# I can make myselfe sneeze... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 5, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-make-myselfe-sneeze/227592 "2004-02-05T01:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-make-myselfe-sneeze/227592/1 "2004-02-05T01:47:25Z")
So I’ve been sick for the past four or five days, and my nose is really stuffed up. Since I cant breathe through my nose, I sleep with my mouth open all night and my lips have gotten chapped. I have a little cut on the inside of my upper lip from where the skin split, I assume from drying out too much. Anyway…if I stick my tongue in the cut and kind of move my tongue up and down for a couple of seconds…it makes me sneeze! Why is that? Something to do with the nerves that go from your lip to your nose? It’s kind of cool actually, because after I sneeze my sinuses clear up for a minute or so. On a related note…last night I woke myself up in the middle of the night because I bit my own tongue! I bit it really hard too, right on the tip, and it still hurts and its been almost 20 hours. I felt like a freak, and of course told all my friends about it. ---
**Author:** ![maggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@maggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-make-myselfe-sneeze/227592/2 "2004-02-05T14:29:07Z")
believe it or not, every I pluck my eyebrows! Pluck, sneeze, blow, pluck, sneeze, blow, wipe watering eyes, pluck, sneeze, blow…