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During aikido today I felt my mirror neurons go off while watching two people do an accelerating spiraling down movement. I felt the sensation of being spiraled down most distinctly when it was demonstrated in a very focused and assertive way.
ReplyDeleteWhen I am feeling uncomfortable talking to someone I notice that my mirror neurons kick in and I begin to mirror their posture, energy level, tone of voice and mannerisms.
My mirror neurons also connect to environments as well as people. Weather is a clear example; when it started pouring down hail this afternoon I felt exhilaration, not so much because it was hailing, but because of the excitement and energy that was pouring from the sky.
I mirror noises al of the time! When I am using a power tool or a blender, or a vacuum or any other machine that hummmms, I hummmm too, in a resonating pitch and usually I don't even notice that I am doing it.
I was on my bike waiting to cross Old Fairhaven Parkway this morning and just as I started to go across a car pulled out from the other side of the road and turned and cut me off. The driver put up both his hands in a gesture of, "hey watch where your going buddy." and I immediately felt a similar response towards him that lingered with me for a while. If he had cut me off just the same, but instead given me a wave that said, "sorry, didn't see you," then I think would have also had a similar apologetic response towards him.
During choir today, I felt my mirror neurons firing as I watched a couple soloists perform. Knowing the soloist's material myself, I felt engaged in their singing as if it were actually me singing!
ReplyDeleteToday my roommate was seemingly depressed, and I felt myself experiencing similar feelings simply because I was mirroring his current emotional state of being.
Watching reruns of "America's Funniest Home Videos", including groin shot clips, made we wince as if certain pains inflicted on people in the videos were being inflicted on me.
The thunderstorm that occurred today was mirrored by my actions. The chaos that was my frantic race to get indoors mirrored the chaos of the storm.
Walking by other students on my way to class, I found that those individuals I smiled at smiled back regardless of whether I knew them personally. Those individuals I simply glanced at didn't smile at all. My simplified act of saying hello (through smiling) was mirrored by others.
There are two friends of my roommate's from france who are staying at my house right now, and whenever I'm talking to them I have to refrain from adopting an accent when speaking to them, to sound more french.
ReplyDeleteLike Adam and Elian, i also often mirror my friend's moods quite strongly. I was completely happy, laughing with my friend, but as soon as I switched to hanging out with a friend in a bad mood, my mood immediately plummeted.
A friend of mine is telling a story and furrowing their eyebrows, for instance trying to remember a certain detail, my eyebrows furrowed as well.
A person ran past me today on campus, in a hurry about something, and i noticed that for a moment, i felt as if i was in just as much of a hurry.
Walking past a group of the fifth graders today, who were sitting on the fountain eating their sack lunches and laughing and yelling, I felt myself adopting the same curious and carefree mood that they were in.
Lately I have gotten into the habit of trying to walk like the people who are going the opposite direction of me. I have learned that a lot of people walk in very boring ways.
ReplyDeleteWhen I am trying to dance my way to the bathroom or water in any venue, I adopt people's dance styles as I go past their space.
Yesterday evening I witnessed a woman fall down some cement stairs and I jerked forward and winced, before grabbing my head as I saw that she was bleeding.
A few days ago two people in a row that I did not know smiled at me while I was walking past them, and then I had this huge grin on my face that I couldn't get to leave.
Ian just yawned, and I yawned almost immediately after him.
Learning a dance rutine was the most obvious experience I had of mirror neurons yesterday. I watched the instructor, then I repeated the movement.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone in my dance class became very excited about the peice we were creating I noticed myself smiling as well.
Yesterday when I was cuddling with my cat and trying to do homework I noticed myself slumping like she was. Her purring and deep breaths made me feel very tired.
I noticed in class when I was working with a partner doing the touch activities that we mirrored eachother's expressions. When my partner was interested, amused, bored etc., I felt the same way.
Yesterday the sun was shining. I noticed people all over campus smiling. This put me in a good mood.
