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 Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C5tu0z_ruaY/ Listening to music you love lowers your pain threshold.  Dutch anesthesia-pain researchers studied the perception of pressure- and electrically-induced pain in 415 subjects.  Tolerance for both types of pain was better for those listening to their preferred brands of music rather than music they found annoying.  One odd finding: listening to music you hate prior to that you love improved its pain-reducing effect.   https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0280036   #pain #music #preferred #disliked