[mrsmith2211]

My basic understanding, goosebumps, or piloerections are a response to cold, bristling of the hair handed down that used to provide for better insulation against the cold. You are somehow tricking your body into thinking it is cold. I could play with that, but in the past after many years of Tae Kwan Do Yoga etc. was able to control my heart rate, get it own to 45 beats per minute, drop blood pressure 20 points or so, and tolerate pain, like at the dentis getting a root planing after the carbocaine without ephenepheron had worn off, as I seem to be allergic to Novocaine, cheeks swell, severe tooth pain for 2 or 3 days. I have even had a crown done without novacaine, but never anything for fillings.

I could work on goosebumps, but do not like feeling cold, do you feel cold when you do this?

[SpiritualChi]

I've also experienced it since 2013 now and have learned a TON of information on it like... Where does it come from, why We can use it, whats is the use of that energy and how to amplify it.

The most important part of it is that it has 5 types of different ways to be summoned in our body according to our  5 elements!
I made a video on YouTube on it and have 487 views on it as of today.
(Im not trying to advertise but I kinda have to.
I want people like you who wanna know more about this special gift that we all have to learn about it and to especially master it for your own good. You don't have to believe it it's just what i've learned and tested after 3 years of usage.
It brought me life changing gifts like astral projection, real time projections and access to our third-eye chakras psychic properties!

My channel is [nope] and the video where i talk about it all is named [nope]

Subscribe if you like it. It'll definitely motivate me to make more informational videos about this subject.
[I had another youtube with about 160 subscriber and over hundred of views on my every videos but my ex deleted my channel! Now I have to start back but i've been stuck to 20 subscribers for a year now I could really use a little bit of support!]
Sorry for making this long. Have a good life!

[gpm]

Had this "skill" since probably about 6 or 7 years old. Never thought about it much. I used to associate it with the color blue.

I can handle weather extremes pretty easily, but I have a time limit of about 30 minutes to an hour. (Warm clothes/hot weather, flipflops/cold weather)
Control of tensor tympani muscle, and general control over most facial muscles. I can put my uvula on my tongue (it's uncomfortable, but I can do it).

I have pretty good control of it, and can make it sprout from my stomach, chest, and lower back-- in addition to it starting from the neck.
I can also isolate the goosebumps to either arm.

Very interested in learning more about this. Posting to the thread to share and follow.

[nelumbo oculii]

Having studied the workings of the body under the use of the tool, Hallucinogens, and, having exercised such tasks as making goosebumps, making arm, leg, head hair stand up at will, I would say the answer to the question is a definitive YES..

[Park808]

I am not sure about all....but I can just quickly focus on my spine and I can get instant chills. There is not much concentration involved. I feel like energy shooting out of my body throughout. I also feel the sense of being able to move that energy. Not sure what to think of it. I'm not even spiritual.

[Debate the Bait]

Looks like I stumbled on this conversation a little late but I have found it in searching for answers as yourself.
I too can bring about this rush of endorphins at will. I have been doing it for as long as I can remember but I don't remember easily lol.
It also takes some concentration depending on my emotions at the time. But if my emotions are idle or neutral if I may then all it takes is the simple thought and an exhale  and it begins. It starts in my head, heads down to the torso, extends to the arms and hands, and heads down the legs and feet. It can linger in the feet longer than other extremities for some reason but I be leave I have poor circulation in feet to begin with. And it's in breaths so after I exhale and the rush begins I simply inhale again and he process starts over, sometimes with more of a kick sometimes less. And this is probably due to only having so much feel good sauce in you at one time until it is replenished.   haven't kept record of how much at each attempt simply because I thought that it was normal and why would anyone want to keep tract with such a basic reaction. 
Never really thought to ask someone if they had the same control over it until I got married and my wife thought I was talking crazy lol. That spawned the second question, who else can? There are no real numbers out there of us I be leave but if I were to guess then it has to be within the 1 to 2 percentile maybe lower. And if what I'm reading is correct then we are not ment to have this amount of control of our bodies. But here we are all evolved, or simply a rare slip up in our genetics.
Next question is this good or bad? Well let's start with bad. The only thing I can think of is being so used to doing it on command might trump your bodies natural instinct to do it on its own when it needs to. So far that's not a problem because that same rush takes place when it needs to but it doesn't mix well with the extra fear that is normally accompanied with the fight or flight reflex.
So can it be good? I suppose if you enjoy that sense of relief.  Or just having the option to begin with. I believe there's more at play with this subject than the simple feel good effect it beings. I think it needs to be studied a little bit more or at all really but people that are much smarter than I. Because it seems the questions and theories that run through my head when im trying to wrap my brain around it only lead to very bold conclusions about reality in general.

I really would like to know more about other people who have this ability on a personal standing. I want to see how different and alike we are in thought process and decision making. Because if my crazy theory is correct then we shouldn't be far off at all in these aspects.

