[Seldin]

I see it has been quite some time since someone last responded to this however I too share the covenet ability to control goosebumps at will. I discovered that certain thoughts would cause it sometime in the eighth grade although I didn't give it much thought. I didn't think about it further until the tenth grade when I realized that I could control the impulse without any other stimuli.

I started learning during the cold months where I would sit in the halls before class, shivering. Usually I waited before first period for about 20 minutes. First period was always the coldest; between that hallway and the classroom I was shaking. Perhaps seventy minutes a day of shivering is what led to my discovery for It was these long hours of shivering that I slowly gained a grip on the ability.

at present I'm 25, and I can consciously summon goosebumps at will. There seems to be no time that prevents me from doing it although some moments require more concentration than others. I can direct the sensation to any point that I desire however my ability to increase sensation in one area over another doesn't seem to have any visible appearance as of yet. Controlling the speed or intensity of the sensation is easy and can be demonstraited.

For me, the calling card is a subtle contraction of something inside my nasal cavity in an area just above my nose and between my eyebrows. The sensation occurs as if I am breathing in and contracting at the same time although I can do it whether breathing in or out it seems to be somewhat stronger on the inward breath. After I regulate my breathing I can even it out.

Before it happens I can feel a pull all over my body, I can generate this pull in the same manner as the goosebumps, this seems to be the predecessor of the stronger sensation before it is released. When the goosebumps finally turn on I feel a tingle or surge that flows from my back in a diamond pattern from where my neck meets my shoulders. The same thing occurs around my head and face, before reaching other areas. I can switch it on at a specific location, or one side of my body first and then the other.

The sensation can last for as long as I keep it up or until I experience a period of fatigue where I just can't call it anymore. I give the signal but it just wont go. This usually only happens if I surge intensely for a minute or two and burn myself out. After a moment of powering down I can turn it on again. If I steady the flow I can keep it going for a couple of hours so long as I don't lose concentration. The process is not usually painful or uncomfortable. I actually find it enjoyable, however, if I do it long enough or hard enough it does become uncomfortable and fatigued like a muscle burning sensation after a long workout.

Just for the record I can feel it everywhere, eyes, tongue, ears - even my gums and teeth feel tingly when I do this. This makes me wonder if something else is going on behind the scenes. Because things that don't have gooebumps still tingle.

I did make a video of myself controlling it so if anyone would like to view it I may post it.

[Paramedic]

I have the same thing. I have been able to do this all my life. I can cause a "fuzzy feeling" at the base of my skull/top of my neck that causes chills to radiate down my limbs and torso in waves. Within seconds it will cause goosebumps to stand out on my arm legs and chest. I can do this at will, regardless of temperature. I showed my wife once, and she thought it was a pretty stupid "ability", but humored me. She asked why I couldn't do something useful, like predict lotto numbers. Sigh. I once asked a MD about this, and they told me it was a form of self biofeedback.

Oddly, I have also been able to slow my pulse since I was about 15. I used to do it a doctor's offices to alarm the nurse taking my vitals. Especially if one came in after another and took the same vitals. I' drop my pulse from 85 to about 60 to mess with them. I know, cheap thrill.

I never put the two together. The goosebumps and the pulse. Being a paramedic, I've studied the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. I am familiar with ACH and norepinephrine production in the body. I guess this may be a way of either increasing the nor-epi production OR blocking the acetylcholine (ACH) release through semi-conscious effort. I have no other explanation.

[techmind]

I remember seeing a documentary on TV a year or two ago about freedivers (people who dive to depths of up to 70m without any breathing apparatus). The world record is something like a 6-7minute dive I think, so they have to hold their breath that long. This is only possible by slowing their heart rate. They do this under conscious control, and on the program they had a freediver lying on a bed hooked up to a hospital heart rate monitor -I think he took it down to 15bpm or something daft. I think the machine was beeping like crazy!
The freediving is very risky - the people are right on the verge of blacking out.


On a slighly related topic when I was 18-ish I suddenly discovered how I could raise one eyebrow independently of the other. My mum thought it was cool! But a year or so later I "forgot" how to do it, and I certainly can't do it now. Weird.


I can relax my eye-focussing and let things go blurry at will (I don't think this ability is that common). This is something I learned while messing around with "autostereogram" 3D pictures when they were all the rage in the mid 1990's.

