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
This is unhinged 🤣
Here’s my hiccup cure:
Say this immediately after your hiccup, and if you get interrupted by another hiccup, try again:
“Hiccups are defined as a spasm of the diaphragm. A spasm is a random tensing of a muscle. If hiccups are random they will not occur in a pattern. Therefore these hiccups do not exist.”
For some reason it doesn’t work if you’ve been drinking but I’ve had multiple people text me and ask me for it because it’s the only thing that works for them.
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I will try that, my brain will be less infuriated by it than by “I am not a fish”
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This leads to the only logical conclusion that hiccups occur due to your subconscious believing you are a fish. When you tell yourself that is incorrect, the body normalizes, and the hiccups disappear. Do I have this right?
I mean, someone having a hiccup does look somewhat like a fish out of water… Jerky mouth movements, spasmic motion…
That’s the theory, yeah. That hiccups are something to do with switching between gills and lungs and that reminding yourself you’re no longer a fish stops that.
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.
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Oh god I didnt know this wasnt the norm
I think it is the norm, but it isn’t everyone.
Hiccups are most likely a demonic possession. Try praying next time.
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
The phrenic nerve, also known as the major phrenic nerve, is an important nerve that plays a critical role in breathing. It originates from the spinal cord, specifically from the cervical vertebrae (C3-C5), and travels downward to reach the diaphragm, which is the primary muscle involved in breathing. The phrenic nerve controls the contraction of the diaphragm during inhalation, allowing the lungs to fill with air. If the phrenic nerve is injured or irritated, it can cause respiratory difficulties, such as hiccups, as it can lead to involuntary contractions of the diaphragm.
So it’s basically just like a muscle anywhere else twitching sometimes, thanks!
Now there’s only understanding why can a sentence stop it is left to answer
I’ve always believed it has something to do with the way breathing is tied into both involuntary and voluntary muscle contractions. You can of course control your breathing, but if you forget about it entirely, you’ll just keep doing it automatically without thinking.
Because your diaphragm is a crucial part of that loop, it can receive signals from the conscious part of your brain as well as the autonomous side of your nervous system that keeps things running when the lights are out upstairs. But the brain - having evolved over millions of years rather than being currently designed - works in strange ways, and getting a conscious signal to actually move to that specific nerve group can take some mental trickery.
Does anybody else get rid of hiccups by simply burping?
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
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!
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
I have a really good trick to stop hiccups that an oncology nurse taught me as it often happens in cancer patients; have someone pull down on your earlobes while cupping your ears and pulling them gently forward, and while this happens you drink some water. I don’t know the logic of it, it stimulates some nerve or something that helps it stop is all I know, but it genuinely does work. You can also do the ear part with one hand while drinking with the other. Yes I know it sounds very strange but it really does work.
