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Total Members Voted: 42

[Baffler]

None of the videos people have posted did anything, but I did... shudder? When I watched the lacquering video in the OP. That's happened to me for a long time. Mostly in response to very high or low sound, and when my neighbor "drops the bass," shaking the whole damn block. But I'm not sure if it's what you describe or not.

[Leafsnail]

This really just seems like a fancy way of saying "spine-tingling".  I get it sometimes I suppose.  I mostly associate it with changes to and from a relaxed state.

Since the point I was aware the thing had a name, I've always had the sneaking suspicion the effect is tied, probably strongly, to the whole chakra stuff. The sensation does have a notable tendency, from what I've experienced and heard described, to kinda' concentrate around th'areas of the body that tend to be associated with chakra points.

In that some of them are located at major nerve centres, maybe?

I don't like whispering, but there's a feeling I get when teachers sit down and calmly explain something to me in a low voice that really makes my toes curl.

Toe curling generally indicates either embarrassment or sexual excitement.  Actually I'm pretty sure the response to a woman whispering lustily into your ear is also sexual, although that doesn't seem to be true for all tingles.

[GlyphGryph]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this sort of thing is why we have all those idioms referring to basically this sort of thing? I guess the thing is everybody gets this at some point or another, but some people get it in response to a bit of limited stimuli?

Might as well check out the videos though.

Personally, whispering does nothing for me but cause stomache clenching tightness, heat in the face, and tightness in the neck. Hopefully the other videos linked here do not have the same reaction! :V

[quinnr]

It's ultimately not really important, no, just like visual snow* isn't except in edge cases. But yes, people do tend to care when they're suddenly experiencing mostly-inexplicable sensory experiences. No telling what it means on the neurological level, other than "Probably something", since actual research is still more than a little spotty.

Beyond that, it's generally reported as a decently effective relaxer, which is pretty much always going to be important in an increasingly high stress world.

But nah, not a thing now, per se. S'like I said, I'm pretty sure the sensation has been a thing folks have been caring about since... hell, if I'm right in the sensation being related to stuff on chakra theory, you'd be looking at something like 600 BCE at the latest. Stuff started being talked about at least as far back as the Upanishads. It just got assigned a more westernized name recently.

*Which I keep bringing up because they're really damn similar phenomena.

Oh my, so those things have a name? Ever since I was little, sometimes when I stare into the dark I see little blue and red 'sparkles' floating around. Sometimes they move all weird into some wormy, thing, but mostly it's just the sparkles. And I've never really known what they were, other than random Google searches claiming that they were seeing into the "other world" or something like that.

Except more Wikipedia-reading tells me that it's probably this (aptly nick-named "blue-sky sprites") instead of the snow. But still, neat to have a name and know I'm not the only crazy one.


On topic, the lacquer guy is doing nothing for me, but I'm curious so I'll watch some more later.

None of the videos people have posted did anything, but I did... shudder? When I watched the lacquering video in the OP. That's happened to me for a long time. Mostly in response to very high or low sound, and when my neighbor "drops the bass," shaking the whole damn block. But I'm not sure if it's what you describe or not.

There is this one kind of jacket material that, every time I hear it rub against each other, I involuntarily shudder. It's the only sound that ever made me feel so 'blah' though.

[GlyphGryph]

Ugh, nope, nope, all these videos are terrible, bad, terrible videos. The laquering video when he wipes his thing on the thing? Uggggh. The whispering guy? Uggggh.

I'm out. >_<

[Frumple]

In that some of them are located at major nerve centres, maybe?

Aye, that's almost certainly involved with chakra stuff, but what I was speaking of was more that the full body ASMR sensation seems to share a lot in common with (some of) what's described in relation to chakra stuff. Moving energy and whatnot. That I'm currently guessing (lacking a large body of data points, and mostly drawing on personal experience ) that the sensation shares (or can share) some degree of correlation with meditation techniques (since control and expansion of the effect came along with improving technique...), particularly breathing exercises, well...

You've got a similar physical sensation and a common activating practice. I'd be terribly surprised if there wasn't a relation, basically.

[Shook]

Aha, so that's the scientific term for what i like to refer to as "chills of awesome". :v
I can trigger chills at will, sure enough, although they're not nearly as powerful as the ones that arise from witnessing an incredibly awesome event, and in general are more like the chills you'd get from being cold.

...

And just now did i with the POWER OF IMAGINATION experience one such thing that was so powerful that it felt like my scalp was shrinking from the sheer amount of goosebumps. :U
Come think of it, most of these occur when i imagine scenarios with my specific triggers, not so much when watching videos, although there are exceptions to this. Funkily enough, my triggers don't involve relaxation, but more like... Hell i don't know how to describe it properly, but let's say videos like this (when Superman goes all out) and this (when Flash gets serious) both give me fairly intense chills of awesome (and in Flash's case, is shortly followed by strong emotions).

[Baffler]

None of the videos people have posted did anything, but I did... shudder? When I watched the lacquering video in the OP. That's happened to me for a long time. Mostly in response to very high or low sound, and when my neighbor "drops the bass," shaking the whole damn block. But I'm not sure if it's what you describe or not.

There is this one kind of jacket material that, every time I hear it rub against each other, I involuntarily shudder. It's the only sound that ever made me feel so 'blah' though.

It isn't an unpleasant sensation, more like a sudden buildup of energy that has to come out *right now*, and so, a shudder. Not an unpleasant sensation, but not really pleasing.

[freeformschooler]

This is why I like getting haircuts.

The youtube stuff doesn't do it though. It's surprising other people can get chills just watching girls speaking softly on youtube. Scientifically speaking, this isn't a new thing: like shook said, we've just called in "chills" or "shivers down the spine," although the actual sustained feeling in your back neck is exclusive to only a percentage of people.

[Beast Tamer]

If its simple chills down the spine I get them when I listen to music I like a lot.

A trigger for me is another person holding their finger in front of my forehead. Doesn't work when I do it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I should point out that the feeling I get is nothing like chills or spine shivers. It's on my head, not in my spine.

[Pnx]

I think the wooshy sound from the Adventure Time opening used to do it for me, especially when I was wearing headphones (I don't know why that particular sound was so effective), but I think I'm desensitised to it by now.

I don't like whispering, but there's a feeling I get when teachers sit down and calmly explain something to me in a low voice that really makes my toes curl.

Toe curling generally indicates either embarrassment or sexual excitement.  Actually I'm pretty sure the response to a woman whispering lustily into your ear is also sexual, although that doesn't seem to be true for all tingles.

The thing is... how can I put this...

The thing I want to compare this to is the mechanism cats have where they intellectually freeze up when you pinch the back of their neck, because that's how their mother would carry them around, they freeze to stop from hurting themselves (don't pick adults up by the back of the neck, you will hurt them).

I suspect it's a similar thing but for people, I think it's basically like an instinctual reaction for babies to relax when exposed to certain soothing stimuli, like a softly spoken voice, or maybe the sound of someone stroking your head?

Whenever it triggers I feel really relaxed, I sort of want to stretch or curl up my neck and extremities. That's, kind of what it's like for me.

[Tiruin]

PTW with great interest.
...Brain tingles indeed. I've experienced this a lot..I guess. .__.

[Xantalos]

Last bit of this.

[Vattic]

Not sure if I get this. The closest is something I get when playing with my dad's short haired dog. It especially occurs if she brushes against my face. I think it's the short hair as it hasn't happened with the other dogs in the family. I get a kind of tickling in my head which makes my eyes almost cross and a kind of pleasant cringe. This sound about right?