Consider the purpose of flying in your dreams. Flying is a liberating feeling and not something that comes naturally to humans, so the ability to fly in a dream allows you to transcend everyday life.
Enjoy a little honey. Put 1 teaspoon of honey, stirred in warm water, on the back of your tongue, and swallow it. Like dill, honey could potentially tickle the vagus nerve to make the hiccups stop. Bonus: Honey is also a known infection fighter and cough soother.
Hold your ears and drink! (Sonya Green via Flickr/Creative Commons) For years, Iâve wondered what a hiccup actually is. We all get them. For me, spicy food is a trigger, but hiccups result from laughing too hard, drinking too quickly or even sudden excitement or stress. Even fetuses and animals can get hiccups. Hiccups occur when our diaphragmâa relatively thin layer of muscle just below our lungsâcontracts erratically,...