The big one for me is night watch, if you’re on watch and notice yourself yawning then you know that it’s time to wake someone else to take over, because if you fall asleep that’s very dangerous.
Seems like if you read between the lines, there’s a certain commonality in increased respiration/alertness, stress response and showing of teeth that solves a common need across species. When a subject recognizes a lack of alertness, a present threat or the need for aggressive action in the near future, a yawn can help prepare for that while also giving pause to those who might be threats and/or potentially paralyzing prey. The failure in consensus here appears, to me, an inability to describe those seemingly disparate needs as related to the physiology that drives them. Not a lack of understanding, so much as a deficiency in perlocution.
Ay yo so I was bout to tell you how that’s all wrong, but then you go throwin out words like “perlocution” and now I realize you probly know what the fuck is up, so I’m just gonna trust.
I’ve read that people with autism are less likely to catch a yawn. Not sure if that’s true.
I’ve taken meds that caused uncontrollable yawning. That’s super annoying!
I can say that’s absolutely false, for me at least. I yawn all the fucking time
Yes, but can you catch a yawn from someone else? That’s the claim about autism, that someone else yawning does not tend to make people on the spectrum yawn. I have no idea whether or not that is true.
Reading the title of this post made me yawn.
Got me too
I yawned as this was scrolling into view wtf
