When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
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While most probably would be okay with hydrating more, do be careful:
- The “eight glasses per day” thing was made up whole cloth
- The advice I’ve heard is that for MOST people, drink when you are thirsty.
But if you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong because you feel a little bad, or have a headache, or are sleepy, or feel like you might be hungry but think you shouldn’t be, or any number of other situations - drinking a glass of water usually doesn’t hurt, and does sometimes turn out to have been the issue. So it’s rarely terrible advice.
(Unless you’re on dialysis like me and have fluid restrictions) :)
yes. you need water more than calories and while the rule of threes is basically about calories with the three weeks if you don’t have fiber with those calories you will have a medical emergency on your hands. Granted though you can have to much water and fiber so its kinda a balance. I mean granted with water its more about to much water and not enough electrolytes.
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Hyponatremia . We called it hyponatriosis or ‘water-drunk’ in the army. We had a girl in our platoon over-hydrate and go floppy on a march, and my swear-to-god buck-oh-five bunkmate had to play crutch for the rest of it while we all redistroed all their collective gear. (calm your breathing: they marched in back with the medicos under obs the entire time, and we didn’t fail the little exercise we were on, and it was her choice to continue at every stage, and she was lauded for it afterward. This is a heroism story.)
water and fiber and the need for both in a diet but also that they can be overdosed.
Rule of threes (survival) - Wikipedia https://share.google/Gc0HVUDXToxTKHD0A
Why is this a Google link?
Guess I wasn’t paying attention. I googled it and then tried to share the Wikipedia page. Guessing I must have clicked on some ai result instead of the actual page. Annoying, unintentional.
If you can’t find a comfortable temperature when you’re sleeping under blankets, just stick one foot, and maybe part of your lower leg, out from under of the blankets. It acts like a radiator, and will release much of your excess heat.
A kid showed this to me at a childhood slumber party, and it’s been a useful tip ever since.
I’m not taking advice from an obvious night monster.
The real trick is to put the foot out, then pull it over the blanket so the foot’s surrounded by blanket.
From the view of creatures under the bed, all they see is the blanket.
Seriously, did night monsters write this post?!
But then the monsters might eat my foot!
Really though: I have a visceral aversion to having my feet exposed like that. If I’m lying down or even sitting on the couch, my feet must be covered. I could have no other blankets, except on my feet.
Yeah, you have a different issue.
Nah, it’s that I would love to be able to use it as a radiator like you suggested, but I have a sensory problem with exposing my feet like that. It’s really annoying actually, because I have some chronic conditions that make me more heat sensitive now, and even though I know it would help a ton, I still can’t stand the feeling of my feet being exposed.
So, same problem, but sadly can’t use your solution.
Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack/pad that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. It isn’t cold, more like cool water that stays cool. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p
I have that problem with my butt. Can be 10 billion degrees and sweaty af and I have to have a blanket over my butt, even if I have shorts on.
I don’t have that problem any time except sleeping, though.
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The Snorkel is god-tier advice.
One good thing about using a CPAP is that I can be fully covered by a blanket and still able to breathe. This occurred to me the other day when I left a bedroom window open during a snowstorm but was too lazy to get up and close it.
That’s noob tier. I’m a blanket junkie for some reason, so I have to compromise in any weather. The blanket could be covering any part of my body, from neck-to-toe to just the legs, to one vertical half, to part of the torso, to just a corner being on me.
Nice try, monster under the bed.
My cat would see that as an invitation to attack my foot.
Mine would snuggle up to it, because it’s warm.
It’s not just that it acts like a radiator. Feet are also not very sensitive, so if they’re a little cold it won’t bother you. You could obviously get rid of a lot more heat by exposing your torso, but it will feel cold much sooner.
Switch to linux
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
Switched to codeberg as well. Microsoft owns github
Switched to codeberg as well
I’m using gitlab-on-prem for now, until their slow code decay and creeping featurism destroys it completely. It’s only barely usable now because of the really dumb CI/runner changes, for example, but forgejo uses a yaml CI setup so that’s never happening.
Have a look at onedev.io. it’s local Git hosting but it includes cicd and even an issue tracker.
Its build/install fails best practice and ISO in so many places that I simply cannot.
