I haven't noticed that, bur the one thing I have started to notice is that often, before an actor is supposed to cry, they don't blink for ages - obviously to try and conjure irritant tears rather than emotional tears! 

All today, I've been feeling a bit down. Not sure why, just felt kind of hollow and sad and lethargic. Late this afternoon, I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do, so I made myself a playlist of melancholy songs and lay down on my bed.

I listened to a few songs, and it was making me feel quite calm, and then I began to think of a friend that I desperately miss. I've just graduated from university, you see, a place I love more than anywhere in the world, where I've made some of the best friends I've ever had, so I've been feeling sad about all the people I won't be seeing very often any more. A memory came to me: the last time I saw this friend, where I was at the pub with some mates, and we were feeling very affectionate towards one another, and so happy to be in each other's company, but it was bittersweet because I was leaving the town in two days' time.

All of a sudden, thinking of that evening, I went from calm to overwhelmed with emotion. My face crumpled and I closed my eyes and began to sob, dryly at first and then a few seconds later, tears began to leak from my eyes and roll down my face. I did not wipe them away, but I pressed my fists into my forehead to comfort myself. I cried in little bursts; each time I remembered how much I miss my university, my bottom lip trembled and bulged downwards, and fresh tears ran down my cheeks. My sobs were quiet, as I am temporarily living with my family, and I did not wish them to hear me. After about five minutes, I grew calm again. I looked in the mirror, and saw that my face was not red, only wet with tears. I dried my eyes with a tissue. Some of the tears had dripped from my chin onto my chest, so I dabbed there too. It was an odd burst of crying, coming and going very quickly, but I felt better for it - lighter, in comparison to the heavy feeling of the rest of the day.

Now that I think of it, the friend that I was thinking of today is the same friend who was there when I had another sobbing fit, before I l

Odd question, and I may be the only one... but does anyone else, when they're trying to imagine someone crying, ever make the faces and noises themselves? I don't look at what it looks like in the mirror or anything, and I don't get turned on by the thought of myself crying, but just sometimes I 'test out' the expressions and breathing of somebody crying to apply to my fantasy. I find I can achieve better realism in my mental image if I use myself as a point of reference. The sniffling noises, crumpling face, intakes of breath, etc... just me?

How strange - I'm late to this convo, but the reason I've been away a while is because I'm starting a new job soon too! (my first, in fact) Must be a prosperous time for crying lovers.

woundedpuppy wrote:

I keep thinking about this thread!

This is definitely something I think about a lot - why do we feel different sexual things differently? Is there such a thing as an 'emotional fetish', or is what I feel just a weaker kind of fetish but with odd feelings attached? Why do I have this reaction? Why don't I have this reaction to normal sexual stimuli? The whole thing is enormously frustrating.