Creativity, Intelligence, REM sleep & Depression

There is research currently being done that will, eventually, link creativity, intelligence, REM sleep & depression. Half the connections are already known.

Basically, it works like this: The more creative & intelligent you are, the more likely you are to run 'scenarios' in your sleep. Most of the time, they fail, causing the depression link. The most creative & intelligent, will find, either consciously or unconsciously, an eventual successful outcome to the scenario. Thus, we evolved, because the ones who were more adaptable mentally lived & reproduced, while the ones less successful & prepared, got squished.

This is why a LOT of geniuses & creative people [note comedians here] suffer from depression. HUMOR IS A DEFENSE MECHANISM.

Before my depression was discovered/diagnosed,

people either didn't want to be around me because I was too negative,

or DID like being around me, because I was funny.
A creative person, depressed about reality, will find a way to laugh about it, if for no other reason, than to keep from crying.

Also, a 5’ 6”, 115 lb. high school student*, can use humor as verbal kung fu.

*[I now weigh 230, exactly twice as much.  It’s like I cloned myself & ate him.]