But thank you for sending that over. I’ve never heard of that app, and I’m grateful for the consideration.
forgejo uses a yaml CI setup so that’s never happening.
Not a Yaml fan?
I don’t hate Yaml. I’ll admit, I also don’t use it for much. Yaml’s job in my CICD is to tell me where I left the bash scripts for each step.
Not a Yaml fan?
Heck no. I get paid to do ansible in the daytime, and yaml and ansible are proof of society’s collapse; not just because they’re both so terrible, but because they are ever chosen despite the existence of so many alternatives.
Went to try three distros (Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu) all three either failed on boot (even just in the “try” state) or really really did not like my graphics card (Battlemage).
Could I go through and start troubleshooting, tweaking settings, making sure everything is configured correctly? Yes…. But after wasting a few hours just trying to get something to boot, “it just works” with Windows looks better all the time. I’m too old to want to jailbreak and tinker with shit.
All of these distros use an old ass kernel that might not support your hardware. Distros like Fedora and Arch (don’t use arch btw) use newer kernels and are more likely to support newer hardware.
How is Battlemage. I’ve been thinking about getting a replacement for my Alchemist card. It’s mostly transcoding but it’s always nice to have backup hardware in these days.
i feel like in general there’s not usually much of a reason to upgrade after a single generation, regardless of the vendor, unless you have some very specific circumstances
yes, the b580 is good, but it’s not that good
I have a B580 and frankly it’s perfect for what I want. I run my games at 1440p and generally can get 60-90fps (depends if it supports XeSS 2). E33 was a decent benchmark and it passed just fine. I normally play slightly older games so it suits my needs.
As for transcoding, it can seriously knock it out. H.264 QSV with an RF of 22 on a 1080p stream averages 315fps. H.265 is a bit slower but still faster than realtime. It really is a transcoding powerhouse there.
Unfortunately Mint and Ubuntu (and maybe Zorin too, I don’t know about this one) stay on older kernels on purpose to maintain stability, and new hardware requires new kernels. Not only that, but mesa should also be ad updated as possible. I would normally not recommend this to someone who’s starting, but maybe give Manjaro a try. Maybe Bazzite is a better idea though, although I have never personally used it.
The reason why I don’t usually recommend Manjaro to people is that it’s bleeding edge, and that can cause problems. But in your case currently your hardware requires bleeding edge. Otherwise in a few months Ubuntu 26.04 should be released and I expect it will support your GPU better.
Windows really hasn’t been the “it just works” option for a while. It’s just the option that you’ve gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I’ve tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.
Like others have said though, you’re using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they’re made for gaming. They’re both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don’t need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.
One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren’t on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you’ll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don’t remember). It’s something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.
I really want to and was mostly Windows free for most of 2025 but I can’t get my new graphics card to perform well in either kubuntu or mint. Games that will run on ultra at over 100fps in Windows will get 60-80fps on medium-high settings on kubuntu. A tear runs down my cheek every time I see people say they got performance increases from switching. Even my old hardware performed slightly worse.
Linux performance improvements are most noticeable on lower end hardware, at the higher end performance VS windows is usually pretty random from what I’ve seen.
That kind of makes intuitive sense, to me.
Early in the life of a piece of hardware, there’s lot of attention from individuals and companies.
Late in the life of a piece of hardware, only individuals still care about it.
Corporate OSes add changes over time to make old hardware worse off, while open OSes add fixes to support it.
Yeah, Linux generally supports older hardware for much longer, but it’s not only that. Linux devs are fairly attentive about performance, clean code, consistent frameworks, etc, meanwhile Microsoft is out there making random OS components in React just because it’s a little easier. From what I’ve heard the culture there is to not care about how something is done as long as it works.
Ubuntu and its derivatives are very slow with updates because they’re more focussed on stability. Because of this, your graphics drivers are likely wildly out of date. And if you’re using an Nvidia GPU, you’re better off going with a distro that has the graphics drivers built in.
I recommended going for a distro based on Fedora like Bazzite or Nobara. Fedora only lags a couple weeks behind updates for testing and QA, unlike the months/years you get on Ubuntu. Plus the 2 distros I mentioned have built-in Nvidia graphics drivers
I’m running an AMD GPU (9070XT) specifically because I knew it was meant to work nicer with Linux than my 1080 did.
