Do you ever just laugh?

[cherokeeprogressive]

Do you ever laugh at nothing at all? Sometimes I find myself chuckling for reasons I'm at a loss to explain. I just laugh. Sometimes it's a belly laugh that just builds until I'm gasping for breath, wheezing, and have tears running down my cheeks. Other times it's just a chuckle. It can happen with friends, my wife, or just when I'm alone.

I'm not the kind of person who could "laugh at a schoolbus crash", but sometimes the strangest things can set me off. I can't explain why, it just happens. I'd say that at least once a month I have a laughing fit that leaves me breathless.

On the other hand, sometimes a simple lyric in a song or a guitar riff or a line of dialogue in a movie or even a fucking COMMERCIAL can cause a hitch in my breath, and bring a tear to my eye. Commercials do that to me sometimes. My wife thinks there's something different about how my brain is wired than most other people. She's pretty patient with me though, as sometimes my laughing fits have happened in the middle of disagreements we've had. Nasty words, angry recriminations, and then suddenly the argument is impossible to resolve because out of nowhere I get the laugh. When the laughing ends, there still needs to be a resolution to whatever disagreement we've had. That's not always possible when I've laughed at whatever our disagreement was about. I can't hold a grudge, she can.

I should add that in my 49 years, I've NEVER had a headache. I've had hangovers, but those aren't headaches. I cannot for the life of me relate to a situation my friends have found themselves in, where they say: "I'm getting a headache".

NO headaches, EVER. Laughing fits that leave me breathless, that can happen even in the middle of a heated discussion with either friends or family. Heartburn? What's that? Never felt it.

My ex-Wife once said that I'm the way I am because I don't care about anything. If that were the case, why would I get teary over freaking COMMERCIALS?

So the question still stands: Do you ever just LAUGH?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

1. oh yeah

I've had several laugh attacks in my life that lasted for hours. Don't know what set them off but nobody around me was laughing after about the first half an hour.

I laugh at inappropriate things I've been told. I wouldn't laugh at a school bus crash but I have laughed when I've seen somebody fall down (I'm laughing right now just typing this) or some other minor mishap. I feel terrible inside for laughing but I can't stop myself.

I also laugh at myself a lot or the absurdity in life. My mom calls it the "gift of laughter." I figure you can laugh or you can cry. I do both but I'm thankful for the gift of laughter.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. I really really like my supervisor at work...

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...she's young and ambitious and mission-oriented... but she
sees the people she's over as people first -- and only THEN
as ways/tools to achieve a purpose. It's a very nice and
refreshing attitude.
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I had one gigantimundous asshole of a customer on my line
who was demanding compensation for some "bad charges"
that took some of the most convoluted logic to inspire her
call that I have ever heard from this sort of situation. The
kind that truly DESERVES nothing more than an eventual
SFTU -- though, of course... one can't go with the obvious
response.
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This woman was on what we recognized as a power trip --
the "bending to her will" being MUCH more important after
a while than the few dollars she was looking for (a tip for
everyone -- treat customer service reps as the living
breathing human beings that they are and many of them
will bend over backwards, go far above-and-beyond to
help you -- treat them like shit and they will turn into
stone). Anybody who REALLY wanted compensation
would have realized they had run into a stone wall, hung
up... and called back until they found SOMEONE more
receptive/eager to make them go the fuck away.
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Eventually long, LONG periods of "you blink first" silence
(once it had reached an absurd level of me saying the
same thing over and over and over again).
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Anyways... she demanded a supervisor (I had been
uberprofessional up to that point, so wasn't concerned --
and JUST managed to keep from saying "Thank you thank
you thank you fucking THANK you").
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After several minutes with this EXTREMELY frustrating and
pointless call, my supervisor very nicely asked her to hold,
took off her headset and (she was standing) started stomping
her feet and slapping my desk RAPIDLY in order to vent some
of her tension.
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All of a sudden... she had gone BOOM -- flat on her ass!!!!!
Obviously not hurt, I was helping her up and couldn't keep
from laughing my OWN ass off... which started HER laughing
her poor bruised ass off. It was quite some time before we
both composed ourselves enough for her to actually return to
that call.
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It was GREAT!!! Made my week.
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If she had been a vindictive jerk who would have eventually
had me fired in retaliation for laughing "at" her, I would not
have been able to keep from doing so whatsoever. I don't do
"deadpan" very well.
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[LiberalAndProud]

3. Would you trade? Migraines and heartburn for unexpected laughter?

I'll throw in a backache for good measure.

I love a good belly laugh, but they are all too rare. Tearing up is easy. All I have to do is watch an episode of The Choir.

Is your laugh filled with humor, even when you don't know what you're laughing at?

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. I would have to say yes. n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yes.

a lot.

[applegrove]

6. I used to come up with one or two hilarious jokes a month. I used to joke all the time.

Now my sense of humour has disappeared.

[Schema Thing]

7. The first hit I took of Salvia divinorum

caused me to laugh for what seemed like an hour (turns out it was only about 3 minutes).


Maybe something triggers the same effect w/o drugs in you?