[beatyouonce]

Its amazing to see so many people here all sayign the same thing, and all hoping that this "power" turns into something more. Also ROOOMANIA!! lol  =)

if anyone is down for some chatting about this I have a e-mail i created, to tlak to others about this. Shoot me an e-mail at goosebumpcontrol at the geee mail

[Sku]

Hello everyone,

you really made me register here too, good job.

I've read every single post till here, it took me about 3 hours with some breaks.

I'm male, 24y, blonde, can't get fat no matter what I eat, and was better then everyone else in sports at school,...actually I was always good at everything I tried (no matter if sports, math, science, pc, machines, call it gifted or whatever you want, it just makes life boring..no challenges :/)
My eyes got bad when I was like 10, refused the glasses till I was 16, had a lasersurgery on them 4 months ago, and can make my view as blurry as when I couldn't see well.
But there are some of you like this, right?

Anyway.

I also got my goosebumps "somehow" under controll. My memories of using it go back to somewhere when I was 15-16 and I was exploring some forrests with my cousin while the family was BBQ'ing. We came accross a cliff which we wanted to pass, but there was only a fallen tree usable as a passage. As I got up there I almost sh*t my pants because of the fear....but then I rememberd something from Dragonball (pretty much into animes) and I pushed my fear with the goosebumps away, with every wave the fear washed away and I was able to walk over the tree, stand in the middle and fear nothing negative.

At the moment I've been playing around with those goosebumps for 2-3 weeks because it was somehow always there and I didnt really noticed it to that extend.
For me it works something like this...
I can create somekind of tension in my body but it feels like its a different layer of matter, it is there where my body is, but it does'nt touch it everywhere.
So to activate it to make my body feel it, I imagine something like a neverending flamebursting explosion in the middle of myself, and it starts to create waves that beginn in the lower half of my head (if you would divide it horizontally in the middle) and rush through my whole body first, then I can let the next bursts flow somehow where I want them.
The thing is, if I hear or imagine somekind of epic music (or at least music which I connect to epic moments in animes/movies), if I imagine myself emiting flames from every inch of my body, or if I imagine myself having wings (yeah weird, but I have always had pretty vivid dreams about it since I can remember anything, and it keeps repeating), then those goosebumps go to an extreme that my nose beginns to bleed a little and my head starts shaking a little like getting in touch with electricity.
If I close my eyes with that it gets even more extreme, but that really did hurt so not gonna try it for a while...

After those extrem bumps, I get hungry as hell, I swear I could eat and eat after that.
My heart makes me feel like I'm really tired and it feels like its sitting there, puping some blood in a bullet, and then shooting it into the body, so my heartbeat goes pretty much down.
Another thing I noticed is also like you got it with the painreception. I can neglect pretty much of the incoming pain with the bumps.

As I've seen from most of you, we seem to think or/and feel that we have something that not everyone has. And from some posts here I've also got the feeling that they would like to say stuff they cant in the public, and thats also a point why I guess some off us here would like to get in contact with the others.

I would love to actually, and I would like to find someone who could teach me how to make use of this.
Hope to hear from you're experiences, I'll try some off them.

[miamisinatra]

Hi Jolyon, I too can make myself get goosebumps from something I can trigger in my head.  I've always been curious about it wondering if I could somehow trigger other "hidden" abilities.  They say that humans only utilize 10% of their brains true capabilities.

[user1989]

and why would someone from roumania get a lol ?

[Omnifarious Nefarious]

I too, also have this exact same ability. Much in the way of the others, and the OP. I can control my goosebumps at will. I breath slowly, and deeply out, and kind of flex the area around the base of my neck (the back) ever so slightly, which causes this invigorating feeling of electricity to spew out from the upper portion of my back, (base of the brain stem area to the top of the shoulders) and it spreads out from there. Doing this causes me to go kind of cross-eyed, and I get this sound of rushing water in my inner ear which then gives me a bulging feeling in my inner ear when I release the tension from my head and neck area.

I believe it to be an indirect/direct stimuli thing. It's VERY easy to create and hold goosebumps if I think of something that would give me pride and excitement at the same time. (Being a super powered hero during a battle, knowing your power, and being cocky because of it. That sense of, "I'm the prince of all Saiyans!" will get goosebumps NO problem.) To do it without thinking those happy, prideful thoughts is harder, and produces a smaller effect, but those goose bumps can be held for a longer period of time, but they're duller. They mostly stay in the lower half of my extremities.  The goosebumps form around my calf and shin areas, and stay there until I release them, or they fade on their own, sames goes for my forearms when doing this without thinking of things and scenarios to trigger it. For those Dragon Ball Z fans,  you know how the combat armor with the big pauldrons was shaped that most of Frieza's men wore? In that shape, layed over my body, is where the feeling of goosebumps go. Over the shoulders, curving down onto the body, skipping the thighs and upper arms, and being very strong in the forearms and lower legs.

