Now I always thought that it was only if someone near to you yawned that it caused you to yawn.... but she was driving past in her car... and I yawned 2 mins later... she wasn't that boring! Why is it so easy to 'catch a yawn'?
Do you yawn whilst reading this? or is it a boring Q?
2006-07-26 07:18:53 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i just yawned
2006-07-26 07:20:06 · answer #1 · answered by HELP! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not exactly sure as to why a yawn is contagiouse but a yawn is the bodys way of getting extra oxygen levels in the blood. More oxygen = better performance. maybe when you see someone else yawn subconciously your brain goes OMG they gonna be better than me i better yawn now too!
2006-07-26 07:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Drew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard yawning was to do with a lack of oxygen to the brain
and im guessing that people yawning or talking about yawning makes your brain panic about the possible lack of oxyen and so it starts a yawn just in case
2006-07-26 07:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just caused me to yawn after reading your Question!!!
2006-07-26 07:20:41 · answer #4 · answered by Peace 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even reading about yawning makes you yawn! it's psychological, all you need is a suggestion of yawning and you will yawn too!
2006-07-26 07:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by babaloo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you ever read the children's book 'wide-awake jake' by helen young? it's about a young boy named jake who cannot sleep so he sets off to find the 'yami of yawn'.
it's a fabulous bedtime book (circa 1974 i think) using the premise that if you yawn then so will others around you, so when jake comes across a giant he yawns and the giant yawns and falls asleep...ditto the lion etc
doesn't answer your question, but remembering it made me smile (...and yawn!) :o)
2006-07-26 07:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yawning has nothing to do with being bored.
2006-07-26 07:20:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can yawn anytiome i want it was to do with the rate of your breathing and when it changes, you yawn it has nothing to do with boring poeple but if u think about it you will yawn cuz u think and u think bored and ur brathing slows down.
2006-07-26 07:51:30 · answer #8 · answered by ctwcsgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yawn monkeys
Invisible little primates that jump from person to person making them yawn.
There in the same category as itching slugs, giggle ferrets and sneeze spiders
2006-07-26 07:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you yawn, you screw up the pressure around you and other people have to yawn to fix their level of pressure
2006-07-26 07:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that if you yawn when someone else yawns it is a sign that you are sensitive?!
2006-07-26 07:21:07 · answer #11 · answered by Free & Sassy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