Can You Feel Someone Else's Pain? (EXPERIMENT)

Can I

feel

your

pain

? Can I

feel

your

pain

? Let's talk about that. (upbeat music) Good morning mythical! Life is full of pleasure... ...and pain. So in this episode, today we will have the pleasure of playing a game with Robert Kirkman, the creator of "The Walking Dead." And when it comes to pain, do you know that there are people who can physically feel another person's pain? - Are any of us one of those people? - Hmm. Can we feel the pain of others? There's only one way to know. It's time to... ♪ ♪ (screaming) Yes, there is a rare condition called Mirror Touch Synesthesia.

People who suffer from this may feel that their body is being touched just by seeing another person being touched. Yes, this is a real thing. Basically, your visual and tactile senses are mixed together. There was a study where they tested over 2,300 people by showing them videos of actors being touched on different parts of their hand, and 45 of those people felt the sensation in the exact same place on their hand. It's not many people. That's only two in 100, so two percent of the population has this. - We make? - Maybe. This condition is not limited to touch.

Some people may experience pain - Mm-hmm. - by seeing another person suffer, and usually develops from birth. So Rhett and I have basically known each other since we were born. - Yes. - Since we've been alive, first grade isn't much different, so in some ways taking our version of this test makes it the ultimate buddy test. Can I feel Rhett's pain? Can he feel mine? If so, does that make one of us a better friend? Let's find out. To the pain zone! Okay, Rhett, get out of the Pain Hole. -(moaning)-he is crowning. (crying) - Hello. -He is a bearded boy. -(laughs)-he's fine here.

I do not want to go. Actually, he's fine now, but he won't be fine for long. - Uh-uh. - Okay, people with mirror touch synesthesia are actually triggered by seeing something happen to

someone

else

, but since we know each other so well, let's up the ante. We'll just look at each other's faces. Well, Rhett will go first and Chase will be behind the Wall of Pain inflicting pain on a specific part of his body. Now I'm just going to watch his face react to the pain and then say where I felt the sensation to see if it matches.

If so, I get one point. At the end of this whole study, this very scientific study, we will know who is the best friend, based on who has the most points. Are you ready to start? No, but I will. It's okay, Chase, bring on the pain. Very good... - Make eye contact with you. - Well. Yes. (moans softly) Was that the pain? (moaning) - What? - You don't understand - what's happening. - (laughs) No-- - (trap breaks) - (screams) - (Link laughs) - (growls) - That was the pain. - Yeah! Oh! - There is a lot of accumulation of that pain. - Wow, friend! - Um... - The Pain Hole is not nice! (laughs) I don't like Pain Hole! - Whose idea was it? - (laughs) Now I was... the first sensation I felt was... - Sympathy? - A pleasure... - What? - ...in my brain. - Then you are not a good friend. - (laughs) Uh... honestly, I didn't feel much pain.

I just felt... I was very happy throughout the whole process. - I'm a little confused but, um, - That's not nice. There was a little pinch in my lower back. So I feel a little tightness in my lower back. Well, my back hurts from being in this position, which is interesting. - Link: Ah. But that's not where the pain came from. - Where was the pain? - I feel like... the pain was in my left index finger. I think I know what it was, but Chase, please confirm it. Come out and show me what you just did to me.

It sounded like you shot... ooh! - Oh really? - Yes, it was a damn mousetrap. - Shall we start with a mouse trap? - (laughs) - Where is this going? - I feel like I should give you half a point - because my lower back hurts a little. - Yeah! But it will be every round, so you can't just say "low back" every round. - Half a point in this round. I'll give you half a point, "friend." Welcome to the Pain Hole, Link. I don't feel very good about this. Chase, when you're ready, do your worst. (laughter) (screams) Oh! (calmly) That was it.

No... I'm not making this up at all, I feel something in my right foot. What do you feel? Like a kind of heaviness. Like my right foot became heavier when I looked at you... did your foot become heavy? A little more of my weight was on my right foot, but it was my right forearm that hurt. - Ah, right forearm. - What... what was it? It's like ripping hair off my damn forearm! - You shaved me. - Wax and remove wax. Did you know? You can clone me with that. - (laughs) - No points. Are you smiling or is it a pea pain?

Pain when urinating. (laughs) Grimace before pain. I hope it's not a urine pain. - Please, do not do that. - (laughs) Please. Do what you do. You just gave him ideas. Okay, give it pain. Look at me. I really want to get it this time. MMM. (vocalizing) No. "Eee-ahh no?" - (laughs) - (grunts) (quietly) Yeah, huh. My... my right forearm hurts, but it's where they shaved me. (laughs) I... felt like a tightness in my stomach. (laughs) Oh, really? Yeah, kind of like... it didn't hurt that much but it was... - It didn't hurt at all, really. - Mm-hmm. - But it was difficult, so... - Yes, yes, yes.

