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Why we yawn when we are sleepy or drowsy?

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When you feel sleepy.. it is actually the brain cells which are in a sense of saying..going to fall asleep for lack of oxygen.
Also when we feel drowsy, our respiratory rate being controlled by reflex centres in our brain falls. The yawn breaks this and make our reflex centres again active

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