Yawning A Means To Get Away From Trouble

I came across this statement that says; "If you feel like someone is watching you, but are unsure, yawn. If they yawn right after, they were watching you, since yawning is contagious. You can then use this information to either approach them or run away, depending on the level of attraction".

Yawning as seen by health line is mostly involuntary process of opening the mouth and breathing in deeply, filling the lungs with air. Yawning is caused by a decreased oxygen levels in the blood and is mostly associated with sleepiness or boredom but becomes a problem that must not be overlooked when it becomes excess.

Excessive yawning can be caused by any of the following below:

Causes of Yawning:

There are major disorders that can give rise to excessive yawning. These disorders can come from the central nervous system including

Epilepsy: Epilepsy has no cure and it is a neurological condition caused by malfunctioning brain cells resulting to seizures.

Brain Tumors: Tumors is usually an unusual growth. Brain tumors are unwanted growth growing in the brain which has to be removed. Most times they are life threatening.

Multiple Sclerosis: Multiple sclerosis (MS) are diseases which affect the central nervous system and can lead to complete disability if not taken seriously.

Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: This disorder is found in the brain and affects movement, control walking, balance, speech, swallowing, vision, mood, behavior and thinking of the person affected.

Drowsiness: This is a situation where one feels (abnormally)sleepy especially at day time which can lead to symptoms such as forgetfulness or falling asleep at inappropriate times.

Sleeplessness: This has to do with the way we sleep as it affect our sleep time. One can hardly fall asleep or stay asleep throughout the night.

Fatigue: Tiredness. No energy to do something or anything. In-fact Laziness at its highest order.

Central Sleep Apnea: This is a sleep related disorder. The effort to breath here is diminished or absent for about 10 to 30 seconds and is usually associated with a reduction in blood oxygen saturation.

Obesity: I can’t really go into details of this but it actually put people under this at a higher chance for serious diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Heart Attack: Clotting of the blood, which then blocks the flow of blood to the heart, damages the heart muscle which then results to cardiac arrest.

Stroke: This is usually a brain attack and is caused by shortage of oxygen to the brain.

Dissection of the Aorta: Under this, there is a tear in the wall of the major artery carrying blood out of the heart (aorta). As the tear extends along the wall of the aorta, blood can flow in between the layers of the blood vessel wall.

Why We Must Yawn

According to PhD Holder, Andrew C. Gallup, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. The brain-cooling hypothesis is the only reason why we yawn. He is of the view that colder outside air should cool the brain better than hot air. According to him, the body should yawn more when the air is cool and yawn less when the air is hot.

After testing the hypothesis (brain-cooling hypothesis) through the collected data on rats, parakeets and humans. All the data supports the brain-cooling hypothesis.

Basic Idea Why We Yawn
1) The deep intake of breath during a yawn forces downward flow of spinal fluid and blood from the brain.
2) Cool air breathed into the mouth cools the fluids.
3) When you start to yawn, powerful stretching of the jaw increases blood flow in the neck, face and head.

Note: Only when your yawning becomes excessively excess should you consider seeing the doctor for a checkup. I can’t count how many times I had to yawn writing this. Should it be because it is contagious or my mind playing games on me.