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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Is it common or useful to be able to control goosebumps, and pulse, at will?
« on: 04/10/2017 05:01:16 »
I can also control my goosebumps, I taught myself how and I pyschologically know how I am doing it.
A little background about me, from a very young age I watched people interact and tried to understand why people did certain things and what they were thinking. I became adequate at generally understanding why people did things and why they reacted in the way they did. I used this to help figure out why I did everything, from liking one thing versus another to knowing why I liked people etc. Fast forward to college I broke myself down mentally and re-evaluated why I did everything and what I hoped to achieve in this world...
As I started to figure out these questions I noticed that when I fully agreed on something I would get goosebumps through my whole body. I can get them in patches but that means that I strongly agree but not completely. I kept using this as indicators to dig deep within myself and really understand if I wanted or liked something. The more deeply I felt about the statement I made to myself the stronger I can send goosebumps. I do feel like it wears me out, like part of the strength of goosebumps is reliant on dopamine or something like that. Maybe it is just a mental trick I have taught myself but the fact is that when I do really believe in something I can send goosebumps through my body. However I still choose if I want to produce them on a thought.
For example if I really like doing a task and I mentally talk to myself and am like I really like doing this job. I can choose to send them or not. It isn't automatic but I can send them or attempt to, to see if my body agrees. I look at as a mental stand point that if all the parts of my brain really agree on this I can send the goosebumps but if it doesn't I will get a weaker version or none at all. Which I usually dig deeper to figure out what part of it I do agree with.
Not sure if this thread is still active but I would love to understand more about what I taught myself to do and whether I deduced what is generally going on.
A little background about me, from a very young age I watched people interact and tried to understand why people did certain things and what they were thinking. I became adequate at generally understanding why people did things and why they reacted in the way they did. I used this to help figure out why I did everything, from liking one thing versus another to knowing why I liked people etc. Fast forward to college I broke myself down mentally and re-evaluated why I did everything and what I hoped to achieve in this world...
As I started to figure out these questions I noticed that when I fully agreed on something I would get goosebumps through my whole body. I can get them in patches but that means that I strongly agree but not completely. I kept using this as indicators to dig deep within myself and really understand if I wanted or liked something. The more deeply I felt about the statement I made to myself the stronger I can send goosebumps. I do feel like it wears me out, like part of the strength of goosebumps is reliant on dopamine or something like that. Maybe it is just a mental trick I have taught myself but the fact is that when I do really believe in something I can send goosebumps through my body. However I still choose if I want to produce them on a thought.
For example if I really like doing a task and I mentally talk to myself and am like I really like doing this job. I can choose to send them or not. It isn't automatic but I can send them or attempt to, to see if my body agrees. I look at as a mental stand point that if all the parts of my brain really agree on this I can send the goosebumps but if it doesn't I will get a weaker version or none at all. Which I usually dig deeper to figure out what part of it I do agree with.
Not sure if this thread is still active but I would love to understand more about what I taught myself to do and whether I deduced what is generally going on.