I've seen people young and old do this. It seems to be a sort of instinct.
But WHY?
What purpose does it serve?
But WHY?
What purpose does it serve?
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Why do people tap their toes to music?
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Posts: 633 (08/19/08 9:10 PM) Registered User |
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Raaaaandy |
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Posts: 75 (08/19/08 9:11 PM) |
kill yourself.
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CBRetriever |
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Posts: 20313 (08/19/08 9:12 PM) MESS member |
I can't understand people who go to a concert and don't move to the music at all - they just sit like zombies when the sound is ripping through them
I gotta move |
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Antithesys |
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Posts: 22741 (08/19/08 9:12 PM) Gadabout |
Having marching band experience, I walk in step to whatever rhythm I can pick out in the noise around me. People are just enchanted by music.
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iltwaaf |
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Posts: 54 (08/19/08 9:16 PM) |
Well, if it's instinct, wouldn't that answer your question?
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Penelope McBagpipe |
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Posts: 4872 (08/19/08 9:17 PM) Geenyus extraordinaire
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I bet Anti swings his arms up to the sky too.
I'm more of a clapper and twirler myself. |
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Antithesys |
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Posts: 22742 (08/19/08 9:22 PM) Gadabout |
From wikipedia
"In his series How Music Works, Howard Goodall presents theories that rhythm recalls how we walk and the heartbeat we heard in the womb. However neither would seem to have any survival value in Man's evolution. More likely is that a simple pulse or di-dah beat recalls the footsteps of another person. Our sympathetic urge to dance is designed to boost our energy levels in order to cope with someone, or some animal chasing us -- a fight or flight response. It is possibly also rooted in courtship ritual." cited http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep03375380.pdf |
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Mister Nibs |
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Posts: 272 (08/19/08 9:22 PM) |
This works too We Will Rock You.
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Posts: 35691 (08/19/08 10:01 PM) I'm an ugly Yeti King |
driving, driving, passengers on.
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The Purple Parrot |
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Posts: 6627 (08/19/08 10:18 PM) Registered user |
Why do birds suddenly appear?
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Link Please |
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Posts: 747 (08/19/08 11:10 PM) |
Is there another body part you'd prefer that they'd tap?
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PassionatePiscesMan |
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Posts: 5674 (08/20/08 7:34 AM) Registered User |
I beat my ****
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Kimbob the Magnificent |
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Posts: 4982 (08/20/08 7:44 AM) Registered User |
Since the majority of music is patterned in rhythms of eight or it's factors, the brain responds to music on a molecular level and tries to achieve
covalent bonding, treating the body as if it were a magnetic field responding to the flow of electrons.
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Posts: 21633 (08/20/08 8:27 AM) Registered user |
Antithesys wrote: That's precious. I bet mumsies is proud. |
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LES2002 |
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Posts: 921 (08/20/08 9:57 AM) I need a hobby |
I smacked my wife's pussy.
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CadyH.realitysucks |
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Posts: 83 (08/20/08 2:23 PM) |
I thought tapping your feet to the rythym was a secret code among the Catholics.
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Posts: 7772 (08/20/08 2:31 PM) Registered user |
I heard it works in Men's bathroom stalls, too.
Try it. |
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