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Ok, here me out, this is so small compare to other c/mildlyinfuriating that people would not casually read what I have to say.

For the last 3 months I've had hiccups 5 times. And I have hiccedup 6 times in total. In Juin It happened for the first time. I had hiccuped once and it reminded me of stories about "telling yourself your not a fish" so at the second hiccup I told myself, "I am not a fish"

Boom, nothing at all. I was mad. Why. God damn why. I am almost now pissed I am not hiccupping this make no sense.

But maybe, it was a random one in a hundred lucky moment where I told it to myself when it naturally stopped. And I awaited the next time .

End of the month of Juin. Going down the stairs from the cafeteria after eating with people,

I had one.

The second it happened I thought to myself how angry I was before and instantly told myself "I am not a fish". And nothing after... Oh boy I was fuming, there is no reason on earth that thinking I am a biped, a homo sapiens sapiens. How can my brain forget that I sapiens the sapiens and goes back to fish mode. You have the capacity if you'd wish to, to build rockets, but you forget your a human and find a bribe of fish DNA in me somewhere, wow

So I continued for the next two month. And after 3 month of evaluation, I have come to the conclusion that for me, this indeed works, but have not accepted the fact this sh.itjust.works .

Thank you for hearing this, and I can only invite you to try it, I personally almost missed the funny feeling of hiccups today doing it almost automatically

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[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

New copypasta just dropped!

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

This is unhinged 🤣

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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"

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's mildly infuriating to me is that not everyone has that little voice.

And honestly that fact scares the shit out of me

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] outbound5231@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Does anybody else get rid of hiccups by simply burping?

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

For people like me that are curious:

Cute link to the Wiki page

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

Cute link to the myoclonic wiki page

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

A thing that has helped me maybe 90+% of the time (if I recall correctly, it's been a while from the last one):

  1. Empty your lungs
  2. Hold your breath as long as you can
  3. Breathe in and out very fast for a few seconds
[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait... Aren't hiccups supposed to occur only if something's blocking your wind pipe?

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... How is this linked with the fish thing? The only relevant piece I found was this section under Evolutionary Theories:

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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・⁠)

[–] Kyoyeou@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lime wedge with sugar on it. Has NEVER not worked before.

[–] oddspinnaker@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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!