*Yawn*

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Whatever you do, don’t you dare cover your mouth so we didn’t have to see your gaping maw

  And the gas pump isn’t a parking spot.

  And turn off your headlights if you’re parked.

  And just stop being a clueless shithead all the time always.

  Just saying

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Snake yawns are the most cute of yawns and I will fight every one who says otherwise.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Manticore@lemmy.nz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally just yawned reading this meme, lol.

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  • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I had to yawn when I opened the comments. Yawning is really weird

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  🥱

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s more indicative of whether or not your baby is autistic.

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  • glandrid@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?!

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who says you have to get out of your seat?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    that is genius

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• flipflop97@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re not tired, but you saw a post about yawning? Well, guess what.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You are now yawning manually.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wtf

  Just reading this made me yawn.

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  • _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    same! what is this WITCHERY!?1

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      oh gods dammit fuck aaaaall y’aaaaaall.

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• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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…

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  • faceula@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Careful, I literally pulled my neck last week doing that

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• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What? You’re hungry? Well, I’ll just make you yawn

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• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Apparently there isn’t much consensus on what the actual reason(s) are for yawning. Apparently fish yawn though, so that’s cool.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn

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  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best I can find, the 20 “most argued” reasons for yawning, as t least the 20 most in 1999

    Image

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    • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Increase alertness

      Decrease alertness

      lmao

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Isn’t it a social signal, apebrain talking?

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.”

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    • its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Solitary animals yawn too. Don’t if they can catch yawns, or how to test it.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are there any other involuntary social signals?

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• Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Co2

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, you are correct. There are several reasons. :)

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which does nothing to explain why it’s “contagious”.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You are all now breathing manually.

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• aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This seems like such bullshit pseudoscience. Anyone have any real data to back this up?

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    • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got you fam:

      Yawn contagion and empathy in Homo sapiens pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22163307/

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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• besmtt@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve yawned three times already reading through all these comments.

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  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s early morning for me, it’s not fair.

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• certified_expert@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You hit the gym and are having a good session, guess what

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • WanakaTree@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to yawn incessantly during warmups before rugby matches. My coach would yell at me to get my head into the game. I kept telling him it’s just what happens when I’m warming up it doesn’t mean anything!

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• oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This post literally made me yawn. Not because it’s bad either.

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• ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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. 🥱

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Didn’t have to see anyone, I’ve done it twice just reading this post.

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• einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Got to make everyone tired so they don’t get you while you sleep.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I saw someone recently yawn at a zoom meeting, and I thought “rule.”

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