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Iivingfox420@reddit

I just tell myself hiccups aren’t real and they go away

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SpaceBug176@reddit

Pretty sure the cure to hiccups is literally just what you believe is the cure. I usually drink three cups of water and that works for me.

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GIBBEEEHHH@reddit

I literally just tell myself "I don't have the hiccups, hiccups aren't even real" and it works every single time without exception

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gamingonion@reddit

Yup this is what I do as well. “I don’t have hiccups, actually”. And then they’re gone.

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markuspeloquin@reddit

Spoonful of peanut butter. It's delicious

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AynidmorBulettz@reddit

I was told to take exactly 7 gulps of water, swallowing my own saliva works just fine tho

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Breathe in as much as you can, hold, and swallow. Without letting any of the air in your lungs out, breathe in to the max again, hold, and swallow. Repeat as necessary. I learned this when I was about 30, and amazingly it works every time.

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nabbersauce@reddit

It is the act of swallowing frequently which is overriding the hiccups. I get hiccups a lot and I found the 100% effective remedy to be take 25-30 small sips of water rapidly.

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snekhoe@reddit

This is the best one!

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NotUmbra@reddit

Holding your breath for as max possible also works

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HairyGobbler@reddit

To be honest I never had much luck with that approach.

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GreasyGrabbler@reddit

The science says that 7 cups of saliva would be the most effective cure then

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Molkwi@reddit

What if your saliva's the cure? M-mind if I try 🥺👉👈

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RumHamEnjoyer@reddit

My fix for years without fail has been to fill my mouth with water, swallow a little bit, wait a few seconds, and continue doing that until my mouth is empty. Gets rid of them every time

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zodlair@reddit

I remember moist critical made a video about this and his advice was to repeat to yourself "I do not have hiccups, they dont exist" and I have to say, its worked like a charm, whenever I get hiccups I just repeat the mantra to myself and they just go away.

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Taco-Edge@reddit

What is the science behind this even

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Vehamington@reddit

it's just a placebo, if you lock in you can use whatever placebo you like because it's a well known fact that knowing that something is a placebo doesn't make it less effective (my favorite placebo is reminding myself i'm not a specific friend of mine who failed the fish method, the more demeaning the tone the better)

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XygenSS@reddit

scientifically, you are not a fish. Hope this helps

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KalyterosAioni@reddit

Unfortunately that is untrue, as the scientific field of cladistics confirms that we, indeed, are fish.

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Majkelen@reddit

Bony fish, to be precise. Just like trout.

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KalyterosAioni@reddit

Unfortunately, trout are ray finned bony fish, belonging to actinopterygii, while we descend from their sister group, sarcopterygii.

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Majkelen@reddit

Noo, let me farm karma by providing correct looking misinformation that I myself believe. Such bad manners. (also thanks for the correction)

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KalyterosAioni@reddit

😂 as you were then, soldier o7

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Fenrir-The-Wolf@reddit

Shattered my world when I learned this, everything I was taught in school was a lie

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KalyterosAioni@reddit

Not really, school simplifies concepts to make it more easily understandable, and it's common among laypeople to refer to paraphyletic groups with common names, like the common meaning of reptile doesn't including birds. That doesn't make it wrong, it's just that the scientific term happens to be the same word. It's confusing, not lies.

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Fenrir-The-Wolf@reddit

[Issayoke](https://youtu.be/Wn8xLg_X7VE?t=13)

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Steampunker211@reddit

Also, fun fact, scientifically humans are technically a hybrid species

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KalyterosAioni@reddit

Yep, Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA lives on in us! Likely in you and me, specifically, too.

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WoolooOfWallStreet@reddit

I see you are in the pocket of big hiccup

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matijoss@reddit

But you sir, are a fish.

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UnskilledScout@reddit

Scientifically, there is no such thing as a "fish". Hope that helps.

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BadB0ii@reddit

Really what's this 🐟

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MoonRks@reddit

A friend

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sofaking181@reddit

I think it's because something underwater hiccuping is absurd and your brain shortcircuits

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Foxintoxx@reddit

Hiccup reflexes are caused by your vagus nerve . That's the big nerve which handles a loy of autonomous shit , including your reflexes when drowning , your body's reaction if you put your face in colde water etc. Hiccups is highly psychological which is why people can often calm down that reflex by convincing themselves that hiccup doesn't exist for example . Reaffirming that you're not a fish might have a similar effect .

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SturmGizmo@reddit

I wonder if it ever works in reverse. If I, for some strange reason, needed to hiccup as soon as possible could I close my eyes and pretend to be a fish.

