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[log in to unmask] wrote: Just a quick query, as to whether any of you experience >involuntary participation whilst watching sporting events on the TV? . For >some time now whilst watching football matches on the television, I find >myself involuntarily kicking an imaginary ball in response to action on the >field, and also flinching and ducking in sympathy with the action on >pitch.Does anyone know if this condition has a name? yes, there are seemingly more responses to the action on the screen than used to be the case for me. In addition, there are more occassions of emotional involvement and responses of joy or sadness than used to be the case. hypersensitivity might be naming the phenomenon. it might relate to the semi-sleepy state that sometimes we become half-asleep - with the brain systems not keeping us fully aware that we are watching a magic box - not actually involved in the game or the event that provokes our emotions proxy-like. it may be that our mood can be affected by what we choose to watch. I suspect that I feel and perform better if I do not see much of the 'bad news' that fills most of the television news programs - so, I do not watch or listen much. Ronald Vetter 1936, dz PD 1984, carbidopa/levodopa, Mirapex, selegiline [log in to unmask] Ridgecrest, California http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~rfvetter