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What if the way you sneeze revealed some information about your personality? An American expert is convinced of it!
The body’s defense reflex, sneezing serves to eliminate microbes or dust that could infect the respiratory system. When you sneeze, the noise can be discreet or very loud. According to some experts, the way you sneeze says a lot about your personality.
Your sneeze reveals certain aspects of your personality… and your sexuality
According to Alan Hirsch, an American psychiatrist and neurologist specializing in the treatment of loss of smell and taste, sneezing reflects certain traits of an individual’s personality. Indeed, the expert explains that an extroverted person will generally sneeze in a “explosive”, unlike a more introverted person who will try more to hold back and hide noise. For example, he compares sneezing to laughing, which can also be discreet or louder depending on the individual.
Founder of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation from Chicago, Doctor Alan Hirsch even has a theory on the link between sneezing and sexuality. He compares this gesture to “mini-nasal orgasm”. According to the expert, people who are less sexually comfortable tend to muffle their sneezes and make them discreet. Conversely, people who are more liberated on the subject would not hold back from making noise.
A noise you can’t really control
Gordon Siegel, professor at the Chicago School of Medicine, explains to the magazine NBC News that the noise we produce when sneezing is rather linked to our anatomy. The shape of our nose also plays a role in our sneezing, both in relation to its bone and cartilaginous structure. So the way air enters your respiratory system impacts the sound made when sneezing. According to the expert, it is the same principle as for the different timbres of voice, with nuance: “That being said, you can control how this comes out to some extent“.
But according to Alan Hirsch, it would be useless to try to correct the way we sneeze: “We will always have the same way of sneezing from birth until we die.” The specialist nevertheless admits that no scientific study has been carried out on this subject and therefore does not allow his theory to be verified. From there to conclude that he said that to the pifometer…