I might give some other distros a try when I’ve got the time. It’s a shame, I really liked kubuntu. (I know I can configure most distros to do the things I liked about kubuntu but I’m not the most knowledgeable when it comes to that kind of thing.)
I’m running an AMD GPU (9070XT)
Yeah, the newer card likely doesn’t have drivers added to the kernel version that Kubuntu uses yet
If it helps, Bazzite and Nobara have options to install with KDE Plasma included
Running a 9070xt on cachyOS, works great
If memory serves you basically need the kernel release and stuff from like, December 2025? Somebody can correct me if that’s inaccurate.
I just installed CachyOS based off this recommendation, and performance is absolutely terrible right after installing. Do I need to install any drivers or change settings? Everything I see says that the drivers are baked into the kernel. But I am getting <50FPS with extreme stutters running the same settings I had on all the other OS’es I listed.
Drivers should be baked into the kernel, yeah, assuming the latest version was installed and regular updates ran after install to make sure all is up to date
Only extra thing I installed was the command that gave me steam and all the related gaming stuff, was a single line with gaming meta in it iirc.
What were you trying to test and on what resolution?
The game I’ve been playing lately is the Oblivion remaster. I know the game is known to have subpar performance, but in Windows with ultra settings and RT set to low I get 130+ FPS outdoors and 180+ indoors, in kubuntu I was getting ~60-80 outdoors and ~100 indoors, CachyOS got me 80 indoors and 50 outdoors with extreme stuttering.
All running on my 3440x1440 144hz monitor.
I just installed Bazzite, we’ll see how that plays.
The only software holding me back is Adobe Premeire Pro; I’ve looked at the Linux alternatives and one of them has a windows 3.11 interface (KDEVine I think).
I’m still open to suggestions.
If it’s only one software you can test if it works on wine.
You could try Davinci Resolve. It’s great, professional-grade software, runs natively on Linux, and has a very generous free version and an inexpensive, one-time purchase studio version.
Will it work with wine?
I personally just went with blender sequencer because it is free softare though quite basic. Nuke might be a paid option. It is node based tho.
I don’t see what drinking has to do with anything but I’ll try.
Red or white? /s
If you can’t sleep. Get up. Get out of your bed for a while.
Staying awake while laying in bed often changes the association of sleep with the bed. Removing sleep conditioning effects.
Also as someone who has had insomnia since I was a child. I can tell you if I lay in bed. Unable to sleep. And Stay there. Rolling around. I won’t ever fall asleep.
But if I force myself to get up. Maybe have something to drink. Walk around a bit. Stare out the window for a bit. Then go back , I’m more likely to fall asleep.
And if I’m having really bad insomnia. I go for a walk. At this point I’m my life I can tell if it’s going to require a walk or just getting up and moving around the apartment/house for a bit.
Even a 15-20 min walk can do wonders. But I typically do 30 to 1 hour walk. It depends on how I’m feeling.
You would think exercising in the middle of the night would wake you up more. But nope.
9/10 times I go for a short walk. I get back and fall to sleep almost immediately.
It’s hard to force yourself to get up when you are exhausted and just want to sleep. But it’s do the walk or not sleep at all.
Also. Going out at 2 or 3 am on a week day is kinda of an interesting experience. Depending where you live, you might be the only person around.
It’s eirie and surreal. Subliminal spaces.
I quite like it. That also helps motivate me to do the insomnia walk. (Sometimes I ride my bike instead which is really nice as there are minimum cars. -make sure you are in light clothes and have lights and reflectors on your bike).
In a financial negotiation, avoid saying a number first, even if it seems like you’re being rude, just say stuff like “what’s your budget” instead. This trick sounds really stupid but somehow it is extremely effective.
Absolutely. And in a more general sense, whenever negotiating with businessmen, tell yourself they’re nasty rotten pirates beforehand and throughout the process. Visualise them having peglegs, hooks, eyepatches and battered old sea hats. Do NOT give in, do NOT name that number before they do.
I prefer to think of it like a competitive game; you’re trying to win and you aren’t going to go easy on anyone, but you still treat your adversaries with as much empathy and respect as that allows.
