Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?

IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try blowing out a candle. Feel how your nose feels while doing that. Try to replicate the same movement in your nose without blowing.

  There’s a ton of face muscles that you can learn to control with a bit of practice:

  • Wiggling your ears
  • Moving your eyes inwards
  • Clicking your ear channels (like the click you hear when swallowing)
  • Creating a humming noise in your ears by flexing a muscle inside your ear channels
  • Plugging your nose from the inside
  • Rolling your tounge
  • Individual motion of your brows
  • "Vibrating" your eyes super fast left and right

  Probably a few more that I didn’t think of right now.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blowing out candles is controlling your nasopharynx which every does so food and liquids don’t go up their nose while swallowing. Most everyone can breathe through their mouth instead of their nose.

    The OP seems to be describing his nasal passage, not his throat. That seems unusual but I’ve never asked people to know.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At least not in my case. If I blow out a candle, my nose passage closes.

      Maybe try the following:

      • Start with the motion of blowing out a candle.
      • While doing so, close your mouth, so that no air escapes through your mouth or nose, still holding the pressure of blowing.
      • Release your nose and feel the air popping out right at your nose.

      It’s not the bottom end of the nose, but the top end of it.

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      • stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just tried that and I can definitely say the closure happens at the pharynx for me, which is also what I do consciously when I hold my breath. I didn’t feel any air “popping” out of my nose when I released.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I tried it and can feel the release in my throat, not nasal passage.

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  • stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Moving your eyes inwards

    Details, please. 🤨

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Basically what happens when you look at your nose. But it’s also possible to e.g. only move one inwards while keeping the other straight. It’s not difficult, but there are people who can’t do it.

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      • stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh ok, I thought you meant pulling the eyeballs “inwards” as in towards the back of your head! What you describe, I’d normally call “crossing” my eyes.

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  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think some of those are genetic.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Might be, but all of these are things I was not able to do at some point and that I conciously learned. So while having the “wrong” genetics might preclude you from doing them, you still need to learn these things if you have the “right” genetics.

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