How You Affect Other People’s Brain Waves | Inter-Brain Connections 

Yes and, the brain waves sync up too!

Fun fact

so basically it's an emergent property , that when a group of people interact there have to be a sync pattern somewhere

daphnie816 yeah it wouldn’t work for me, either. I have a limp (I accidentally went cliff diving instead of climbing down a waterfall!).

I definitely see your points and I thought the same thing too with the choir breathing, but to me, the interesting part was that physically separated brains had noticeable correlations. I've always wondered if different brains work in similar ways, or if the individual aspects of one's self actually make your brain behave in a different way, like, with different patterns of brain activity. These studies show that similar actions correspond to similar brain patterns. Two people completing the same puzzle will have similar looking brain scans. I wonder how much this is true in the memories of people. Do I store the color red, or the smell of fresh baked cookies in similar places as someone else? That would be truly interesting. I doubt, for example, that the electrical activity of one's brain is actually affecting the electrical activity of the others, and I wish they clarified this point further in this video. It's pretty click-baity.

@@kindlin It was a bit of a shoddy episode :/ I too found it very frustrating that SciShow never even mentioned what theoretical mechanism the researchers gave for how the brains sync up. Do they think it's due to electromagnetic fields influencing each other's brains? A complex form of subconscious empathy intentionally mimicking each other's brains from visual cues? Or is it just emotionally unimportant functional similarity from brains performing the same task at the same time (and it strengthens with increased attention to the task)? It's very annoying that she didn't fen mention any of these possibilities or which is the leading theory. And to me it's very suspicious that almost all of the activities studied were rhythmic tasks (singing, playing music, even kissing is rhythmic in a way). I can't help wondering if the brainwaves are syncing to the rhythm, rather than to the other people.

I noticed that a lot. as if there is a electromagnetic trigger signal for addressing your mouth which somehow can be picked up by the person closeby.

@@rixterz11 That, or maybe it's just random and we assign significance to the rare event of speaking at the same time, because of our cognitive biases.

I noticed that talking to my friend on Discord....So yeah i guess any kind of engagement will sync your brain waves to your partner.

Yes that would be interesting

I don't think distance stops it from happening.

@@virglibrsaglove agreed, consciousness has no physical (or temporal) confinements.

Well, they can’t speak, so it’s definitely unspoken

@@Trailtracker to clarify "speaking" is referring to howling, whining, growling, or barking.

Im just being a smartass haha

I mean they totally already have, now they just feel vindicated.

Science in quotations.

@@MakkusuOtaku Hey, hey, hey, just because we get things wrong like *everyone else* doesn't mean our ideology is a total crockery

@@coliimusic All I mean is if you don't follow the scientific method then it isn't science.

I prefer to think of it as philosophy. The admiration of knowledge. There is a lot of information that suggests we may have a sixth sense, and while I don't broadcast it as fact, I do believe it's real. No need to bash people for their beliefs. This could be a healthy conversation between two sides that don't necessarily agree but could learn from each other. Basically, get on my wavelength, bro. 😉😉

What if they use telekinesis to influence us I know my dog tells me things all the time just with looks or I’ll sense he needs something randomly and he will need to go out or w/e

@@squidly6179 If your dog tells you things with looks, then it's not telekinesis. Telekinesis involves no sort of non-verbal communication. Maybe you just know your dog pretty well.

Which is why the first study was interesting. Four people all playing cards (same stimulus) but only same teams were in sync. This needs to be explored further with some sort of experiment that ensures two teams are recieving the exact same stimulus. Like some kind of game that's rigged to stalemate.

Isn't this this hindsight phenomenon again? The waves could be quite off, because personality or anything else matter much more.

it gets more fun when you consider quantum entanglement potentials.

Why don't they panic buy toilet hoses or bidets?

Lol

@@Brahmdagh 😂👍🏽

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I don't think this makes sense , where does the dumbassness come from if all of you are smart individually P.S this reminds me of what Dan Pena once said " Show me your friend and I'll show you your future "

More like herd mentality taking over aka lowest common denominator...

@@bdr1414TV I think it's because they don't sync up very well.

People are stupid, but the individual is smart.

bdr 1414 Emergence

COOL!!! 😊😊😊 It all makes "sense".

Love it! Hahhhaaa 😂😂😂 Keep the hat on! 😂

I know i have a difficult time synchronizing my steps with other people I walk.

Well, I think that it would be interesting to hear HOW well they sync up. How this is presented makes me believe that the syncronization goes beong what would be "normal" levels in that situation. I mean that if the person was doing the same activity alone, the brainwave would look different than doing the same activity together. Hence the whole video.

hindsight bias ^

@@andresv.8880 Not only is it an example of hindsight bias, it's also likely incorrect. It's not just the stimulus that's the same but also the thought processes. That is the point of kissing the hand, math problems, etc - in the cases of kissing but with math processes, the sync is much lower despite the sensory input being the same. So the way that people are thinking and how "into" it they are clearly does more than just reflect a similar reaction to the same stimulus.

