of the animal experiment laboratories.

[jedimistress]

I saw an eyeball popping competition somewhere on the internet once. It was disgusting. Search for it.