Can anyone tell me why do we get goose bumps and chills when were scared? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It is probably a hold over from when your ancestors were hairy. Goose bumps are the hair folicols and your hair quite literally will stand on end. If you are a furry guy then it makes you look bigger and more menacing in a scary situation.
Correct, but the primary reason for the reaction is to trap more air near the surface of the skin and thus provide more insulation against cold. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Okay, both of you presented the standard replies. But I just know you've gotten goose bumps while listening to music. How do you account for that?
I just made this up after I read the above replies. Could it be a series of reactions?: Heart pumping more blood because of a sudden excitement and warming up - Body reacting by trying to cool it down (and hence the chills) - Skin reacting with the goose bumps to the sudden cold for insulation purposes.
dudes , Charles said something . The swarm , There is this thing called swarm theory he showed Me . Yeah humans do that . Yeah that is fucking it . We don't know we do but we do
Do all mammals get goose bumps? I know dogs and cats do, because I've seen their fur stand up, but I doubt if any mammals that spend a lot of time in water such as seals and whales do.
Music can elicit emotional responses. Sometimes these responses include the evolutionarily conserved fight-or-flight response with the associated erector pilli action. So, the standard replies remain the accurate answers to your question.
I've experienced goose bumps listening to love songs. Not something you would associate with the flight-or-fight response. Do you have a source for your belief?
Goose bumps, also called goose flesh, goose pimples, chill bumps, chicken skin, funky spots, Dasler Bumps, chicken bumps or the medical term cutis anserina, are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions such as fear, nostalgia, pleasure, awe, admiration or sexual arousal. The reflex of producing goose bumps is known as horripilation, piloerection, or the pilomotor reflex. It occurs in many mammals besides humans; a prominent example are porcupines, which raise their quills when threatened, or sea otters when they encounter sharks or other predators. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_bumps
I found this statement in your Wikipedia link. I'm not sure turning goose bumps on and off at will is a great skill, but being able to release adrenaline at will sounds like an athletes dream come true.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Perhaps you associate the music with melancholy emotions from a past experience of love, or a longing for love in your life.... http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/questions/goosebumps.html
Interesting link. I don't remember the emotions I had at the same time I had music induced goose bumps. But what was said did make sense. For one thing if a particular tone caused goose bumps you would expect it to effect most people the same way. But in the case of music it seems to be based more on personal experience.
I think some birds might have the ability to control their feathers at will in this manner when their emotions are sufficiently jarred either with mating rituals or when they feel threatened. . . . Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Transformer Owl
Damn! Owls are cooler than I thought. But having that kind of control over feathers makes a great deal of sense for a bird. Being able to stand your hair up might help you get the girl, if you have a real good story to go with it.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ah, so you admit you were premature in your assessment of my response as a mere “belief”? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Not at all, but I find the link that was posted by scheherazade to be more in line with my thinking on the subject of music caused goose bumps. I just don't like the fight-or-flight response connection with music. But I don't really know enough to rule it out.
There is a song I used to play to my son on the radio when he was an infant and baby to get him to go to sleep all the time. As he was growing up, like all kids do, he asked me what I believe happens to you when you die. I told him that I believe you become energy, and that you meld with other like consciousness that requires the same lessons on the material plane, and eventual when the time is right, you come back to inhabit this world in some form or other to learn those lessons you have yet to learn, or grow in a way that you still need to. Anyway. . . that's sort of what this song is about. He can understand the song now that he is old enough. It gives him "the shivers" when he comes in from playing or home from school and he hears me listening to it. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Instead of lessening his fears of what happens to you after you die, now he is afraid to think about what he knew before he was born. . . Sometimes, the way he reacts. . . makes me think there's something he knows that he just would rather just forget. :scratchin: Better keep on eye on that one. . . . With life just begun, my sleeping new son has eyes that roll back in his head They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart and pictures a world past his bed It's hard to believe As I watch you breathe Your mind drifts and weaves When you dream, what do you dream about? When you dream, what do you dream about? Do you dream about music or mathematics or planets too far for the eye? Do you dream about Jesus or quantum mechanics or angels who sing lullabies? His fontanelle pulses with lives that he's lived With memories he'll learn to ignore And when it is closed, he already knows he's forgotten all he knew before But when sleep sets in history begins But the future will win When you dream, what do you dream about? When you dream, what do you dream about? Are they colour or black and white, Yiddish or English or languages not yet conceived? Are they silent or boisterous? Do you hear noises just loud enough to be perceived? Do you hear Del Shannon's "Runaway" playing on transistor radio waves? With so little experience, your mind not yet cognizant Are you wise beyond your few days? When you dream, what do you dream about? When you dream, what do you dream about? I'm sure it will pass as he ages. There's a few songs from Les Miserables that would give me 'em if I saw them live again I think. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Maybe the arousal of goose bumps during a love song occurred because of your brain's subconscious frame of mind picking up on a past event . You could had gotten beaten when you were a child while a certain melody played. Perhaps a traumatic experience?
