Would your tears of joy look different than your tears of grief? Tears are stress leaving the body and actually look different and depend on the emotion you may be feeling. Rose-Lynn Fisher wondered this exact question and took a look at dried human tears beneath a microscope.
She studied up to 100 different tears and discovered that they are drastically different for every human experience we have.
Tears of timeless reunion
Tears are so precisely different that Joseph Stromberg, of the Smithsonian’s College of Arts and Sciences, says some tears even contain natural pain killers which is released in the tears. There are three types of major tears: basal, reflex, and psychic (triggered by emotions).
Tears of possibility and hope
Tears from laughing until crying
Tears of momentum, redirected
Tears of remembrance
Basal tears
Tears of remembrance
Tears from onions
Tears of change
Tears of release
Tears of grief
Tears of ending and beginning
Just as no one snowflake is the same, no tears are the same either. You can check out more information about this over at her website. Don’t forget to share these tears with your friends on Facebook! (h/t lifebuzz)
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