They actually switch every hour or so, so after two hours you should be back where you left off.
My nostril generally gets blocked on the side closest to the person who’s spreading all the germs.
But I find you can sort it out if you tilt your head back slightly and point your nose up, then tilt to the side away from the blocked nostril. Once the blood starts to even out you can level out your head with both nostrils fairly clear.
It’s actually normal.
Your nostrils cycle between like this so that the one can take a break from the air flow and mitigate drying out.
Not only does it help from drying out, but it helps with smell too; some things are better detected with a slower airflow
Yep, there’s a reason our noses didn’t simply evolve into a singular hole in the middle of our faces
Two nostrils allows for stereo smells. If we only had one nostril, we would only be able to smell in mono.
I was going to say because it would be fucking weird if we just had one big nose hole. Now I’m thinking about it, our nostrils are already pretty weird.
I’m now looking in the mirror at my nostrils and pumping them to the beat of a song.
Hey that’s just part of becoming aware you’re a sentient being stuck in a weird meat vessel that’s just full of undebugged closed source code blobs.
If you’re slightly congested, it sucks more.
If you think about it too much about your breathing, it sucks.
Otherwise it’s fine.
Also just to add to the torture of these conversations … the inside of your lungs also have a certain ‘scent’ or ‘aroma’ to it. It’s very subtle and wouldn’t be noticeable to anyone else except for yourself because the exhaled air is coming straight out of your lungs and right past your nostrils and all its receptors. Your receptors can sense it but your brain automatically ignores it and you never notice.
The same goes for your vision … you have a natural blind spot in the center of your vision … the edges are not crisp and clean, you can only focus on about 10 percent of what you actually see in front of you, the rest is just blurry … your brain just automatically processes your entire vision and autogenerates a perceived image that makes us believe that we have crystal clear vision through our entire field of view.
Same goes with hearing … just about every person has a tiny bit of tinnitus, ringing of the ears but your brain just automatically processes it all out to make you think that you have crystal clear hearing.
When you think about it … all our senses are pretty imperfect and there is a lot of interference and nonsense data that our brain processes out to make us believe that we have perfect or near perfect vision, hearing and sense of smell.
you can only focus on about 10 percent of what you actually see in front of you,
I read about this when I was in high school and it freaked me out because I convinced myself that there were Cthulhu-like eldritch abominations inhabiting the spaces I could not see RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME and I couldn’t concentrate on school for the rest of the day.
This is me when I sleep or lie down but the nostril wall never comes down 😭
No joke my doctor told me I should whash my sinis everyday before bed and told me to buy a specific bottle that makes it easier and safer, I did and OMG, life changing!! Just don’t wash your sinus with regular water please!
Never use tap water it has combined chlorine it (at least where I live it does)
Probably better if you just use Johnny Walker Blue Label
Edit : source of how I know the tap water has combined chlorine… My brother has the testing equipment because he takes care of a swimming pool.
Everytime I hear someone mention sinus, I get confused about what that is. Wikipedia says it’s airpockets surrounding the nose. I don’t feel anything besides fat and bone when I press down around my nose. Are they inside the skull? How do you access them?
Yes they are air pockets inside the skull, that’s why when you clean it you can just push water through one nostril and it will come out on the other, because it fills the sinus. Also, sometimes you can feel you teeth too sensitive because you have something on the sinus above them
Like this
Is it a netti pot? I’ve seen those but snorting a teapot with water seemed extreme to me but I know nothing about it 🤪
This is me when I sleep or lie down but the nostril wall never comes down 😭
Nostrils, when the walls fell.
Haha I actually brought this up in my comment to OP, but do you find that you have this clogged nose in hotels or other places?
If not, and you notice it just at home you may be allergic to dust mites.
I bought dust mite bed covers, pillow covers, and spray and applied them after washing my original bed sheets and pillow covers.
Immediately that day I stopped having a clogged nose in bed.
I’d been suffering all my life thinking it was normal to have a clogged nose in bed lol, turns out I had an allergy.
Mine gets like this depending on the amount of dairy I consume. It’s can be pretty clear most of the timesbut mmmmhmmm ice cream and cheese…
I would never claim to know what your body does but FYI there is a popular misconception that diary promotes snot. The idea is based on the magical principle that like attracts like, there’s no evidence for it.
That’s an interesting read (after Googling) , especially the studies. I would love to be one of those types that says “Fake News” to anything I don’t like, but the initial science seems to be there.
says “Fake News” to anything I don’t like,
Sorry if that seemed to be my intention. As I mentioned, all bodies are different and if you say that happens to you I’m perfectly willing to believe it.
However, there is also a common misunderstanding about this which seems relevant to mention.
the initial science seems to be there.
It is not.
“I’ve heard that you shouldn’t drink milk when you have a cold because it increases phlegm. Is this true?
Answer From Julie Baughn, M.D.
No. Drinking milk does not cause the body to make phlegm.” - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/expert-answers/phlegm/faq-20058015
The no doubt reputable “livelovefruit.com” claims “Milk and Mucus: Why Dairy is The Major Cause of Your Phlegm, Mucus and Congestion Issues” and then spends several paragraphs railing against diary industry science before citing some tangential studies.
“Milk and dairy product intake was not associated with an increase in upper or lower respiratory tract symptoms of congestion or nasal secretion weight.” - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2154152/
"Excessive milk consumption has a long association with increased respiratory tract mucus production and asthma. Such an association cannot be explained using a conventional allergic paradigm and there is limited medical evidence showing causality. " - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19932941/
