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Whenever this happened to me I had always wrote it off as some sort of minor seizure. That's a relief. Thanks!
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:28 |
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I first experienced this sensation in kindergarden, when the teachers assistant slowly demonstrated how to draw something on the chalk board. Left me somewhat spellbound with tingles running up my spine and into my brain. The worst was when I was in painting class in college. My hot instructor would often show me how to paint something on my canvas, her body very close behind me, with her arms softly stroking the canvas in front of me and whispering about the technique. I would become paralyzed in this warm and slightly sexual sensation, kind of like the first moments of MDMA when serotonin is rushing throughout your brain. Glad to know I'm not alone! There must be an evolutionary explanation for this, perhaps women who know how to do poo poo are viewed as better mates?
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:28 |
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Soggy Muffin posted:Glad to know I'm not alone! There must be an evolutionary explanation for this, perhaps women who know how to do poo poo are viewed as better mates? Same reason you don't like fat chicks: people who can do things are more likely to survive on the African savannah. Or something like that. Plus, talented people are often swimming in ladies, so if your offspring is talented, they're more likely to continue your genes. tl;dr: evolutionary endgame is to get laid.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:37 |
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Brotax posted:Same reason you don't like fat chicks: people who can do things are more likely to survive on the African savannah. Or something like that. For 99.9% of human history, fat women were the epitome of beauty, and very much a symbol of fertility itself. Body fat was a luxury before the 18th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:45 |
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Soggy Muffin posted:I would become paralyzed in this warm and slightly sexual sensation, kind of like the first moments of MDMA when serotonin is rushing throughout your brain. Yeah that's nothing like what's being discussed, this is just you getting turned on.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:46 |
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Torka posted:Yeah that's nothing like what's being discussed, this is just you getting turned on. I think the barrier is kind of thin, but he'd know if it was just a turn on, wouldn't he?
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:52 |
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I get this feeling from listening to incredibly harsh Metal (music). It's seemingly random when I get it, but it's amazing when it happens.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:53 |
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Torka posted:Yeah that's nothing like what's being discussed, this is just you getting turned on. No, it was a combination of both. Her whispering and performing a simple task gave me the sensation. Her being so close that I could feel her tits on my back turned me on.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:54 |
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I feel actual pain from the sound of a broom sweeping concrete. It's like a nail on chalkboard, only ten times worse. I just suck it up nowadays, but as a kid I used to go out of my way to avoid it.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:55 |
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I sometimes get this when listening to music. I also sometimes get it when I'm really happy/excited about something, and it often happens to me when people play with my hair too. And of course the chances of it happening go way up if I'm stoned.baby puzzle posted:It isn't sexual, but it can be a lot more pronounced when it is coming from somebody that is attractive to you. This too. An attractive person playing with my hair while i'm really excited and stoned, and listening to good music, all at the same time? Oh poo poo ultra braingasm. Though as others have said it's actually non-sexual, and not really like a brain orgasm. Just a pleasant, happy, warm tingling sensation in the back of the head (and sometimes upper body, or whole body too for me). Kind of like when you get a random chill, but it's more pleasant, and doesn't involve any spazzing out/shivering. I never thought about this, and just always assumed they're normal sensations that everyone gets sometimes (and it does sound like it's relatively normal, going by responses in this thread). But you people who get it from watching others fold towels or hearing people say certain words, or watching camels gently caress or whatever? You guys are weird.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 17:58 |
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Right, that tingly radiating back of the neck feeling? The reason people describe all sorts of various things as 'spine-tingling' ? Want to try to trigger it on purpose? Either just concentrate on the sensation and how it would feel if you had it right now, think about it, are you thinking about it yet??, or take an empty pen, dull needle, or other object that won't injure you, and gently scrape it in a straight line from the top center of your scalp down to the bottom of the back of your neck. If that doesn't work, try going up the same line. If you do this to big, similarly tense (because necks and heads are pretty reliably tense) muscle groups, in the direction the muscle is running, sometimes you can actually watch the muscles twitch and jump. It's the same concept as those wire head massagers.  I have no idea why this works. 