This is why I have doubts about Macklemore’s business acumen:
I went to the moped store, said “Fuck it”
And salesman’s like “What up, what’s your budget?”
And I’m like “Honestly, I don’t know nothing about mopeds”
I suppose at least he doesn’t immediately answer about the budget, but it still seems like a less than stellar negotiating technique.
The most annoying response when trying to get a price from someone
I took a community college class on business negotiations. I learned about BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and it’s been extremely helpful as a tool for negotiations. It’s setting a baseline and reduces any emotional toll.
Tl;Dr: define your BATNA before any negotiation. For example: say you know your salary industry standard is at $80k. You receive an offer for $70k, politely see if they have wiggle room for more, based on industry standard. If they come back with $75k, your plan is clear. In this negotiation, your BATNA is to walk away - no hard feelings.
When I sold my car, I set my BATNA to $9k, and put it for sale at $11k. The guy immediately tried to haggle and offered $10k. I shook his hand immediately and sold it.
It doesn’t have to be a hard number either. Like comparing benefits or perks.
I guess that could make sense if there is such a narrow range of possible outcomes and everyone has some clear objective idea of a baseline, but I’ve gotten freelance gigs where I would have been willing to do it for say $X, but was offered like $3X and was very happy to have kept my mouth shut and not talked numbers at all before that point. If I hadn’t I think I might not have gotten the job at all because the price being lower than the expectation would have made the client worried about the quality of the work, and even if I did get it that would have made them less satisfied with the deal.
As for your other comment, it’s not always true that combativeness will make people less satisfied with a transaction. I remember a particular situation where I was negotiating with another freelancer who was obviously also purposely avoiding saying a number, and I ended up caving when it got truly absurd and cited some past payments to use as a reference point. I was personally more satisfied with the deal because he did that, because it increased my respect for him; we were going to be working together and it was nice to feel that I could trust him to not be a pushover in general.
That’s great until the other person is also doing it haha
A good negotiation is about making sure both parties feel satisfied by the end of the transaction!
If the other side was already combative, then that’s a negotiation you should walk away from.
Not really nonsense but in the winter to stay really warm in your bed, just lay a fleece blanket flat over the fitted sheet. Sleep directly on top of it with your usual blankets covering you. The fleece will radiate your heat, which will then get trapped by the top blanket keeping you much more insulated.
If you want to have a deep rejuvenating sleep, wake up for about an hour in the middle of the night after a few hours of sleep. Don’t do anything that will make you wide awake. Just chill out for an hour and then go back to sleep. The second period of sleep will be so much better than the first.
Throw a square of dark chocolate in chili next time you make it, at least 70% cocoa but the higher the better. Next time you make boxed Mac and cheese, add a dash or 2 of Worcestershire sauce to it. The best egg you’ll ever eat: 1 egg, 1 tbsp of mayo whisked together in a glass container or small bowl. Add 1tsp of butter on top and microwave for 40-60 seconds. You’ll be pissed off about how good it is.
Next time you eat Oreos and milk, put the Oreos in a bowl and pour the milk over them and eat them with a spoon like cereal. Next time you eat cupcakes, carefully break off half of the bottom and put it on top of the icing so it’s like eating a sandwich.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Britain.
King of the what? I didn’t vote for you.
To try and control impulse shopping, I immediately grab an item I think I want.
I will continue shopping for things I actually want/need, until I look at or feel for the thing I originally grabbed. I will lose sense of interest of grabbing it and put it back.
It takes practice and time. Especially works if you know, are low on money anyways. The idea of this is, to get you thinking about what it is about that thing that made you want it and whether it would have any use or make you happy having it.
If it doesn’t after the time you’ve been having it around, be it holding it or in the cart, then it wasn’t meant to be. It was simply an impulse.
Ya, and if you shop online put purchases in your shopping cart and let them sit for a few days.
I have heard this can cause the retailer to email you a discount code/coupon, but that’s never happened to me so I can’t corroborate.
This totally works on eBay. Often when I see something used that I’d like, I’ll put it in my cart and let it sit. If the vendor offers a discount then I’ll consider, if not then I guess I don’t actually need it.
