# Poll: does reading the Wikipedia entry for "yawn" make you yawn? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409 "2016-06-03T18:05:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/1 "2016-06-03T18:05:26Z")
As I was link-following around Wikipedia, I came across the [entry for “yawn”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn) - and I genuinely yawned non-stop while I was reading it. So I was just wondering if it affected everyone in the same way. Poll to follow shortly. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/2 "2016-06-03T18:27:42Z")
Just reading your thread title made me yawn. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/3 "2016-06-03T18:31:24Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Just reading your thread title made me yawn. Sadly, this is the case for most of my threads. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/4 "2016-06-03T19:24:15Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Just reading your thread title made me yawn. Seconded. I haven’t checked the article yet, but I did yawn as soon as I read the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/5 "2016-06-03T20:37:58Z")
Seeing someone yawn makes me yawn every time, but reading about it didn’t. Maybe I lack imagination. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/6 "2016-06-03T21:10:11Z")
I’ve written poems about yawning that made me yawn too, ditto reading picture books out loud about it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/7 "2016-06-03T21:25:16Z")
Thinking about yawning makes me yawn. No matter how the thought is triggered. Furthermore, yawning makes me sleepy. So if I want to go to sleep and am not yet sleepy, I jut think of someone yawning, which makes me yawn, which mekes me sleepy, which makes me go to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/8 "2016-06-04T08:38:27Z")
Thanks everyone. It seems deeply ingrained - even reading the thread title can trigger yawning. I’m posting this at about 9.30am, after a solid eight hour sleep… and I just yawned. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/9 "2016-06-05T06:00:52Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > Thanks everyone. It seems deeply ingrained - **even reading the thread title can trigger yawning**. Yes, me too. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/10 "2016-06-05T20:53:13Z")
Add me to the list. ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/11 "2016-06-05T22:09:10Z")
made me yawn too! When my kids were babies: if they yawned, I would yawn. But if I yawned, it wouldn’t make them yawn. I never noticed when/if that changed. I’ll have to ask them. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/12 "2016-06-05T22:36:23Z")
I read most of the Wiki article and all of this thread and have not yawned. I could, however, feel the genesis of a yawn way deep inside, like a very mild dry heave. I tried to neither suppress it nor encourage it to surface. Nothing has happened. mmm ETA: I did just burp, if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/13 "2016-06-09T03:57:43Z")
I’m honestly not sure how to vote on this one; I was already a little bit yawny when I read the thread title, which may or may not have increased the immediacy of my impending yawn. Then I clicked the wiki link and definitely felt like yawning, though I can’t be sure that that yawn hadn’t already been brewing for a little while. I skimmed the page, mostly looking at the pictures, and halfway down I yawned. So, maybe? But then I yawned twice more just while writing this post. I’m going to stop saying “yawn” now. Yawn yawn yawn. There, now I’ll stop. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/14 "2016-06-09T12:02:07Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Just reading your thread title made me yawn. Ditto ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/15 "2016-06-09T21:38:53Z")
The thread title made me yawn, as did reading the posts. Now I’m repeatedly yawning as I type this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-does-reading-the-wikipedia-entry-for-yawn-make-you-yawn/756409/16 "2016-06-09T23:07:28Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Just reading your thread title made me yawn. I’ve made a game of forcing myself not to everytime it scrolls by. (Tapatalk)