Sudden release of emotion

Crying, laughing, or shaking that arose without emotional cause

26% clearly described · 125 people
62% possibly described · 303 people
What is this

Involuntary crying, laughing, shaking, or vocalizing that arises without an obvious emotional cause. These releases appear to accompany the discharge of stored material: energy or unprocessed experience leaving the body through whatever channel is available.

Several accounts describe laughing uncontrollably at nothing in particular, or crying without sadness, the body releasing something without the ordinary emotional story attached.

How common is it
125
Clearly described
Both independent readers marked it from the same rulebook. The conservative count, and the one to quote if only one number is wanted.
303
Possibly described
At least one of the two readers marked it. The wider figure: where the readers disagreed, this is the more generous reading.
From the accounts
Maybe it s released as tears, maybe it s released as sobbing, maybe it s released as shaking and trembling and ecstaticness, but it s released and they re not the same again because they reached the level at which the impact, the imprint took place.
So it's the release of the charge that's been built up and the muscles contraction that we go into when we're in fear, so it's like shaking out all that muscle contraction and balancing the nervous system.
Hey, this isn't so bad. And then I just started shaking and crying because Issa just started to feel the whole space — you become aware that we think of ourselves as inside this body but we're actually much much bigger beings that somehow get stuffed into a little body for a period of time.
I was just in the car and I was just crying, sweeping crying.
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