Post by chris co

Quick story.

Yesterday I was playing with a harmonica, as I was playing with it I clicked I could both exhale and inhale to play.

Later during the day I was walking back from picking up some goodies and was humming (I hum rather often, probably daily). Suddenly I thought to myself that its strange that I only exhale to hum, surely I can do it with an inhale too.

Well, tried it and it sounded absolutely ridiculous, broken in essence, however the thought is sticking. Perhaps one can train to hum backwards (inhale), just as well as one hums forward (exhale).

When I got home I then searched backwards humming and instead find a hummingbird, and on top of that that the hummingbird is the only bird which is able to fly both forwards and backwards!

Right now my thinking is going along the lines that one can train this. And if you can train it it may have positive features to the system. I know that humming increases nitrogen oxide production in the sinuses, perhaps humming backwards does this far more, as the oxygen is going into your body vs carbon leaving your body.

P.S there is speaking backwards on inhales, I've learnt it's called "ingressive speech".
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