The two best physicians of them all - Dr Laughter and Dr Sleep.
- Gregory Dean Jr
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If you tickle a young chimp, gorilla or orang-utan, it will hoot, holler
In this video, Dr. Jaak Panksepp describes how he discovered that rats apparently laugh, producing an ultrasonic sound which more resembles chirping than laughter as we typically think of it:
A few weeks ago, I got an email wondering why people sometimes "break into uncontrollable laughter or smiling when faced with terrible situations, like death or illness." Where does this perverse emotional reaction come from? Why do we smile at the most inappropriate times?
Proven! Years back when I had inflammation of the heart muscle, and after being a rag-doll in practitioners' hands, I decided to cure myself: got Ephraim Kishon's books and laugh my guts out! Oh, yes, Ogden Nesh helped a bunch, too (especially in Dragoslav Andric's translation, e.g. "Smesna smesa Ogden-a Nesh-a") :D What I love the best is a combination - the best sleep after good laughter! Thanks, Bora, for this one :-)
Cak u Tibet zivi lama
Nema tata nema mama
Nema zena nema deca
jok mu treba
Streptomeca.
Dakle, carevi i Ogden i Dragoslav! When I got my first child, I was literally crying out of laughing reading Nesh. When I got second child, I even cried more laughing and wondering what a genius Nesh is! See through just like that!
Prvo i drugo dete
Prvo
...
...
Dete zbog koga gubite dah
I posrcete u isti mah,
Blistavo kao zvezde, gipko kao perece,
Jedino savrseno od sve dece!
Drugo
"Jeste, nocas u pola dva...
Dobro su oboje... bio sam tu...
Da li je decko il' seka? Ko zna -
Telefonirajte ujutru babici, pitajte nju."
I would never believe in transformation of the parents in such a short period of time, if it didn't happened to me as well... shame on us!