I've gotten that throat thing a couple times, and it definitely serves as a huge distraction throughout the journey. I think I would get it if I coughed and mucus would be in the back of my throat, only I would perceive it as something much more uncomfortable.
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"The Mighty One appears, the horizon shines. Atum appears on the smell of his censing, the Sunshine- god has risen in the sky, the Mansion of the pyramidion is in joy and all its inmates are assembled, a voice calls out within the shrine, shouting reverberates around the Netherworld." - Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Man fears time, but time fears the Pyramids" - 9th century Arab proverb