[kOa_Master]

Wow, finally - it seems like all the people who can do this gather here and only here. Because so far, I couldn't find anything anywhere else (especially not in the german speaking places).
So it is not that uncommon (well, at least about 20 people answered).

I too can control goosebumps, do it whenever I want. It doesn't matter how my emotions are, whether I breathe or not, I can do it underwater and in the aiplane, whatever. Jolyon desribed it perfectly in posting number 19.
What I just realised was, that the "other things" he talks about I can do too but only to a limited degree. Controling pulse and "increase blood pressure" or send blood to my limbs does also work but it requires quite a bit of concentration. Never in my 30 years of living I thought this was anything special/to notice but I'll try to get "better" at it. The goosebumps-thing is around ever since I can think about, it just took a while until I realised its unusual (about primary school when guys were taking about special things to give each other goosebumps and I was like "wtf? what for? just do it the normal way?".

The only thing I know from myself is, that the effect wears off if I do it severel times within short time like every 5-10 seconds. It gets harder to do it and it stays shorter. And I cannot do it on just one part of my body.

I'd also love to know any results by the research off _TheQuantumWreck_

[Debate the Bait]

 So in my daily quest for answers I do indeed ask random strangers the question if they know anyone or ever herd of anyone possessing an higher state of control over ones physical body. And not to long ago I was answered yes. I'm currently in the home of an hospice nurse repairing her cable services. She has enlighten me that she knows a person who can at will bring about there own seizures.
I wouldn't qualifie this as the same subject but it is still on the topic of general exsive control of one's physical state.
I hope I am not the only one that can ponder the possibilities of having such control over nature or reality.
The more I put together all the peices in my search for why and how it is leading to a very bold conclusion as I stated earlier.
And if you want the concept of belief in words then I shall share it with you.

I believe without doubt we (and everyone) possess the ability to change reality to how we want to perceive it.

That statement is so wildly interpreted by the masses that it appears vague.

But simply choosing not to beleave it is true is also evidence that you are deciding this is not your reality.

And at the same time most of us know this is true but our underline greedy intents blind us.

Example could be a very secsessful artist who knows exactly the right formula to deliver an extreme emotion to the broad public but gets caught up in the lifestyle change of being rich and famous.

As long as we can understand this to be true I believe it can have major implications on our global community.

[Donnah]

I just discovered this website, and I have been able to do this since about the time I was in puberty, I am now 28. Today reading this post has been the longest that I have ever experienced this phenomenon, approximately 20mins now and still going. It did stop occasionally, but only for about 30 secs - 1min. Coincidentally, I have been researching about the third eye(pineal gland) and I decided to start de-calcifying mine. I have been drinking fluoride free water for a couple of months now, and I have been working on eating less food and eating more healthy foods. Over the past two days I have really only eaten cellary and peanuts. I feel like being on an empty stomach or at least not being full has something to do with it, like maybe its because there are less toxins in our body? Another note, my wrists hurt me almost 24/7, carpel tunel? tinititus?, and since I've been having this feeling for this whole time they haven't bothered me a bit.

Hi Jamie,

If you are interested in getting the fluoride out check the links on this page.  https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/fibromyalgia.html

Best wishes,
Donnah

[Solaikannan]

Hey brother,
 Iam from chennai,india..i too have this same thing of controllimg goose bumps..its sort instant electrification travelling from my brain to all part of body resulting in gose bump..i too suffer from sleeping difficulties..i seem to be cool to potray this thing before my friends..but is there any chance neurlogical damage done to my brain by often goose bumps..i too suffer same effects eye dilation..skin pale..blood flush..beneath skin..thank you for helping

[mjd93092]

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.

[Pjazerlazer]

I'd like to welcome you all to the world of the shaman and pseudoscience. The abilities of telepathy and other super human strengths all stem from here just keep practicing via what you may consider meditation. 

[Jeroen90]

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to read all of your stories. I can control my goosebumps by will too as long as I can remember. I'm able to control my body in low temperatures. If I don't focus i'm feeling cold as well and my muscles are getting tensed, then I relax my body and focus on my body heat and don't allow cold coming through my skin and it works.

The way I control the goosebumps is coming from inside my chest. It feels like concentrating energy in that spot, gently squeeze this energy and as I feel the intensity increase I release it and a wave of goosebumps is flowing through my whole body. I haven't been able to hold this though. in a couple of seconds the wave is gone.

Not so long ago I was having Shingles starting at the back of my spine and had a burned feeling on my skin. I could feel where the nerves were affected in the spine and the patch of 3 cm (burned feeling) skin was going from my spine in a line over the side of my body to my abdomen and stopped in the middle. The interesting thing was when I did the goosebumps on command I felt the wave going through that patch which was affected by the Shingles. As if a small door opened in my spine, where the Shingles were busy doing their thing.

I have a feeling that this wave through your body also can tell you where something is wrong, because before I really felt the burned skin, I could feel something in that part of my spine.

