hi, im a sun sneezer! I recently found out when everyone kept tellin me i was allergic to pollen in the summer and spring months lol and mold in the winter haha...allergy meds just werent workin! anyways for me its not just the sun, it seems to be just bright light in general...lol...i hope it stops b4 i get to heaven...thats supposed to be a pretty lit up place lol. so do u have this thing going yet? LOL cuz i want my certificate of sneeziness:p this is a really kewl idea btw. high five!

I wondered if you had the sun sneeze thing up too, I am a major sun sneezer, I do it all the time, and bright lights also get me to sneeze.

Hi Dan,Deb and Tanya,
Yep, I sun sneeze too. So does my Dad. Bright light causes it too. It's great if you get one of those sneezes that kinda gets stuck and wont come out...just tilt your head back and point your nose up towards the sun or a bright light and hey presto......relief!!

Hi.
I'm a sun sneezer. So was my dad. So is my son. I also sneeze when I go out in very cold weather even if it is overcast. I always cary an extra handkerchief because it can be embarassing if I don't.
Have fun.

I can coax a sneeze out of a candle. I've been a sun sneezer for some 50 years. It is handy and it is a pain. Handy when you can't quite sneeze..as if sneezing is a pleasure.. but a pain when bright lights make you sneeze. I read long ago that the explanation was the portion of the brain that controls sneezes is right next to the part that controls vision and light can irritate the sneezy section. At any rate, I know sun sneezes exist regardless of what any researcher says to the contrary.

I'm glad that I'm not alone. I only started to realize it lately that it appears that I'm "allergic" (don't think of that literally) to the sun, and to bright lights, as I sneeze instantly. I asked my mom about this and she had said to me that I've always had it, since I was a baby. I've researched this online and found that it's called "Photic Sneeze Reflex", you can look up the article for it on Wikipedia too. It's a bit weird to be sitting in classrooms and sneezing for no apparant reason, and that no one else there seems to have that problem. According to that Wikipedia article, I never knew that it affects around 25% of humans!

My dad, brother, and myself are all sun sneezers. My brother's isn't as bad as mine or my dad's but my mom thinks it's funny to see us all walk out of a store together and sneeze. I've been doing it since I was a little baby and I show no sign of stopping. :D

I love sneezing into the sun or light - my husband laughs and thinks I make up sun sneezing! It's so good to tell him it's real!!!!!! Mainly on one side of the street as I leave work!!!

I sneeze from the sun all the time. Like others, bright lights can trigger sneezing, and one time I sneezed from the light reflected from a car bumper. I am most affected when I quickly move from shadow, such as a dark room, into bright sunlight.
Sometimes I have sneezed seven or eight times as quickly as I can. It's very embarrassing. I was told it was from masturbating, so I was really glad to find website. Is there a 12 step program for sneezers?

I sneeze into the sun. It never fails! I thought everyone did this until I was in 7th grade. We had a field trip, and as soon as we left our school building, I sneezed about 4-5 times. The people around me thought I was sick, so I told them it's from the sun. "Doesn't everybody do it?" I asked. That was a huge revelation to me that not everybody sneezes at bright lights.

I am a sun-sneezer very interested in it's genetics. On a High School Bio test I took almost 20 years ago, there was a question that implied my condition fell into the dominant-recessive category of genetics. I always held this to be true, partly because in my family my Dad has it (I'm pretty sure), I have it and one Brother has it, while my Mother and other two Brothers do not have it. (weird note: I am almost always a single sneezer, and my brother is often a multiple sneezer). My nose itches when I walk outside and it's a tremendous releif to sneeze. I'd actually say that I love that I have this condition. (another note: My brother and I often would race to sneeze first when walking outside and could cheat by shading the others eyes)

Going in to bright sun always makes me sneeze a few times but it does stop. My Dad was the same. I have 3 daughters and the middle girl (also the most like me)carries on the tradition as well as my 21 month old grandson - the product of my oldest daughter. It's not a terrible thing but I do have to clean the car windshield often. Yes also if I feel a sneeze coming on and want to get it out looking at a bright light usually does the trick.My wife said she heard it was caused by "mold: Any Comments?

I am a sun sneezer. Any connection to being a brain freezer? (cold icy drinks give a short headache). Which I understand does not happen to all people. Also I get bad headaches once a week.

