I am so happy!!! I'm not alone and I don't think we're crazy. I am a 24 year old girl from the United States and I have been experiencing this wonderfully orgasmic head tingling since I was a child. t's always in the back of my head...when being touched it moves down to the neck. It really is the best feeling in the world. When I can get it without being touched it feels even better. I have told friends about it, but they think I'm crazy, except the few who let me experiment with them. I made my friend explain whatever she wanted to me, but I told her to use hand movements and I payed attention and the tingling still came.
I am going to create two categories, head tingly without being touched/ head tingling with touch.
Most of the time, I get the tingling without even thinking about. I can also make it happen if I focus on something. Also, the person does not need to pay attention to me.
Without being touched:
I love when people explain things,whether it's to me or the whole class or me overhearing a stranger. examples: giving directions, teachers, presentations
ex: I love the turning of pages while someone is talking or the click noise of a projector. I also get a tingly feeling when people do that thing where they lick their finger so it's easier for the page to turn.
When people have a distinct voice. (even the ugliest person in the world could give me a tingly feeling)
example: accents (any kind), laughs, soothing voices
yoga classes (the teacher's voice and the soft music in the background)
When people use a lot of hand movements.
when someone talks while playing with their beard, or stroking their hair.
people that fidget when they talk
little kids explaining something.
little kids drawing.
old people
doctor visits especially eye doctor visits.
ex: i love when the doctor explains something, especially the details of when to take the medication and how many times a day, but
what I love even more than that, it's when I go to the eye doctor. I love the clicking of the machines and looking at the signs on the walls. It's the soothing voice, " do you see better in A or B?....B or C" Is A better in this eye or this eye?"
watching someone fix something at work, wherever, stranger or friend. anyone....as long as they seem to do it with care, but then again if a careless person fixed something really fast, I would probably be tingled anyway.
not always tv, but I can pick something to focus on, like someone's accent and it will come.
photographers
someone drawing me
and much much more
Being touced:
I thought all people felt a tingly neck head feeling when someone played with their hair, stroked their arm, drew on their back???
Well, I love getting haircuts. I love the scissors cutting my hair and of course the shampoo part. My head tingles as I watch the hair drop to the floor.
I hope we can figure out what causes this, but if not that's okay, because I love the tingle.
Also, one time someone told me it was me channeling ghosts. ha!
I am going to create two categories, head tingly without being touched/ head tingling with touch.
Most of the time, I get the tingling without even thinking about. I can also make it happen if I focus on something. Also, the person does not need to pay attention to me.
Without being touched:
I love when people explain things,whether it's to me or the whole class or me overhearing a stranger. examples: giving directions, teachers, presentations
ex: I love the turning of pages while someone is talking or the click noise of a projector. I also get a tingly feeling when people do that thing where they lick their finger so it's easier for the page to turn.
When people have a distinct voice. (even the ugliest person in the world could give me a tingly feeling)
example: accents (any kind), laughs, soothing voices
yoga classes (the teacher's voice and the soft music in the background)
When people use a lot of hand movements.
when someone talks while playing with their beard, or stroking their hair.
people that fidget when they talk
little kids explaining something.
little kids drawing.
old people
doctor visits especially eye doctor visits.
ex: i love when the doctor explains something, especially the details of when to take the medication and how many times a day, but
what I love even more than that, it's when I go to the eye doctor. I love the clicking of the machines and looking at the signs on the walls. It's the soothing voice, " do you see better in A or B?....B or C" Is A better in this eye or this eye?"
watching someone fix something at work, wherever, stranger or friend. anyone....as long as they seem to do it with care, but then again if a careless person fixed something really fast, I would probably be tingled anyway.
not always tv, but I can pick something to focus on, like someone's accent and it will come.
photographers
someone drawing me
and much much more
Being touced:
I thought all people felt a tingly neck head feeling when someone played with their hair, stroked their arm, drew on their back???
Well, I love getting haircuts. I love the scissors cutting my hair and of course the shampoo part. My head tingles as I watch the hair drop to the floor.
I hope we can figure out what causes this, but if not that's okay, because I love the tingle.
Also, one time someone told me it was me channeling ghosts. ha!
