For a good yawn I need to really open my mouth and push/strain my jaw muscles. If that doesnt happen, then the yawn feels incomplete to my body and it happens again and again till it works “right”

What is the reason/body function behind that?

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    It can be air hunger, or may be nothing more than a yawn for no apparent reason.

    We really don’t understand yawning all that well.

    If it happens frequently for someone, like throughout every day, then maybe it’s exposing a problem.

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      8 hours ago

      I mean it could be something else, but that thing they’re describing where they have to work their jaw and do it again and again until some arbitrary sense in their body decides they finally did it right… It’s just too familiar. Like they’re describing EXACTLY the same sensation. That is EXACTLY how I would describe the feeling. And that’s what fixed it for me.