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.
that is genius
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?
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.
Apparently there isn’t much consensus on what the actual reason(s) are for yawning. Apparently fish yawn though, so that’s cool.
Best I can find, the 20 “most argued” reasons for yawning, at least the 20 most in 1999
Increase alertness
Decrease alertness
lmao
Have you seen a stork yawn? They push their spine out through their mouth
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.
Careful, I literally pulled my neck last week doing that
You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what
Yeah I had to yawn when I opened the comments. Yawning is really weird
I’ve yawned three times already reading through all these comments.
It’s early morning for me, it’s not fair.
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This seems like such bullshit pseudoscience. Anyone have any real data to back this up?
I got you fam:
Yawn contagion and empathy in Homo sapiens https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22163307/
That abstract is not very convincing to me if I’m being honest.
That’s okay. You asked for real data. You can find more if you care to search peer reviewed articles. I’m not trying to convince you of anything, just showing that it is a real topic of study.
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
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
Co2
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.
My idea is that yawing helps sync our internal clocks. So, we sleep at the same time, and wake up at the same time. That way, no one is left behind when the group starts moving to the next waterhole, or feeding ground.
Except nocturnal circadian cycles were evolutionary in nature. The pack wanted someone awake at all times to protect from predators.
Snake yawns are the most cute of yawns and I will fight every one who says otherwise.
What? You’re hungry? Well, I’ll just make you yawn
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. 🥱
I saw someone recently yawn at a zoom meeting, and I thought “rule.”
Got to make everyone tired so they don’t get you while you sleep.