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 18:01 |
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I get this, but not usually from speech. I would most liken it to the viewing art example in the OP. I usually get the feeling when I put an idea together in my head that makes sense, or come to some sort of realization. I use it as a sign of when I finally "get" something. It's like an idea works so well it stimulates a lot of activity, connecting synapses, or something. It usually comes with goosebumps on the back of my neck.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 18:03 |
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Rah! posted:I never thought about this, and just always assumed they're normal sensations that everyone gets sometimes (and it does sound like it's relatively normal, going by responses in this thread). But you people who get it from watching others fold towels or hearing people say certain words, or watching camels gently caress or whatever? You guys are weird. Too late. You can't use otherism to save yourself. They have already lumped you in with the weird ones. Shame and stigma will be enthusiastically heaped upon you for the rest of your life. quote:I just suck it up nowadays, but as a kid I used to go out of my way to avoid it I believe the explanation given for this phenomenon is that some sounds are in the same range as human speech and thus are focused in on by your brain unconsciously. But its just noise so it becomes painful, like distorted screeching. Berk Berkly fucked around with this message at Jul 15, 2012 around 18:10 |
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Vengarr posted:I feel actual pain from the sound of a broom sweeping concrete. It's like a nail on chalkboard, only ten times worse. I actually like the sound of many things roughly scraping against each other...but usually not if there's any "squeak" noises involved. So that means a broom on concrete is perfectly fine for me, even pleasant, but I get very uncomfortable and often get chills/goosebumps if I hear nails on a chalk board, styrofoam getting rubbed together, chalk getting rubbed between someone's hands, some kinds of plastic getting rubbed (especially after washing your hands, when there's no oil on them and they stick to the plastic better) etc. Skin rubbing across metal and some kinds of plastic in a squeaky manner is OK to me though, for some reason. I think my aversion has something to do not with the sound alone (squeaky hinges don't bother me at all either), but the perception of certain different textures interacting with each other, in combination with a squeaky sound or some poo poo. Berk Berkly posted:Too late. You can't use otherism to save yourself. They have already lumped you in with the weird ones. Shame and stigma will be enthusiastically heaped upon you for the rest of your life.  No I didn't mean to jizz all over the laundry, I'm sorry. It was just so neatly folded, and perfect, and....uh oh sweet jesus. But everyone does that, I'm pretty sure. Rah! fucked around with this message at Jul 15, 2012 around 18:22 |
| # ? Jul 15, 2012 18:09 |
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I actually stumbled upon this myself while looking for videos to fall asleep to a week ago. I always got this as a kid but could never really explain it without sounding like a weirdo. As a kid I always got it when a teacher, or someone else, would calmly explain something. It was such a good feeling. It's nice to know it's not just me having some weird brain thing.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:03 |
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I heard about this a few months ago, this video sends me into a super relaxed/calm state and triggers those tingles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTG8WS2fgGk Works a lot better with headphones on and with no other sounds/distractions.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:10 |
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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I remember watching crafting shows on HGTV during the 90s because they provoked this reaction in me. Rubber stamps being patted into an ink pad and then pressed against paper repeatedly. 
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:24 |
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Put me on the side of people that thought this was something everyone experienced. One of the worst things about haircuts is the hairstylist always insists on talking, I just want to zone out with that feeling. Is anyone else getting the feeling from just reading this thread?
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:25 |
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This happens to me all the time, but the most intense one was when I encountered one of those "Dead Sea stuff" kiosks in a mall. One of the Israeli women ambushed me and started using that fancy nail fixer device on my hand. Initially I tried to get the hell out of there, but she started talking about Israel, etc. and how I should get one of these things for my mom for Mother's Day. I totally zoned out when she was explaining all this poo poo to me in that accent whilst doing her magic on my fingernails. I found a training video of these kiosks and it sort of has the same effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GB9sd63IOM And Bob Ross, yeah.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:51 |
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I love the feeling of ASMR and follow a lot of people in the 'whisper community' on youtube. My roommates think I'm weird for listening to people whisper about random stuff but dammit it feels good 
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 19:55 |
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Vengarr posted:I feel actual pain from the sound of a broom sweeping concrete. It's like a nail on chalkboard, only ten times worse. I had this for the sensation and sound of cheap slightly fuzzy construction paper.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:08 |
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Words cannot express how happy I am that this is a thing other people at least understand, if not outright share almost down to a frightening level of "ever since I was a little kid..." similarity. Of course, as my original posts make plain, words can't really do much to describe any part of this for me, so I'm glad it at least came through for others. For the folks confused by my personal trigger (the whole "S sound" thing), I'll try as best I can to describe it better, but part of the difficulty in articulating the whole reaction I have is one part explaining the tingles and another explaining the sound itself. It's sort of like a whistle, but not quite, creating an extremely sibilant S. I think it's because of how some people speak through their teeth, but what's interesting is that those with the impediment (as audio engineers call it) often carry the kind of whistle into those other D and T sounds. Again, I'm pretty sure most people simply can't hear it -- especially the people that actually speak with the inflection -- so trying to describe something that can't be heard is, needless to say, rather... difficult. Luckily, it doesn't really matter, and I'm glad there are more weirdos out there that are least kinda like me. If only it was easier to explain to people that apparently don't get the reaction.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:21 |
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I didn't feel like a crazy person for this until the Internet started talking about it.Pizza Dude posted:So, when you guys feel this, is it like using one of those head massager thingies? Yeah, it's a lot like that.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:26 |
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I can trigger this feeling at will, without any external stimulation. I get goosebumps on my arms, too. I think it's like those people that orgasm when they sneeze except for way less interesting.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:27 |
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An Enormous Boner posted:I can trigger this feeling at will, without any external stimulation. I get goosebumps on my arms, too. I think it's like those people that orgasm when they sneeze except for way less interesting. If you can make it run down your back as well then this thread is even more mindblowing to me than before because I have been able to do that forever.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:30 |
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When I worked at convenience stores as a kid, I liked when people would thumb through the magazines or play scratch tickets off to the side. Such a weird feeling. Finding there was a whole community of people trying to trigger this poo poo intentionally was cool. I always felt like a creep when it would happen at work. Now it's slightly less creepy being able to watch a video as I'm going to sleep. My favorite was always this person http://www.youtube.com/user/SOUNDsculptures/videos The keyboard cleaning and the Lego ones are crazy for me. I could watch people build Lego all day.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:39 |
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So this is pretty much the new Synesthesia w/r/t difficult-to-diagnose mental disorders that people self-diagnose themselves with to be cool snowflakes? Only this has even less science behind it and a lot of people in the medical community think it isn't even real at all?
