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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 13:12:21 2021 No.12872219 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12872260 >>12873832 >>12876375 >>12877587 >>12877603 >>12877619

What's the science behind head massages? Why do they feel so good?

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 13:26:41 No.12872260 Report

Quoted By: >>12872454

>>12872219
Parasites.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 14:37:55 No.12872454 Report

Quoted By: >>12872942

>>12872260
Wat

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 17:00:12 No.12872942 Report

Quoted By: >>12873519

>>12872454
To promote the removal of ticks, a type of parasite

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 19:18:28 No.12873519 Report

Quoted By: >>12873778

>>12872942
That seems far fetched

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:19:56 No.12873769 Report

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Perhaps a head massage promotes oxygenation and bloodflow to the brain. It definitely lowers stress so it is probably somehow linked to dopamine and cortisol.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:21:30 No.12873778 Report

Quoted By: >>12873815

>>12873519
I think I get what that anon means. You know how monkeys like to look through each other's hair to find ticks? Probably an evolutionary quirk that we've retained.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:30:57 No.12873815 Report

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>>12873778
This is the reason, combined with the general pleasant feeling of kneading muscles (a bunch of which attach around your skull).

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:31:59 No.12873823 Report

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Also it's not just a "quirk". Grooming feels good for any species that does it, because if it didn't feel good they wouldn't do it.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:32:14 No.12873826 Report

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Blood flow to the massaged area.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 20:33:52 No.12873832 Report

Quoted By: >>12875207 >>12876370

>>12872219
They feel especially good on amphetamines

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 03:03:38 No.12875207 Report

Quoted By: >>12877453

>>12873832
Tell more

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 11:22:09 No.12876370 Report

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>>12873832
Why?

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 11:26:07 No.12876374 Report

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Try massaging your dickhead

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 11:26:21 No.12876375 Report

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>>12872219
Never got one so I don't know

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 17:28:07 No.12877432 Report

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>>12876375
You can massage your own head.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 17:32:10 No.12877453 Report

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>>12876370
>>12875207
Don't know, but anybody who's tried will agree. Probably just something to do with the vascular effects.

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 17:36:14 No.12877464 Report

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>>12873823
like sex

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 18:14:16 No.12877587 Report

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>>12872219
A way of promoting the removal of parasites that can live in the hair

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 18:19:18 No.12877603 Report

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>>12872219
Virtually all mammals seem to like getting head pats

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Anonymous Wed 24 Mar 2021 18:24:23 No.12877619 Report

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>>12872219
brainlet response, but I feel like just the simple mechanical action of flexing fluid and cells around is simply replenishing areas with new molecules and excites certain mechanisms that reward this plasticity

I have no source or paper, but it makes intuitive sense to me, when you consider how multi cell organisms work on a fundamental level

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