Rattled

I was with my roommate yesterday and a friend was over, and somehow the topic of being color-blind comes up, and my roommate gives me one of those website-tests to "test your color-blindness." Funny thing is, I've taken it before, but it was years and years ago, maybe junior high or high school.

So I take the test, and it's one of those things where you click click click, and on the last page pops up a gory picture of a woman screaming bloody murder. Naturally, I screamed back at her and launched my laptop away from me, falling back on my bed and laughing, laughing, laughing...

And I don't even know quite how it happened, but when my laughter died down I was still shaky, and pretty soon the inhalations for my laughter turned into inhalations for my tears. Then I started really crying, and I'm still dumbfounded as to how that happened. It was so... unexpected. The next thing I remember is curling up into a ball with my hands over my face, trying to draw breath and being embarrassed that I had launched into a sobbing fit, and then I could hear my own unsteady breathing and I realized how badly I needed to calm down or this might go on forever, so I focused on breathing slowly and finally managed to stop.

I don't understand why I'm so affected.