When my eight-year-old daughter first wakes up, she lets off with a rapid series of multiple sneezes. It doesn’t seem to matter where she slept - at home, gramma’s house, where ever.
At first I thought, well, maybe her sinuses dry out at night, but that doesn’t seem to make any sense. Why would they get more dry at night?
Any ideas?
Her angel is tickling her nose to wake her up. Angels watch over small children and little animals. My angel used to just push me out of the bed.
For some reason there are noticeably less angels in the third-world, for laboratory animals, and for adults.
Does she have blue eyes? A guy I used to work with claimed that blue eyes are sensitive to light, and all he had to do is go outside into the sunlight and he’d let out about three or four sneezes in a row. Maybe it’s the same thing for your daughter, when she opens her eyes in the morning.
She does, in fact, have very intense blue eyes.
Maybe that does have something to do with it. I have blue eyes too, though, and it doesn’t happen with me.
i think it’s a little something called the photic effect (response? reflex?) i always sneeze when i look at a bright light source, or go from a rather dark room into the bright sunshiney day. sneezing fits. sometimes up to ten.
i have hazel eyes, so i don’t think it’s necessarily tied to eye color. and, like many other traits and behaviors, just because your daughter has it doesn’t mean that you should.
peace.
jb
Sounds like “Reflexive Sneezing”.
It occasionally happens to my mother and I. You walk out into the bright day, automatically you set off into a rapid-fire sneezing fit.
Don’t know anything else about it really. But it doesn’t have to do with eye color I don’t think.
-Sam
Cecil Adams on Photic Sneeze Reflex.
On a more prosaic note, maybe it’s just allergies.
I used to sneeze on my walk to school. I walked due east, right into the morning sun. On cloudy days, I’d rarely sneeze. And I do have light blue eyes. It seems to add up.
I’m going to have to pay closer attention, but I don’t think she sneezes when she goes outside into bright light. Keep in mind, I’m a daysleeper and I keep the house really dark so there would be significant difference in the amount of light. It seemed to be solely a first-thing-in-the-morning phenomenon, but maybe I just haven’t noticed.
My angel used to sing at the top of his lungs while banging pots together. We called him Dad. To his face, anyway…
Re the OP: I also have blue eyes and sometimes sneeze when hit by light. However, I think it’s strange that it’s happening every morning when she wakes up. Either a) she’s much more sensitive to light than I am, b) you’ve got some seriously bright-ass light blubs in her room, or c) there’s something else going on.