I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not the human that instigates the yawn at all, and it’s initiated by the lung microbiome to regulate its environment.
For science: anyone up for huffing some chlorine to see if their yawning goes away?
I used to have a dog that would yawn with a little whine whenever she was frustrated. It was adorable.
It wasn’t silent, that’s part of what made it so cute. She whined while yawning.
It’s from when caveman wanted to leave their friends cave and go home, but can’t get an ugg in and they don’t want to be rude.
Lmao, the guy in the thumbnail painting was a big meme years ago on the internet. Remember that time lol
Joseph Ducreux. He did a load more.
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.
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.
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.