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This is unhinged 🤣
Wait im confused now. Did you think "I am not a fish" or said it outloud? Either way I'm trying it when the time comes
I am part of the people who have the small voice in your head that you control most of the time, and which basically tells everything you think. This invented voice of my brain is the one that said "I am not a fish"
What's mildly infuriating to me is that not everyone has that little voice.
And honestly that fact scares the shit out of me
Yeah, no kidding this was my family's discussion at New Year's Eve. And my Aunt could not understand what we meant. We gave her a book and everything and told her "Are you reading the book, or is the voice in your head reading the book to you?" To what she responded, "There is no voice here reading anything, I don't understand anything you are telling me"
Which, I cannot simply perceive how it works for her, does information simply enter like the kid absorbing knowledge?
I've got another fact that is a bit different When you imagine a Bar in your mind, you always imagine the same one.
Sometimes I have an inner voice, sometimes I don't.
My theory is that I view words as shapes, and then I piece them together to form information.
Does anybody else get rid of hiccups by simply burping?
For people like me that are curious:
A hiccup (scientific name singultus, from Latin for "sob, hiccup"; also spelled hiccough) is an involuntary contraction (myoclonic jerk) of the diaphragm or a disability that may repeat several times per minute. The hiccup is an involuntary action involving a reflex arc. Once triggered, the reflex causes a strong contraction of the diaphragm followed about a quarter of a second later by closure of the vocal cords, which results in the "hic" sound.
OP's note: myoclonic is fancy for a brief, involuntary, irregular (lacking rhythm) twitching of a muscle, a joint, or a group of muscles
A thing that has helped me maybe 90+% of the time (if I recall correctly, it's been a while from the last one):
- Empty your lungs
- Hold your breath as long as you can
- Breathe in and out very fast for a few seconds
Wait... Aren't hiccups supposed to occur only if something's blocking your wind pipe?
You've got me curious so I checked the wikipedia definition which I pasted in another comment.
Here is a Cute link to the Wiki page for you to instantly get to the definition
So... How is this linked with the fish thing? The only relevant piece I found was this section under Evolutionary Theories:
In short, it's possibly a leftover reflex from our amphibian ancestry... But that doesn't explain the fish thing...
Side Note: is the link cute? (・o・)
I don't know at all how it is link to fish, that's just the sentence I remember reading, I myself do not know
Lime wedge with sugar on it. Has NEVER not worked before.
Interestingly, in my family it was lemon juice. Never mattered how much lemon juice it was, but it worked 99% of the time.
I have stomach problems, so that much acid at once isn’t ideal for me.
My wife’s family has always done a spoonful of maple syrup, so I tried that… and it works literally every time for me!