Nerves and nervousness

The 21st Century Brain

Back in grad school, a bunch of us went to a Thai restaurant.  Half way through the meal, a (girl) friend and I had some weird sensations in our spine, and the guys in the bunch dismissed them as "imaginary" and insisted that we were fooling them. For a long time, it troubled me - not them teasing us, but the fact that the friend and I had identical experiences that were oh-so-weird.  It was something like ants crawling inside the spine, pretty scary.  It lasted all of 20 seconds.

As part of my pact with Arunn that each of us will read one whole book every month, I am currently reading Steven Rose's "The 21st Century Brain", and this is what page 144 has to say:

So guys, we were certainly not imagining it.  My friend and I just happen to have a more sensitive neural network compared to some bufflao-skinned men we know :)

UPDATE 1: Perhaps I must write a science post on chemicals in the brain at nOnoscience. Perhaps after my deadline tonight (which never seems finish).
UPDATE 2:  This is what one of the guys in the bunch has to say about the above explanation:

Lachumeee,

here is a contradictory quote... that says that what Pradeep and I said still remains valid.. and u/cheema were only pretending.

Thai restaurant receipe containing the RSTR message is illustrated as being passed in the body of a message. However, there are scenarios where the RSTR must be passed in conjunction with an existing application message. In such cases the RSTR (or the RSTR collection) MAY be specified inside a header block. The exact location is determined by layered specifications and profiles; however, the RSTR MAY be located in the <wsse:Security> header if the token is being used to secure the message (note that the RSTR SHOULD occur before any uses of the token). Therefore, people pretend to have different effects to Thai food and must be ignored.