You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that there is such a thing as a music mind-meled.

It turns out when you watch live music together with other people, your brain synchronizes

with theirs.

That brain bonding is linked with having a better time when you listen to music.

This comes from neuroscientists at Western University in Canada.

It's actually London, Canada because they name things weird up here.

They split people into two different groups.

Some of them watched a live concert, some watched a recording of a concert, and some watched

the recording with a large audience or just a few other people.

They did this wearing electrodes on their head, EEG caps, looking incredibly cool.

They found that the delta brain waves of audience members who watched the music live

were more synchronized than people in the other two groups.

This delta brain waves fall in the frequency range that corresponds roughly with the beat

of the music, which means that maybe the beat of the music is driving synchronicity, which

would drive all those weird ancient drumming tribal practices that we keep finding across

almost every old culture on the planet.

The new findings are just a reminder that we are social creatures and doing things all

by yourself isn't always the right thing to do.

Maybe go to a live concert because science says you should, and it's kind of cool.

This came out of the cognitive neuroscience society as well.

I found that.

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