2006-06-26 08:32:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
It is possible that yawns are contagious because at one time in evolutionary history, the yawn served to coordinate the social behavior of a group of animals. When one member of the group yawned to signal an event, all the other members of the group also yawned. Yawns may still be contagious these days because of a leftover response (a "vestigial" response) that is not used anymore. None of this has been proven true and yawns are still one of the mysteries of the mind.
2006-06-26 08:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by southernserendipiti 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, out of all the answers I've read in here, no one is right. It has nothing to do with our need for oxygen....but Rather our spirituality. I know this without a doubt because I have used a scientific method of testing this theory over a period of 36 years. Unfortunately science has no current way of measuring our spiritual energy so therefore science cannot answer the question. It's no mystery to me that all human beings are connected by an unseen energy. Some may call it God or the Holy Spirit, but we thrive on it. Yawning is a way of breathing in this energy...or priming the pump within us that connects us to God and each other. Just as negative energy or evil can be passed from one person to another, so can love and peace.
I began my research on this question when I was twelve years old. Because I had to rule out sound and sight as an explanation of how a yawn is passed from one person to another, I learned to yawn without making a sound, or moving my mouth. I learned to make my yawns intense and to project them across a room targeting a specific person. Repeatedly the person would yawn in response.
Learning to "breathe" spiritual energy can seem like drinking a thick milkshake out of a straw at first. But once the pump is primed via yawning, practicing "the breath", and things like yoga and meditation, it flows with much greater ease.
2006-06-29 20:37:59 · answer #2 · answered by tbcribflyn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CONTAGIOUS yawning is a purely HUMAN occurrence. Identifying with another person's state of mind while they're yawning might trigger an unconcious impersination. Some people beleive that yawning may allow groups of people to coordinate their times of sleep, but as for the larger question of why yawns are contagious, nobody really knows. Fact is, we don't know why people yawn, period.
2006-06-26 15:40:14 · answer #3 · answered by Mintminty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yawning is a lack of oxygen to your brain. When you are all sitting around bsing and get bored that's usually when the yawns start. I really don't know why it's contagious but it seems to be as contagious as laughing together, having fun together and talking together.... OMG could we have an epidemic on our hands??? The whole world is....social!!! Duh Duh DUHNNNNN!!! Go ask a scientist why he makes long boring speeches... They seem to have a knack for getting large groups of people to all yawn simultaneously. Guess it's the speaker.
2006-06-26 15:49:06 · answer #4 · answered by Charles G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just seeing this question made me yawn
2006-06-26 15:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power of suggestion.
2006-06-26 15:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by etngapech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yawn....I don't know...
2006-06-26 15:36:09 · answer #7 · answered by jerrri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it reminds everyone of how boring you are.
2006-06-26 15:35:53 · answer #8 · answered by Johnny Blaze 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