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Farbtoner posted:So this is pretty much the new Synesthesia w/r/t difficult-to-diagnose mental disorders that people self-diagnose themselves with to be cool snowfloakes? Only this has even less science behind it and a lot of people in the medical community think it isn't even real at all? Not even remotely, but thanks for posting.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:44 |
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I get that tingly feeling all the time. Especially when my GF rubs my buzzed head or more weirdly, when I watch unboxing videos.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 20:51 |
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I think I have the opposite of this with feet on sand. Feet scuffing on sand makes me feel like my teeth are falling out. It for real stops my brain for a few seconds and I've never understood why.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:02 |
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Farbtoner posted:So this is pretty much the new Synesthesia w/r/t difficult-to-diagnose mental disorders that people self-diagnose themselves with to be cool snowflakes? Only this has even less science behind it and a lot of people in the medical community think it isn't even real at all? I think it's more like a wingle your ears, roll your tongue, flare your nostrils, cilantro, etc thing. There are all sorts of weird variations in human neurology. I think cilantro tastes like dish soap, I can't prove that to you but it does and millions of people agree with me and many millions more can't possibly understand, there is no scientific understanding as to why but there is a broad agreement that it is an actual thing. I don't think anyone is claiming to be special for experiencing this any more than they think the are special because cilantro tastes like soap which very recently became accepted as a thing.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:04 |
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I just have Exploding Head Syndrome and that side pain thing. I never get the cool stuff, not even a little Synesthesia. edit: At least I can enjoy cilantro. I've got that going for me.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:06 |
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I always get this at the end of yoga class
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:27 |
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Rubbing cilantro on my penis gives me these weird brain tingles...but it's totally not sexual.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:29 |
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I believe the speech pattern the OP is talking about is best described with an example. I stumbled on this by accident because I wanted to watch me some Cosmos, and the woman in the beginning of this video does that S and D thing, and speaks very softly. Cosmos Ep 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dADUBcoEEHw
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:31 |
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Is this related to sounds that 'go through' you? Like, sounds/feelings that are incredibly unpleasant for no real reason. I'm literally shuddering just thinking about the thing that goes right through me (cotton/wool being drawn across teeth) auurgh e: now my teeth loving hurt too
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:41 |
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Three Olives posted:I think it's more like a wingle your ears, roll your tongue, flare your nostrils, cilantro, etc thing. There are all sorts of weird variations in human neurology. Whether cilantro tastes like soap or spices is probably at least heavily influenced by genetics. The same thing happens with phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), if you have the gene to taste it, it tastes bitter and nasty, but if you lack the gene, you taste virtually nothing.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:56 |
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Farbtoner posted:So this is pretty much the new Synesthesia w/r/t difficult-to-diagnose mental disorders that people self-diagnose themselves with to be cool snowflakes? Only this has even less science behind it and a lot of people in the medical community think it isn't even real at all? I've been avoiding this cause it's kinda creepy with the youtubes of people whispering and poo poo but this is really the dumbest post.
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| # ? Jul 15, 2012 21:57 |
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I initially found these whisper videos on youtube while trying to find something to fall asleep to. All these comments kept mentioning ASMR and after looking it up I assumed it was just some bullshit pseudo-science, but all I know is that some of these things are relaxing as hell to me. Something as simple as someone tapping on their keyboard makes me feel all tingly. I don't care what you wanna call it, I just found my new way to relax at night.
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Two Piece posted:Maybe I've missed something, but I don't know what the flying gently caress you're talking about. Hey I just wanted to to quote and agree with you, the OP is pretty ridiculous
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