Crying is one of the most common emotional reactions in humans. Pretty much everyone has cried at one time or another in their life.Emotional tears seem to be a uniquely human experience. So what are some interesting facts to know about crying and the tears that come along?
1. There are four types of tears.
• Emotional tears - which happens when you are overwhelmed by emotions.
• Reflex tears - which flows to clean out debris when your eyes are irritated by onions or pollen.
• Basal tears - which lubricate your eyes and keep them clean.
• Crocodile tears - well, this is an unofficial fourth form, but people who have superb acting skills can create them.
2. Tears have three layers.
• The lipid layer (oil)
• The aqueous layer (water)
• The mucous layer (mucin)
3. Holding of tears and pretending to be okay puts lots of stress on your mind as well as on your heart. Crying keeps you healthy.
4. A good cry makes you feel better, and a bad cry may make you feel worse.
5. Crying is caused by sense of pain, sorrow or emotions etc. Pain, sorrow and emotion act as a trigger for release of energy through these acts.
6. Researchers believe emotional tears may be evolutionary adaptation.
7. The nose is running when you are crying, because the tears actually goes into the nasal passage. Some of them end up in your nose, so your nose runs.
8. Tears come from the lacrimal gland.
9. Crying literally flushes unhealthy bacteria out of the human body, strengthening the immune system while relieving stress.
10. Having someone ask you "Are you okay? " actually causes you to tear up even more when you are trying not to cry.
11. Humans are the only animal that cry tears of sadness.
12. Babies average about 1-3 hours of crying everyday.
13. By crying you accept your emotions, you can strike a balance in your life means being able to strike a balance between your emotions and feelings.
14. While crying from happiness the first tear will come from your right eye, but if you are crying from sadness, it will come from the left eye.
15. Women cry 3-5 times more often than men. Testosterone seems to have an inhibiting influence on crying as well.
16. Your tears can generate electricity.
17. Tears have different chemical compositions depending on the emotion you feel.
18. Seeing somebody cry changes your perspective on that person. People who cry are percieved as more empathic, reliable, sincere, and less aggressive. However seeing somebody cry also has negative effects as the person is seen as less emotionally stable.
19. If someone can't cry, he/she is weak.
20. Crying is how your body speaks when your mouth explain the pain you feel.
21. SYN-PROPANETHIAL-S-OXIDE is the reason why onions make you cry. It is a chemical irritant that stimulates the lacrimal gland which make you tear up.
22. Women have physically smaller tear ducts than men.
23. If someone cries on little things, he/she is innocent and soft hearted.
24. Prolactin is a protein that affects the endocrine system which may cause women to cry more often than men. Women have 60% more prolactin in their body than men.
25. If you feel tears coming on a need, to hold them back, relax your jaw and refrain from blinking.
26. People are more likely to cry at night, because lack of sleep makes emotions hard to control.
27. A neurological condition called pathological laughing and crying (PLC) can cause involuntary crying at inappropriate condition.
28. The human body produces an average of 5-10 ounces of basal tears each day.
29. Physical signs of helplessness like crying, are not threatening signals. As such, tears could reduce violence better than an argument.
30. Crocodile tears are real.
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