Whenever I yawn I temporarily lose the ability to hear. Why does this happen?
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In addition to what’s others say, there’s a muscle that gets stretched during yawning called the Tensor tympani. This muscle is what pulls on the eardrum to keep it taught and micro adjustments help with fine tuning hearing (some people can actually flex this muscle which causes the “ear rumbles”).
When the tension of the eardrum changes, its ability to transmit sound through the hearing bits of your head (a series of bones and a special “hearing organ” called the cochlea) also changes, and big changes away from your normal make hearing worse.
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