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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/UnacceptableHome6993 on 2026-06-27 11:36:54+00:00.

Please excuse my English, its not my first language.

Well, not today as you would have already guessed. This happened a couple years ago on my birthday.

Me and a friend (let's call them Luke) of mine share the same birthday and planned to go on a daytrip and have some fun. We went to the beach, cooked all together and after a long and exhausting day we were chilling in a mutual friend's house. We had already started drinking a bit (nothing too much) and were having fun when a friend of Luke started venting about how hard it was to pay a certain bill because of the way that they had to do it. I said a wordplay joke, that I don't even remember what it was right now, and started laughing. My laugh started normally but then I just kept going. After some seconds of laughing harder and harder I was almost coughing and my chest was moving so hard up and down that I couldn't breath. The next thing I remember was a dream I was having and waking up. Every body was terrified. I was on the floor, my head was hurting and it was like somebody waked me up in the middle of a rem cycle. My friends told me that while I was laughing/coughing I fell off the chair and hit my head to the ground. I was sitting right by a window and they were fearful that I almost fell out of it. They made me stay a couple of hours more so they will be sure I was not having a concussion.

Eventually I was fine except the bump and the headache. I regularly check my health and talked about it with my doctor. His assumption was that it was something with my heart, but the tests didn't show anything. My guess is the that I passed out because I couldn't take a breath.

TL;DR: I said a joke then started laughing so hard I passed out and fell on the floor. My friends freeked out but eventually I was fine.