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Mind and Body => Neuroscience => Topic started by: Chip on October 01, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

Title: Why Do Some People Get ‘Skin Orgasms’ From Listening to Music ?
Post by: Chip on October 01, 2018, 03:51:36 AM

source: https://neurosciencenews.com/frisson-chills-music-9933/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neuroscience-rss-feeds-neuroscience-news+%28Neuroscience+News+Updates%29

reminds me of opiate withdrawal also

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Some scientists have suggested that goosebumps are an evolutionary holdover from our early (hairier) ancestors, who kept themselves warm through an endothermic layer of heat that they retained immediately beneath the hairs of their skin. Experiencing goosebumps after a rapid change in temperature (like being exposed to an unexpectedly cool breeze on a sunny day) temporarily raises and then lowers those hairs, resetting this layer of warmth.

Since we invented clothing, humans have had less of a need for this endothermic layer of heat. But the physiological structure is still in place, and it may have been rewired to produce aesthetic chills as a reaction to emotionally moving stimuli, like great beauty in art or nature.