Head lights are getting brighter...

Incidentally, to those who want to be heard... You can file a complaint with the National Highway Traffic Safety Association at http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/... If enough people complain, they'll eventually get around to it I guess... but as with all things government, red tape usually takes a long time.

Also, if you ever spot a car with illegally modified head lights then actually you maybe able to sic highway patrol on them. Call the cops and make those suckers PAY to get their expensive "solar flare" bulbs back down to stock. :D

I've heard european lamps on average are rated at a lower brightness to US lamps. If I was feeling assy I'd say something about the american mindset, and maybe take a crack at the president.

burgundy, I do that sun sneeze thingy too. If I remember my Bill Nye the Science Guy it has something to do with melanocytes.

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Originally Posted by JMET

Actually the bikes around here now have lights that go in and out fast like they were on a bumpy/gravel road to make them more noticeable...

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well it just about gives me an epileptic siezure, and makes me want to go out of my way to run them down.

You're the first person who I've ever seen have the sun sneezing thing too.

Usually for me...it's like if I need to sneeze but I can't, or the urge goes away, I can look up at the sun and sneeze instantly. Very odd.

I am sensitive to changes in light too, but not to the extent you are, and brights are a bitch.

My night vision is actually pretty damn good. With all the lights turned out I can see just fine. It's contrast that's a problem- if there is a source of light, like say, HEADLIGHTS I can't see anything but the headlights. It's worse in the rain.

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Oh yeah, I fucking HATE it when trucks or vans get behind me. My car is really low to the ground, and if they are behind me the lights shine directly into my rear-view mirror. Oh, the pain.

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'About 25% of people do actually sneeze when exposed to bright lights like the sun. We do not know exactly why this happens, but it might reflect a "crossing" of pathways in the brain, between the normal reflex of the eye in response to light and the sneezing reflex. There is no apparent benefit from "sun-sneezing", and it probably is nothing more than an unimportant (but annoying) holdover of evolution...
In the pupillary light reflex, shining a light in the eye causes nerve signals to go from the eye to the brain and then back the eye again, telling the pupil to constrict. In the usual sneeze reflex, tickling the nose causes nerve signals to go from the nose to the brain and then back out to the nose, mouth, chest muscles and everything else involved in the actual sneeze. The key point is that the nerve signals take complicated routes through the brain, but usually the pupillary light reflex and sneeze reflex take different routes. Apparently what happens in sun-sneezers is that shining a bright enough light in the eye ALSO sends nerves signals from the eye to the brain and then back out to the nose, mouth and chest.'

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Because I hate it when people aren't informed about these things. Sorry for being a nerd. :D

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Originally Posted by 680x0

If I was feeling assy I'd say something about the american mindset, and maybe take a crack at the president.

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Please do. I'd agree with you on both counts.

I sneeze in the sun, as well. It's happened as far back as I can remember. The only problem is, I tend to sneeze very violently, and sometimes upwards of 6 in a row. That makes me really dizzy. I was driving on the interstate a few years ago, and sneezed really hard 6 times. I had to pull over because I thought I was going to pass out. Wheeee!

oh yeah, the mutli-hit sun sneeze! I always wear tinted riding goggles on my bike, but you really look like an ass coming out of a crowded lecture hall and emitting a quick, high-pitched series of sneezes. nothing impresses the ladies like the inability to walk into the sunshine without screeching "bleh-chu blehhhh-CHU! bleh... bleh... BLEHCHU!" like some kind of reverse pokemon that causes itself to go into seizures.

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Originally Posted by Nomi

Because I hate it when people aren't informed about these things. Sorry for being a nerd. :D

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We are all nerds here. When you reach my age, you accept it and just won't care anymore. :)

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Originally Posted by burgundy

And another thing: sudden exposure to bright light (especially sunlight) makes me sneeze. Almost all the time.

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I do this too, except, I kind of enjoy it. Feels like I just expelled some old bottled-up tickle or something.

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Originally Posted by Andrew

I didn't think anybody else had noticed...
Glad to see I'm not going crazy.... well...

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Me too. I just thought it was my poor eyes getting older and more sensitive. Now I realize that people are just assholes.

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Originally Posted by 680x0

nothing impresses the ladies like the inability to walk into the sunshine without screeching "bleh-chu blehhhh-CHU! bleh... bleh... BLEHCHU!" like some kind of reverse pokemon that causes itself to go into seizures.

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