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TaintedTruffle@reddit

I just use my inhaler and it stops them

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turtledragon27@reddit

I use the "hiccups aren't real" method to great success.

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nowlickmyfet@reddit

Same. I had really annoying and percistent hicups when my brother just said to me "just think you dont have hicups" and they will stop. I was full-on WTF u talking about-mode, but decided to try it and it worked almost instantly. Was really weird experince, but been using the same tactic after that and it always works. Human body is fucking weird....

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Tequila_Sunset_Disco@reddit

Hiccups are theorised to be a remnant of breathing with gills so some guy on Reddit probably made a joke that in order to stop hiccups you need to remind yourself that you no longer have gills and because hiccups are heavily influenced by psychological factors it actually worked for this guy because he was convinced it will work.

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soyifiedredditadmin@reddit

holdout instinct from millions of years when we were fishè.

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CheesyTortoise@reddit

Hiccuping is the same thing fish do to push water through their gills. You are hiccuping because your body forgot you are no longer a fish and gave itself a factory reset. By telling yourself that you are not a fish you manually turn on the force lung breathing feature. Hope this helps.

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decseptic@reddit

It keeps you from trying to breath through your gills, something we often forget as close descendants of unlegged fish.

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BluMil0@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/vpxbnx93eqbg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab63c7ec8b67c07fbccca72a9aebc0989ad863e4

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destroyerOfTards@reddit

Greatest story ever told

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Real_Tea_Lover@reddit

camels on the roadd saddest story ever tolddddd

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ChrisTheCoolBean@reddit

Real and straight, boys _teardrop_ Real and straight

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ItsVincent27@reddit

https://i.redd.it/hl83xl5mkubg1.gif

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soiboi64@reddit

Many such cases

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Sweet_Xocoatl@reddit

Biblically accurate fish.

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MrB_2006theLad@reddit

Bro didn't remind himself 🥶

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dTrecii@reddit

The bad ending Forever cursed with hiccups. A fate worse than death

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Oniichan38@reddit

I should get this tattoo'd

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Zednoxs@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/702pno259qbg1.png?width=350&format=png&auto=webp&s=4dfa13bcd6daaf9bef4ef5cd592daa95e11e36d0 \>I'm not a fish, I'm not a fish, I'm not a fish, I'm not a fish \>mfw born as a fishcel, how to cope and become mammalCHAD like the whales?

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Maximillion322@reddit

Me when I’m a Guild Navigator

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Afillatedcarbon@reddit

Reject humanity Become [fish](https://youtu.be/1goAp0XmhZQ)

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NewtonianEinstein@reddit

Are you self-promoting your own YouTube video? I am no expert, but I think that violates Reddit’s spam policy. Ergo, you are lucky that the moderators of this sub-Reddit are lenient and do not remove it, because if I were a moderator, your comment would’ve been long gone.

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The_Nude_Mocracy@reddit

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A_Mellow_Song@reddit

Please no i have a reddit family to feed and the winter has taken our youngest and the crops

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Jen-the-inferno-dev@reddit

bad crop bro we're gonna star

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shroomigator@reddit

OMG that is fantastic

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SoupaMayo@reddit

https://i.redd.it/kzb8pcnowrbg1.gif

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ReturnRadio@reddit

Bait used to be believable

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Geutzu@reddit

![gif](giphy|hWmlwDVVL63mDhFCmJ)

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Afillatedcarbon@reddit

Bro if I had the talent to make music I won't be on reddit

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jongameaddict98@reddit

bro said ergo 🤓

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IsPepsiOkaySir@reddit

become dolphin instead

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HighlightSerious3348@reddit

If you're a fish then the hiccup becomes the same muscle movement needed to breathe via gills. A minor inconvenience to a mammal ends up keeping the fish alive

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Wulph421@reddit

Eat mad tiny shrimp-like creatures

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Reptilesblade@reddit

I can't help but feel that somehow drugs are involved.

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UmbraNight@reddit

reminds me of penguinz0s “just say they’re not real” tech

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Metrix145@reddit

Be gay fish ![gif](giphy|vbHCgajseRKZa)

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suspectdeviceg4@reddit

Do you like fish sticks?

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Ecstatic-Compote-595@reddit

I found a 100% cure for the hiccups which is the old drink a glass of water upside down, but really what you're trying to do is accidentally flood your sinus with cold water. If you've ever jumped into a pool or the ocean and water shot up your nose and it sucked, that's what you're going for and it'll work. You can also snort a teaspoon of water but I'm always spooked that that's going to aspirate into my lungs and give me pneumonia

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KomisktEfterbliven@reddit

I do this too and it just kinda works for some stupid reason.

