{"id":6542,"date":"2014-08-07T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:50:32","slug":"photic-sneezing-its-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/08\/07\/photic-sneezing-its-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Photic Sneezing, It&#8217;s a Thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, when I was still a poor uni student working multiple jobs to make ends meet, I remember one of my fellow childcare workers would rarely be seen outside without his sunglasses. It became something of a recurring joke as, even when it wasn&#8217;t particularly bright outside, he&#8217;d be sporting them. He later explained that he kept them on constantly because sunlight would make him sneeze and indeed upon taking them off he proceeded to prove his point. I had always thought that explanation was a most likely bunk however a couple years later I started to develop similar symptoms. Whilst the coincidence felt undeniable to me I had never really looked into it, until I saw this video:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Can Bright Light Make You Sneeze?\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vScrDtGZmb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Unfortunately whilst it&#8217;s a well established phenomena the lack of known cause is a little bit disappointing. I mean it&#8217;s not exactly a debilitating condition, all it takes is a half decent pair of sunglasses to negate any effect the sun might have in this regard, but still it seems like something that should have a simple explanation. Alas investigating why sunlight makes people sneeze probably isn&#8217;t the most sexy of research topics so I&#8217;m not holding my breath for any scientific breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<p>All this talk of sneezing has made my nose itch, maybe I should pop outside to clear it out \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, when I was still a poor uni student working multiple jobs to make ends meet, I remember one of my fellow childcare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[4935,5047,114],"class_list":["post-6542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-cause","tag-photic-snezzing","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppBqt-1Hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therefinedgeek.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}