where does that feeling come from to make us laugh?is it a reflex?do animals laugh?

Answer 1

Yes animals laugh.
Watch the movie, Animals Are Beautiful People Too.
In it, there is a certain time of the year in Africa where this certain tree grows, where certain fruit falls from it, where it ferments into alcohol.
Animals plan vacations to make it to this tree every year where they all get completely drunk.
Falling down drunk, apes, chimps, giraffes, elephants, rhinos, and the tree is on a hill.
Know about gravity?
Apparently when they start to sober up, if they don't have a splitting headache, they amuse them selves by watching the other animals roll down the hill.
And while they are drinking and GETTING drunk, they DO laugh at each other.
It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Hope you get to see the movie.

Answer 2

Laughter comes from a couple different areas in our brain. It's not completely known if animals can laugh, because the belief is that one has to comprehend what's going on in order to interpret it as funny. But there are results showing other animals making sounds that can be interpreted as laughter, and the "social" result is good - meaning others of that species relax more, or "seem" happier. Much like how when we hear someone laughing we can end up laughing ourselves. Also, when we interpret something as funny - we release endorphins (you know, the same happy feeling you get in other happy feeling situations) which relax the body and allow you to express your happy feeling with laughter. Another reason they say laughter is good for the body!

Answer 3

I heard once that laughter was how the brain reacted to something unexpected happening. I was kind of skeptical at first but then the more I thought about it, it made sense.

Jokes utilize this by typically having a punchline that isn't really that guessable. I can't speak for everyone, but I know that when I know a punchline to a joke, I don't typically laugh. Then there are times when I get startled (like, if someone jumps out at me from around a corner or something), first, I freak out then I laugh usually rather hysterically. If I do something or say something stupid that I did not mean to, after I climb out of the hole I just dug myself, I tend to laugh. Nervous laughter is another good example of this: you might not know what to expect so you kind of chuckle and giggle nervously. Think of a haunted house or something like that where the intent is to keep you on your toes and scare you.

I have never looked it up or anything and maybe now is the time to, but that was my understanding of it.

Answer 4

Everything in this world is a perverted reflection of the absolute world. We are in Maya or illusion. It is temporary and full of misery. But we laugh because God laughs. It's not some reflex. We are people with feelings. God is the Supreme Person. If you would like to see things as they are and have the veils of illusion removed and be always happy the quickest and easiest way is to chant the Maha Mantra or the Great Mantra For deliverance. (deliverance from the miseries and illusion and suffering. go to http://www.stephen-knapp.com/chanting_hare_krishna.htm everything is there and e-books too

Answer 5

If you watch babies laugh, they sometimes start out being afraid (like when someone says, "BOO!") They get scared and when they realize everything is OK, they laugh. Why adults laugh is more complicated: Surprise, embarrassment, relief that the joke is on someone else, something unexpected, something utterly ridiculous, etc. I do know that if you try to dissect why something is funny, it stops being funny. Sometimes when you try to tell someone a hilarious happening, you wind up saying, "Well, I guess you had to be there." It's a very interesting question.

Answer 6

Laughter is infectious and is passed along more quickly among groups of people.

If one person is laughing then others will turn to see why and will start laughing as well even if they don't see what is funny.

Try it. You'll be surprised!

Answer 7

apes seem to laugh after a fashion. They make a openmouthed play face.. The ha ha noise of human laughter ultimately has its origins in the ritualized panting laughter of our primate ancestors. pretty interesting huh :)

Answer 8

pleasure makes me laugh, a reaction to another experience foreign to my current one, that puts me on edge, or throws me over that edge.

and yes, the animals do.