Dragaera

Photic Sneezing, again

Fri Jun 30 15:40:25 PDT 2006

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:06:00 -0700, "Davdi Silverrock"
<davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was browsing through the excellent linguistic resource Language Log,
> and discoved a page that had the following:
> 
> [cite] The small child of a friend of mine once said "The sun makes
> you hot and sneeze," [/cite]
> 
> While the sentence was brought up for its linguistic implications, I
> could not help but be reminded of the following posts from the
> archives:
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4239
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4276
> 
> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/4288
> 
> Which in turn makes me wonder: Is there anyone else on this list
> besides SKZB who is a photic sneezer?
> 
> I myself am not, and the first post above was the first time I had
> heard of such a thing.

I am, horribly. I live in Phoenix, and when I go outside I start
sneezing hard enough you'd think my head would pop off. Doesn't matter
if I keep my eyes closed, either - bright light - especially bright and
hot light - on my skin, and I pop.