I am so happy!!! I'm not alone and I don't think we're crazy. I am a 24 year old girl from the United States and I have been experiencing this wonderfully orgasmic head tingling since I was a child. t's always in the back of my head...when being touched it moves down to the neck. It really is the best feeling in the world. When I can get it without being touched it feels even better. I have told friends about it, but they think I'm crazy, except the few who let me experiment with them. I made my friend explain whatever she wanted to me, but I told her to use hand movements and I payed attention and the tingling still came.
I am going to create two categories, head tingly without being touched/ head tingling with touch.
Most of the time, I get the tingling without even thinking about. I can also make it happen if I focus on something. Also, the person does not need to pay attention to me.
Without being touched:
I love when people explain things,whether it's to me or the whole class or me overhearing a stranger. examples: giving directions, teachers, presentations
ex: I love the turning of pages while someone is talking or the click noise of a projector. I also get a tingly feeling when people do that thing where they lick their finger so it's easier for the page to turn.
When people have a distinct voice. (even the ugliest person in the world could give me a tingly feeling)
example: accents (any kind), laughs, soothing voices
yoga classes (the teacher's voice and the soft music in the background)
When people use a lot of hand movements.
when someone talks while playing with their beard, or stroking their hair.
people that fidget when they talk
little kids explaining something.
little kids drawing.
old people
doctor visits especially eye doctor visits.
ex: i love when the doctor explains something, especially the details of when to take the medication and how many times a day, but
what I love even more than that, it's when I go to the eye doctor. I love the clicking of the machines and looking at the signs on the walls. It's the soothing voice, " do you see better in A or B?....B or C" Is A better in this eye or this eye?"
watching someone fix something at work, wherever, stranger or friend. anyone....as long as they seem to do it with care, but then again if a careless person fixed something really fast, I would probably be tingled anyway.
not always tv, but I can pick something to focus on, like someone's accent and it will come.
photographers
someone drawing me
and much much more
Being touced:
I thought all people felt a tingly neck head feeling when someone played with their hair, stroked their arm, drew on their back???
Well, I love getting haircuts. I love the scissors cutting my hair and of course the shampoo part. My head tingles as I watch the hair drop to the floor.
I hope we can figure out what causes this, but if not that's okay, because I love the tingle.
Also, one time someone told me it was me channeling ghosts. ha!
****I also have really vivid dreams and occasional night terrors....I don't know if that links to orgasmic head tingles?
I am going to create two categories, head tingly without being touched/ head tingling with touch.
Most of the time, I get the tingling without even thinking about. I can also make it happen if I focus on something. Also, the person does not need to pay attention to me.
Without being touched:
I love when people explain things,whether it's to me or the whole class or me overhearing a stranger. examples: giving directions, teachers, presentations
ex: I love the turning of pages while someone is talking or the click noise of a projector. I also get a tingly feeling when people do that thing where they lick their finger so it's easier for the page to turn.
When people have a distinct voice. (even the ugliest person in the world could give me a tingly feeling)
example: accents (any kind), laughs, soothing voices
yoga classes (the teacher's voice and the soft music in the background)
When people use a lot of hand movements.
when someone talks while playing with their beard, or stroking their hair.
people that fidget when they talk
little kids explaining something.
little kids drawing.
old people
doctor visits especially eye doctor visits.
ex: i love when the doctor explains something, especially the details of when to take the medication and how many times a day, but
what I love even more than that, it's when I go to the eye doctor. I love the clicking of the machines and looking at the signs on the walls. It's the soothing voice, " do you see better in A or B?....B or C" Is A better in this eye or this eye?"
watching someone fix something at work, wherever, stranger or friend. anyone....as long as they seem to do it with care, but then again if a careless person fixed something really fast, I would probably be tingled anyway.
not always tv, but I can pick something to focus on, like someone's accent and it will come.
photographers
someone drawing me
and much much more
Being touced:
I thought all people felt a tingly neck head feeling when someone played with their hair, stroked their arm, drew on their back???
Well, I love getting haircuts. I love the scissors cutting my hair and of course the shampoo part. My head tingles as I watch the hair drop to the floor.
