Only one of your nostrils is fully open at any one time. The nasal cycle means that one of your nostrils is constricted for various physiological reasons, and this swaps around every two and a half hours.
Basically, tissues inside the nose swell up and constrict a nostril, limiting airflow – although not blocking it off entirely. Try breathing in through your nose now and see which nostril is more open.
One of the functions of the nose is to humidify air passing through it (via the nasal cilia), and this alternation gives each nostril a chance to rest and not be moist. It’s also hypothesized that this enhances the sense of smell (because some smells require low airflow to detect and others fast airflow) and – because it alternates – encourages people to roll over in their sleep.
I don’t know enough about medicine to evaluate the veracity of these ideas, but I like the idea of my nostrils swapping roles every two hours. Nasal teamwork!
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Oh wow, that’s always bugged me (because I wanted both nostrils to be even) but I didn’t know it was actually a thing! I just thought it was my nose being dumb!
Well, our noses could be dumb for unrelated reasons 🙂 There’s an unsubstantiated rumour that, because the dominant nostril changed every two and a half hours, ninjas could use it to keep track of time. I personally think that sounds like patent nonsense, but it’s pretty funny regardless.