[Seldin]

Well, your eyes are in focus because of the focusing muscles around the eye. So if you were to relax those muscles your eyes would go out of focus. I can do this as well. I'm sure everyone can do it. Then again, if learned everyone could do the goosebump thing too. So just because everyone can do it doesn't mean its not an ability

The eyebrow trick is pretty cool, some people can move their ears. I do it naturally when I hear something just off to my side but I don't know how to do it conciously.

I once saw on Riply's Believe it or not, an 80 year old shaolin monk who could do a one handed pushup, upside down, on one finger. Not bad eh? of course he couldn't balance on his own but he sure could push.

[weisseraffe]

Hi there!

Awesome that I found this because I can do these too (well, not so much the goosebumps).

As for my pulse rate, I can increase it by 75% - 85% seemingly spontaneously (from say, 14-15 beats in 15 seconds to about 27 beats in the next 15 seconds and then back down to 15 beats in the next 15 <and so on>).  I can slow my pulse too, but I have to focus more and it's less dramatic (about a 15-20 beats per minute decrease).

I can also make myself feel as if it were cold on the inside of my skin, which sometimes brings on goosebumps (although I don't seem to get them much for even normal reasons).  When this happens I mostly feel it in my back and inner shoulders.

I can do these without really doing any noticeable amount of tensing and without having to think about anything in particular. If I had to explain how I do this in detail, I would say... I can trigger a tingling sensation (without tensing) from right underneath my jaw where it meets my ears which spreads very quickly to inside my ears and then to my neck and chest, then shoulders and stomach.

OR! I can do it backwards starting in my chest and stomach and then on to my head and back.

It's as if I'm triggering something inside of my nervous system without it feeling like it's really there. To be abstract, I guess you could imagine having an independent lung that allows you to breath in (very lightly) through your nose and out through your mouth (lightly or not) at the same time.. You can't really do it, but it's almost as if you could imagine the sensation of doing it. Like wagging a tail that you don't have...

It seems as though I can control the intensity (not really explainable) and can also choose from a variety of related "perks" such as to either make myself feel cold, or even give myself a "phantom feeling" of my torso and/or arms and other parts.  What I mean by "phantom feeling" is that it genuinely feels as if I no longer have these parts attached and can feel nothing in those parts except for when pain is induced, and even then it's quite dull.  It's pretty much the same as how I would imagine paralysis would feel.

Directly after I stop doing this, it feels as if something cold was injected into my veins (I guess) and sometimes I'll even shiver involuntarily.

Another route I can take has almost the same effect however it numbs my thinking as well (it makes reality seem not so ..real I guess).  I can also make it feel as if I were pumping adrenaline into my own body and can use this method when I'm working out or running (or just walking around).  If I induce this adrenaline effect, I noticed I lose a large awareness of social restraint, meaning that I can stare someone in the eyes w/out having a feeling to look away (which I normally would have) and feel as if I could punch a tree and not have it hurt (but then I'd realize how stupid I was afterwards for actually punching it).  There is a downside to this, however, in that I usually have a headache in the front of my head and my body feels stressed out afterwards (although I'm not bearing down or actually flexing anything).

ALSO! I don't know if it's related or not, but I can make my ears hum loudly (for myself) and can make them.. vibrate or even pop but in a way that doesn't really hurt.. Related to this, I can make the muscles behind my eyes feel like they're being tickled? And make them shake very quickly, but only in short bursts (like a vibration) or can have them lose focus without crossing them or shifting field of vision.  Also, if it's dark enough that I can still see, I can make it so whatever I'm looking at goes even darker until it just blends into the background and then make it lighter again.  Is this normal?

More about controlling my pulse — yesterday I was bored and was doing the heart control thing while just sitting in a chair and after about 45 seconds I almost fainted (was very light headed and chilled feeling), and felt really weird throughout the rest of the day (like I was perpetually just getting over being startled). Also my heart felt like it would, say, after being engaged in an extended foot race or something of the like.  Didn't like that feeling very much so I'm not sure if I'll keep playing around with this ability : )

In a really weird but accurate description, during this time it feels as if my skin was made out of the same nerve endings as my nipples, and is very sensitive to clothing/air for a while.  It's as if I were really ticklish, although I'm usually not.  (And no I don't play with my nipples [that much]) =D

Thoughts? Comments?


b/C

[Seldin]

I'm not entirely certain that these abilities are related, however, I too can control my pulse and or heart rate as well as Goosebumps.

