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06-13-2007, 09:52 AM #1
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Question of the century
Why the hell are yawns contagious...it happens to me all the friekin time....even yesterday, when i was talking to my girlfriend over the phone...i yawned (i covered the phone, so theres no way she could have heard it) and she yawns. WTF??? Its annoying...
This happen to anyone else or is it just me?
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06-13-2007, 09:57 AM #2
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you yawn due to a lack of oxygen. most likely you and the people next to you are experiencing the same lack of oxygen at the same time.
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06-13-2007, 09:58 AM #3
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but it happens too much to be a coincidence everytime
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06-13-2007, 10:47 AM #4
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Lots of human actions cause a "sympathy" reaction. Some are due to memory - You see a guy take a hard shot to the gonads, most guys wince or cover up/say something in response. Someone vomits, lots of people get dry heaves or have to flee. Some are psychosomatic <sp> some are emotionally based. I thought I was the only one that wondered about that stuff. Nice to know others share my curiousity.
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06-13-2007, 10:54 AM #6
Me and the wife, have 3 cats, and if I yawn , they yawn (most all the time). It's not only humans. So that makes it even harder to answer.
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06-13-2007, 10:55 AM #7
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Seriously shit is
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06-13-2007, 10:59 AM #8
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By MONIQUE CURET
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Cover your mouth if you want to, but it won't keep the next guy from "catching" your yawn.
Contagious yawning is real, scientists say, and it's "probably programmed into us," according to Dr. William Broughton, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of South Alabama Knollwood Hospital.
The action of a mouth opening is not what compels others to yawn, Broughton said. Studies have demonstrated that showing someone a photo of a wide-open mouth does not induce a yawn.
Conversely, holding a hand over the mouth while yawning doesn't prevent it from being contagious, Broughton said.
Contagious yawns appear "basically to be a visual response," Broughton said.
Between 40 and 60 percent of people who watch videos or hear talk about yawning also end up doing the deed, according to Nature News Service.
Researchers from the State University of New York in Albany tested people to find out why some are susceptible to contagious yawning and deduced that self-aware or empathetic people are more likely to catch yawns, according to the news service.
"Identifying with another's state of mind while they yawn may trigger an unconscious impersonation....The findings also explain why schizophrenics, who have particular difficulty in doing this, rarely catch yawns," Nature News Service reported.
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06-13-2007, 10:59 AM #9
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okay if the above is true....^^^
then why did it happen over the phone...she didnt hear me....and it wasnt a coincidence...bcuze its happened before...various times
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06-13-2007, 12:05 PM #10
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i just yawned 2 more times since i wrote this thread and the same thing has happened!!!!!
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06-13-2007, 12:15 PM #11
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Watch the MythBusters episode that covered this.
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a better question is... do clowns taste funny... and if a fat chick falls in a forest dor the trees laugh...
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06-13-2007, 01:41 PM #14
google is your friend. There's lots and lots of research and theories about why the yawn is contageous. I'm yawning as I actually type this so just saying it will trigger something. As far as the whole being on the phone, when you're actually involved in a conversation with someone, you're connected with them on a lot deeper level than you realize you are. She probably felt your yawn with out hearing it or knowing anything else.
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06-13-2007, 01:44 PM #15
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06-13-2007, 02:07 PM #16
sadly, reading this, i yawned. i think even reading about them causes it. this is quite possibly the worst pandemic the world has ever seen.
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06-13-2007, 02:10 PM #19
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I yawn when I'm bored too
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