Name: Touch - Mind Field (Ep 6)
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:52:35.000Z
Duration: 21 min 36 s
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optical illusions  get all the attention.

I have some hot dog halves in an ice bath.

Now what I'm going to do is marry the halves together

When I'm done, I will have a torture device.

- Rosanna Pansino is the host  of the YouTube cooking show

- So I thought she would be  the perfect candidate

- Now you didn't hear or see anything I just did, right?

What I want you to do is take the bottom of your forearm

- But none of them is as hot as they all felt together.

So what's going on? - I don't know. Magic?

And for reasons that are still being debated,

Maybe the sensors we have, specific to hot and cold,

makes the body think, "Whoa, whoa, whoa."

If they're both firing that near to each other,

- Red alert, yeah. - That's what my arm did.

without there ever being a mark or any actual damage.

- That's pretty sneaky. - Do try this at home.

that send touch-related sensory information to the brain.

don't even need to be generated by nerve endings.

The most well-known type of sympathy pain

Sympathy pain is also known as synesthetic pain.

It's pain sparked by seeing someone else get hurt.

- Amputees can actually  be more susceptible to it

because experiencing trauma can  make the brain more sensitive

can be demonstrated  by the nocebo effect.

Have you ever heard  of the placebo effect?

because they have a positive  expectation it will work.

they're going to experience  something unpleasant,

even if it actually exists  only in their mind.

We've told our subject that  she's participating in a study

to test a non-invasive  bone density scanner.

But actually,  it's a totally fake machine

that we built from a desk lamp,  an air compressor,

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Touch - Mind Field (Ep 6)

intense

illusion

physical

scale