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  A comment on Conversation: What is the power behind a shared experience?

  Mar 25 2012: I personally think it's amazing how much the environment can physiologically, socially, and even fantastically induce a cascade of shared experiences among a certain group. Sometimes, this induction is regulated, as was stated above through the cardiovascular example. Other times, this induction is randomized, which fascinates me the most. That sense of comfort that may be yielded from a shared experience can be stimulated by another individual's bold first move or an awful experience that leaves one no choice but to take the initiative. These eventually leads to a little dance that involves more than one pair of feet.
  
  Just like the electrical propagation that fuels each pump of our heart, every little experience in our life may be pumped by these shared experiences as well - starting the first day of kindergarten with a group of unfamiliar five-year-olds, helping the passenger sitting next to you on the plane put on his oxygen mask during an emergency, etc.