🌶️ Spicy food tastes better because capsaicin triggers heat receptors, releasing endorphins. Capsaicin activates TRPV1 pain receptors, so your brain literally interprets it as pain. The endorphin rush is your body's analgesic response to that pain signal.

There are sounds that are hard to recognize,
Others whose initial hisses awaken memories, sensations.
We are in between,
In a no man's land,
In a memory without a master,
In a face without light.
We scratch at the secrets of our souls,
Hoping for redemption.
We carve, without any remorse,
Words of hate into our hearts,
To guide us, to dominate us,
Unaware of their effect on ourselves.
We flee without destination, without reason.
We find ourselves among slabs of ice,
Of which our minds become the prison.

(Feral - A Thousand Faces EP)