I hope we can figure out what causes this, but if not that's okay, because I love the tingle.
Also, one time someone told me it was me channeling ghosts. ha!
****I also have really vivid dreams and occasional night terrors....I don't know if that links to orgasmic head tingles?
also, i forgot to write that my Mom has the head tingling to. and maybe it could be some form of synesthesia?
Hey almostbelle, I too thought that all people got it when someone drew on their back or something similar. It's so amazing how there is finally a place where so many people have this. I too also have very vivid dreams. Some good, and some bad, but I always either amaze people with how detailed I can remember my dreams or they think I'm just fabricating them as I go along.
I get something similar. It only gets activated when I'm having a conversation, or rather the other person is doing most of the talking. They might seem like any other Joe at first, but when it triggers, it's like a 6th sense is telling me, "This person is special".
Here's how the sensation goes:
The individual seems to zoom in just slightly and the background and surroundings seem to go out of focus. It feels like I'm looking at a three dimensional object in front of a two dimensional background. Then the weightlessness starts. I have no control of my equilibrium. During one event, it felt like I was upside down in my seat having the conversation. Most times I just feel like I'm cocked at a 45 degree angle.
I just let it pass and go on. I tried explaining the, "upside down, Matrix zoomy thing", to a person with whom I felt it. "Alrighty then, ooo-kay", seemed to be the reaction I got so I just keep it to myself....until this blog!!!
Here's how the sensation goes:
The individual seems to zoom in just slightly and the background and surroundings seem to go out of focus. It feels like I'm looking at a three dimensional object in front of a two dimensional background. Then the weightlessness starts. I have no control of my equilibrium. During one event, it felt like I was upside down in my seat having the conversation. Most times I just feel like I'm cocked at a 45 degree angle.
I just let it pass and go on. I tried explaining the, "upside down, Matrix zoomy thing", to a person with whom I felt it. "Alrighty then, ooo-kay", seemed to be the reaction I got so I just keep it to myself....until this blog!!!
Yes!! I think everyone knows what this is but there's no word! yep, it is a kind of an orgsamic sensation, as someone commented
- I experience this when someone is explaining something with ethusiasm, but calmly, especially when I know they're talking about something I understand as WRONG but they believe completely in the concept they're communicating and I sort of feel empathy, for example if I saw and listened someone explaining how to attract wealth, with the law of attraction thing, or new agey stuff, about "love" etc. I would experience this sensation,
-I can also feel this while reading something childish or "lovingly silly"
...the sensation is in my head, neck and back especially, I also get goose bumbps sometimes
:-)
- I experience this when someone is explaining something with ethusiasm, but calmly, especially when I know they're talking about something I understand as WRONG but they believe completely in the concept they're communicating and I sort of feel empathy, for example if I saw and listened someone explaining how to attract wealth, with the law of attraction thing, or new agey stuff, about "love" etc. I would experience this sensation,
-I can also feel this while reading something childish or "lovingly silly"
...the sensation is in my head, neck and back especially, I also get goose bumbps sometimes
:-)
you are not weird! i've had them all my life as well. they feel freakin great. mine tend to come more from talking to some one on the phone.
I've gotten this feeling throughout my life as well. I'm a 33 year old male from New Jersey. The earliest I can remember getting it was on christmas when my dad was trying to figure out how to "transform" one of the transformer toys I had gotten. My experiences agree with most of the posts here. I just got done reading this thread (and the earlier one) and something stood out to me.
Someone mentioned that this might be caused by an increased facility for empathy.
To be blunt, I know people who have used the drug "ecstasy", and the descriptions they give seem to be similar, although I far more intense than the experiences I have had. They describe increased feelings of empathy, tingling, and a feeling of extasy (per the name).
I wonder if the drug creates a similar, more intense version of what we are feeling naturally?
Please don't go out and try the drug to replicate these feelings. There are serious repercussions that come from using it....many people become depressed after using it and with excessive use it can and will damage your body and mind. Some of my old college friends who used it are now being treated for severe depression. I think using this drug actually damages your ability to feel good and happy.
