..Yawning?

Question

if you yawn when u see someone else yawn.. why do you not yawn again and again when u look in the mirror when u yawn?

Answer 1

Because usually we do it only once, no need for it to happen again and again

Answer 2

I have no idea, but when i was in the 2nd grade, my class was in a line and starting with the first kid in the line we all started to yawn...it was pretty cool :)

Answer 3

Reading this question has made me yawn!!

Answer 4

While yawns are still largely a mystery, here are some things we know for certain:

• The average yawn lasts about six seconds.

• In humans, the earliest occurrence of a yawn happens about 11 weeks after conception – while we’re still in the womb.

• Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.

• 55% of people will yawn within five minutes of seeing someone else yawn.

• Blind people yawn more after hearing an audio tape of people yawning.

• Reading or even thinking about yawning can cause you to yawn.

It’s widely assumed that yawning occurs because we are tired or bored or because we see someone else doing it, but there isn’t any hard evidence to support these beliefs.

The most plausible explanation, and the one that is taught in medical school, is that we yawn because oxygen levels in our lungs are low. Studies have shown that during normal, at-rest breathing, we don’t use anywhere near our lung capacity; for the most part, we just use the air sacs at the bottom of the lungs. If the air sacs, called alveoli, don’t get fresh air, they partially collapse and the lungs stiffen a bit. As a result, it’s believed, our brain prompts the body to either sigh or take a yawn to get more air into the lungs.

So, we really have no clue.........

All guesses are as good as the next.......   :)

Answer 5

its at the same time??

Answer 6

haha!

What a question

Dan.. i have no idea but you're right to ask!

Answer 7

Because, that is just a reflection and plus you are looking at yourself!

Answer 8

you're know making me yawning with these questions..... jajaja

anyway... it's true what you said...

beso

Answer 9

don't know thats the same with me i yawn when i see someone yawn but in the mirror i don't its weird

Answer 10

yawning is your bodies way of getting a rapid amount of oxygen as when you are sleepy you take in less o2 so become less alert then yawn. I think its becasue you are more aware of whats happening when you try and make yourself yawn in the mirror rather than caught off guard with someone!

Answer 11

idk this question made me yawn... about 10 times... now my eyes are watering

omg i think its the word yawn

seriously they are contagious

Answer 12

uhm. well i guess ur brain isn't like..

made to make u yawn when u see urself.

Answer 13

Yawning really is contagious: there is a strong social empathy component to yawning. That’s why many autistic children do not yawn when others yawn.

Is yawning due to fatigue and boredom? Studies haven’t been able to prove this. Teens were plopped in front of MTV and yawned less than when they were forced to watch the most boring thing on earth (something about color bars, I don’t know, I couldn’t finish reading it). Other studies have shown that we do tend to yawn more when we are tired, of course, but yawning’s actual purpose remains maddeningly elusive. Maybe we are releasing the engrams!

A very popular theory - that our bodies need to expel excess carbon dioxide and yawning serves this purpose - has been proven to be incorrect. It seemed sensible enough: boredom and fatigue slow your breathing, possibly creating a need for the lungs to get a bigger gulp of oxygen. Wrong, I tell you!

The current scientific consensus (because I know these things) is all about the stretch theory. You know how a yawn is really unsatisfying if you have to conceal it? Yawning may simply serve to stretch the jaw.

Wackiest theory award: it’s been suggested that yawning may cool off the brain. Prescription: if you yawn a lot, try thinking less. You is overheating the motherboard.

The greater the levels of serotonin, glutamic acid, and dopamine in your brain, the more you yawn. The greater the levels of endorphins, the less you yawn. Just try hitting that elliptical and yawning at the same time. It’s not right.

Yawning may also help regulate pressure in the ear drums.

Some psychologists believe yawning is the body’s natural way to release intense or negative emotions, much like crying and laughter.

The average yawn lasts 6 seconds, just like the average male o****m (women get 23 seconds on average).

Answer 14

Bc when you look in the mirror you see yourself yawn, not hear yourself yawn. When you yawn u hear yourself but how u hear yourself is different then how everybody else does.

Answer 15

u made me yawn when i read this YAWNING