Revealed: Why your brain waves dictate whether you click with someone - or can't stand them!

Does the secret to happy family bonds, lasting friendships, romantic bliss, academic and work success lie in getting our brain waves into sync with those of the people around us? That's the intriguing idea being raised by a wealth of research that investigates how our brain-wave activity can get into the same patterns (or in sync) with the brain waves of people we feel compatible with. Brain waves are electrical patterns that measure only millionths of a volt. There are five widely recognised ones -- alpha, beta, gamma, delta and theta -- and these are believed to regulate how we think and act. They can be detected by EEG (electroencephalogram, which analyses electrical activity in the brain) read-outs as our brains go about their everyday functions. For example, beta waves are thought to occur during most of our conscious, waking states, while alpha waves occur when we feel relaxed and thoughtful.