[RD]

... They say that humans only utilize 10% of their brains true capabilities.

Not in this forum "they" don't ... http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2760/

https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html

[cheryl j]

The goose bump thing sounds a little like ASMR. Most people who experience ASMR get it in response to certain images or sounds, but some people can induce the sensation without any stimulus. It's described as a pleasant tingly sensation that generally starts in the scalp or back of the head and passes down the back or through the shoulders, sometimes all the way down to the feet. Here are some links if you are interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response


http://www.asmr-research.org/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/transcript

[Kevinsgustavson]

Wow!!! Let me start off by saying I've been pondering the answer to is question for 5 years now.  I've been a newbie and. Have been searching for "the chills" but obviously that's synonymous with goosebumps!,

So my story is pretty crazy so I'm going to summarize it and if anyone has questions please don't hesitate to contact me!

So I am 25 years old, and when I was 20 I did the master cleanse and also journaled for the first time in my life.  The journaling was basically asking question after question, stemming new questions I would've never formulated without e previous one. After about 200 pages of writing for about one or two weeks straight, I felt a mental calmness that is very hard to describe.  But basically this new calmness or mental awareness allowed me to trigger "the chills" or goosebumps until this day. Previous to all of my writing I would only get the chills in very rare circumstances from an intense movie scene etc which seems to be somewhat common.  But now if I am very relaxed and reflect on that the. I am able to trigger these goosebumps at a rapid pace and even can cool my body down. As far as pulse is concerned, I have been at 45 bpm bc my cardio is so good but never really measured during a meditative state, I'd imagine I'd be in the 30s.

Going to read through these pages..
But very happy I found you guys!

All the best
Kevin

[RD]

... 200 pages of writing for about one or two weeks straight ...

Compulsive writing can be a symptom of epilepsy ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphia
Focal-seizure could explain the unusual sensations and mental-states ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_seizure

[cheryl j]

Just out of curiosity, Kevinsgustavason and Omnifarious, do you ever experience this sensation in response to certain sounds or images as well? Typical triggers include tapping, scratching, crinkling, rustling, brushing, certain voices, or whispering, and certain kinds of repetitive finger movements. It might be interesting to check out the different ASMR videos on youtube and see if they have any effect on you. The videos might strike you as odd at first, but it's interesting to see what different people respond to. Here's one for example:

Or try

[mpp]

Hi
Have this since I can remember,  can do all of symptoms that havebeen posted.
But i can mantain the rushing over and over, make my eyes water, make my muscles contract and shake,heart speed up and slow down I canlift heavier weights, my eyes focus better, feel almost electric, pulsating, especialy when im out and a storm is brewing,  like something is gonna happen, like im waiting for somthing, my muscles start shaking and teeth can chatter uncontrollably  very spiritual, very weird, im in mid thirties and never spoke of this before

[Ironwok]

I happen to also be able to do this.  I'm not entirely sure if it is the exact same "goose bump" effect.  The total time limit I can keep this going is usually around half an hour in a session. [got other things to do].
I find it is not so much trying to have goosebumps as much as it is letting a wave of energy pass through your body.  This adrenaline like feeling I found is easiest to try and control from the spine. 

The first key is breathing deeply.  Feel the rush of air into your lungs.  I also found that if you have troubles starting, music you really like can help you get an idea of what the "feeling" feels like.  If you are doing it right, as you inhale, you should be able to feel the "goosebump" wave throughout your back and spine, sometimes legs. 

Try and repeat the tingling process, at the peak of each breath [building up the feeling as you breathe in].  I found that you have to build up intensity with each breath to really get it going.

If you have been using music or something that stimulates the response, try and remove it after a while and activate it without a trigger.

The real trick which I am still trying to get to is let this feeling pass through your arms to your hands.  I have made progress from middle back/shoulder blade, to working it out to just past my elbows.  It seems to be really hard to work it towards your hands.  I think it may be possible however, seeing as I've made it progress through more than half my arms with a LOT of practice.

Usually good places to do it is if you are riding in a car or on a bus, [not driving] because it is an adrenaline response [i think].

