Sharing physical feelings: Transference, imagination, and psychosomatics research

This fascinating study gives strong evidence that humans feel others' physical feelings. Psychologists call this transference, but that usually refers to taking on another's emotions. This fascinating research demonstrates that humans can also share physical feelings of others.

Watch this video to see the study being conducted:


As you saw, subjects wore "telepathy bands" to convey feelings between themselves and a mannequin or other subject. BUT here is how the subjects are "coerced" into transference:
You saw that the mannequin's belly was stroked with a pen, then the subject was stroked with a pen. Notice: the subject is seeing the mannequin's belly touched by a pen, and feeling their own belly being touched by the pen (as if the pen were only touching the mannequin but not themselves also).
This sets up the subject to imagine sharing feelings with the other person (or mannequin). Their imagination does the rest.

This is a powerful test of psychosomatics. Can we transfer bodily feelings between 2 people? Of course we can. And this study leads us "down the path of proof".