Sneezing with your eyes open has long been considered a danger to your eyeballs. For ages it has been theorized that your eyes will pop out of their sockets if left open during a sneeze. It’s because of this theory that we can mistakingly assume that our eyes close naturally during a sneezing episode as a bodily safety reaction. Although our sneezes are released at a blazing 200 mph, our eyes are in no danger of harm during a sneeze. Our eyes naturally shut themselves during the process of sneezing due to the fact that the nose and eyes are connected by cranial nerves. Sneezing stimulates these nerves, thus triggering a blinking reaction.