I am a 25 year old male, and an athlete in peak fitness.  I've had this tingling response very strongly my entire life, but did not start controlling it until about 22.

Another physiological attribute of mine [not necessarily proud of] is that i'm a berserker.  I've spent a life of training myself daily to not enter that state.  This is really only activated by extreme emotional or extreme physical pain response.  I am curious if this has anything to do with the ability to constantly keep the goosebump feeling going. 

the best explanation I got for keeping the feeling active and constant is;

try and re-release that dopamine as a response to the release of dopamine.  What I mean is you need that goosebump feeling to excite you in the same way music does ect.  Its like a runaway effect.  Once you start the feeling, the feeling GIVES you the feeling.  I guess a way to summarize it is similar to the runaway greenhouse effect on earth.  earth heats up, melts permafrost, releases methane, heats up even more, melts more permafrost, releases more methane.


if epic music, some sport, sex, some activity etc gives you goosebumps because you like it or it excites you.  I can't speak for women because I'm not one, so the triggers I listed might not work.  You have to find what works for you.


 I know this sounds really weird, but its the best description I have.  I really hope this helps, as it can be used for extreme adrenaline release, which can be used in sports [and other things].  Imagine your at a starting line and you can make your hairs stand on end to the point where you want to laugh and cry at the same time [literally start tearing up].  When you begin you don't feel any fatigue at all and exercise seems entirely effortless.  The trick is keeping it going throughout the race.

I also found that when you're in this state you can do improv effortlessly.  so writing song lyrics on the spot just flows.  same with speaking or attempting to motivate others [team motivational speech].



So at Jolyon, it does have a use and give this a try.  Hope it helps!

let me know if anyone finds this mental state useful for anything other that what I've listed.
If you don't meditate, you should start.

[okpc]

"Goosegumps" for me can be observed within two poles and a middle neutral point:

(+) Thinking or having a moment of true awe, inspiration and/or when you hear or think something that is true to yourself.

(-) When getting the fear of getting "eaten" in some way or really ****ed up.

(*) Neutral:  It can be done at will with doing and feeling a good, slow, full breath. It helps a lot to start it off with having my eyes closed. The more of them in a row, the better. As I feel it, these eletric waves can be directed, ussually from the bottom of the spine orfrom the neck the neck , through the back, and to the limbs (specially if extended). When gone up to the head and into the top of the skull it really feels like an electric crown at the top. 

[Annewarbs1]

You guys need to try this! I don't know if this counts as meditating or what or even if it will actually work for you guys but. Try lying in bed after dark and turn out the lights leaving a dim lamp or something in the corner of the room. Then put in your head phones, close your eyes and listen to some intense music like work out/dance/remix music. Then focus on the music but not individually on the lyrics or bass but on the feeling it gives as a whole. Slowly your heart rate should increase then focus on your body. Imagine your body is one big muscle and you want to flex it. While your doing that try and see the darkness of your eyes closed. It feels similar to when you 'blur' your vision. 'fall' into the dark, envision a great big black hole and your sliding/falling through it. Now your body should start twitching, fingers, legs everything. Do Not let this distract you remember focus is KEY.
I cant properly describe the feeling but once you have it you will know. And it takes physical effort to keep it up!
Now here comes the cool/freaky part. Once you've got the focus shift it to your hand. Try and 'build up' the focus in your hand then when you feel your ready move your hand in front of your face about 20cm (without breaking focus) and open your eyes. You should still be able to see mostly (lamp in the corner) aka not pitch black. Then 'blur' your eyes like you usually do and your hand will completely fade out! Like disappear. Obviously its still there but its seriously cool and freaky. When you 'come down' you will notice that your breathing heavily and your heart is pounding dw it will slow fairly quickly though the twitching will go down to a slight shake, it goes away in like 30 mins.

I don't believe in having super powers or anything crazy but I'm pretty sure that when I do this I'm building up LOADS of adrenaline and I think that further study and experiments could lead to something cool? The music is a kinda 'trigger' for me. 

(Reading up on it and seeing everyone's comments and being reassured that others can also do this helps)

[TheBakester66]

Hello everyone,

Like most of you, I registered for this site specifically to post about my experiences with ASMR, goosebumps, whatever you want to call it.  My experiences are the same as many of you in some ways and different in others. So i'll try to focus on the differences.

I am a 31 year old male, I am a long distance runner, I have always had extreme mental toughness and control.  I've nearly died twice in car accidents, once when I was 12, the other when I was 17.  I am a computer engineer from a prestigious university.  I don't meditate in the traditional sense but my mind is racing constantly. 