It would seem that since most of us, who can control Goosebumps, are also able to control these other areas as well. Perhaps they are related in fact to one another.

The Goosebumps are controlled by the thalamus or hypothalamus I believe, which is responsible for controlling the majority of the involuntary reactions in the body, such as heart rate, pulse, body temperature, blood pressure, and more. This is sort of the primitive area of the brain, the base area which keeps us alive and functioning. It would be reasonable to assume that to have control over one function of this particular portion of the brain might lead to further control over these others functions; since the abilities are stored in the same place it maybe easier to locate the others once one is understood.

In my case, I learned how to increase speed which later lead to increasing my strength and eventually I learned how to tap into the Goosebumps but I realized I could also control my heart rate sometime after mastering the Goosebumps.

[uni]

Wow, I can't believe other people can do this too
I thought maybe I was the only one.

For as long as I can remember, I can produce goosebumps at will. I dont really know how to explain it, but i can just make this sensation occur at the base of my skull. then i can send that pulse to anywhere in my body, and that part of the body becomes goosebumpy. I can send it to my face, arm, legs, toes, chest, or everywhere.

I can also raise my heartrate and blood pressure and can send blood into anywhere into my body, like my limbs. There is no corrolation between the sensations in these two because i have to forcefully send blood to those locations.

thats about it

[mrdabhand]

Hello all,

I am looking for someone who can induce goosebumps at will to be part of a film on Friday 16th January 2009. The job will of course be paid, the shoot is in London, UK. All you need to do is turn up, stick up your hairs and you'll have made a few bob. Let me know if this is something you're interested in, my email address is george_belfield@hotmail.com.

Thanks

[Wiseman1]

Um? This is really something, I did not think this "goosebumps" where that big of a deal. But I can do something like that, its like an electric current that I can send to any limbs and bring it back in. I know its weird but my hairs don't stand up but it feels like a goosebump, I also can make goosebumps go away.

By the way does anybody here know about a possible link between the Lymphatic system and the chakras???

[Minstrel]

Wow, so there are more people that can do this as well.  In my case its produced right on the back of my neck below the skull.  I started noticing I could control it when playing tennis in college and would start noticing giving myself goosbumps while in a match to pump my self up...In my case, I get waves starting on the neck/lower part of the skull and expanding to the chest,arm and legs.  I don't feel anything on my face.   Goosebumps take a couple of seconds to show up once I start creating those waves and I can not control whether it's one arm or leg or whatever.  The wave goes everywhere below the neck.  As far as a usefull skill...Aside from making my young daughter be amazed at her super hero dad, I do think the nervous system is pumped up in some form.  its a strange feeling, but it feels good. 

I've been wanting to look this up in google for a while and that's how I ended up in here. 

Cool!

[tcdao]

Hey my name is tony and i too can cause the tingling sensation that start from the back of the neck and it travels all the way down to my legs. What is interesting is that (weisseraffe) mention being able to control the rods and cone behind the eyes to get a fuzzy image or "fire works" if being done while looking at lights, b/c i too can do that. I think that if a person is able to do that with their eyes then they have 20/20 vision and are able to correct them, b/c when i control my rods and cone while wearing my grandma glasses which is really blurry, i am able to see with normal vision! i believe this is genetic because i asked my mother if she is able to do the voluntary self induce goosebump and she did it!!! so i really believe that it has to be genetic. There is one thing i notice that all of you that are able to do the "VIG"(Voluntary Induce Goosebump) that miss is that after self induce the goosebump, your strength increases, i found this out when i was bench pressing. I maxed out at 150lb but after doing the VIG and lift right away i was able to max out at 170lb!!! which is a big increase in a matter of second, i did a second trial 10min later w/o the self VIG and i was only able to bench 150lb then tried the VIG i again was able to bench 170lb which i think is amazing.

[tcdao]

oh i recommend those with VIG to do the strength trial so confirm this, start off with something you can left and walk with, measure that distance then do it again right after the VIG then re measure the distance. I'm pretty sure you might be shocked with the result.

[tacosalad]

dude... I have the same ability! I've recently taken the pulse ability to a new level though. Giving myself a nosebleed... I can now do that at will. I was interested if there was anyone else who could, so i looked up controlling goosebumps on google and there you were. Be careful doing goosebumps too much, if you do it for as long as I have you might get used to it. Try taking a couple weeks of not doing it, because your body may get used to it.