They used to do it more often. Now not so much. I think they realized people have caught onto this and stopped offering discounts
As big as my Steam backlog is, it would be 100x bigger if not for the Wishlist. I try to limit myself to 100 games in the Wishlist and trim it every once in a while when a game has been sitting in it for more than a couple years. It’s the same psychology here. Put it in a cart and let it sit there for a while. If you don’t really want it put it back.
I kinda do this, except I don’t pick it up. I’m just sick and tired of having useless junk lying around, so when I see something I want I consider if I’m actually going to use it or if it will just be relegated to a drawer somewhere. If I haven’t been missing it (ie. it’s an impulse purchase) I will almost always just leave it be and move on. I don’t need all this junk.
If it is something I decide I need, then I consider if it should be this thing, or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it’s almost universally cheap junk. That also grants me more time to decide that no, I don’t need this thing after all.
I do the same thing, sort of. I think about where I will put the item and if I don’t have a good place for it, then I won’t buy it.
And while online shopping never buy something immediately, always wait until the next day.
Don’t be a cunt.
Simple advice that works. More people should try it.
But that doesn’t sound counter-intuitive my dear fellow
don’t be a cunt.
I’m addicted, I can’t stop
When you sprain your ankle, DON’T MOVE. I used to try and walk it off because that’s what everyone does and even coaches recommend it, but that’s when the actual damage is done.
Spraining is usually just your tendons/ligaments going into emergency mode (getting very short/tight). So if you try to walk while they are still tight, they will actually tear, doing damage that takes weeks to heal. If you instead just keep that ankle perfectly still for like 30 seconds to 2 min, the ankle will be completely fine.
Trick is, you have to overcome the social pressure to hurry it along (i.e. on a hike at work, or on a sport field).
I rolled my ankle, damaged the arch of my foot and rode my bike home because I couldn’t walk. I didn’t really have a good support system to say the least and had to rely on myself. I have a slight limp now. Definitely listen to this advice. Dr was facepalming so hard when I told him what I’d done.
I broke my ankle, didn’t realize it was broken, and tried to twist it back into place and stand on it. Twice.
My doctors all had things to say about that, too. As well, like you, I have a pronounced limp after walking more than a few steps.
My ankle hurts just reading this 😖
Mine, too!
Yeah, if I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do … Most of what I did to lead up to that point.
I sprained my ankle once trying to dodge out of the way of a classmate I was trying to avoid when i saw them at a park 😂 What you say is correct. Kind pf wish I’d gotten it checked at the time but it could’ve been worse and I rested soon after hobbling out of view
Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.
Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.
Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.
Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.
YMMV
smoker in my early 20s and this advice might change my life.
Honestly, quit as soon as you can. After the two week mark, you’ll start smelling things again. At the one month mark, you’ll notice that you’re not constantly out of breath. Cravings still occasionally happen, but it shifts from “god damn it I need a donut right now” to “hmm a donut sounds good right now… But I don’t wanna bother with going to the donut shop.” The cravings never fully vanish, but they definitely change and become easier to dismiss as a passing whim.
Something like 20 years ago now, my pack-a-day wife decided to try a vaper. Not clouds-of-vape, just a pedestrian vaper.
She never went back to cigarettes. She decreased the nicotine and nowadays vapes maybe 2-3 times per day, I think her current level is 6… whatever units of nicotine, it’s not a lot.
I don’t care that she still vapes at that level. If there is anything bad, it’s not much at that rate, so screw it.
I realized it was causing a lot of anxiety for me. Easy quit after that because the reward was less anxiety after a few days.
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If you have a song stuck in your head, and it’s driving you a bit mad: listen to it. Something about your mind trying to fill things in (it’s been many years since I’ve read this bit of advice, and unsure entirely on why).
Basically songs stick in our head when we can’t finish them, so songs with really subtle endings or heavily repeated phrases will stick the most.
And if you always seem to have music stuck in your head, go research ADHD symptoms, as that is one of many. And if you DO have ADHD, things like ritalin can silence the music. (One of several things I still remember from my first ritalin)
What if I’m just like, constantly singing? Even with the stimulants? And I’m not a good singer? Like at all?
Speaking in generalities unfortunately does not guarantee individual results. <3
Or try to rememberr how the song ends.
cook bacon in water.
don’t drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time.
I just cook mine in the oven. Perfect crispy bacon every time.
