So I was finally reading my textbook. It happens rarely. But when I was, it mentioned that there was a study done on monkeys and other animals where they hooked up their neurons to machines and they recorded any time the neurons fired while the animal reaches for the food. Then, they would notice that the same neurons would fire when the animal watched humans do the reaching for food. Apparently when you watch something your brain actually mimics the action, even if your muscles don't respond in the same way.
Later tonight I was watching the movie Expendables 2 with David, and I randomly remembered that story during one of the fight scenes. And instantly I smiled because I was thinking "wouldn't it be funny if our muscles DID react when we watched things?" Imagine a movie theater full of people doing exactly what's on screen. Making out, punching the air, walking, running.... Bad ass.
God I am strange.
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