Stretch yawn faint

Occasionally I'm overwhelmed with the urge to have a really good stretch, tensing my muscles until they tremble, tipping my head back and unleashing a full on yawn. Lately this is followed by a faint spell - the world goes distant, my vision fades, and everything gets a bit woozy. After a few breaths the world re-intrudes, and normality resumes.

It hasn't concerned me, but after a particularly strong episode today my curiosity was peaked, and I typed 'stretch yawn faint' into Google (hallowed be thy results, for thine is the engine, the spider and the crawler) to see what cropped up.

It turns out the combo of stretching and tipping the head back starves the brain of oxygen. The stretch lengthens the blood vessels causing a blood pressure drop, whilst it also creates demand for oxygen in the tensing muscles, and finally the head tip constricts an artery in the neck which cuts off the blood to the brain.

I'm not sure how common it is in absolute terms, but the forum post I stumbled on was full of 'omg, I thought it was just me' comments.

This brings me neatly on to internet shorthand. Omg. Lmao. Lol. Cringe.

Question: What is as ghastly as 'cool' folks inventing their own 'cool' private language?

Answer: un-cool people co-opting the cool phrases in the mistaken hope they'll look cool.

Now I can segue into a rant on txt-spk, wich I cn jst bout toler8 n mob ph txt msgs, bt I jst h8 n oder contexts. d tym u savD n typin Ive 2 spnd n decoding - tnx 4 dat.

If I had my way, I'd make reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks mandatory punishment for txt-spk addicts.

Wun ov thi peepil in thi buk torks like this ol thi way fru. Iss a gr8 buk if u cn tek the time to lrn 2 reed foneticly spelt wurds, but tork about 1/2ing 2 wurk ard & u 1/2 2 1/2 sum imajinayshin 2 wurk it ol out.

Comments

  1. Unknown3 July 2014 at 15:10

    AHahahahahahahaha...the book. Yes, text talk is such a waist if I have to decode or text back and ask you what in the world you're talking about. Is that a french cat mewing? "L'Mao"

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    1. Anonymous20 July 2017 at 19:02

      "L'Mao" Sounded a bit like a french cow trying to sound cool. Le Moo

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    2. Anonymous28 November 2018 at 17:00

      waste* the waist you put is your body part. YW

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  2. Unknown23 December 2014 at 13:10

    Best way to rid ourselves of text speak is to ignore it completely.

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  3. Unknown28 December 2015 at 02:55

    I passed out twice doing that today its very scary finding yourself on the floor and not noticing it

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  4. Anonymous8 February 2016 at 02:42

    This frequently happens to me when I have a prolonged stretch, some instances where I have woke up looking at the ceiling from fainting. This has been something which has always happened, you're not alone.

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  5. Harvey the rabbit15 September 2016 at 16:55

    Orthostatic hypotension

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  6. ~sachi~30 September 2016 at 02:17

    After 2 faints in less than an hour, I googled it. And this.... surely no one need ever be alone, ever again!

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  7. Harry Caper3 January 2017 at 08:44

    We're all gonna die Thadius, so you're not wrong.

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  8. Unknown24 August 2017 at 20:08

    How insensitive!!

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  9. Unknown16 December 2017 at 08:06

    i wanna die so

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  10. Unknown15 August 2018 at 02:57

    Y'all silly, lol. I'm glad we are not alone bc my 15yr old son has this and he was born with two holes in his heart from medication I was prescribed while pregnant. Thanks for the blog and the comments bc I was starting to worry.

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  11. Anonymous28 November 2018 at 17:02

    you're ** If you are going to make such a statement, type it right!

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  12. Unknown8 January 2020 at 15:22

    I happen to have that condition too where i dont know myself for very few minutes and my body also shakes vigourously most of the times

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    1. SamJo9 January 2020 at 17:26

      Do you know what its called? I think I worried my mother lol. I probably should be as well I guess cuz it's the second time. The first being just a short few months ago, and it was intense like this. Lost balance and everything dizzy in my sight, body limp and shaking uncontrollably.I could feel the intensity In my muscles running down through my arms and hands just shaking with my body. Kinda thinking has something to do with blood pressure/sleep deprived/stress. I've also been experiencing some mild restless legs when I lay down to sleep nap or night this last couple months.

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