People who like to attend music concerts are familiar with the feeling of unity with others that often arises during such events. Scientists from Canada decided to study this very sensation in detail, and eventually found out some interesting details.
It turned out, in particular, that the people present at the concert have a fairly accurate synchronization of their brain waves. It is this phenomenon, as the researchers are sure, that explains the very special feeling of unity with others that arises at concerts.
“We found a reason why listening to music at concerts is usually much more enjoyable than listening to the same songs on record at home. It's all about the synchronization of brain waves, - said the authors of the study at the University of Western Ontario.
In order to conduct the relevant study, Canadian scientists recruited a group of several dozen volunteers, who shared their brain activity with science. Scientists suggest that the roots of this amazing synchronization go back to the days when our distant ancestors perceived music as something like magic.
Synchronization of brain waves, by the way, also explains the dulling of pain, which is observed when a person feeling pain is held by someone close to the hand.
Kolesnikov Andrey