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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.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago

Not only does it help from drying out, but it helps with smell too; some things are better detected with a slower airflow

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Yep, there's a reason our noses didn't simply evolve into a singular hole in the middle of our faces

[-] charliespider@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

Two nostrils allows for stereo smells. If we only had one nostril, we would only be able to smell in mono.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

wake me when surround-smell drops

[-] Gunrigger@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thinking about your body for too long: It's like semantic satiation but for physiology.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Or maybe not idk haha

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You should read Blindsight by Peter Watts.

Yeah, when I read that book I was like: this reminds me of that time I freaked out in high school!

I admire the fact that the author put it online for free, and it's a pretty good book, but it could have been better... Watts could have taken all those ideas about consciousness and humanity and produced something like 1984 or Catch-22 that embodies ideas that might otherwise get lost in abstractions. Unfortunately the ideas all get a little muddled.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah for sure! On the other hand it being such a dense, philosophical book means it really stands up to and benefits from a re-read! And the audiobook has a great narrator IMO.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, this conversation inspired me to finally read The Colonel, which reminded me of how great some of Watts' ideas could be. Guess I'll have to get a copy of Echopaxia next.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh damn I didn't know about that! I'll be reading that this week, thanks for the link!

Echopaxia was definitely different, I wasn't crazy about it my first read through but it had me shook pretty good my second read through. I highly recommend it!

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think if you've already read Echopraxia then The Colonel won't tell you much new, it's more like a transition between the two novels.

[-] exothermic@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] A_A@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes, and most importantly I would say : immune system's way of cleaning each side...
The clogging is caused by the swelling (with the blood vessels and the action of blood's white cells ... or ... maybe I should read the article again)

[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then they'd both dry out (or you'd suffocate).

[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Well that's some peoples goals and its none of my business

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