*addition: Its not just pulse... its the blood in your body too. If you have really good control you can do a lot.
also... I am self taught, no meditation or silly crap like that.

2nd addition: to the guy who said his strength increases. I noticed that too. weird...

[Jbuddha]

Before I found this article, I had no idea so many others could do the same trick! I am glad to find a community of goosebumpers. I wanted to ask you a few questions, trying to find correlations between other odd things about me and things about you all. Reading over all of these posts, I wanted to say yes I sometimes wake up at night from tripping on a sidewalk in my dream. I can also move my ears individually, pop them, make a loud hum in my ears by humming, I can move my eyebrows separate from eachother, and all that.

What I wanted to ask was if you all ever experienced super sensitivity to your environment? For instance, I get a funky headache when I walk by a microwave turned on. My head also hurts when I'm on a cellphone for too long. I find that a cup of coffee will keep me up for 12 hours, and that I can usually get high off of one or two puffs of the green stuff. I also find that ibuprofen dulls my reaction speed in sports and homework.

Some of these may be all in my head, because the effect is so slight, but are any one of you goosebumpers also (what my friends like to call me), hypochondriacs?

Hit me back

-Jake

[Jbuddha]

Additionally, I would like to know how you heart beat raisers measure your heart rate without being distracted from the effort. And I haven't tried the weight room yet. Make sure you do trials in different orders, because it is possible that your previous workout will give you an adrenaline boost that soups you up, or it may tire you out for the next trail. You have to find the average increase of strength by averaging the boost you get using goosebumps first in a trial and when you use it last.

[trax]

OK weird, I can do this too and have always been able to. I don't know if I learned it somehow or if it's just natural. I would love to know why I can do it and what it means biologically.

[HubTM]

Im able to do this too, create goosebumps with the wave sensation all these people have mentioned. I can control my heart rate too but not to the same extent. Id be really interested to find out exactly what is going on in the brain when this happens.

[sabe.]

Wow...I just found this forum today on google while trying to figure out words that would relate to this feeling. I thought I was the only one too! I noticed I had this ability since i could remember. However, I can only make myself feel the chill from the top of my chest to the top of my abs. Also, I have to consentrate and breath in and out intensely. When I breath out, my chest shivers and then the feeling comes down from the top of my chest, or bottom of my neck, to the top of my abs, which I believe is where my diaphragm is.
 I don't know about controlling my heart rate though, can you guys enlighten me on how to do it?

Just for your guy's information, if it matters, currently I am a 15-year old vietnamese teenager.

[mike0211]

Hi...My names michael im 23 and born on feb 11,
i really don't know who will ever read this but i have read most of you alls posts about the "goosebumps" lol..funny that everybody is calling it that...because i really dont get the goosebumps like normal goosebumps...if that made sense lol... sure if i reallyyy try to kick that energy up. i actualy trigger "normal hair standing up like crazy/chill goosebumps.." but...

I really just think it feels like a electrical current...but maybe thats the same thing, anyways....

I have a lot to say about it and have some things to compare from all of you other people who can do that same thing. with a couple of new things that nobody else mentioned i dont think...

here goes so bare with me...

K well yess...i can do the whole "goosebumps" thing, and nooo i dont do any special breathing...i dont need to concentrate hard, and can do it while running, holding my breath, eating...watching tv...i guess i just at first learned to control it for the most part because it makes me feel good....

now i drink but i dont do drugs..so i can't really say its like taking a hit of some kinda drug that's addicting...but i can say i constantly "generate" them. because they really do make me feel good...

i noticed some of you or atleast one of you, said how you think it can help with healing...to whoever you are, i gotta agree...it play sports alot and if i "DO" get hurt, i use it to take away most of the pain, and idk...i personally have noticed it helps me just heal a lot faster...

I also can control my heart rate,and pulse...pssh just right now to double check that i could i just kicked up my heart rate to hyper drive......and nowwww i lowered it back down to below normal...so yup..i can still do it...It helps to skip  warming up with getting ready to play basketball lol...
now about the whole controlling the Pulse of my body, yup that I can do....  now im not sure how many of you have actually see your pulse go up without feeling yourself....but when i raise my pulse, i tend to focus it on my wrists,...being that i always saw on tv with doctors or people checking peoples pulses there....but besides that...when i do it... anybody who can see or cant, can clearly see my skin on my wrists pulsing like crazy...my skin bends sometimes on the sides of my hands 2 if i reallyyy focuse hard on doing it... so yup...