I mean, the belly. This morning I switched to plant-based proteins. - (laughs) - In my smoothie. - Maybe that's what you're feeling. - A little noisy? Um... it's not... it wasn't that. It's my right foot, believe it or not! - Link: Oh, it was... - My right foot was stuck in an ice cube. - Oh! - Unless you don't know what ice feels like. - Where is? If that is. - Yes, your right foot - was in an ice cube. - There is. - It's a bowl of ice. - Without points. This is so stressful. I don't know where the pain will come.

Me neither. (laughs) - I wish I did. - Link: Just... just connect with me. Rhett: Can I come closer? Connect with me. ♪ ♪ Oh, what? Ah! Oh no no! No no no! That's enough! That's enough! (laughs) - Are you done with this? - Yes, they're done. Oh. - What... - (laughs) ...was that? - Wow. - Uh... I hope this makes me a better person somehow. Uh... - Left thigh? - (Link laughs) Is that something I ate? There is numbness in my left thigh. - Maybe I should go to the doctor. - (laughs) - Like, right here. Oh, I have fluff. - Well. - That is what it is. - (laughs) But I'm going to go with the left thigh.

No, it was my belly! - (surprised) Oh, really? - I had a premonition about mine - from before. - We keep thinking... Wait. That's something totally different. The damn rug... Was Alex involved in this? - (laughs) - Your damn carpet burned... - Oh, like that? - Yes. Oh! I can't wait to see that. What... what the hell? (laughs) - Oh, wow. - It's red, man. Yes. - I hope this gets views. - (laughs) That's our only hope. Okay... Give him the pain! Look at me. - (whip cracks) - Link: Wow. - Oh! Damn. - No! No! (laughs) (screams) Ugh! (screaming) Hey!

Screaming like a pig? - (laughs) - (whining) (making random animal noises) You know what? I'm not getting a strong signal. - Can we hit him again? - No! No no no no no! (singing) No, no, no, no, no, no. (sighs) Where did I feel it? - Are you OK? - No. They whipped me, man. (laughs) (sighs) Your eyes are watery. You crying? (in a high tone) Lil-little. (laughs) He's crying. - Yes, I haven't cried in a while. - Um... Man, I only know because of the... because of the... whip. He can't be in the front. I shouldn't approach this logically. - Yes Yes Yes. - I should channel what I felt - in the moment. - Just feel it.

It still stings a little. I feel like it was low. I feel... like my left calf. Like the back of the leg. In there. Just a little tickle. Just a small whip on the back of the left calf. - Actually? - Yes. - It was my loot. - Oh. Was it your loot? - It was my loot. - What the hell was that thing? - Let me see this whip. Who... who do we have to be a whip... a whip master? - Oh yeah. - (laughs) - Who... who are you? -Antonio De Longis. I won't shake your hand, Anthony. (laughs) - Anthony-- - Well, we already know each other. - (hits the end of the whip) - (laughs) Did you whip him on the butt with that?

I did it, I did it. - Yes, I felt it. - The world of entertainment. - (laughs) - Are you going out later? (stuttering) I think maybe. Now that I'm... now that I've gotten close to him. - That's how my wife and I met. - (laughs) Okay, Link. - Rhett: Last round. - (electric crackle) (laughs) I have no points! (whining, laughing) I don't care if you get points. -(sighs)-Right now, you're the best friend unless he can feel... where you're feeling your pain. Bring it! (zapping) Oh! - (screaming) - (laughing) Okay! Alright! Well. Alright. That got you. -Yes.-Are we sure he caught it?

I'm pretty sure he's our old friend...the Stun Cane. But where? - Man. - Oh. - You're breathing hard. - I'm awake now. They didn't catch you here, did they? The only place I feel anything is like... - Your sausage? - (snorts) - (laughs) - Besides the sausage... - (zapping) - You know how much I like getting electric shocks in the sausage. I only feel something in the lower part of my body, but... it's just the left... Did I say right thigh? Maybe something is wrong with my left thigh. Because now I feel it again in my back... my left hamstring. - Is that your assumption? - Yes.

You're very close. It was my left calf! I "premonitioned" it again! It was my damn left calf. I give you half a point. - Half point? Because I was right... - Bring it! Get out the stick! - Oh my God! - (laughs) Oh, I wonder who it is. Reveal yourself, knight. - (laughs) - Ah! You! - I thought it was over! -He caught you again! - This isn't over, Jen. - It never ends. - It has not finished. - Look at those damn boots! Yeah, I sprained my ankle twice there. Oh, poor Jen. He sprained his ankle, y'all.

Well, I guess the bottom line is that neither of us are very good friends, at least when it comes to feeling each other's pain. Each of us combine for one point. (laughs) But I will never forget what we went through together. And I will never forget what you have done to me. - Never. - The list is growing! Stay and watch us make whipped cream with our new friend, The Bull Whipper. (laughs) What? Rhett: A good friend always has an extra sweatshirt when you forget yours. Get a GMM hoodie at mitica.store and be a good friend. (slower sound)