Humor, its role and its effects on our brain

Humor pushes us to fabricate realities and strange scenes where animals talk, wear funny clothes, have jobs and go to cafes to relax and play cards.
We could imagine a camel swimming across the ocean, we could also see a snake buying a pair of pants to share with its wife and fighting with her over which color would fit both of them.
All these weird combination recruit different areas of our brain and force them to connect in very unusual ways.

They bring discordant and opposed idea together into a cohesive bunch, they also create scenes that could only exist in the deep recesses of our brain.
These connections once established and reinforced through these artistic endeavors, make us more creative and imaginative than people who are not found of arts, humor or "illogical, artistic" thinking.

It could also be a smooth alternative that would allow us to present jarring ideas, which, if stripped from its humorous component, would generate resistence, disagreement and ofter anger.

We could consider it as the sweet coating for a bitter medecine.

Humor relaxes us, enhances our mood and open our mind to new ideas, paths and ways of doing things, that seem on the surface drab, uninteresting or downright offensive.