Give yourself a second or two... how about now?
2007-12-13 15:24:51 · 26 answers · asked by zingis 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
no, it did not work.. wait a minute......... wait a minute...... nope.. still nothing...
your mind powers are not working.. to the fix it shop you must go!!!
2007-12-13 22:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by lil' angel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yawning is incredibly contagious. I made some of you reading this yawn simply by writing the word “yawn”. The people who yawned when they saw you yawn, meanwhile, were infected by the sight of you yawning–which is a second kind of contagion. They might even have yawned if they only heard you yawn, because yawning is also aurally contagious: if you play an audio-tape of a yawn to blind people, they’ll yawn too. And finally, if you yawned as you read this, did the thought cross your mind–however unconsciously and fleetingly–that you might be tired? I suspect that for some of you it did, which means that yawns can also be emotionally contagious. Simply by writing the word, I can plant a feeling in your mind. Can the flu virus do that? Contagiousness, in other words, is an unexpected property of all kinds of things, and we have to remember that if we are to recognize and diagnose epidemic change.
-The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell.
2007-12-13 23:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by Porkchop 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If like in a novel I was reading a sentence and it just mentioned someone yawn, I don't think I would yawn from it, but if it were a long drawn out description then sure (or if were something focused on yawning, like this question was).
And writing this all out made me yawn once again! lol
2007-12-13 23:29:24 · answer #3 · answered by Southern Girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had a long day and it is 10:30pm. Yes, I yawned the minute I saw yawn!
2007-12-13 23:28:25 · answer #4 · answered by Brandolyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - it may have been more effective if you didn't state that you were trying to get us to yawn. Perhaps a short paragraph discussing yawns, ending with your question might have worked better.
2007-12-13 23:30:46 · answer #5 · answered by nytebreid 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know what i dont get, people say yawning is because a lack of oxygen....so why do you yawn when you see other people yawn.
2007-12-14 00:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Blue & Riley too. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes. I think I glanced at it out of the corner of my eye before I actually read it and it subliminally put the idea that I had to yawn in my head. Stop it!
2007-12-13 23:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Rennie (is having a baby!) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, I had to fight back a yawn just reading this question. Strange thing, eh!
2007-12-14 18:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but i kind of wanted to
but i usually yawn when i see other people yawn
i wish i did that would be cooler..
ahhhhhhh why can't i yawnnn???
if i fake yawn then i real yawn after
but i'm not gonna fake yawn cause that would be cheating
2007-12-13 23:28:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the word "yawn" just makes me wanna yawn!
yes, i did a little one.
2007-12-13 23:27:38 · answer #10 · answered by Jazmen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, no. Wait...no, false alarm. Not yawning.
2007-12-13 23:39:23 · answer #11 · answered by Skatermomof5 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