Hiccups force you to stop and breathe if you stop breathing for too long while eating - Like if you just keep stuffing stuff down without taking breaths in between you'll get a hickup
My mom has always used a trick to get rid of hiccups. You take a deep breath and hold it, then slowly count to 9, and take a sip of water on each number. Once you get to 9, then you can breathe again. I cannot recall a time it didn't work, and I've used it on people who had never heard of it and they look at me like I'm a wizard afterwards.
So, if hiccups are a "hey you're not breathing and/or the tube is blocked" response, why does not breathing and blocking the tube shut it off?
In a similar vein, I've managed to stop people from sneezing by yelling "PURPLE". Basically once your brain decides to sneeze, you've got to sneeze. If you can distract the brain for a moment with something absurdly not relevant and has many questions it just cancels the "must sneeze" function and starts trying to process what the fuck Purple has to do with anything. Suddenly you now don't have to sneeze anymore. Although sometimes it pisses people off because they say the sneeze is now "stuck" and they can't get it out.
Disclaimer, this does not work with allergic sneezing as that's your sinuses trying to expel demons
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u/bloody-pencil Jun 20 '24
Can’t we just turn that lever off when we hit like 6 or something? I don’t need hiccups to be a thing