Your brain and body are in a constant feedback loop. (This is one of the reasons why loud noises can make you feel on edge even if you know the noise isn’t scary - like when you’re watching fireworks.) For example, your brain notices that your heartbeat has sped up, and it knows that a pounding heart often happens when you’re scared, and so it tells you that you’re scared. You might ‘feel’ your stomach clench in fear as the body moves blood away from the gut towards the muscles in your arms and legs to prepare you to either face the danger or run away.īut your brain also reacts to your body’s responses and helps you to understand the emotion - that is, it helps you to understand that you ‘feel’ scared. If you hear a surprising loud noise both your body and brain react through its ‘fight-or-flight’ system. Many of our most visceral emotions such as fear and excitement are strongly rooted in our body. In this post we wanted to dive a little deeper into the research behind the concept so that the next time you’re lucky enough to be snuggled up with someone you’re close to, you can understand why it can be so soothing.Įmotions are in the body as well as in the brainĮmotions don’t just exist in our brain. We were really happy with the comparison, not only because it sounds really cute, but also because scientifically the effect is very similar - and the science behind doppel is really important to us. The journalist had been testing out doppel for over a week and in the write-up described doppel’s lub-dub vibration as being ‘a bit like laying on someone’s chest’.
Recently doppel was featured in the London Evening Standard.
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