I design website professionally so it would not be out of the question for me to create a website for this. I have no medical training, though, so I don't think I'm the best person for the job. I'm not sure what the content of the website would be either. We could have a forum to share experiences, which I imagine might be useful in identifying common triggers. I think that a scientific study of people who experience this would be immensely interesting.
Someone mentioned that this might be caused by an increased facility for empathy.
To be blunt, I know people who have used the drug "ecstasy", and the descriptions they give seem to be similar, although I far more intense than the experiences I have had. They describe increased feelings of empathy, tingling, and a feeling of extasy (per the name).
I wonder if the drug creates a similar, more intense version of what we are feeling naturally?
Please don't go out and try the drug to replicate these feelings. There are serious repercussions that come from using it....many people become depressed after using it and with excessive use it can and will damage your body and mind. Some of my old college friends who used it are now being treated for severe depression. I think using this drug actually damages your ability to feel good and happy.
I design website professionally so it would not be out of the question for me to create a website for this. I have no medical training, though, so I don't think I'm the best person for the job. I'm not sure what the content of the website would be either. We could have a forum to share experiences, which I imagine might be useful in identifying common triggers. I think that a scientific study of people who experience this would be immensely interesting.
This really is so amazing finding these posts! I am a 19 year old college female from Alabama and have been experiencing these sensations as long as I can remember. I would absolutely love to learn more about the scientific reasoning behind it or any common characteristics among people who experience it. Its interesting that someone mentioned the "indigo children" because that is something that I have always been fascinated by and oddly drawn to. I also loved someone's post about all of us sharing the same sensation simply because we get the same euphoria out of our connection with others and their experiences; then again, that could just be wishful thinking ;).
Some of my biggest triggers are:
-guided meditation after power yoga (I often go through the grueling forty-five minute workout just for the fifteen minutes of AIHO)
-someone "drawing" on my back (seems to be a very common trigger)
-having someone explain something to me, often something very elementary by someone very young
-someone playing with my hair, especially if they do it unexpectedly
These things only tend to trigger the sensation if they are done by someone who I am not very close with. When I was younger, this often meant a classmate who I only spent time with sporadically. I don't think it could ever be triggered by someone like a family member, close friend or boyfriend. To me, this is even more indicative of the fact that the sensation is completely non-sexual. Also, the sensation can be amplified or ruined depending on how delicate or severe the voice of the person involved is.
Some youtube triggers of mine:
If anyone decides to start a facebook group, yahoo group, or anything of the sort PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post it or message me. I'm so happy to know that all of you are out there!!!
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Some of my biggest triggers are:
-guided meditation after power yoga (I often go through the grueling forty-five minute workout just for the fifteen minutes of AIHO)
-someone "drawing" on my back (seems to be a very common trigger)
-having someone explain something to me, often something very elementary by someone very young
-someone playing with my hair, especially if they do it unexpectedly
These things only tend to trigger the sensation if they are done by someone who I am not very close with. When I was younger, this often meant a classmate who I only spent time with sporadically. I don't think it could ever be triggered by someone like a family member, close friend or boyfriend. To me, this is even more indicative of the fact that the sensation is completely non-sexual. Also, the sensation can be amplified or ruined depending on how delicate or severe the voice of the person involved is.
Some youtube triggers of mine:
If anyone decides to start a facebook group, yahoo group, or anything of the sort PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post it or message me. I'm so happy to know that all of you are out there!!!
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To clarify, I meant non-sexual because a boyfriend or someone I was romantically involved with could never trigger it. Realized that sounded a bit odd, haha.
Hello, Im a 19 year old male my experience has been a little different I posted once on yahoo answers and everybody told go see a
doctor before condition got worse. My started at age 14 just standing there out blue it happened it was just a head tingling sensation
then and at the time I thought nothing of it. Later it started happening frequently and sensations also got more intense however I can
remember anything that could trigger then it just random. For me however the sensation moves in my body sometimes.
Here is the order in how my conditon developed.
1. A head tingling sensation that started at the back of my scalp then it would move to front of scalp covering my scalp.
