laughter has also been found to make people alert stimulate the brain and enhance learnning it also helps people to be morn productive to communicate more effectively to sleep more soundly and to form friendship more easily in the mid-1990s a doctor from india was struck by these benefits and brainstormed a way to bring more laught into his patients live the doctor madan katarai gathered a grup of people together in a local park to practice laughing as part of a laughter club during the club meetings katarai would prompt members to laught in a variety of ways for example he would tell them to greet one another with a laugh or to laugh like a lion although kataria discovered that fake laughter produced the same health benefits as genuine laughter he was gratified to finf that it usually didn't take long for fake laughter to turn into real laughter