Honestly, I’m not bored

You know the times when you don’t think you’re that tired or bored, but you’re concentrating really hard (for me, usually in a meeting or a lecture) and for some reason you just can’t stop yawning? You know people can see you, you know it’s rude, but you can’t stop. Nightmare. Happens to me all the time. Ok, sometimes I AM bored, but most times I’m not. But the next time I see someone looking at me mid-yawn, I’ll tell them that I’m not bored, that my subconscious is busy cooling my brain, can they please not interrupt.

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Posted by Katie on July 04, 2007 at 1:26 PM in
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My brain has been working on overdrive as of late (beginning to study theoretical physics and at the same time attempting to find my “spiritual path”, talk about a mental workout), and I actually had noticed a very dramatic increase in how much I yawn. At first I attributed it to those endless nights in front of the computer monitor, but i realized that I’ve ALWAYS been in front of a computer monitor. It became so noticable that I surrendered and went to a physician (for the first time in nearly 3 years) because I thought I may have developed some sort of breathing disorder. He gave me a clean bill of health (Joe-1, Death-0). However, I do have mild seasonal allergies which block my nasal passages, often making me resort to breathing through my mouth, thus causing my brain to overheat, from what the article states.

This new take on why we yawn is more than merely interesting to me, it’s reassuring!

Posted on July 05, 2007 at 12:40 AM by Joe Barone

Yea yawnings contagious as well, and the worst feeling is when someone near you looks into your mouth - or being watched while you yawn - which makes you stifle your yawn causing possibly one of the most annoyingly unsatifying feelings.

Posted on February 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM by Internet TV

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