Have you ever decided to see if the 0-100 time of your car is accurate but you had a squirmy passenger with you whose screams and pleads for you to stop made you wonder what the hell is wrong with them? Well, it turns out it’s all about how our brains respond to speed.
The BBC recently did a study and came up with some very interesting results. If you frequent this blog and call yourself an auto enthusiast chances are you’re the type of person that gets a permanent grin and a desirable response from your genitals when you stomp on the accelerator. That means that your body pumps out mass levels of dopomine when faced with speed. Dopomine gives you feelings of gratification.
If, on the other hand, you’re the type of person whose body freezes and the only noise you can make is a yell similar to that of a hyena when faced with speed, that means your body expenses generous amounts of serotonin. If the levels of serotonin get high enough, it can literally make your body freeze.
To help illustrate the BBC’s point, the always entertaining Jeremy Clarkson took his mother out on a rollercoster to show a real world difference between the two chemicals at work. Check it out the funny clip above.
You learn something knew every day.
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