Dopamine and music.

[mikegrove4]

Here is an interesting music, related article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109/ap_ ... _the_brain
It's about a study of what happens to the brain during build ups and crescendos and the anticipation thereof.

It talks about 'chills' that people feel at certain points in music.

Dopamine surged in one part of the striatum during the 15 seconds leading up to a thrilling moment, and a different part when that musical highlight finally arrived.

When I thought of the type of chill I get at such points, I had one there and then!
Did my brain secrete those chemicals purely from the memory of such an event? Yes.
That is the power of the mind!

I suppose it's meant to, so that good (or bad) associations can be formed and then relived in case we were in any doubt whether to try that type of experience again.

[mikegrove4]

this is the kind of thing I am alluding/referring to.

Do We See With Our Eyes or Brain?

Scientific experiments have shown that if they attach somebody to a machine to watch brain activity, and they ask them to look at an object certain areas of the brain light up. If they then ask the same people to close their eyes and imagine the object, the same brain activity occurs meaning that they are actually seeing the object, but in the mind. But doesn’t this call into question what is actually real? Are we seeing ‘reality’ with our brain or our eyes? Well of course, it is our brains. If we do not believe that something is possible, we do not see it. Our eyes are seeing more than our brains are able to process.

Read more at Suite101: The Power of The Mind - Quantum Physics
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-pow ... z1AdOzwy3G