The other day I was at work. For you who don't know I drive around a forklift most of the day which is often prety brain-less. In in effort to force my mind to work, I think! Novel idea I know. Sometime, not often though, I have a break through!
Yawning. Why do we yawn? I was humming along on my forklift and I realized yawning is so that we can stay awake. Of course the real reason is because our brain wants more oxygen, but the reason it wants more is because it wants to stay awake. Brains can be quite greedy.
What other action does your body take that elivates your oxygen to greedy brain ratio? Fear.
When I frighten someone, they will gasp, and suck in large volumes of air. All that air is for energy to either beat me up or run away from me. Thus yawning and gasping acomplish the same thing. It makes you more awake then you use to be.
The reason yawning is contagious is because fear is contagious. When someone is scared there is a natural reation within other people to be scared also. Something of a herd reation. When there is danger all the birds fly away. Because others saw the need to elevate there awareness I will too. Don't worry it's natural, and that is why a yawn is contagious. Someone saw fit to elevate their level of awareness and so I will also...(yawn)...elevate my awareness too.
Yawning. Why do we yawn? I was humming along on my forklift and I realized yawning is so that we can stay awake. Of course the real reason is because our brain wants more oxygen, but the reason it wants more is because it wants to stay awake. Brains can be quite greedy.
What other action does your body take that elivates your oxygen to greedy brain ratio? Fear.
When I frighten someone, they will gasp, and suck in large volumes of air. All that air is for energy to either beat me up or run away from me. Thus yawning and gasping acomplish the same thing. It makes you more awake then you use to be.
The reason yawning is contagious is because fear is contagious. When someone is scared there is a natural reation within other people to be scared also. Something of a herd reation. When there is danger all the birds fly away. Because others saw the need to elevate there awareness I will too. Don't worry it's natural, and that is why a yawn is contagious. Someone saw fit to elevate their level of awareness and so I will also...(yawn)...elevate my awareness too.
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October 4, 2008 at 8:25 PM
I think I yawned about 4 times while reading your post...not because it was boring, but because of all that talking about yawing contagious seems work even if no one else in the room is yawing and you are just reading about it.....(yawn), oh sorry.
love the blog...love you!
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