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Is Yawning contagious?

  • 08-09-2011 3:55pm
    #1
    newballsplease
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭


    What is it about yawning?
    When someone yawns beside you.....you yawn? well...sometimes anyway!?


    Waits for 'Yawn' replies :rolleyes:

    Is yawning contagious? 53 votes

    I believe it is...
    0% 0 votes
    No fool
    96% 51 votes
    i dont care..yawn!
    3% 2 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Balfie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Balfie


    even after reading the title I yawned.


  • #3
    Fremen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    No, but thinking about your breathing is.


  • #4
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Yes, I yawned when I saw the title. I just yawned again. I can't stop, now. Fuck you for making this thread.


  • #5
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Not at all..now what was it you were saying ?


  • #6
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    newballsplease wrote: »
    What is it about yawning?
    When someone yawns beside you.....you yawn? well...sometimes anyway!?


    Waits for 'Yawn' replies :rolleyes:

    I thought it was proven that it was contagious. Hm.


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  • #7
    bigneacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭bigneacy 


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  • #8
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Latchy wrote: »
    Not at all..now what was it you were saying ?

    Bs if some one yawns and you wAtch them you will yawn to it can be quite fun in big rooms


  • #9
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    Bs if some one yawns and you wAtch them you will yawn to it can be quite fun in big rooms
    True...even if you are not tired ,have done it many times .

    I prefer a good ol sneeze myself :)


  • #10
    Eever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Eever


    Bipolar Joe wrote: »
    Yes, I yawned when I saw the title. I just yawned again. I can't stop, now. Fuck you for making this thread.

    Same thing happening here, have yawned three times since reading the title and fighting another one off right now.... it beat me - 4 yawns. Agh! There's something about that word! I'm really struggling not to do another one now. Agh! It's happened again. Must end post. Must leave thread. No more!!


  • #11
    eirn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭eirn


    It is! Something to do with our instinct for self preservation. Yawning brings in lots of oxygen, so helps wake you up a little bit. In a group situation, if one person yawns, it'll cause other people to, and so wake them all up a little bit, so they could be more alert to danger/attacks. Yawning quite a lot as I type this.


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  • #12
    Isard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Isard


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    I thought it was proven that it was contagious. Hm.
    It was. There were some experiments when test groups were shown vids with yawning people. Everyone began to yawn, too.


  • #13
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I bet Lazarus and Rip Van Winkle had a good ol stretch and the mother of all Yawns when they woke up .


  • #14
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    newballsplease wrote: »
    Is yawning contagious?
    Possible!

    See:

    * http://www.yourdiscovery.com/video/mythbusters-top-10-is-yawning-contagious/

    * http://www.statisticool.com/mythbusters.htm


  • #15
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    Bs if some one yawns and you wAtch them you will yawn to it can be quite fun in big rooms

    You sometimes yawn even without realising someone else beside you was yawning...

    It's a 6th [useless] sense I'm telling you.


  • #16
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    *yyaawwnn*

    awaits string of yawning posters


  • #17
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Fago! wrote: »
    *yyaawwnn*

    awaits string of yawning posters

    you bore me fago, yawn,


  • #18
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Yes. Some theories extend to stealing air to tribal cues for bedtime.


  • #19
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Please stop bumping the thread, every time I see it I yawn over and over :(:(:(:( .


  • #20
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    eirn wrote: »
    It is! Something to do with our instinct for self preservation. Yawning brings in lots of oxygen, so helps wake you up a little bit. In a group situation, if one person yawns, it'll cause other people to, and so wake them all up a little bit, so they could be more alert to danger/attacks. Yawning quite a lot as I type this.

    This is a more likely explanation.


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