@@Johnnyoity Or that such processes (the math problems) are more complex and divergent in how they are processed. Regarding playing music--they studied musicians after all. Don't forget that all of this is about tendencies, not that they are always strictly matching, as the video neglected to highlight. Maybe activities that require intentional thought (such as performed by the prefrontal cortex) are different from more intuitive, subconscious processes--the latter of which tends to promote matching brain waves.

"Correlation doesn't imply causation." ?

Consider that this has been found in fMRI scans where subjects look at images. It's not always the same, but it tends to produce similar areas of activation, especially when averaged.

Dark but hilarious. Be safe & well!

@@sentientfetus3894 Whaaaa????

@@AmberAmber Read between the lines

I would say my humming when I was in band allowed me hum, but my vocal chords for being so much lower, I could only hit low notes, but I could hit a fifth below. Synced close enough

Terrible show

@@jerry3790 Eh, I've seen worse.

Liu LiZhe I can only surmise, but I believe basically everything that undergoes a chemical, physical, or electrical process gives off waves of a particular frequency and amplitude. It’s kind of like how a guitar string produces a wave in the form of sound, but you communicate a theme by picking other strings or playing chords in an given number of sequences. However, peoples’ brain waves matching up might not have much to do with the brains themselves linking up. I would hypothesize that a the reason a group of brain waves in a given moment being similar might be attributed to the shared experience at hand. Playing in a band, or kissing your partner, these are synergistic activities.

Its when a brain grows a hand and greets you.

@@TomClarke1995 not exactly, brain waves is a term that describes the patterns of the neurons activation, so in this case waves doesn't mean oscillations per se

I do believe that "brainwaves" are defined as the collected electrical activity in the brain

Nope. Trying a bit too hard.

There was a really neat study done a while back (I think I saw a thing about it at least five years ago? So maybe mid-Oughts to mid-teens somewhere?) about whether or not people really *could* tell if someone was looking at them, and to try and tell what the mechanism might be. So what they did was they set someone up in an empty room, with a camera pointed at them. The camera was constantly on. In another room, there was a monitor playing the camera's feed. And someone in the second room would either be looking at the first person on the monitor, or not. The idea was to completely isolate the two to prevent the person being watched from getting subconscious cues like small rustles, faster breathing, etc from the observer. Well, much to no one's surprise, there was no indication of a feeling of *not* being watched. However, the person reporting the feeling of being watched was correct close to 50% of the time, which is much, much higher than simple guessing would statistically generate. The researchers postulated that a sense of being observed would be beneficial to a prey species, like we hominids usually are and have been, whereas of course there's no evolutionary pressure to evolve a sense of *not* being observed. But they were at a loss to explain it. I've always thought some kind of quantum entanglement might be involved (incorporating that whole thing of how observing quantum states can affect said states); but this seems to explain it rather better? Or perhaps quantum entanglements is how brain waves are able to align in the first place? Of course, given that brain waves are electrical, and given the close relationship between electrical waves and radio waves, there's a possibility that there's some kind of radio connection going on. However, given that radio waves basically travel at light speed, any experiment that involves seeing if there's any kind of measurable delay in alignment or the sense of being watched when distance increases is pretty much going to have to wait for a manned Mars mission. Even the Moon is probably too close to be useful for this, assuming we even had anyone there... Anyways, fascinating stuff, and I'm about to fall asleep so I'm probably about to go full woowoo ha. Sorry! But that study was super interesting, and now I'd love to see it reproduced but while measuring both people's brain waves!

@@KryssLaBryn I feel like I'm bragging when I say I can feel people's energies, but my life experience tells me I must be sensitive to something. There were multiple events growing up where I got a weird vibe from people & would separate myself from them socially. My parents would give me a hard time & make me be nice & spend time with them, or tell me I was just being snobby, only for them to show their true colors at some point & I would just be like, "SEE?!" It was really stressful as a child to be around large groups of people for extended periods of time like school because there was always bad energy. I ended up getting an ulcer from stress in high school. When I moved out into apartment life it was even more nerve racking because I didn't have those home base family energies to go back to at the end of the day. I ended up getting injured & developed fibromyalgia & had to move back home about 4 years ago, and now when my parents aren't here I can feel my stress levels go up until they're back in the house. I don't even have to talk to or see them since I'm mostly bed ridden now, but as long as I can feel them in the house I'm less anxious. I've always wondered if that's connected to brainwaves & the like & if it could be measured...

The 'Singing to the Baby' experiment might point towards Micro-expressions, Micro-gestures combined with the Mimicry effect. Personally, Im holding out for the awakening of psychic powers. Rise my brothers! XD

Right? I'll synch up my breathing, too, if we're lying together. But if we're walking and I don't do it deliberately, it doesn't happen.

Nope, I'm colorblind.

@@valderon3692 hahhhhaaaa 😂