Mirror neurons

You know what mirror neurons are? They are things that causes you to feel what another person feels. Mirror neurons work like when you see someone eating a lemon, you kind of taste the vinegar, without eating it yourself. You are trying to experience what the other person experiences. If you hear someone scream, you immediately try to feel why the other is screaming, for example an awful scream for help. That definitely triggers something, right? It looks like these neurons work when you are seeing or hearing someone.

But i think we underestimate these neurons. I think we can activate those neurons ourselves, without any interaction with an other person. You don't have to see or hear anything to activate these things. Let me explain why I think that is. And maybe you're with me on this.

Don't you have that experience when you are working on a problem and you are kind of trapped into it? And when you ask someone to help you, you come up with the solution all by yourself, only by explaining what you are doing? I think at that moment, we kind of triggered those neurons ourselves. It must because you are unconsciously thinking about what the response will be from that other person.

I was working on the previous blog about talking magic. About having interaction with someone and how that results in more brain activity. But there is more happening than just talking. I wanted to point that out in this blog.

Maybe we can think of an science experiment to proof that this is true. If I figured out how to do that I'll come back to you on that. And of course if I'm proven wrong here, I'll delete this post.