Oy! and I thought I was the only one! Anyways, I just had to look this one up on the internet, and I'm happy that there are so many other fellow sun sneezers out there. :)

I am a sun sneezer as well and I have recently found out my father has passed this trait down to me. People made fun of me and didnt believe me when i said that i sneeze when I look at bright lights!! It occurs the most when I am inside a building then walk outside to the bright sunshine. But recently, an unusually bright elevator has made me sneeze. I like being a sun sneezer. We are a small, minute group of special people!

I am a sun sneezer and only yesterday discovered that not everyone is. I remember reading somewhere that it is a physiological remnant of something that is designed to clear a baby's nostrils at child birth. In other words, a newborn being exposed to direct light for the very first time sneezes, facilitating the breathing process. No idea if this is true.

Well i sneeze when I come into a building when im out in the sun. I dont get why and is it the same thing? I sneezed like 4 times.

Ok, I am stunned that there is a message board dedicated to "Sun Sneezers". I didn't even know it had a name. My husband always laughs at me when we go outside and I start sneezing my head off. I have found that my children do it too. I have a 2 year old and a 6 month old... both sun sneezers!! Must be genetic. Glad we're not alone:)

I have been a sun sneezer for the longest time I can remember. I used to think I was the only one that did it,kind of glad that I am not alone in this.

To make matters worse for me I display the symptoms of hay fever along with sun/bright light sneezing.
I looked it up online and this is meant to be something unique to Caucasians,but I am Indian. I wonder how common it is among Non-Caucasians..

I've always been a sun sneezer- and most of my friends think i'm full of crap. My mom does it too, though.
BUT- i've read that most sun sneezers also sneeze from bright lights in general. Mine only happen from the sun. hmm..

Anyway, I like sun sneezing!

Mine kicks in with any light, it's real weird! I can almost sniff out the light, then BAM it's on! I sneaze anywhere from 3 to 14 times, which is my max. And this is the secretly strange part, it's like having 3 to 14 orgasms in a row. Sometimes I damn near fall over!!! The only set back is that I have occasionally thrown out my back from such powerful sneezing fits!!!

I'm one of you. I saw on wiki the article about "sun-sneezing". I think that i liked the name Helio-Opthalmic Outburst Syndrome. Like the rest of you sunlight invariably makes me sneeze many times. But for me its not just the sun or bright light, but simply the brightest light in the room. If i'm on the verge of a sneeze, but can't get it out I just look at the brightest source of light in the room, be it the tv(i can switch to a brighter channel especially and it will set it off) or like another post mentioned "a candle". Anyway this is the first time that i read up on this condition and found it interesting that there was a message board about.

When I read the wiki article it mentioned that it affects about 25% of the population, 1 in 4. But I have never met another person with this condition ever, no family member or anyone. i also read somewhere that it affects more white people that it does people of African or Asian decent. Anybody know if there is any truth to this?

This is crazy!!! I had no idea there was such a thing as a "sun sneezer" but please add me to the club. I'm 58 and have been a sun sneezer all my life. I don't believe my parents had this reflex and neither does my sister, so I wonder who I inherited this from? It's just wonderful having all of you to share this with. Pretty silly, huh?

Wow, I'm a sun sneezer as well, but not to the extent some of you are. Upon occasion, I'll sneeze when going from dark to a bright light, particularly the sun, but anytime I have a "hesitant" sneeze brewing, just looking at any light will cause it to go. My question is about multiple sneezes. I can sneeze anywhere from 3 to 20 times. I'm not complaining, I love to sneeze, but it can be inconvenient at times. I've heard that the first born child (Maybe first born male child) is most often a multiple sneezer. Anyone have any info on that?

OMG ppl thought i was an attention seeker or something when i told them i sneeze at bright light. and im a multiple sneezer too!

Hi,
I'm a Asian and I'm a sun sneezer,too. my mom also a sun sneezer. To me, it is barely to meet
the same people having such funny and cute sympton! In fact, I don't have sneeze a lot. Sometimes I can put up with the intentionally stimulate by Q-tips or tissues. But when I walk outside and my eyes contact the sunshine, I can't help it. It is not a big problem for me in dialy life,and I don't think I have any problems with my nose.

I have been a sun sneezer all my life. Over the years I have asked allot of people if they sun sneeze. I was amazed by how many
people had no idea what I was talking about. I am glad to know that it is not limited to blue- eyed people. Because up to now the only people who knew about and in fact were sun sneezers where blue-eyed. Though not all blue-eyed people sun sneeze, its just
the only sun sneezers I have found have been blue-eyed.
Thanks for the info your site has provided.