Ok… I’m laying here dying of some gawd-awful flu bug, and I can’t breathe out of my nose. I blow my nose, producing a ton of the stuff in my Kleenex. (ew) But! As soon as I throw the tissue away, my nose is once again full of the stuff. No matter how much I blow, I can’t get my head clear of the never ending production of snot. What gives? How much of this crap can a human head actually hold? Can the human body produce mucus so quickly and at such a volume that blowing your nose is just a waste of time? Or is there a huge empty space that fills up with the green menace, and eventually I’ll blow it all out?
I need to know! I am so miserable right now… I thought I blew out some grey matter about five minutes ago.
Thanks, manhattan.
I can’t believe the half an ounce, though… that seems so small compared to what’s been coming out of my head. (and I have the tissues to prove it.)
So what is the physiological mechanishm involved that makes you produce mucus when you are crying? When I found out that my mother was going to pass away, I must have lost a sizeable amount of mucus in the process.
Man, you think you feel bad! Me and my brother have this problem where we can only breath through one nostril at any given time. Even when I have virtually no mucus running out, I still can’t breathe from one or the other. Which brings me to an even better question: what makes your nostril clog up like that? I’ve heard that the tissue somehow expands when it gets mucus all over it. The nostril I can breathe from usually switches numerous times throughout the day. Odd, isn’t it?
Rysdad, yeah, that is a benefit. I once thought that we swallow 1 quart of snot a day, but I think that its more like a cup.
Runner, a lot of that tricky chakra stuff is based on breathing one nostril at a time. You can make your body do all sorts of really really weird things if you can master the nostil breathing thing. Breathing is taken as the source of all life force, thus, if you can master it you can reach into that life force and use some of it. That’s the idea anyway. I tried it and it freaked me out.
Mrunner… I’m afraid that if I had to deal with the one-nostril breathing thing every day, I would have to kill myself. That truly sucks. It’s been only three days for me, and I’m already climbing the walls.
And there is NO WAY Cecil is correct about the snot amount!
Alright then. Lay your head on the opposite side that is clogged. See, whatever side of your head lays on the bed is the one that gets clogged. So, just change it. Course, might be funny going around with a bed on your head all day.
Chakra, eh? I’ll tell you, if that’s some kinda yoga type thing, the old chinese wise men need to get their act together: breathing through one nostril SUCKS!