Science and Mythologies behind Tears: Tears Fact

What do you think about your tears? Why did they comes out from your eyes?

Tears are a natural response to a range of emotions from joy to sadness, anger to frustration. However, tears are not solely confined to their emotional expressions, they also carry symbolic and spiritual connotations.

Humans produces three types of tears:

Basal tears: They help to keep the eyes moist every time a person blinks.

Reflex tears: They are triggered by some irritants like smoke, onion, spray etc.

Emotional tears: When people talk about crying, they are usually referring to emotional tears.

 Here's are some crucial and rare facts that will let you people know why living creatures shed tears:

1. Tears from the right eye are often associated with happiness, while tears from the left eye are  associated with sadness.
2. It is believed that crying helps a person to fall asleep more easily.
3. According to the researchers, emotional tears contain stress hormones, so crying makes a person feel better.
4. Roman Empire believes that tears are linked to Romantic pleasures, crying made the beloved one desirable to their lover.
5. At the time of crying, some tears drained down to nasal passage, that cause nose to run.
6. Tears are made of proteins, salts and hormones.
7. Tears are a sign of God's mercy and a gift to mankind.
8. According to Roman mythology, dewdrops are the tears of the Goddess Aurora, who weeps every morning over the death of her son.
9. The phrase" Crocodile tears" means that a person pretends to be sad, it comes from a tale about crocodiles who killed a group of men and then cried while feasting on them.
10. "Bali" is Known for its tearless funerals. In Bali, funerals are held 2 years after the person is died.
11. Despite studies showing that tear gas can cause miscarriages, brain damage and respiratory problems, it remain the most popular riot-control tool worldwide.
12. The scent of a women's tear reduce sexual arousal in men while scent of women's sweat can increase sexual arousal in men.
13. Tears of men are less likely to spill down their faces because of their larger tear ducts.
14. When a women cries, it lasts for six months but man's crying session lasts for around 4 minutes.
15. In many cultures, left eye is sometimes associated as "Evil Eye" or the "Eye of devil".