WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD - PART 2

I have to admit that I really hate calling it an "orgasm", simply because whenever I've gotten the courage to explain this phenomenon to someone, I've always stressed the point that it is not sexual.

"Ew, so you get some creepy, sexual thrill when I look at your artwork?"

"No, no, it's not sexual at all! I swear! There's nothing creepy about it."

"What's this condition called?"

"Attention Induced Head Orgasm. Um... why are you backing away from me like that and why are you holding that cross up at me?"

This may just be my opinion, but I think using the word "orgasm" to explain it may alienate those of us who experience this from those who don't get it at all. I'd hate for us to suddenly seem like some sort of fetish group or something to the outside world. :D

What are others thoughts on this?

Yes! I agree - I have never felt it was sexual. For me, it started when my mom would play with my hair, so I have NEVER associated it with an orgasm, etc.

Thanks for saying what I was thinking!

You're probably right to avoid the term orgasm. I was being
a bit flippant. After poking around in a thesaurus, the closest
word I could find to the feeling I experience is euphoria, with
ecstasy being a little too strong to describe it (usually!).

How about "Attention Induced Euphoria"? (I don't like the resulting
acronym, though.)

Attention Induced Euphoria.

I like it. Why don't you like the acronym though? Does A.I.E. mean something else? It seems fine to me.

AIE sounds like a cry of pain (to me), not at all in keeping
with the sensation it's meant to represent. But accuracy
is more important than an apt acronym. :-)

Hello
I am yet another one of the people to get this feeling.
I never get it from videos or sounds. The only time it happens is when I am watching someone reading and the sensation builds the longer I watch. It also comes in stronger waves when they turn a page.
I wonder why we get it happening to us.

The way mine happens is whenever I want it to start but only when watching someone.
It feels strange to talk about it. i thought it was only me. You all know the surprise when we find someone else
experiencing this sensation.

Why are we special? I do not know.

Mick

I've posted in this thread before but just thought of something. Anyone here have any tattoos? I remember that when someone would draw on me when I was little I would get the feeling, and some others mentioned the same thing on here before. If I were to get a real tattoo would it be less painful because of the feeling I'll most likely have from someone drawing on me despite the pain. What do you think?

I've wondered the same thing! I don't have a tattoo, but if/when I get one, I'll be sure to post here. XD

The earliest time I can remember experiencing this was in the 1st grade. One of the girls in my class was tracing the lines on the bottom of my shoe with her finger. It is the best sensation I've ever felt. I've only brought it up to anybody else one time and they had literally no idea what I was talking about despite rewording my description of it several times. I just found this forum and until now have seen nothing online about it. I searched "tingling in head" and got a bunch of results for negative tinglings so I searched "tingling in head feels good" and found this forum. I saw a post much earlier about youtube videos that trigger it. Could anyone post a list if they have one? In return, I submit The guy's voice caused the sensation and I listened to one of the mp3s every night when I was trying to fall asleep. After a while his voice didn't do it anymore and I found a series of youtube videos talking about stages of lucid dreaming that did it. If my sister ever wanted to braid/straighten/curl/brush my hair I would drop whatever I was doing. The beauty with that was I knew one of my parents would tell me I looked ridiculous (I'm a guy and my hair used to be really long) and my sister would have to fix it haha. 2 for 1

What I got is something similar. It's when my upper back is kinda tired like the muscles are sore. Then I get this tingling sensation and in runs up my back to my head. It's very euphoric to a point where I dont' want to move, it feels sooooo damn good.

I've been able to replicate it actually. For me, when I'm sitting at my desk and I have my feet pressed against the floor in such a way my ankles are stretched, I get that feeling.

It is such a wonderful high!!!!!!

i tried posting some of my youtube triggers a few weeks ago but the forum wouldn't let me. i'll try something different...

i would love to hear if anyone has found any others

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At the risk of sounding impolite, the discussion and learning process about this phenomenon would probably go much better if we could somehow move it to a forum that allows 'on topic' links. The censorship of these links (some of them very important) is a little damaging to what we're trying to discuss.

But, I'm not sure how we'd do that. %-)

Oh well.

Wow, this is great. I've been having these same exact sensations since I was a little kid, but I never really got it while watching someone draw something or concentrate on something very intently.

My first memory of this happening was when I was in elementary school and my teacher was reading something on a piece of paper and then slowly copying it onto a chalkboard. Everytime I heard the chalk scrape against the board, I would get this very intense tingly sensation that started at the base of my skull and move up to the crown of my skull (I was so pissed when they switched from chalkboards to dry marker boards >;) XD).