2. It started to shoot down my back sometimes it would move to my face it felt like your face is tighten up kinda.
3. Recently it has to where went into my arms and stopped at wrist.
Now it still happens at random but just like everyone I learn that could trigger it to happen but I can really control where it goes or
how intense it usually as time goes on they get more intense. The way I Taught myself was that I started realize deep emotions
would trigger it so now i can do it on command by thinking of a memory of either great pain or crying happy joy. I been loner so I
actually find harder trigger around people especially when touching me. The most intense one that ever happen to me that felt like it
engulf my entire body was when i watched passions of christ at the end I was crying I got up to use the bathroom it while I peeing
lasted for minutes I didnt until it was over it was a good experience and relates the person who thinks it has do with empathy which
believe is pretty much the right track. Thanks For listening keep posting your own experiences.
P.S. Glad Im not crazy 2.
doctor before condition got worse. My started at age 14 just standing there out blue it happened it was just a head tingling sensation
then and at the time I thought nothing of it. Later it started happening frequently and sensations also got more intense however I can
remember anything that could trigger then it just random. For me however the sensation moves in my body sometimes.
Here is the order in how my conditon developed.
1. A head tingling sensation that started at the back of my scalp then it would move to front of scalp covering my scalp.
2. It started to shoot down my back sometimes it would move to my face it felt like your face is tighten up kinda.
3. Recently it has to where went into my arms and stopped at wrist.
Now it still happens at random but just like everyone I learn that could trigger it to happen but I can really control where it goes or
how intense it usually as time goes on they get more intense. The way I Taught myself was that I started realize deep emotions
would trigger it so now i can do it on command by thinking of a memory of either great pain or crying happy joy. I been loner so I
actually find harder trigger around people especially when touching me. The most intense one that ever happen to me that felt like it
engulf my entire body was when i watched passions of christ at the end I was crying I got up to use the bathroom it while I peeing
lasted for minutes I didnt until it was over it was a good experience and relates the person who thinks it has do with empathy which
believe is pretty much the right track. Thanks For listening keep posting your own experiences.
P.S. Glad Im not crazy 2.
I get this too! Though not very easily- I wish I knew what it was, surely someone must have done some research on it at some point?
I'm going to start off the same way that many of you have... I'm SO glad that others experience this too!
I've never gotten the sensation from anything on video until I watched the suggested Youtube vids and tried to sort of "help" the sensation to start. That got it to start a little, but nothing close to live triggers. I usually find that the sensation is strongest when it shows up on it's own as opposed to trying to purposefully help it along.
I have many of the same triggers that you folks have and I have had a theory about what this is for many years now. Keep in mind that this theory is a bit of a reach and I fully admit to being uneducated in the things I'm about to talk about. :-)
When humans were tribal and going through their hunter/gatherer phase, they'd often groom each other. This involved tending to each others backs or hair, etc. to remove ticks, dirt or whatever hygiene needed to be done on an area of the body that was unreachable by that person alone. We can see this behavior in apes today. One of the apes will sit quietly while the other tends to his/her back or head. It was a useful (if not gross) hygiene technique practiced by ancient humans in a time before the invention of showers, soap, laundry detergents, etc. It seems reasonable to me, that over thousands of years of this cleaning technique, humans would develop a euphoric state felt by those being tended to. It's in the best interest of the person being groomed to keep still until the job is done, so I can see this wonderful sensation evolving to make that more likely to happen. Look at many of the triggers we each experience for the sensation...
... someone quietly or carefully concentrating...
... someone paying close attention to you or something directly connected to you...
... slow, deliberate movements...
... drawing on your back or hand with their finger...
... playing with your hair...
Some people mentioned gum chewing as a trigger. I myself have been triggered by someone chewing food or by hearing someone breathing. Now, I've noticed that when my girlfriend is playing with my hair (a definite trigger), her mouth is close to my ear. I can hear her breathing very easily. If this sensation is in fact, a sort of instinctual reaction, then the neanderthal being groomed would probably hear the other person closely breathing or chewing as they did what they were doing, so this may have developed as part of the "grooming trigger". The Youtube vids posted here where others talk of the broadcaster's voice being a trigger, all seem to talk softly as if they're very close to your ear, and their actions of applying make-up come close to that whole grooming thing. They're doing it to themselves, but there is a definite connection. Now, think about what it is that you want to do when the sensation is triggered within you. You want to sit very still and pleasantly let the other person do whatever it is they're doing. The last thing that you want to do is disturb them or get up and walk away.
