I always get people telling me to look up at the light to sneeze, which I know is a phenomenon but I never hear anyone talk about mint.

Something about fresh air just tickles my nose and makes me sneeze. It’s especially great when I have a mouthful of minty toothpaste.

Or perhaps I’m just allergic to going outside.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That wouldn’t explain the mint for me though.

      I can’t say for certain, but I doubt particulates are the issue. Or I would be sneezing every time I walk close to a road.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Something about fresh air just tickles my nose

    Maybe this has happened to me? It is less obvious than the sun sneezing thing. I mean I see the sun, sneeze exactly twice. Every time. But fresh air tickles? I guess I thought it was a normal time to sneeze and not a similar cross-sensory phenomenon.

    Mints have not ever done this to me. But I do enjoy vaporub.

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    1 year ago

    I already knew about the “photic sneeze reflex”, and I know someone who sneezes exactly 2 times when temperature changes (and very loudly), but not from mint afaik.

  • LordAmplifier@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I usually sneeze when I go out in the cold because it somehow tickles my nose, but only once, then the tickling is gone.