Can confirm. This works amazingly well.
Alright! I’ll try that soon.
This is cooking advice.
If you struggle with cooking or find that you mess up often, try preparing all of the individual ingredients before you start cooking. Eg. measure, wash, cut every ingredient. Apparently this practice is called mise en place.
If you ever watch a cooking video and it looks so effortless this is probably why. It was a game changer back when I was learning to cook. Suddenly it felt like I could make every recipe with ease.
This practice has drawbacks as it could dirty more dishes and increase cook times but it allows you to tackle most dishes at your own pace. I definitely recommend it whenever you make something new for the first time.
Mise en place is essential in my mind and one of the most important skills I learned early on in culinary school. At home if you don’t want to dirty a ton of dishes, you can organize ingredients (veggie ones anyway, still need bowls for spices/liquids) into small piles on your cutting board. Then just grab a bench scraper or the side of your knife and toss the ingredients in as needed.
Also, get a kitchen scale. You won’t need it all the time but it’s so much easier to just stick a pot on top of a scale and add 500 ml of chicken stock than it is to have to measure 2 cups in a separate container. This is especially good if you’re looking to blanche/simmer something in a flavorful liquid like stock or broth
Also read the whole recipe including the method and notes; some love to just slip things in that aren’t in the ingredients list (something to grease a pan, etc.) and knowing times and temps is very useful.
I don’t particularly struggle with cooking and like to think I’m quite good at it, but I’ve started doing this, because I realised that every time I messed up, it was because I left something on for too long while prepping the next bit to go in the pan.
Having everything chopped, measured, and ready means you can pay full attention to what’s currently going, so you’re not rushed and panicking.
So if you ever get a random headache that is just a pinching pain in a random spot then try breathing there. I don’t mean breathe deep or breathe into that spot but actually concentrate super hard into that spot and imagine this is where your lungs are. Concentrate when you breathe and think about how the air goes exactly into that spot directly from your mouth cause this is where your lungs are now, and how you breathe out from there. Keep concentrating and breathing there.
I don’t know why it doesn’t work if I just take deep breaths but this is legit the only way I can stop the pulsating stabs until they are gone. Concentrate hard tho because once you stop the pain returns unless the attack is over.
I’ve harvested so much knowledge from this thread, lol. Saved for later. Thanks
If you get that feeling where you need to sneeze but it’s not quite enough for a full sneeze, say the word grapefruit. 60% of the time it works every time
For me it’s just looking at something bright.
The uses of “ACHOO syndrome”!
Aka the photic sneeze reflex.
Apparently not everyone has this reflex.
Wait, are you saying you can look at a bright light to suppress a sneeze? I used to work with a guy who said bright light sometimes made him sneeze.
Ahh, no no!
Not suppress it, but force it out. Kinda when you feel it coming but it’s “stuck”
For suppressing it, I’ll press my tongue hard against the roof of my mouth. Works most of the time
Looking at significantly bright lights cause the muscles of your face and sinuses to contract which can force a sneeze. It won’t cancel the sneeze, it just makes it happen on your own terms.
Ha, for me it’s the opposite. I have to cover my eyes, not just close them because I can still feel the brightness through my eyelids, so I have to physically cover them with my hands.
Also, if people talk I can’t sneeze either. So if I’m around people I’m comfortable around, they know I’m about to sneeze and stop talking. That’s very sweet of them.
I imagine this looking really adorable. Talking to someone who then suddenly covers their eyes and sneezes.
I often sneeze two times but when someone’s bless you comes between them, my second sneeze is cancelled most of the times. So most people who know me will wait in anticipation wether I sneeze a second time.
Haha, it gets annoying real fast!
Yeah, it’s good to sneeze around people who know you well enough to not disrupt your sneezing, because there’s nothing more frustrating than not being able to sneeze.
And if you don’t want to sneeze, put a finger under your nose like a fake mustache
That’s not how you grapefruit your man
The noises will be forever burnt into my brain.
There’s a spot on the bridge of your nose you can rub and it stimulates the sneeze out of you
Also right under your nose, push your finger against your mustache space
Edit: Oh wait, that prevents the sneeze. I read the comment wrong
I inhale very very slowly through the nose, it almost always works for me