now with the whole raising and lowering your body temperature...i can do that as well...BUT there's a slight catch sometimes...
....K....lets say i wanna brave against the cold and raise my temp...well all i do is kick up those "goosebumps"...and focus a "LITTLE" bit on making my body get hot...and it seems to work for the most part...definetly doesnt play a big factor if its like super cold...but it does help for sure... but lets say i do it when its already hot lol...well then my body gets EXtremely hot and ya it kinda sucks...ha

now when lowering my body temp...honestly i can do that 2..but it's not as affective YET.


hmm...what else did you all say?...oh ya.about where it comes from...well to be honest..i guess that doesnt really matter, being that i really cant say for sure where it comes from?...lol sorry =/

all i know is that my emotions GREATLY effect the "goosebumps" when i kick em up...sometimes i try to Double that energy...ehhh let me explain i guess..

okay..for those of you who can do this at will..you know how to trigger it right?...k well lets just say if you ever wanted to double it..that it's possible to take it up a whole other level using your entire body as generating more of it...
..now I myself...can literally see and feel my heart and pulse rate sky rocket...as well as my body heat raise dramatically...also the next part is where you'd get a slight shaking or twitching of yourself..nothing to crazy...but that i found to be just a normal reaction to the increase of the "goosebumps" intensity...

not to sound like an idiot but think of yourself as like powering your body up, to like a superhuman state...to where your senses get heightened up and strenght and just sheer confidence and will..of doing whatever you want...

Yup...it's like that...

you know how your body can bring out adrenaline? i guess its like that, but doing it yourself at will...but to a extreme, because you feel more intense...

now i know most of you say you can control it...but for how long exactly?..you say it comes in waves right?...well ya it starts off like that when controlling it...but have you ever tried to sustain it?

i'm sure some have and maybe can...so if so, thats kool...

I, have been trying to sustain it for as long as i can, without having to produce another "wave"...
but b4 i go on with this...just note that i am only talking about the "normal" not intense really at all, kinda "goosebumps"...

i have gotten pretty good and keeping it going for what Iiiii think is a pretty good amount of time...i'm just experimenting and trying to gain more self knowledge on what this thing can do if it can be controlled further

...but i would be lying if i said i didnt ever Run-out of that "goosebump" energy...YUP..i guess my body has a set amount of how much i can use, and once i deplete it, it takes a couple minutes or longer to restore that lost energy for myself....I know somebody else here talked about how they try and Kickup that energy again when they know they have none, and they get nothing 2...so atleast i know that's normal lol... i try to do the same to get those "normal goosebumps"...but when i try and just kickup the more intense one i talked about..all i get is the shaking of my body...with nothing else...so ya...wont work on that either...which
yess.....you gotta be able to do the "normal goosebumps" at will, in order to generate your body going for that extra one..


anyways, i noticed somebody talking about it possibly giving people who can do it "telekinesis" or something...well honestly, even b4 i read this thing today, since i decided to register like 25 minz ago to be able to write this lol....I honestly assumed that "telekinesis" thing already on my own...i always had a idea that if reallyyyyy mastered or something that MAYBE i can do some CRAzy "telekinesis" stuff lol i knowwww
prolly just wishful thinking...but i mean cant hurt to try right?...but eh...at the same time, i may not be able to control that kinda thing...but doesnt mean i havent had "weird" experiences...




ya....this is 30 minz after i wrote "but doesnt mean i havent had weird experiences"....and i'm pissed because this stupid site i guess timed me out from writing all the stories i told!!!!!! wtf!!!....ima write em again i guess but some other time because there's nowayyyy im writing all that i did again....

laters

[Thouv]

I can do the goosebumps as well.
I used to be able to do it only when standing still, but after getting used to it, I have been able to do it while walking for the past so-many years and any other activity.
I noticed that if I do not inhale (even slightly) at the same time, it is a bit harder to get them.
Also, alcohol inhibits the actual goosebumps (I can still send the electrical signal when inebriated, but there is no goosebump side-effect).

Also, just like mike0211, I have a different "extreme" goosebumpy thing where I slightly twitch or shake and have extreme focus.

Concerning the sustaining, since it comes in waves (the electrical signal or hormone or whatever going down the body), to "sustain" it, I just do the waves frequently enough that it doesn't stop. So I *could* keep doing it "forever".

I would love to finally meet someone else who can do this! Anyone here live in Boston, USA? :-)