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If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique Brain
- Whitestrake 9y agoI get chills when I listen to some music - I thought that was universal, or at least commonplace. Just how unique is getting chills supposed to be that it might be a marker for a "unique" brain?
- bgdkbtv 9y agoWe are all pretty unique and I'm pretty sure most of the population would get chills when listening to music they really like.
- epalmer 9y agoI too get chills when listening to some music. I too thought this was universal or commonplace. edit: sentence improvements
- DanBC 9y agoIt's common enough that BBC Radio had a programme called The Tingle Factor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1mS2Q4lp0wNxj9Mdlpr5XQ6/what-music-gives-you-the-tingles http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1mS2Q4lp0wNxj9Mdlpr... And this article suggests "most people" feel it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx6sfg8 http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx6sfg8 Also, not quite the same but they have a long running series about music with a powerful emotional impact. I mention it because it's good and people might be interested. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p
- iampoul 9y agoI get chills when listening to Tupac.
- mikmoila 9y agoI when listening to Hans Zimmer's In Time
- pizza 9y agothis does it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco especially that charles manson sample..
- epalmer 9y agoFor me Hot Tuna, Asleep at the Wheel and Alison Krauss with Union Station. Jefferson Airplane and the Dead live many years ago. Some of Alison Krauss's new work Windy City.
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- sandos 9y agoI did get chills when listening to specific songs when I was in my 20s. Now 37 I havent really had it happen to me since. Funnily enough, it was a song from the swedish band Kent. Which some say is inspired from radiohead. And a radiohead song was used as an example in the article. I actually listened to the Radiohead song, and immediately felt it was a bit familiar to the kind of music that used to give me the chills.
- Awaythrov 9y agoSame for, but earlier. Listening to my stash is no longer as satisfying as it used to be. I do miss them so much.
- steverb 9y agoUnique in that two-thirds of the population experiences it. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/05/getting_chills_when_listening_to_music_might_mean_you_re_a_more_emotional.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201... http://www.humorthatworks.com/database/10-frisson-inducing-songs-and-the-definition-of-frisson/ http://www.humorthatworks.com/database/10-frisson-inducing-s... There's even a subreddit (of course there is): https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/
- aregsarkissian 9y agoI get a rush listening to Rush
- Fjolsvith 9y agoOne could argue that everyone has a unique brain due to their subjective experience.
- DrScump 9y agoThe first song I recall experiencing this effect from is Pat Metheny Group's song "San Lorenzo". And it still happens most times I hear it.
- SpaceNugget 9y agoI have never experienced 'chills' when listening to music.