Today it was raining, everyone around me was slumping over and huddling under awnings for shelter. I felt awake and happy this morning until I stepped outside and noticed how people were reacting to the weather. Within minutes I was behaving the same way as everyone else.
ReplyDeleteYesterday in dance class we had to do contact partner work. We took turns and I noticed that I sometimes mimicked my partners moves. They were not exactly the same, because without realizing it I had put my own interpretation onto them.
Today my friend called me very upset. Even though she was not in front of me, her emotion carried over to me and I began to feel almost as sad as she was.
Tonight I shared sticky rice and mango with a friend. I was not in that great of a mood, but she was. She was smiling and laughing more than I was, after a few minutes I began mirroring her smiles and it made me feel a lot better. It put me in a great mood.
I fed my friend a bite of food yesterday and as I put the fork into his mouth I opened my own mouth.
-any and all exercises and drills in my Muay Tai Kickboxing class. We mirror ourselves using our mirror neurons in the mirror at the dojo.
ReplyDelete-went to the body exhibit in Seattle. I found myself looking at the muscle and sinew attachments of the cadavers and mirroring their shape, texture, and form in my minds eye so I would remember the body's map as a touched people in the future.
-being a passenger in a vehicle. watching the driver drive and experiencing inwardly how it feel to drive to the point of feeling like I was driving too.
-watching a couple on a movie kiss. I felt like I was being kissed to, and later on I found myself mimicing the woman's posture when I was making out with my boyfriend.
-Watcing people walk in front of me. Sometimes I'll start mimicing their walk until I don't like how it feels, or I'll keep doing it if it feels right.
This morning while walking down a flight of stairs with Anni and Roza, I noticed that our footsteps were completely in sync. It sounded really neat. Once i pointed this out, we could no longer hold the rhythm.
ReplyDeleteWhile watching Roza crawl off the couch and onto the floor hands first, I could feel her ease of movement in my own body.
The checkout guy at the coop was incredibly grumpy. I felt myself mirroring with minimal eye contact and concaving my heart.
Often times in Jenny Macke's dance class I scan the room with soft eyes. Then I'll notice myself integrate more of my body (like my arms) into my movement. THis is b/c I unconsciously noticed another distinctively moving that part of their body.
I think pregnant ladies may have heightened sensitivity in their mirror neurons. When I was about 7 weeks along, I watched a movie were a lady had a miscarriage. The next morning I woke up and completely believed that I had had a miscarriage during the night even though I wasn't bleeding. I had forgotten the details of the movie and was so convinced of my own miscarriage that no one could tell me otherwise.
Today-emotional empathy for a girl who was in training at a pizza place and was getting rally bossed around- I was keenly aware of how she may be felling and it was really affecting me- I told her I liked her hair to cope with the situation.
ReplyDeleteLooking in the rear view mirror and firing nuerons back and forth with my son through smiling- it was and always is contagious and I learn form it everytime.
Seeing my friend check the temperature of her son with her hand on his forehead- I had to do it too- I found myself feeling his forehead without being asked or thinking about it too much.
We are remodeling our bedroom floors- I haven't had a bedroom all quarter- today the varnish went on- my house is really stinky right now from it- kind of unbearable- I find myself with this strange breathing- hold breath sympathy stress for my pets- who I believe can smell it way more than me.
-I came face-to-face with someone in the hallway yesterday, and we did the which-way-should-I-go?-This-Way?-Er-that-way? dance.
ReplyDelete-At work, one of the janitors threw something into the trash. Although I didn't have anything in my hand, I mirrored her throw immediately... then put my hand to my hair to cover up my movement when she looked at me questioningly.
-I was talking with a friend today, and in mid conversation he stopped chopping the brussel sprouts and looked at me to speak directly to me. I stopped chopping, too, and looked at him.
-My friend looked at the time on her phone, and I picked my phone up to check, too.
-I was watching The Two Towers the other night, and realized my facial expressions were mirroring Frodo's and Sam's.