What? You’re hungry? Well, I’ll just make you yawn
You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what
Literally just yawned reading this meme, lol.
Co2
Isn’t the leading theory that yawning is more about cooling down the brain temp rather than a lack of oxygen or buildup of CO2?
What’s that? You’re not tired and you haven’t seen anyone open their mouth big, but you read about a hypothetical person opening their mouth big? Bad news…
Luckily I managed to cover my yawn but keeping my lips/teeth together but opened up the inside of my mouth. Think I got away with it.
You hit the gym and are having a good session, guess what
This. I have started to wonder if yawns are actually a way to wake up. We know little about them. Some brain scans showed that we refresh the blood around our brain, like changing the water in a fish bowl.
One indicator for someone being a socio/psychopath is they don’t yawn when you do. It’s not 100% accurate, but it can be pretty close. Catching a yawn is apparently a sign of empathy, and sociopaths don’t have empathy. At least that’s what I’ve read.
This seems like such bullshit pseudoscience. Anyone have any real data to back this up?
Can confirm, I do struggle with empathy (more in the autism way than the socio/psychopath way though) and don’t really catch yawns from anyone. I will still pretend to yawn when someone else does though, because I know that not doing that will make them subconsciously wary of me
Not everyone will get wary if you don’t yawn. Same way as not everyone thinks the same way about yawns, or just over analyze what others do.
But good for you to try mixin and minglin with the neurotypical crowd :)
Just keep it relaxed
I’ve yawned three times already reading through all these comments.
It’s early morning for me, it’s not fair.
This post literally made me yawn. Not because it’s bad either.
When a baby is crying on an airplane during takeoff or landing, I visibly and audibly yawn in front of them on purpose, so they catch the yawn and pop their ears.
How to tell if your baby is a sociopath with this one simple trick. For this trick you’ll need: a baby, a stranger, an airplane, and the power to suspend all critical thinking.
You’re supposed to stay in your seat during take off and landing. Please, remain in your seat. Why do you keep getting out of your seat and silently scream at the babies?!
Who says you have to get out of your seat?
that is genius
Apparently there isn’t much consensus on what the actual reason(s) are for yawning. Apparently fish yawn though, so that’s cool.
Isn’t it a social signal, apebrain talking?
It seems like it helps the brain switch modes (from low activity to high and from high activity to low). So yawning could help prepare the brain to pay attention to something important, as well as wind down for the evening. Hence both morning and evening yawns.
The contagious aspect could be as simple as “Oh, you’re changing modes? I should get ready to do the same.”
Are there any other involuntary social signals?
… anyone who is naturally expressive and has genuine, authentic responses that go against whatever current sociocultural norms are?
Hey, popular person told a dumb, offensive joke, that validates my internal insecurities by projecting derision outward onto some kind of minority group!
(Face twists up into disgust, shock, and maybe pity)
WTF is wrong with you, popular person is funny! We hate you now!
Body language in general.
Dogs wag their tails in order to spread their happy pheromones by waving furiously. They unconsciously want everyone to know they are having a good time. When they are scared, they tuck their tail between their legs in order not to spread their stress pheromones by moving the air around their glands.
….erections?
I do prefer to let my erection do the talking.
^ -me to the police officer who pulled me over and asked if I knew how fast I was going.
Name checks out
Solitary animals yawn too. Don’t if they can catch yawns, or how to test it.
Supplying oxygen to brain before task, reused in ape for social?
My entirely uneducated guess would be that its some, very basal, ancient, basically gasping compulsion, that… just never quite fully got patched out by the subsequent tens of millions of years of evolution.
Sort of the behavioral version of vestigal limb, way down at some fundamental nervous system level.
You’re not tired, but you saw a post about yawning? Well, guess what.
You are now yawning manually.
Wtf
Just reading this made me yawn.
same! what is this WITCHERY!?1
oh gods dammit fuck aaaaall y’aaaaaall.
Yawn
Didn’t have to see anyone, I’ve done it twice just reading this post.
A yawn is a signal to regain some alertness, so when you yawn in order to become more awake, it signals your fellow life forms they might want to be alert too. 🥱
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
