| ▲ | Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music(journals.plos.org) |
| 37 points by coloneltcb a day ago | 15 comments |
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| ▲ | fcatalan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I get chills from music here and there. The piece that most reliably will produce the strongest effect on me is "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Looking at the article there seems to be a genetic component, but no one in my family has ever mentioned them, I should go ask. We are not a "musical" family. No one plays competently any instruments or goes to concerts. I have an ukulele that I use mostly as a noisy version of a fidget spinner. From the article I see that the openmindedness trait fits, at least musically: I sometimes go on YouTube musical late night binges and they can easily range from Renaissance guitar pieces to KPop via Mozart, Slipknot or some obscure Latvian folklore. |
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| ▲ | arethuza 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Here is a wonderful recording of "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" played in Gloucester Cathedral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihx5LCF1yJY&list=RDihx5LCF1y... | | |
| ▲ | fcatalan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I non-ironically got them chills just by hearing a few bars while checking your link. I tend to go for this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIhZbvlCjY0 because although I can´t read music I can kind of vibe-read the score by looking at the waves of notes following the music. For me it adds to the experience. Also the almost organ-like effects of the two separate orchestras seem stronger in this recording than in any other I've tried. | | | |
| ▲ | nephihaha 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You should listen to Classic FM. You can switch it on at random and this tune is often playing. If it isn't, then it's usually Saint Saens' Organ Symphony finale (as featured in "Babe".) :) |
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| ▲ | krzat 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Frequent music chills were an unexpected side effect of my meditation practice. It matches with their "openness to experience" conclusion. I also found out that you can encourage chills with meditative techniques: 1. Play your song, for example Sogno di Volare. 2. Close your eyes. 3. Think about awesome things: how cool it is that humans invented airplanes and rockets and satelites. |
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| ▲ | tummler 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Scientific studies grasping for explanations to spiritual things always give me a smile. This is the way. It’s about opening up to the energetic experience being conveyed through the medium (art, music, whatever). Has nothing to do with individual variations in biology or physiology. | | |
| ▲ | LatencyKills 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > scientific studies grasping for explanations to spiritual things always give me a smile. There are no "spiritual" things. Everything we experience is based upon biology and chemistry. Where do you think the "chills" come from if not synaptic firing? | | |
| ▲ | elemesmedve an hour ago | parent [-] | | There are only "spiritual" "things". Where do you think "biology", "chemistry" and "synapses" come from? | | |
| ▲ | LatencyKills an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | They are the result of an infinite and ever expanding cosmos; absolutely no magic thinking or beliefs are required. I don't need to pretend that magic exists just because processes are complex. | | |
| ▲ | elemesmedve an hour ago | parent [-] | | What I'm getting at is the difference between subjective experience ("chills") and any theory describing it. ("Qualia", "no amount of simulating water will make anything wet", etc.) Although personally I prefer scientific theories to describe reality (they are still the best/most useful), our experience is never "based" on theories. | | |
| ▲ | LatencyKills 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Well then we agree. I'm just not a fan of using the term "spiritual" for a physical event. No need to ascribe "chills" in a hand-wavy manner. |
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| ▲ | fragmede an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | They were created by magic Gaia energy spirit beings,
obviously. Or God, if that is your desired flavor. Or the beings in control of the simulation we're living in. |
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| ▲ | xnx 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson |
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| ▲ | rspoerri 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i'd like to see the list of media they used to create the chills :-) |
