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sneezing 1010 Responses
Last post: 5 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jun 11, 08, 7:52 a.m.
- CALLES
What is it.. is it your soul trying to escape the body?
do you like it?
do you squeeze your butt when it happends really?
do you make noises that people around you laugh?
do you ever fart by accident when you do it?
any embarrassing moments like a flame shooting out or bugger all over the place in front of the girl of your dreams?
discuss
- Jun 11, 08, 7:52 a.m. – Permalink
- harlequino
Make sure you never sneeze while peeing. You could blow your asshole out.
- Dog-earJun 11, 08, 8:06 a.m. – Permalink
- paraselene
strong mint flavours, black coffee and dark chocolate all make me sneeze.
- Dog-earJun 11, 08, 8:14 a.m. – Permalink
- BaskerviIle
Contagiousness
The yawn reflex is often described as contagious: if one person yawns, this will cause another person to "sympathetically" yawn.[4][10] Observing another person's yawning face (especially his/her eyes), or even reading about or thinking about yawning, can cause a person to yawn.[4] [11] [12] The proximate cause for contagious yawning may lie with mirror neurons, i.e., neurons in the frontal cortex of certain vertebrates, which upon being exposed to a stimulus from conspecific (same species) and occasionally interspecific organisms, activates the same regions in the brain.[13] Mirror neurons have been proposed as a driving force for imitation which lies at the root of much human learning, e.g., language acquisition. Yawning may be an offshoot of the same imitative impulse. A 2007 study found that children with autism spectrum disorder do not increase their yawning frequency after seeing videos of other people yawning, in contrast to typically developing children. This supports the claim that contagious yawning is based on the capacity for empathy.[14]
To look at the issue in terms of evolutionary advantage, if there is one at all, yawning might be a herd instinct.[15] Other theories suggest that the yawn serves to synchronize mood gregarious animals, similar to the howling of the wolf pack. It signals tiredness to other members of the group in order to synchronize sleeping patterns and periods of. This phenomenon has been observed among various primates. The threat gesture is a way of maintaining order in the primates' social structure. Specific studies were conducted on chimpanzees.[16] and stumptail macaques[17] A group of these animals was shown a video of other conspecifics yawning; both species yawned as well. This helps to partly confirm a yawn's "contagiousness."
Gordon Gallup, who hypothesizes that yawning may be a means of keeping the brain cool, also hypothesizes that "contagious" yawning may be a survival instinct inherited from our evolutionary past. "During human evolutionary history when we were subject to predation and attacks by other groups, if everybody yawns in response to seeing someone yawn, the whole group becomes much more vigilant, and much better at being able to detect danger."[5]
- Dog-earJun 11, 08, 8:36 a.m. – Permalink
- BaskerviIle
Also, if you ever want to stifle a sneeze you can:
simply press quite hard on the skin between your thumb joint and thumbnail and you will not sneeze.
I didn't believe it when someone told me but I tried it and it works, it's a weird feeling, like it's being sucked back inside you- Dog-earJun 11, 08, 8:38 a.m. – Permalink