I usually get this sensation when I hear someone speaking very softly and very maticulously, pronouncing every syllable. I have a few videos I've favorited on YouTube just for this reason. I'll put them at the end of this post.

I also get the sensation when someone is gliding there fingernail up and down my back very gently. I used to ask my grandmother everytime we went to her house to do this (she had the fake glue on nails that were cold to the touch). I have since stopped asking her to do this because I am 20 years old now, and that would look very strange if someone walked in on that happening. XD XD

But anyways, here are the videos I mentioned earlier, enjoy:


And pretty much every other Lita video on YouTube.

Wow, this is great. I've been having these same exact sensations since I was a little kid, but I never really got it while watching someone draw something or concentrate on something very intently.

My first memory of this happening was when I was in elementary school and my teacher was reading something on a piece of paper and then slowly copying it onto a chalkboard. Everytime I heard the chalk scrape against the board, I would get this very intense tingly sensation that started at the base of my skull and move up to the crown of my skull (I was so pissed when they switched from chalkboards to dry marker boards ).

I usually get this sensation when I hear someone speaking very softly and very maticulously, pronouncing every syllable. I have a few videos I've favorited on YouTube just for this reason. I'll put them at the end of this post.

I also get the sensation when someone is gliding there fingernail up and down my back very gently. I used to ask my grandmother everytime we went to her house to do this (she had the fake glue on nails that were cold to the touch). I have since stopped asking her to do this because I am 20 years old now, and that would look very strange if someone walked in on that happening.

But anyways, here are the videos I mentioned earlier, enjoy:

And pretty much every other Lita video on YouTube.


P.S. The sound of scissors cutting through thick construction paper is probably the most intense trigger for me.

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I get it too. I have done a few Google searches in the past, but never found anything about this until now. I have also tried explaining it to various people and not one of them has had any idea of what I'm talking about. It's cool to know that other people experience this. I actually started laughing with joy and elation when I read some of these other posts explaining in detail what I have been experiencing for as long as I can remember and have never been able to relate to anyone.
Some of my triggers:
-When someone is explaining something to me which they seem to have very strong beliefs about (Often it will be when I feel like the person doesn't actually care as much about the thing as they let on), or conversely, when someone is explaining something in a sort of hypnotic monotone, like they have done it a million times. It seems to happen more when the person lecturing is somehow involving their body in the lecture, or their body becomes apparent, like when they sneeze, blow their nose, breathe loudly into a microphone, salivate, move around a lot, etc.
-When I am at the dentist, getting a haircut, massage or similar situations where someone is "working" on me, brushing up against me, maybe humming, maybe breathing audibly, etc.
-When a person who is talking to me does some relatively harmless thing that might be considered annoying or socially unacceptable like licking their fingers when counting money, sticking their finger in their ear and then looking at their finger, or flicking away whatever it is they pulled out of their ear (LOL!), cracking their joints, things like that
-When someone is being extra nice to me (especially a stranger)
-When I sit in a public place and watch people go about their daily business

Some of this sounds so weird and maybe creepy (especially the last one about watching people), but like others here have pointed out, it's not at all sexual, in fact, I have never experienced this sensation in conjunction with sexual arousal. It is a feeling that starts in my head, and sometimes makes its way down my spine into my limbs, concentrating in my hands and feet. I have been on Vicodin (a synthetic opiate) a few times, like when I got my wisdom teeth pulled, and the buzz of the vicoden is the closest thing I can equate to this sensation, only this sensation is stronger and briefer when it comes on, and does not cloud my head like a drug would. The sensation for me is always caused by another person. Very rarely I will get it when alone, but only when I think about another person.

What is this!!!? My guess is that it is the brain releasing endorphins triggered by certain specific social situations, and that it is something we have evolved to do for some sort of survival oriented reason. Are we special? Does everybody get this, but just not realize it? It seems like it would be hard not to notice. Virtually everyone I have talked to about it has no idea what I'm talking about.

Maybe we are documenting here the discovery of an unknown phenomena. I look forward to future developments. If anyone has access to a neurologist or other professional who might have some insight about it, please show them this message board. This could be an important discovery. I definitely do not see it as a disorder. If anything it is a gift because it is one of the very best feelings I have ever had, and it seems to come at times that encourage me to have empathy for the humanity of others.