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Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit

you are a fish tho.

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FennlyXerxich@reddit

*hic*

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StinkyCoach@reddit

Up

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Smexy_Zarow@reddit

Mammophobe

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Mufinz01@reddit

Dude stop cmon I’m tryna get rid of these hiccups. Not cool dude.

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StinkyCoach@reddit

You sir, are a fish

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Wasdey@reddit

Just tell yourself that you don't have hiccups because hiccups aren't real

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idontknowjuspickone@reddit

![gif](giphy|lPuW5AlR9AeWzSsIqi)

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Jen-the-inferno-dev@reddit

this worked for like 2 or 3 years and then stopped working

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Lazy-Ape@reddit

How would a fish cure its hiccups?

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ROGUE_COSMIC@reddit

"you are not a human"

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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit

"You will never be a human"

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PixelTheMan@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/v7177zr63sbg1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab69a21e29f4b200a55b744f268d1ff375e8b41b

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Ok_Recognition_1089@reddit

When my friend gets high, I remind him multiple times that things will be okay and that he doesn’t have bugs crawling underneath his skin.

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CuriousRelish@reddit

I tried this as well and it worked for me too. I fully expected that the Redditor in question was just having a laugh and wanted to make people walk around saying "I'm not a fish". I was pleasantly surprised.

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NoCard1571@reddit

Hiccups are weird, because you genuinely can stop them by just thinking about it. That's basically what all those wive's tale cures are doing, you believe they will work and so they do. And since that's the case, you can skip all the weird shit and just stop them by directly thinking about it.

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cloverfart@reddit

I also do this. I look at my hands and say "you're human, not a reptile, no reptile brain" and think really hard of being himan and then it stops. Maybe i just have mild autism.

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Thisisjimmi@reddit

This but also, just take a deep breath in for 4-6 seconds long, then let it out for 6-8 seconds

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AverageHanson@reddit

You know when you're drinking water, you go "gulp > pause > breath > repeat"? Just remove the pause and breath steps while gulping the water till you're at your limit. This is what Anon probably meant, and I can attest that this works 100% for me. Just make sure to exhale first before committing so that your lungs aren't all puffed up from inhaling

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Bolt_Action_@reddit

You sir, are a fish.

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CazualGinger@reddit

I plug my ears and swallow, usually does it for me

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UncleKeyPax@reddit

https://i.redd.it/oyydna5puqbg1.gif

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DaBeathoven@reddit

HOLD YOUR DICKS UNTIL I TELL YOU THIS: When I get hiccups, I take any object (if I don't have one - hand nail is ok).I focus onto it and think only of the thing I am looking at for 30-60 seconds. Hiccups end. EvERY. SinGLE. TiMe. Try it! FOCUS. I URGE YOU.

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Jehuty8434@reddit

If you want to stop sneezing think the word pineapple. If you want someone else to stop sneezing say the word pineapple Don't ask me how it works but it does

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suspectdeviceg4@reddit

I'm not a gay fish

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Beebah-Dooba@reddit

One of the greentexts of all time

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abermea@reddit

I once cured someone by telling him that hiccups aren't real and they can't hurt him

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dungeon-raided@reddit

Genuinely this works. I hiccup once and then I think "You don't have hiccups because hiccups aren't real" and then they stop

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jongameaddict98@reddit

Posts made by fish

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Harrysplat11@reddit

Turns out we’re all just Orks from Warhammer

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untakenu@reddit

It isn't hard to get rid of them. After one, breathe in deeply, tightening your abs, hold for a second, then breathe oht and relax slowly.

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ImmortalGoat66@reddit

Instructions unclear, became crab

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landmanpgh@reddit

So weird. For the record, a spoonful of peanut butter works almost instantly.

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TheGaslighter9000X@reddit

Or just hold your breath for 10-20 seconds instead of carrying a jar of PB

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landmanpgh@reddit

Doesn't work. Peanut butter actually works quickly every time. And lol it's reddit man no one needs to pretend like they're ever far from home.

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TheGaslighter9000X@reddit

>doesn’t work Been doing it for 15 years and everytime I suggest it to someone with hiccups it works instantly on them as well. Yea driving all the way back to the house or the store is faster and more efficient than holding your breath for a few seconds.

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landmanpgh@reddit

I've done the same and holding my breath has never worked once. Nor has any other suggestion like swallowing air or whatever people say. Peanut butter.

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