Is it true when you sneeze your heart stops?
Absolutely not! If people who have allergies and sneeze numerous times in a row (my friend can sneeze more than 10 times in a row during allergy season) suffered a stopped heart, they'd die by the time the sneezing fit was over.
Does your heart stop beating when you sneeze?
Here is what Tom Wilson, M.D./PhD, Pathology, Div. of Molecular Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine has to say on the subject. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar... "In a word, no, your heart does not stop when you sneeze. From my perspective, it is hard to even imagine what this would mean. A sneeze itself is really a very brief event, occurring in a shorter time then a heartbeat."
Why does our heart stop beating when we sneeze, and how does it affect our body in the short term?
When you sneeze there is increase in your body’s intrathoracic pressure only momentarily.This does decrese the blood flow to the heart.But heart is able to compensate by changing it’s regular heart beat.Having said that the electrical activity of the heart does not stop during Sneeze.The heart does not stop beating when you sneeze
Do humans open their eyes when they’ve died?
Yes, I have seen some odd things as a nurse. I saw a person actually sit up in bed and start breathing again after resuscitation efforts were stopped and the family had been called to come view the body. I believe this was due to drug effects. That was momentary before the person died permanently. People can have electrical activity in their hearts after the heart has stopped beating, for example due to a pacemaker that hasn't yet been turned off. I have seen many people die as an emergency and critical care nurse, and some die with their eyes open, which we shut, but I don't recall seeing anyone's eyelids open and close after death. I may have seen it; I just don't recall. I haven't worked in acute care as a nurse in a while.
Is that correct that our heart stops for a second when we sneeze?
No, it is not correct. In fact, it is very, very incorrect — like we could even call it a myth.If sneezing truly stopped the heart, tens of thousands of people would die each allergy season, I being among the first few. But since I’m very much alive, you have my word that it’s only folklore.Sneezing is a reflex triggered by irritants in the nose. When a foreign particle trapped in the nasal hair/mucus sufficiently irritates the tissue lining the nose, signals are sent up to the brain to initiate a sneeze. The subsequent explosive expulsion of air removes the offending particle from our nasal cavity.There isn’t anything fancy about sneezing. It’s quite simple.You take in a deep breath — the muscles of the upper airway/chest/face/neck contract — pressure builds up inside the chest cavity — the nose and the mouth open — and… AACHOO!The heart is nowhere in that picture. For the heart to stop, as in, come to a complete standstill, even momentarily, the electrical activity inside it must stop. It is the electrical activity that keeps the heart beating; contracting first the atria and then the ventricles.Sneezing does nothing to interrupt that electrical circuit. If it did, people from respiratory ailments would be doomed to die of a cardiac arrest.One normal bodily response cannot hinder another normal, vital organ system.Sure, a strong, violent sneeze could momentarily alter the blood flow/pressure or the rhythm of the heart (and this may possibly explain why certain people perceive a palpable heartbeat immediately after sneezing), however, that’s far from actually seizing the heart function.So, there’s nothing to worry, your heart is safe. Sneeze all you want — after all, it does feel good!Since we are on the topic of Sneezing, here’s a few more myths I’ve come across:It is impossible to keep your eyes open during a sneeze — FALSE (Few people can)If you keep your eyes open during a sneeze, they will pop out of your head — FALSE (What do you think eyes are? Tic-tacs?)Exposure to bright light makes some people sneeze — TRUE (It is called the photic-sneeze reflex)Holding in a sneeze can damage hearing — TRUE (although stopping an impending sneeze wouldn’t hurt)Sneezing after sex can prevent pregnancy — WHAT? (If you don’t know the answer to this, you probably should not have sex)Does your heart stop when you sneeze?True or False: Your Heart Stops Beating When You Sneeze (and Other Common Beliefs About Sneezing)
When you die in your sleep are your eyes open or closed?
Well you sleep with your eyes closed so if you died in your sleep I think they'd be closed...
Why is it hard to hold your eyes open when first waking up?
All sleep is not created equal. Sleep unfolds in a series of recurring sleep stages that are very different from one another in terms of what’s happening beneath the surface. From deep sleep to dreaming sleep, they are all vital for your body and mind. Each stage of sleep plays a different part in preparing you for the day ahead.Non-REM (NREM) sleep consists of three stages of sleep, each deeper than the last.REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is when you do most active dreaming. Your eyes actually move back and forth during this stage, which is why it is called Rapid Eye Movement sleep.Stage N1 (Transition to sleep) – This stage lasts about five minutes. Your eyes move slowly under the eyelids, muscle activity slows down, and you are easily awakened.Stage N2 (Light sleep) – This is the first stage of true sleep, lasting from 10 to 25 minutes. Your eye movement stops, heart rate slows, and body temperature decreases.Stage N3 (Deep sleep) – You’re difficult to awaken, and if you are awakened, you do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes. In this deepest stage of sleep, your brain waves are extremely slow. Blood flow is directed away from your brain and towards your muscles, restoring physical energy.REM sleep (Dream sleep) – About 70 to 90 minutes after falling asleep, you enter REM sleep, where dreaming occurs. Your eyes move rapidly, your breathing shallows, and your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Also during this stage, your arm and leg muscles are paralyzed.Each Sleep Cycle consists roughly of 90 minutes.As we sleep our body goes through many sleep cycles.Try figuring out your sleep cycle.If it's 90minutes,then next time you set your alarm, make it multiples of 90 minutes. Say, 3 hrs, 4.5hrs,6hrs etc.
If you die with your eyes open can you still see?
Well, define “Death”…Basically, people who are dead aren’t completely dead at first. There are various processes at work when people are dying and eventually are dead. And there have been people who have been technically dead who were brought to live again. (In those cases, their heart and breathing stopped for a short while, but they managed to ‘restart’ it all.)So, to consider if someone is alive or not, they basically consider if there’s still any significant brain activity. In general, are the pupils responding and a few other tests. So once the brain is dead, there’s nothing active that would receive the signals that the eyes are generating.For comparison, turn off your computer. Once it is off, start typing. Now, is your computer still receiving keystrokes or not? Well, no. It’s off! Or it is sleeping and pressing a key wakes it up again. A person could have been unconscious instead and thus be reawakened or revived. The signals can go somewhere again and thus the person would see again. But the person would be alive then, not dead.So no, dead people don’t really see anything anymore. At least, not the way we understand how vision works. But we don’t know anything about an afterlife. We don’t even know there is anything after dead anyways. So someone dies and becomes a ghost or whatever. Do ghosts see? Or not? Well, we just don’t know as we can’t enter this world of Ghosts through scientific means.Btw, even though your brain might be dead, it could take days before every living cell in your body is dead. Possibly even longer. Then again, when is a cell really dead?Also, a large part of your body is made from bacteria. Once you die, they just continue to live and will consume your body…
What happens if you sneeze with your eyes open?
You did. How do you think you entered the parallel reality of Yahoo Answers?
When one sneezes, what part of the body stops functioning?
None. There is an old wives tale that says if you sneeze your heart skips a beat. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sneezing has nothing to do with interupting cardiopulmonary functions. What sneezing does however is force foreign particles out of the body that is deemed a potential threat to respritory function. Some people however are more sensitive to allergens such as pollen and will sneeze more frequently. The human body is an amazing machine. There are things that the human body can do in harmony that not even the most modern computers can do.