I used to have a dog that would yawn with a little whine whenever she was frustrated. It was adorable.
That’s pretty common among cats and dogs. Sometimes the clever ones will hide a bite they decided against at the last second with a yawn, too.
I call that the “silent scream”
It wasn’t silent, that’s part of what made it so cute. She whined while yawning.
Yeah mine does it too, but the scream is so quiet compared to how wide his mouth is… It looks like he should be screaming a lot louder but it’s just this little squeak
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.
I yawned as this was scrolling into view wtf
it exists to make evident it’s time to end the meeting
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Got me too
I had heard this and tried to get my dog to yawn. No dice.
Because I’m tired
I guess it’s just a biological indicator to remind you that you’re tired. In modern life people don’t usually find their jobs exciting. We were hunter and gatherers a few thousand years back and I bet they didn’t yawn as much hunting prey. Maybe when sewing or making clay pots. Of which I am smoking a lot of currently. What were we taking about again?
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.
When I was in the military I used to hold my duty flashlight right in front of me with my arm extended. That way if I fell asleep the flashlight would hit the ground and wake me up.
Also hot sauce under the tongue helps a bit.
I watched a video a couple years ago where they did an experiment with chimps. I thought they concluded that the “cantagious” yawning has to deal with the animals empathy and wanting to be like others, it was a social thing in pretty sure. I have no idea where to even find this video though so take that with a grain of salt
Mythbusters rated contagious yawns as plausible, I believe, because they observed multiple instances of yawns spreading throughout a building where the participants couldn’t see each other.
Its all pretty interesting to think about honestly! Hopefully we get an actual answer instead of just speculation!
Yawning exists so that my cat can tell me how she’s tired of me
A L I Y U M S
reading the title of this post made me yawn lol
welp, i’m glad i wasn’t alone
It was the picture for me
It’s such a good self portrait.
Reading the title of this post made me yawn.
Reading your comment made me yawn
Reading that this guy yawned made me yawn.
I farted.
Me too
I came.
I “ejacutooted.”
c/thatsmyfetish
Reading that this guy cam made me yawn
I was cumming on this yawning guy and he made me read
gasp! the fiend!
LPT: Getting mauled by a kodiak? Try yawning!
i thought it was to clear out carbon dioxide build up deep in your lungs, and instinctually its an indicator of rest?
It seems most sensible to me that it serves a bunch of uses: clearing the lungs, alerting yourself and others that you’re tired and probably need someone else to take over, social bonding, spooking predators…
I always thought it was due to clearing the lungs out or to regulate them but then I saw a turtle yawn under water. I then thought it’s ancestors wouldn’t have been swimmers so maybe it’s instinctive still, but then it would need a mechanism to prevent water inhalation. So why retain the yawn.
Perhaps as you say it’s more about visual communication to others around you.
As someone with asthma and lowered ability to cycle out CO2, yawning has always helped me restore the “full” feeling and your comment just made everything snap into place.
The primary driver of suffocation panic, pain, and feeling of air starvation isn’t the lack of oxygen but CO2 buildup. It makes sense that yawning on command could then help alleviate the symptoms of CO2 buildup in asthma sufferers.
Might be a group protection mechanism to indicate low oxigen in crammed spaces qith many individuals. In addition to that could be a geoup trigger for rest.