I can pretty much control my goosebumps at will.  But my theory as to how these are created is different from what many post.  I don't think we are creating energy waves, I think we are feeling/ absorbing the energy around us (for those of you star wars buffs, let's call it the force, without all the cool powers, yet...) I can control the energy around me at will, and I can experience it in my toes and hands completely separated from my head, or completely throughout my body, without external stimuli. 

With external stimuli, I feel less control over what I'm doing, but it can be more powerful at times as well. 

I don't believe I can control my heartrate or pulse.  I have never felt that I could not feel pain through this, but I have absolutely felt that feeling of being able to literally jump over a house or have the strength to do twice as many push-ups as I ever could other wise.  I haven't tested the strength training at all, but those of us who have felt it.  My god, it feels like you have unlimited power running through your body, insane.  I have to focus and give it time to achieve this effect.

I wanted to add that drinking alcohol in excess and eating too much dampens my ability to absorb or control the energy (or at least it seems to). 

I started testing sending this energy.  At times, I felt that I could create a ball of energy between my hands and send it to people.  I decided to test the theory, and weird things would happen.  People would call me out of the blue saying that they were thinking about me, and they didn't live near me and I hadn't spoken to them in days or weeks.  I feel like my ability to control this sent energy is debatable at best.  And the scientist in me thinks that that I could be forcing outcomes, or misreading coincidence or small sample sizes, among a myriad of other potential issues with any testing.  At least one person has claimed that they legitly felt the energy transferred to them.  I have always believed that humans will evolve to something much greater, and that there are new abilities that will come with long-term genetic mutation. 

After reading some of your thoughts on potential healing, I would like to try that next. 

I'm fairly positive that I'm not crazy, though I sometimes question whether I am or not.  In the end,  I simply believe there is more to us than we realize, much more, and we have to believe to unlock it.

I am glad to have read many of your stories.

I hope mine helps others searching for Answers.

-Chris

[Kevinsgustavson]

I TRIGGER THE GOOSEBUMPS ALL DAY AND AM ADDICTED TO IT

it only started when I cleared my mind by journaling a lot at age 20, now at 25

[vmochi]

I've never told anyone that I had this ability because I didn't know how to explain it. It was described perfectly throughout this thread.

My experience with this:

The waves usually occur at the back of my skull and spread down my back and in to the back of my legs and arms. However, I can trigger it starting in other parts of my body but starting from the back of my head seems relay the strongest signal. I am also able to transfer these from my lower body in to the back of my head and forehead.

I've always felt as if this energy could be used as some type of healing instinctively as others have stated. I've attempted self-healing as well as trying to transfer this energy to relieve someones headache and she said that it helped. I've only tried this once. While reading my way through this forum I had a headache and used the waves to transfer energy up in to the spot that was in pain, and I haven't had the headache since.

I also experience these waves when being inspired or when something I believe is true or has meaning to me transpires. As another has said sort of like a "radar" I guess. I'll take a minute to register what someone has said or done and if I get the chills as a signal I'll perceive it to be genuine. Somewhat of a lie detector test. I don't base all of my decisions off this or attempt to use it that much.

As far as dreams I've had a few that later manifested in real life. The details where different but the people and situations were the same. I also randomly think of movies and later see them on television. I think everyone's probably done this once or twice.

I've also noticed a familiar energy radiating from crows and blue jays. I'm not sure why, but something clicked when I read that.

I liked the video about your brain and God. It makes sense that there is a specific set of brain waves when you think of "God" of your own understanding just as if you were to think of food. Each one being unique. I do find when reaching out to God, of my own understanding, and praying that I get these same kind of waves in response to my questions. They have to be honest prayers. I have to really mean what I'm asking or it doesn't work. I have to reflect on the feeling generated by these waves in order to interpret the correct decision. It's not always a clear "yes" or "no" response. Although, sometimes the signal is so strong that there is only one definitive answer.

That's how I first realized I could sort of trigger these feelings. I'm now able to do it on my own without prayer or random inspiration. I do not need to think any thoughts or search for external stimuli to generate these waves. It's somewhat instantaneous and I seem to be able to do it as often as I want. The longest and strongest signals I can do last less than 10-15 seconds but I can do small bursts of waves for hours that last 5-7 seconds. Closing my eyes does intensify these waves but I can do it with them open as well. I can do them laying down but it's weaker. I cannot trigger them while holding my breath. It's hard for me to trigger them in "dead air" as mentioned such as being on public transportation and no one is talking.

