Poll: soooooo does anyone else get this? #2

[felixdan1]

say in a show on tv you see someone get pricked by a needle you feel a little prick somewhere on your body. it doesnt hurt but its just a prick. or you see a spider ccraling up someones body and you get that feeling of a bug walking around you. so tell me oes anyone else get this?

 

[mindlesspuppet]

There's actually a name for this... which I can't seem to recall... "power of suggestion" works, but there's something more specific... sort of like when someone mentions fleas, and all of a sudden you itch.

There was that really shitty movie made about it... and... I don't remember the title.

Edit: the movie was called.... uh... maybe it's a spoiler...

Spoiler

Bug from 2006

 

[lemiel14n3]

yeah, there's a sympathetic thing you get from movies. I think it's akin to getting queasy when you see someone else throw up, or how yawns are contagious.

 

[smithy_2045]

Never had that happen.

 

[lacktheknack]

It happened to me a couple times during jump scares, but not beyond that.

 

[Brandon237]

Occasionally, but then again certain hypnotists (real professionals, not entertainers) can make a person's skin react as if it has just been burnt, while the person is concious. The mind is easy to warp if a person knows what they are doing and how to get into your head. A good trait for horror book writers.

 

[ilspooner]

Nope. Never. I hope I don't though, it sounds lame.

 

[Blackjack 222]

If i see someones leg snap violently i feel a gripping sensation in my leg. Only sometimes though. If i see a movie with a zombie biting a neck open i don;t feel jack in my neck but if its a bone breaking that area has a gripping sensation as if it were bracing FOR said encounter.

 

[Timmaaaah]

It only happens if I'm super immersed in the film/game. Like in Half Life 2 when... eh it's a spoiler

 

[airwolfe591]

I hate it with Rain in games when I get really immersed, because I feel like I'm getting wet, and I hate getting my clothes wet lol

 

[vxicepickxv]

yeah, there's a sympathetic thing you get from movies. I think it's akin to getting queasy when you see someone else throw up, or how yawns are contagious.

I believe the term you're looking for is mass hysteria.

 

[Nalesnik]

Yes, this is a really thing, and it happens because of our "mirror neurons." This is science, this is fact.

This dude is an expert on them:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization.html
Incredibly interesting, definitely recommend anyone to watch it that wants to know how it all works.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

No. I've never even HEARD of that ever happening until now. Although sometimes the time of day/weather in games gets in my head, and I start subconsciously thinking like it's that time of day/weather in reality.

I guess that's KIND OF the same thing.

 

[DeathsHands]

It's basically just a reaction to seeing things. Varies from person to person.

Kind of an empathic reaction, I suppose you could say.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

I'll sometimes get it in a game if I'm really immersed, like in red dead redemption, I felt cold when it rained once and cane out of my house to feel the baking hot Mexican sun on my arms.

 

[Ghengis John]

No man can watch another take a bad enough shot in the jimmies and not keel over or rush to protect his own. I had a science teacher who was also a skater. He would show us some wipe out videos sometimes. Poor bastards hitting rails at high speeds and sliding down for a flight, that sorta thing. No guy in that room did not feel their pain. And women often say that men lack empathy.

 

[Kortney]

No. I've never even HEARD of that ever happening until now. Although sometimes the time of day/weather in games gets in my head, and I start subconsciously thinking like it's that time of day/weather in reality.

Yeah this happens to me too. Similar to when it is raining in a video game and I start to assume it is raining in real life. It only happens when I am completely immersed though.