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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by steverb on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:50AM (#15302136)
Unique in that two-thirds of the population experiences it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

http://www.humorthatworks.com/database/10-frisson-inducing-s...

There's even a subreddit (of course there is): https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/

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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by Whitestrake on Thursday September 21, 2017 @02:30AM (#15301012)
I get chills when I listen to some music - I thought that was universal, or at least commonplace. Just how unique is getting chills supposed to be that it might be a marker for a "unique" brain?
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by epalmer on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:40AM (#15301862)
I too get chills when listening to some music. I too thought this was universal or commonplace.

edit: sentence improvements

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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by DanBC on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:24AM (#15302021)
It's common enough that BBC Radio had a programme called The Tingle Factor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1mS2Q4lp0wNxj9Mdlpr...

And this article suggests "most people" feel it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx6sfg8

Also, not quite the same but they have a long running series about music with a powerful emotional impact. I mention it because it's good and people might be interested. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008mj7p

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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by bgdkbtv on Thursday September 21, 2017 @02:54AM (#15301081)
We are all pretty unique and I'm pretty sure most of the population would get chills when listening to music they really like.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by sandos on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:43AM (#15301866)
I did get chills when listening to specific songs when I was in my 20s. Now 37 I havent really had it happen to me since.

Funnily enough, it was a song from the swedish band Kent. Which some say is inspired from radiohead. And a radiohead song was used as an example in the article.

I actually listened to the Radiohead song, and immediately felt it was a bit familiar to the kind of music that used to give me the chills.

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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by Awaythrov on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:12AM (#15301978)
Same for, but earlier. Listening to my stash is no longer as satisfying as it used to be.

I do miss them so much.

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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by DrScump on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:43AM (#15310563)
The first song I recall experiencing this effect from is Pat Metheny Group's song "San Lorenzo". And it still happens most times I hear it.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by SpaceNugget on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:40PM (#15320473)
I have never experienced 'chills' when listening to music.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by Fjolsvith on Thursday September 21, 2017 @11:04AM (#15304140)
One could argue that everyone has a unique brain due to their subjective experience.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by aregsarkissian on Thursday September 21, 2017 @10:51AM (#15303989)
I get a rush listening to Rush
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by iampoul on Thursday September 21, 2017 @03:49AM (#15301316)
I get chills when listening to Tupac.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by epalmer on Thursday September 21, 2017 @02:35PM (#15306228)
For me Hot Tuna, Asleep at the Wheel and Alison Krauss with Union Station. Jefferson Airplane and the Dead live many years ago. Some of Alison Krauss's new work Windy City.
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by mikmoila on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:45AM (#15301876)
I when listening to Hans Zimmer's In Time
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Re:If You Get the Chills from Music, You May Have a Unique B... by pizza on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:23AM (#15302019)
this does it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco

especially that charles manson sample..

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