Some people experience a fear of the dark, which is an instinct left over from when predators could leap out of shadows and devour us or a fear of snakes or spiders from a time when these poisonous critters were deadlier and more abundant. Our brains spend thousands of years learning things and then changes in how we live quickly turn those lessons redundant. I could be, that this tingling sensation is nothing more than a leftover, useless instinctual thing and just like a fear of spiders, some people have hung onto it while others just aren't born with it anymore.
So there is the theory that I've cooked up over the course of my life. Feel free to disagree since, as I mentioned, I'm by no means an expert in this sort of thing. Maybe if we all post our own theories on this, we can learn more about what it is and why it exists. :-)
I've never gotten the sensation from anything on video until I watched the suggested Youtube vids and tried to sort of "help" the sensation to start. That got it to start a little, but nothing close to live triggers. I usually find that the sensation is strongest when it shows up on it's own as opposed to trying to purposefully help it along.
I have many of the same triggers that you folks have and I have had a theory about what this is for many years now. Keep in mind that this theory is a bit of a reach and I fully admit to being uneducated in the things I'm about to talk about. :-)
When humans were tribal and going through their hunter/gatherer phase, they'd often groom each other. This involved tending to each others backs or hair, etc. to remove ticks, dirt or whatever hygiene needed to be done on an area of the body that was unreachable by that person alone. We can see this behavior in apes today. One of the apes will sit quietly while the other tends to his/her back or head. It was a useful (if not gross) hygiene technique practiced by ancient humans in a time before the invention of showers, soap, laundry detergents, etc. It seems reasonable to me, that over thousands of years of this cleaning technique, humans would develop a euphoric state felt by those being tended to. It's in the best interest of the person being groomed to keep still until the job is done, so I can see this wonderful sensation evolving to make that more likely to happen. Look at many of the triggers we each experience for the sensation...
... someone quietly or carefully concentrating...
... someone paying close attention to you or something directly connected to you...
... slow, deliberate movements...
... drawing on your back or hand with their finger...
... playing with your hair...
Some people mentioned gum chewing as a trigger. I myself have been triggered by someone chewing food or by hearing someone breathing. Now, I've noticed that when my girlfriend is playing with my hair (a definite trigger), her mouth is close to my ear. I can hear her breathing very easily. If this sensation is in fact, a sort of instinctual reaction, then the neanderthal being groomed would probably hear the other person closely breathing or chewing as they did what they were doing, so this may have developed as part of the "grooming trigger". The Youtube vids posted here where others talk of the broadcaster's voice being a trigger, all seem to talk softly as if they're very close to your ear, and their actions of applying make-up come close to that whole grooming thing. They're doing it to themselves, but there is a definite connection. Now, think about what it is that you want to do when the sensation is triggered within you. You want to sit very still and pleasantly let the other person do whatever it is they're doing. The last thing that you want to do is disturb them or get up and walk away.
Some people experience a fear of the dark, which is an instinct left over from when predators could leap out of shadows and devour us or a fear of snakes or spiders from a time when these poisonous critters were deadlier and more abundant. Our brains spend thousands of years learning things and then changes in how we live quickly turn those lessons redundant. I could be, that this tingling sensation is nothing more than a leftover, useless instinctual thing and just like a fear of spiders, some people have hung onto it while others just aren't born with it anymore.
So there is the theory that I've cooked up over the course of my life. Feel free to disagree since, as I mentioned, I'm by no means an expert in this sort of thing. Maybe if we all post our own theories on this, we can learn more about what it is and why it exists. :-)
I am a 48-year-old male who has had these sensations since early childhood,
but until tonight hadn't thought to google to understand them. None of the
few persons to whom I've mentioned this phenomenon previously have had any idea
of what I was talking about.
Childhood triggers:
* Doctor checkups
* A particular comic book where a character was being measured carefully (wish I still had it!)
(I think what triggered it was putting myself in the position of the character being measured.)
