how pain can sometimes be used to create laughter?

Answer 1

I am not sure how you can use it to create laughter as you said above. Sometimes, you have to find laughter or the tears will envelop a person so they cannot handle it. I work in the medical field. There is a lot of pain there. We are always finding ways besides of the prescribed pain re-leavers (that do not always work) to get their minds off of pain, or to relieve pain in other ways. Sometimes a different position in the bed, or a back rub, or a funny show on television, or someone telling a silly story will help get their minds off of the pain.

Answer 2

If you mean phsyical pain I don't know that it can create laughter
However it is for sure that mental anguish can induce laughter. The Greeks and later the Romans used to incorporate "comic relief" into their "tragedies". When the play reached a traumatic peak the authors would put in an aside that was humorous because they understood that the human mind can only take so much and then it begins to look for "relief". Laughter is one form of relief from what is other wise unbearable.

For that reason it is not unusual at all to see people laughing at funeral homes, hospitals, nursing homes or any where their is tradegy and this is normal and even natural to do so. It is a form of relief and is a way of coping with otherwise unbearable circumstances.

Answer 3

The question may be viewed by a weird person as nothing new. " I always inflict pain on others and I am happy about it and I heartily laugh!"
But if the question really concerns a person in pain and in laughter, the only thing that comes to me mind is the labour pain of the woman, about to deliver. For all the others around her, including the doctors and the nurses , it is a joyous occasion to be unfolded. It is in this state that the woman delivers , just out of pain and looking at the tiny life laughs .

Answer 4

Hi!

For example, you are walking with your friends and you run into a closed glass door (instead of opening it... I guess you didn't see it). You hit your head and smashed your nose. Your friends start laughing as you scream and cover your face with your hands. It is not that they are laughing at your pain, they are laughing at your mistake (not seeing the door closed)... however, your mistake was a painful one. You yell, "Don't laugh! It really hurts!"... which makes them laugh even harder. Soon, you begin to laugh too... also finding humor in the situation as your mind forms a picture what they saw... afterall, if it had happened to one of them, you would have laughed too...

Overwhelming emotional/mental pain can cause laughter as well... this is harder to explain. See, lets say you are having a really bad day. Everything that could have gone wrong does... your dog died, your husband left you, you got fired from your job, etc. As you are sitting at home alone, you think that nothing else bad could happen... at least nothing worse then what you have just endured... and what doesn't kill you only make you stronger and that you will make it through this... etc... (you are trying to coax your mind into positive thinking). You turn on the TV and the news guy says a blizzard is coming. Then, a moment later, your electricity goes off. It turns out that you forgot to pay your bill... and you have no money to pay it because your husband cleared the bank accounts when he left. You start laughing. You're being overwhelmed by what is happpeing to you, and that it is funny because for a moment, you thought you could win against the universe... that you could overcome everything that has happened to you today and now this is added on top of it... It is crazy... it is like the universe is working against you. It is just not possible that this many bad things can happen to one person in one day... it is unbelievable. You have to laugh... because if you don't, you will fall so deep into despair that you will never got out of it...

Do you know what I mean?

Then, a few years later... you life is perfect now. You have a new dog, a new (and better) husband, and a job that pays twice as much as the one you were fired from. You think back to that day and smile... look at you now. Your new best friend, the one you are currently having coffee with asks you why you are smiling. You tell her about that day and she starts laughing and says, "You sound like you were living an old country song. I can't believe that so many bad things happened to you all in one day. Someone should make a movie about it..."

Look at movies like "War of the Roses" and "Love Stinks", "Nothing but Trouble" and "Big Trouble", etc... these are all comedies...

Best Wishes...
T.

Answer 5

If you have the motto "LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE", it is absolutely possible! And it is amazing too how it can be done.

In most cases an embarrassing moment is also a hilarious scenario. Or a painful event can evolve into a story with a good ending. As long as you have the motto mentioned above, everything will end in laughter, whether it is crying out laughing or just smiling of happiness, having a heart full of blossoms!! Your own attitude towards life determines that.

Also, denial can prevent you from seeing the "laughter-side" of the event or moment or stage in your life. Admit it and LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE!!


To add a recent story:
My best friend got married last year and moved abroad to be with her husband. About a week after their first wedding anniversary she phoned me, crying, her husband just told her he wants a divorce. At first I was crying with her, I was also in shock. But a few minutes later I told her, "WELL LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE, you are now also part of the 'divorcee-clan'. Welcome!" (I am also divorced) And Then I added: "At least you made your first anniversary!" (I didn't) We cried out laughing.
(And I still tease her that she is now a "statistic". It might sound harsh, but she knows I respect her feelings, because she knows I love her. And I have also motivated her to cry. Lots!)

The crying is to get rid of the shock and pain and the laughing is to heal and to LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE! And to move on.

Answer 6

the only thing that comes to my mind is quite mean. If some one we don't like is in pain, that may bring a smile every once and a while, but not real out loud laughing tho.

Answer 7

Just watch the Three Stooges. What can be funnier than a face slap, an eye poke, or a hit in the head with a sledge hammer.

OK, OK, it's a guy thing.

Answer 8

no misunderstood! laughter is sometimes used to ease pain

Answer 9

Mostly it is PAIN !!!

Without pain there wouldn't be any humor.
Ask people who survived Hitler and Stalin.
They can laugh... and those people have
a special kind of humor!!!

Answer 10

unfortunitelly not every one can deal with pain in that way it all depends on how open minded you are and how you let the outcome of thing affect u ............ I've alwais don it and I swear people think im crazy u have to be kid of cold-hearted to do it, cause u gotta completly ignore your natural emmotions