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- usrper
you know how when you talk to people sometimes, they like to yawn and stretch, even though it looks forced? Its not when they're actually bored or anything.
Alot of people do that. What is the thinking behind that?
- SteveJobs0
they're relaxing themselves, in preparation for your long-winded tales and usrperisms.
- dbloc0
because when they aren't talking to people, they are staring at a computer screen.
- d_rek0
I AM UNSURE OF THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND THIS BUT I FIND MYSELF DOING THIS ON OCCASION. I THINK IT'S A CONDITIONED RESPONSE IN MOST CASES.
- dbloc0
I feel like I need to stretch it out sometimes when I walk away from the computer.
- Mimio0
Because they only see themselves when they look at you.
- dbloc0
Certain superstitions surround the act of yawning. The most common of these is the belief that it is necessary to cover one's mouth when one is yawning in order to prevent one's soul from escaping the body. The Ancient Greeks believed that yawning was not a sign of boredom, but that a person's soul was trying to escape from its body, so that it may rest with the gods in the skies. This belief was also shared by the Maya.[citation needed]
Other superstitions include:
* A yawn is a sign that danger is near.
* Counting a person's teeth while he/she is yawning robs them of one year of life for every tooth counted.
* If two persons are seen to yawn one after the other, it is said that the one who yawned last bears no malice towards who yawned first.
* The one who yawns first shows no malice towards those he or she yawns around.
* In Ancient Mayan civilization, yawning was thought to indicate subconscious sexual desires.
* In some Latin American, East Asian and Central African countries yawning is said to be caused by someone else talking about you.
* A yawn may be a sign that one is afflicted by the evil eye (Greece).
* Frequent yawning by a woman indicates she is likely to be committing adultery, which results in a lack of sleep.These superstitions may not only have arisen to prevent people from committing the faux pas of yawning loudly in another's presence—one of Mason Cooley's aphorisms is "A yawn is more disconcerting than a contradiction" — but may also have arisen from concerns over public health. Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), in his De Rerum Inventoribus, writes that it was customary to make the sign of the cross over one's mouth, since "alike deadly plague was sometime in yawning, wherefore men used to fence themselves with the sign of the cross...which custom we retain at this day."[21]
- usrper0
haha none of that explained it!
- ********0
Just by reading this, I've yawned about 6 times so far.
- ItalianStallion0
Ahah, this thread rocks!
(I askd myself the same question several times...)