You don't have to watch the youtube video, just play it in the background and continue to do whatever you are doing, when the clip ends, post in a spoiler what changes of your body it has produced.
Should be interesting!!
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It made my hands sweat a bunch

I just read it in my psych book and thought it's pretty interesting

Azrael1111

United States550 Posts

November 02 2009 09:18 GMT

I got annoyed by the other noises besides the heartbeat and wondered what they were and why they didn't find a better way of recording it, but otherwise nothing.

caldo149

United States469 Posts

November 02 2009 09:46 GMT

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I got a bit tense inside, but I get that when I listen to hardcore techno (170~180 bpm), which I do rather frequently.

also, can you elaborate more on what you read about this on your psych book?

Always

United States376 Posts

November 02 2009 10:07 GMT

I think I felt my heartbeat getting faster, but it might have been because I was already primed to think that it could have some effect on me. No sweaty hands or anything for me though.

Maybe it's because the sounds kind of scared me.

Zurles

United Kingdom1659 Posts

November 02 2009 10:24 GMT

made me hungry

Virtuoso

United States119 Posts

November 02 2009 10:34 GMT

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oh wow.
it took me on like a journey
also sounds scared me.

KrAzYfoOL

Australia3037 Posts

November 02 2009 10:57 GMT

I recognised it as a placebo effect and it did nothing.

niteReloaded

Croatia5281 Posts

November 02 2009 11:18 GMT

Placebo effect is such a shallow concept.

What if the music actually has a tendency to raise your heartbeat(without someone telling you about it beforehand), but you believing that it's placebo actually does what placebo does i.e. ensure that nothing will happen. You with me?

I would love to make a study with people using real pills but being told it's placebo. I have a feeling things would get interesting.

minus_human

4784 Posts

November 02 2009 11:28 GMT

^I like how you think, placebo effect (well, counter-placebo if you will) messing around with me was the first to pass trough my mind when reading this.

And really, I believe music can actually evoke certain states of mind which may, on occasion, lead to physiological manifestations, like how you can become relaxed or nervous when listening to classical music or the soundtrack of a horror movie, respectively

Scaramanga

Australia8090 Posts

November 02 2009 13:20 GMT

#10

My hands got a little sweaty thats about it

Zurles

United Kingdom1659 Posts

November 02 2009 13:46 GMT

#11

it reminded me of this song as well

SirGlinG

Sweden933 Posts

November 02 2009 15:15 GMT

#12

It reminded me of stressed up feelings. It made me stressed, but I didn't know about what, but after about 2 minutes I just got used to it.

Alur

Denmark3900 Posts

November 02 2009 15:18 GMT

#13

Nothing happened, except now i am conscious of my heartbeat.

Impervious

Canada4147 Posts

November 02 2009 17:37 GMT

#14

It made me hungry, that's it. It didn't raise my heartrate. I checked it 4 times while listening - beginning, 1/3 of the way in, 2/3 of the way in, and at the end. The total variation of my heart rate was 6 beats per minute.....

ecDIESEL

United States132 Posts

November 02 2009 17:45 GMT

#15

raised my heart rate and made me sway with the beat a bit.

quirinus

Croatia2489 Posts

November 02 2009 23:34 GMT

#16

It was very annoying to listen to the heartbeat. Other sounds didn't really bother me.

My heartbeat didn't really change much. Maybe a bit sweaty palms (I usually don't have that), but I don't know if it has to do anything with this, since it's pretty hot here, and the repulsive sound of that video stressed me and made me anxious.

Could read worse at the start, since I was more concentrated on the sound. Later I started breathing deeply to remove some tension.