Quote Originally Posted by sharpestoner
Very interesting you mention this!
I recently bought the magazine "American Scientific" and it had an article on this topic of Pain sensitisation. A long read, but what they did was they had people viewing a tv screen on injuries and that type of thing.
Whilst they were watching the tv, their brain waves were measured through an EEG (Electro EncephaloGraph) and they found out that the pain brainwaves were almost equal to that experienced by reality!
I can take a couple pictures through my 10 megapixel camera of the font if anybody is interested in reading it?
They believe that mirror neurons are a big part of it. They fire the same when you see something done and when you do it yourself. some more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html