Have you ever yawned in response to another person’s yawn? Even if you’re not really exhausted, your mouth suddenly widens and a loud yawn escapes. Contagious yawning is the term for this occurrence. Adults yawn around half the time after someone else does.
You may yawn just from thinking about it. Everyone does it, including animals, and you shouldn’t try to stop it since your body has to yawn when it occurs. It’s one of a body’s most infectious, uncontrolled behaviors.
Actually, yawning is so contagious that you don’t even need to observe someone else yawning to yawn. Sometimes all it takes is hearing or contemplating a yawn. In fact, you could be yawning right now.
The reason why yawns are so contagious is a mystery to researchers, just like the reason why humans yawn.
Why Do We Yawn?
Yawns are divided into two categories by specialists: spontaneous yawning, which happens on its own, and infectious yawning, which happens after observing someone else yawn.
But why do we even do it in the first place, whether it be infectious or spontaneous?
We actually don’t understand why we yawn, it turns out.
However, other views contend that yawning is beneficial.
- Regulate your brain temperature
- Wake your body up
- Bring more oxygen into your bloodstream
- Keep your lung tissue lubricated
