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I was walking along w/very full cup of coffee this morning and co-worker tells me to HUM as i carry it because "humming unites the right and left side of your brain". Is this true??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

dum dee dum de dum

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

By nature, anything a coworker tells you can not, nay must not be true.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent, I guess I can come in "anytime after 10" then!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a lot of [pop] psychology regarding the use of both music and words to "unite" the brain. Mostly the jingle kind of stuff, where a catchy tune is designed to be remembered by the non-verbal right brain only to have the left brain keep repeating the lyrics along with it.

Humming (unless you're internally "hearing" the words to a song or something) doesn't seem like it'd involve much of the left brain at all unless it's some kind of exercise employed to memorize a tune by rote repetition or something.

I think drinking coffee is more likely to provide brain unity than humming.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Due to its close relationship with whistling, what ever you do, don't hum in an elevator.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I doubt if this is true. Though, there was a recent report about people who practice yoga on a regular basis having enhanced brain activity in certain parts of their brain related to happiness. And humming is a part of some yoga.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ph34r the T Hand unibrain

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And humming is a part of some yoga.
-- jel --

I may be wrong, but I think the versions of yoga that incorporate humming use it more as a mantra or way to focus the mind by making a "mindless" repetitive or sustained noise.

The parts of the brain related to happiness are neither left nor right really. Exercise (including yoga) does have a large antidepressant effect on the brain, but it presumably works the same way for very left and very right brained folks.

Sorry... brains are one of my favorite subjects. All that cognitive and psychiatric shit tends to make me pretty happy.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you can do quite a lot of humming without exercising very much of the brain at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know, hummingbirds seem like pretty together dudes.

― NA. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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