One more interesting story..
If I tell people something which is very important for me and if I have the feeling they're really getting what I'm trying to say I sometimes have spontaneous goosebumps very intense all over my body.
This happened with a glass wine in my hands and I was holding the glass like all my fingers were touching the top of the glass, with my hand palm facing inside the glass. Then I got this intense goosebumps feeling while telling some friends something important and on that moment the glass didn't just break, but somehow popped. I had glass in my hand because of it and everyone was looking very surprised, and me too. I don't know if I didn't notice squeezing to hard because of what I was telling, but honestly it did't feel that way, also due to the way it popped. I'm just curious if this goosebumps feeling can release some sort of energy even outside the body.

I'm very interested to hear more about this topic and I'm keen to talk to anyone about it if they want to know more for research.

[wolfekeeper]

FWIW goosebumps are believed to be an evolutionary hold-over from when we had fur. If you get goosebumps your fur stands on end and you look bigger. I believe chimps fur stands on end when they are going to fight. And so it's going to be triggered by emotion, although not necessarily directly by conscious control, it could well be hormone related or something. Clearly we still have goosebumps, so that system still works. So it's plausible some or all of us still have the ability to mentally trigger goosebumps for evolutionary reasons related to fight or flight.

[Ahiru]

Hello,
It's being a lot of time I found this forum and I wanted to share my findings as I found the right timing to do so.
I'm from Brazil and I can also control my goosebumps. I can do this since childhood and I'll try to answer some of the questions I found on this topic.

It flows across my whole body at will and it mostly comes from my neck.

I was also considering if this kind of feeling is not related to ki... I will explain.
Everything I will say about "energy" below is directly related to controlled goosebumps.

As I use this technique, I can (really) motivate any part of body to do "better".
Like, I can make myself run faster and longer by transfering my energy from my core (chest and neck) to my legs.
I can motivate my brain to work sharply and to negate headache by concentrating my energy in my brain.
I can increase a little bit of my stamina for some physical tasks, like carrying a heavy object around for a long time.
I can transfer and concentrate my energy on my "special area" to completely remove the willingness to go to the bathroom (this one is really useful at long trips).

I realized I don't "power up" (like in those animes), but I just motivate some features of my body to keep working faster, better and harder.

As I feel warmth through my body, I don't think it creates some sort of heat, as I think it probably has the same effect as we breath off our heat from our mouth to see the white smoke (we love to do this in winter) and we feel a bit of cold in our chest (because we release our precious heat to the air). So, my guess is that we are actually releasing heat among our skin (not sure about that).

Answering to some other question here, I tested and I can do goosebumps completely underwater.

Have any of you guys considered on trying to check if it's visible through schlieren imaging?

Also something weird happened to me a time ago. This is a challenge for you guys.
I screamed really, really loud once and I suddenly felt... flames on my both hands. It wasn't visible, but if it was, it would feel just like Liz, in the end of the Hellboy movie, where she makes a blue flame on her hands after being slapped by a guy.
It... didn't feel like coming from goosebumps though. It was... something else. Maybe if... somebody could reproduce that. You just need to concentrate your inner energy and scream really loud, concentrate a whole lot of goosebumps from your whole body to your hands. After a while, you "might", "maybe" feel flames that aren't hot, but are like silk flowing from your hands violently like a torch. But I'm not really sure if it comes from the same trigger as goosebumps. It could be... something else.

I'd love to answer any other questions you guys have about this ability.

Cheers

[JDoesScience]

Hi everyone,

I logged in a year or more ago, said I was going to study this (I'm a scientist), then disappeared.

However, this doesn't mean the study disappeared. Presenting the very first scientific study ((well, the first non-case-study)) on what we've come to call voluntarily generated piloerection, or VGP.

(It's attached here. I can't link it.)

I probably have to thank members of this forum in particular, some of whom almost certainly participated in the study because it was linked here. *Thank you* if you participated. It wouldn't have been possible without you.

Next steps? Try to understand it better. I need to do an actual laboratory study, in other words, which this first survey didn't allow us to do. It won't be easy to find participants, but I'll see what I can do.

[Ahiru]

I wanted to thank you about the study! From now on, our VGP can be better understanded.

[DavidMartian]

I think i got it.... anyways   theres this phenomena i discovered regarding those goosebumps (i can do them myself too)


it doesnt work (you have less/minimum flow of those waves youre sending) if youre next to a person, but it does again work again if youre 10 feet away from the person..  can you guys check it please and post the results?


do your goosebumps -> it works.       do them again next to a person/ showing it to them it doesnt work anymore, but it does if youre further away from them (they still can see the hair standing up)

thank you and have a great day

[Ahiru]

In my case, I can do it next to the person, even holding hands. It also appears that cats can feel my goosebumps (as always when I do and they're chiling with me, their heads move a bit at the exact moment I do the goosebumps at the region they are next to me, like they're noticing something).

[JerzyMadhouse]

I can do the same thing - I was just asking my friend china if she can do it and she looked at me crazy lol you have to focus your inner energy behind your upper neck untill you feel a stimulus that leads to goosebumps down your body