Sunday, October 17, 2010

It just occurred to me

that while we often make sounds in our sleep it seems we rarely laugh.

Why can't we tell ourselves jokes in our sleep? Or if we do, are the jokes not very funny?

6 comments:

  1. I can't even think of a time I laughed in a dream.

    Does anyone laugh in dreams?

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  2. Sometimes Tracy makes a sound sort of like a laugh but I don't think it really is one. I certainly can't remember laughing in a dream. I mainly feel anxious.

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  3. I think there's a few times where I woke up laughing because of something that was really funny in a dream. Of course, jokes that are funny in my dreams are always not only unfunny once I wake up, but they're never really jokes, just non-sequiturs and nonsense that my dreaming mind convinced itself were really funny.

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  4. But I mean--I don't think even in dream-world I laugh. In the stories of my dreams, nothing funny ever happens. Everything is just weird or panicked or desperate but never hilarious.

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  5. I laugh in my dreams. Often at my own jokes. Usually they seem less hilarious when I wake up, but I have woken up laughing before.

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