I thought that everyone could do the blurry vision thing. I've always done that. When I was little I use to close my eyes and see bright orange spots floating towards me. When I close my eyes now I can see them in the distance but they are not as strong or vibrant. When I sit up to fast I see multiple colors kind of like TV pixels that flash. I've seen the blue waves of lights as well, also purple. When I look at a bright background, such as the computer, but mostly the blue sky I can see hundreds of white cells swarming around in my eyes like you would if you looked at cells under a microscope.

Once after completing and recording a 15 song album in less than one week, while staying up late and putting all of my efforts and energy in to it I laid down in the grass in my backyard. There was a single cloud in the sky and as I looked at it, it burst in to thin air and disappeared. I have no idea if this was just good timing or if I had transferred some type of energy in to it. I would like to believe that I experienced "cloud bursting" like in the movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" but I've never been able to replicate that achievement.

These waves make me feel good but I try not to really use them too often unless I really need to, however I've been triggering them like crazy since reading this thread just to see what I could do. I tried looking in the mirror while I triggered them but my pupils didn't dilate. They may have a little bit but nothing too noticeable.

Alcohol does inhibit the ability to trigger these waves for me, but I don't drink often enough to really confirm this.

Glad to see that others are experiencing the same thing and I'm not alone.  []

[lm93]

did anyone go to the doctor to find out what this is because I can do this also

For me it goes like this

I breathe in and the more I breathe in the more powerful the effect is and it starts as a warm feeling in my brain and it travels throughout my body when I let it go and I can focus it to different body parts as well, it always gives me goosebumps and but I do it mainly when I'm in pain or have a headache because it nullifies the pain temporarily(it wasn't like this at first) not to mention other things but it every time I do this(whatever it is) I get a sharp pain in my head a certain amount of time afterwards. I don't meditate or do any of that stuff either and pretty much have been able to do this thing since as far back as I can remember. I started getting incredibly powerful headaches(cluster headaches) for about a year straight about 2 years ago after getting injured and they were are terrible, nothing I can think of even comes minutely close to them and I did this to help with them in terms of pain for me. This is when I started to really realize I could stop pain with it, on the cluster headaches I was suffering from which were far far far far worst than typical migraine for me, It helped a little but on normal headaches it nulls them for a solid hour, on everything else it was like chilling effect almost and resulted in an almost dull feeling I guess. Its more than likely because I suffered from the clusters though that I could use it for pain though I don't know. My tolerance for pain was a good bit higher afterwards so I don't notice the sharp pains really anymore.

Is it like that for you all also.

Does anyone know what this is, I always wondered what it was but could never find anything besides ASMR.

thanks

[vrsmart]

I also have the ability to induce goosebumps at will. I never thought too much of it until I began to wonder about two things: 1. Could there be some good use of this ability?, and 2. Is there a down side? I have read many of the posts in this thread and have not yet found answers. Has anyone come up with any?

I wonder about a potential positive aspect to  this ability, since I regularly experience the phenomenon, involuntarily, in certain contexts where some actual good might be happening to someone when it happens. To be more specific, it can happen when I lay hands on someone in prayer (I am a Christian minister who believes in divine healing, among other spiritual phenomena). My line of thinking is that, perhaps there is some beneficial transfer of energy to the other person when this happens, In this case, though I believe in the possibility of supernatural occurrences, this could simply be a natural process. If I could exercise it at will, it might be useful.

Now, as to the second question, as I have learned that the process involves the adrenal glands, my concern is whether or not such stimulation without a need for fight or flight might be bad for the body, since there is no physical activity to "burn off" the extra energy provided by this response. My concern is heightened by the fact that I do seem to be prone to anxiety, and it would seem wise not to add to it by willfully activating this process.

Now let me briefly explain how the voluntary process works for me. It seems to be sufficient for me to simply choose to initiate the response and concentrate on a spot near the base of the skull. I have no idea what I am doing other than that, but it works. I hypothesize that my mind, on some level, has learned what it feels like when the response happens involuntarily, and is able to reproduce it when I simply will it to be so. What happens, neurologically and physiologically, between the intent and the initiation of the consciously discernible feeling, I don't know. In any event, once I have set the thing in motion, I feel energy go throughout my body, most noticeably in the arms and legs. The hair on my arms will rise slightly (my legs are pretty non-hairy!).

I return to the question of whether I should or should not use and perhaps even develop this ability, or might I better leave it alone.

[dlorde]

I return to the question of whether I should or should not use and perhaps even develop this ability, or might I better leave it alone.

Why? use it for what?