Bright light will free your sneeze
![Bright light will free your sneeze illustration: showing the photic sneeze when a person has a sneeze stuck and releases it by looking at a bright light](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/cec1e232-bebe-4caf-accc-3b0369751d9c_53043453974.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
If you are feeling the need to sneeze some people will find that looking at a bright light can help release it.
Apparently, it’s called the photic sneeze. I asked the question of Focus magazine in the UK, and it seemed to me that Science doesn’t really know why. We need to find out.
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