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⌈ Secret Post #3115 ⌋

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[Tom Selleck]

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[Kylie Bunbury]

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[My Life as a Teenage Robot]

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[The Raid 2]

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[Ore Monogatari]

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[noel fielding]

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[Matsumoto Jun, Arashi]

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[The Quiz Broadcast (That Mitchell and Webb Look)]

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Have you ever been so stressed/tired that you couldn't stop laughing at stupid jokes? Like really, really stupid jokes?

I found myself laughing last night at what I realized today is pretty much the stupidest, most Tumblr-like thing I've ever seen. Why was I laughing? But somehow last night I thought it was the funniest thing I had ever read.

Yes. There's his place I go in my head when I'm sleep deprived ore at the end of my strength, where i just gigle uncontrollably at bullshit. It's sort of bittersweet though.

Okay, so not alone then. This was me last night at 3AM and today all I can do is shake my head.

Oh yeah, definitely. Vive le decompression, baby.

Absolutely. Doesn't even have to be jokes, I tend to find everything vaguely absurd when I'm tired/loopy/in pain. I went 52 hours without sleep once, and ended up hiccuping and giggling over a beeping microwave. Another time I sprained or twisted or did something to my ankle, enough that I couldn't put any weight on it at all, and I was trying to hobble to somewhere with a phone by following a wall, when I came to this big open space between me and salvation. I hadn't a hope of getting across it alone, and for some reason I found that really hilarious at the time. A nice local found me giggling to myself while hanging off the end of the wall, and helped me sit down somewhere and get help. And yeah, those are both extremes, but even in the run-up to them the world seems to take on a strange, funny cast when you're tired and too loopy to understand it properly.

I figure laughing is an emotional stress valve when you're at the end of your rope. Laughing or crying, either way. It's venting emotion the only way you're able and, when you're that far gone and there's that much internal pressure built up, it doesn't take much to set it off.

Okay, this makes me feel better. It has just never really happened to me before. I mean, I've had times where I've laughed more or found something a little funnier, but never before have I found myself laughing at something that I actually think is ridiculous.

It used to happen to me semi-regularly, since my sleeping patterns are the first thing to go when I'm stressed, and I'm somewhat prone to depressive episodes. There was a period where I was staying awake for forty hour stretches while sleeping for about fourteen hours in between them, and it went on for a couple of weeks, and towards the end of it I think I was pretty much constantly hysterical. Laughing, crying, zoning out completely, losing bits of time. That one took some time to get settled from.

So, yes. If you're currently undergoing a fairly intense period of stress, more than you're used to, or just coming at a bad time generally, some mild hysteria/laughing fits/crying fits/occasional zoning are all things that can happen, and they're pretty normal. If they start getting out of control, though, happening very regularly or intensely, or beginning to frighten you, then I'd go to a doctor. On their own, they just happen when you're particularly over-tired, but if they become regular it's usually a sign you're heading more deeply off-kilter.

Sleep deprivation ABSOLUTELY makes shit funnier, to the point where it was a joke among my college roommates that if the phrase "CRAB BATTLE" made you giggle for more than 15 seconds running, it is time to go to sleep.

Okay, that made me laugh. I may be more behind on sleep than I thought.

Once I laughed for thirty seconds straight at a random neckbeard joke. It wasn't even that funny.

I have totally done that! It's a little like being super-drunk.

Yes. Horrible things like people getting murdered become easy to laugh at when I'm so stressed nothing else seems to matter

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