September 21st, 2009
The Everyday #171
What is happening when that happens? Answers on a postcard please.
Oh, and that’s a Lizz Lunney Dinosaur t-shirt I’m wearing.
What is happening when that happens? Answers on a postcard please.
Oh, and that’s a Lizz Lunney Dinosaur t-shirt I’m wearing.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I spy dinosaur tshirt!
September 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Don’t worry, this happens to me sometimes too. You’ve captured the sparkles very well.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
It was explained to me a few years ago by an optometrist. There are little bits of debris floating around in the vitreous humor (the juice in your eye). When you sneeze or cough reasonably hard it stirs all of it up (like shaking a snowglobe). There’s yer sparkles. Love your comics, BTW. Keep it up!
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
This has never happened to me and i feel i’m missing out. where’s the pepper..?
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I have rarely seen it when sneezing. For me it is when I stand up too quickly from lying down. I get the head rush, my vision tunnels, then when it comes back, I see the sparkles. You really did do an excellent job capturing them.
I have trouble believing that they are debris since mine are all a uniform gold color. I’m curious. Are yours gold too?
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Yeah, this happens to me when I have a coughing fit but mine are kinda silvery, not gold (sometimes I have a mini-panic attack because I think I’m getting a migraine). Nicely done.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
I had the sparkles only today… just like that… but not sneeze related… standing up too fast… pretty
September 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
YOU WHERE GOING TO LEAP! or faint, just go with it next time. Oh boy.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
In direct contradiction of my previous comment, I sneezed last night and saw sparkles.
If I knew how to cause it intentionally, I would live in a sparkly world of my own.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for all the comments guys. I’m glad you understand what I was trying to capture, unlike my little sister, who commented on Facebook that it looked like I’d snotted all over the carpet.
JonFHancock, my sparkles are silvery.
I like Fabman’s explanation best and that is now what I choose to believe.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Just try not to faint while you leap. You don’t want to end up in a dress in the arms of a man named Russel in Nebraska _and_ be unconscious.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:18 am
this just happened to me whilst shelfing bananas, I almost fell over.
December 4th, 2009 at 2:17 am
it’s caused by pressure on the eyes. when you sneeze pressure can get intense for a second. that causes the effect you described. sudden shifts in blood flow (such as when you lay down/get up quick) are the most common ways. But, as you now know, facial contractions during sneezes can do it to.
Hope that covers it for you. Like your artwork.
January 17th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
WHA?? that has never happened to me #fail