Adult triggers:
* Back massage (rarely triggers)
* Doctor checkup (only occasionally triggers)
* Haircut (only occasionally triggers)
* Teeth cleaning (triggers about half the time)
* Filling out a survey (triggers most of the time if I'm not rushed)
* Watching a hotel maid clean my room (usually triggers)
* Watching the custodian clean my office (always triggers)
The age/gender/race of the person who triggers the feeling doesn't seem
to matter. Being relaxed is necessary. I watched some of the makeup videos
others have posted. Only one had an effect on me, and it was quite mild,
but I could imagine the effect on a woman who uses makeup being
much stronger. I just had trouble putting myself in the position of the
person being helped by the video.
Like others, I think the key for me is the attentiveness of another person
toward me (even if via an anonymous survey!). I have only very occasonally
felt the sensation when helping someone else or when watching person A
helping person B. So I'm not sure that empathy for others is the right
way to think about my particular syndrome. Gratitude seems closer to the
mark for me.
I find Thunt's evolutionary theory quite interesting. I too have spent much
time thinking about evolutionary explanations for behavior, but I hadn't
thought to apply those ideas to the brain orgasm. In principle, one could test the theory
with brain scans (MRI or PET) of people like us experiencing them and comparing those
scans with scans of, say, bonobos grooming each other. In practice, though, getting
full cooperation from the bonobos might be a problem.
Thanks everyone for your posts. It's gratifying to know that others have
these odd and pleasant feelings. Now we just need someone to post a
video explaining very slowly and meticulously how to induce the feeling.
but until tonight hadn't thought to google to understand them. None of the
few persons to whom I've mentioned this phenomenon previously have had any idea
of what I was talking about.
Childhood triggers:
* Doctor checkups
* A particular comic book where a character was being measured carefully (wish I still had it!)
(I think what triggered it was putting myself in the position of the character being measured.)
Adult triggers:
* Back massage (rarely triggers)
* Doctor checkup (only occasionally triggers)
* Haircut (only occasionally triggers)
* Teeth cleaning (triggers about half the time)
* Filling out a survey (triggers most of the time if I'm not rushed)
* Watching a hotel maid clean my room (usually triggers)
* Watching the custodian clean my office (always triggers)
The age/gender/race of the person who triggers the feeling doesn't seem
to matter. Being relaxed is necessary. I watched some of the makeup videos
others have posted. Only one had an effect on me, and it was quite mild,
but I could imagine the effect on a woman who uses makeup being
much stronger. I just had trouble putting myself in the position of the
person being helped by the video.
Like others, I think the key for me is the attentiveness of another person
toward me (even if via an anonymous survey!). I have only very occasonally
felt the sensation when helping someone else or when watching person A
helping person B. So I'm not sure that empathy for others is the right
way to think about my particular syndrome. Gratitude seems closer to the
mark for me.
I find Thunt's evolutionary theory quite interesting. I too have spent much
time thinking about evolutionary explanations for behavior, but I hadn't
thought to apply those ideas to the brain orgasm. In principle, one could test the theory
with brain scans (MRI or PET) of people like us experiencing them and comparing those
scans with scans of, say, bonobos grooming each other. In practice, though, getting
full cooperation from the bonobos might be a problem.
Thanks everyone for your posts. It's gratifying to know that others have
these odd and pleasant feelings. Now we just need someone to post a
video explaining very slowly and meticulously how to induce the feeling.
I cannot believe I have finally found something that talks about this feeling I experience. I am currently in my office and I had to make some phone calls for some personal stuff and I experienced the feeling just by the sound of one of the recordings voices. It was a female voice and this has triggered it since I was young. Remember back in elementary school when the whole class would go person to person reading a story from the Literature Book? well every now and then a girl with "the voice" would begin to read.. ahhhh I lost complete focus on the story and just took in the sensation. It felt great. If I would focus on anything but her voice I would lose the feeling. I have also noticed it when I am just sitting there watching someone else perform a task that makes little small noises. Like when they are just stapling papers, or writing alot on paper, or crunching paper .. I guess paper is a trigger too. So for me its mainly girls voices and gently rummaging through paper :-) I am so glad to see yall talk about it here on the web. Let's find out what this is! XD