Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 14 hours agoTry 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:
Probably a few more that I didn’t think of right now.
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.
At least not in my case. If I blow out a candle, my nose passage closes.
Maybe try the following:
It’s not the bottom end of the nose, but the top end of it.
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.
I think some of those are genetic.
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.
stelelor@lemmy.ca 11 minutes ago
Details, please. 🤨