I find it interesting that so many people have experienced this phenomonon. Can’t a doctor or something pose some sort of explanation that makes sense? Are we super humans? Do we have small creatures gestating in our chests? Is that feeling a sign that my heart about to explode? Will my giant goldfish ever die?
Do any of you experience “piss shivers”? How does this compare to that?
No, not that.
Sounds like some of us have similar results, but probably no two exactly alike. I have no idea how I was able to first do this, I just can and I can`t explain how.
Its like trying to explain to someone who can
t blink, how to blink. I don`t know how I blink, I just know that I can.
By the way I`m male, and the feelings originate under the rib cage and seem to stay concentrated in the middle back area.
The actual feeling itself and the location is fairly ambiguous.
I did it! It is not an anxiety attack, but if I do it for too long it turns into the pre-panic attack feeling.
I can do the ear thing too, I figured that out when I was 5 or so.
Here’s a question, how many of you hear a buzzing/rumbling in your ears while you’re trying to fall asleep? I can sometimes amplify it and if I amplify it enough it turns into an all out seizure. Feels like electricity is pouring over my body and I can’t move. It feels very similar to what happens when you wake up from a dream and can’t move. Sleep paralisys or sleep seizure, something like that. The only difference is that I can make it happen while i’m wide awake, and I can make it last for as long as I want to. Also it DOES NOT feel good, it is painfull sometimes and very tireing. If this happens several times while I am asleep I wake up with a migrane and even more tired than when I went to sleep.
Unusual abilities. I have that piss shiver thing too, but thats different.
I have two theories on this subject, never having experienced the type of ‘shock’ being talked about here.
First, most likely I think, is that you’ve taken voluntary control of otherwise involuntary muscles somewhere in your body, most likely in the area of the spine. When you contract this muscle, it pinches a nerve, sending intense feelings through your body. Actually it only feels like the body, because those nerves are the ones ‘feeling’ those limbs etc. Sort of a short circuit. The way nerves are made, this would feel like it ‘spreads out’ through the body, it would become less intense after you repeat it a few times, and depending on what you’re pinching exactly, could prove harmful in the long run if you’re not careful. Not that it will, but it could.
Another possibility is that you’ve gotten conscious control over some gland or other… adrenaline is a good candidate, but there are glands all over this meatbag you drive. It’s not too far-fetched to imagine learning to ‘sense’ this gland. Learning to feel when its full, learning to ‘squeeze’ it out… get a ‘natural’ buzz off it.
The point is that the human body has all kinds of weird things going on, and we’re not conscious of most of them. When’s the last time you actually THOUGHT about your mitochondria, huh? I bet you didn’t even call them over the holidays. Shame on you!
I often have casual dialogue with my hemoglobins.
this is the most likely scenario.
still, does anyone know FOR SURE what this is?
Fuel here, Bump from 2003!!! Seriously… my wife and I were talking about this and I told her about this post, and here it is.
Wow…you were serious about not letting the thread go away!
So, 8 years later, have you learned anything about it?
-D/a
I can’t be the only one who has no idea what this is…right? Right?!
Well, I think they are talking about what I do when I am cold and then get warm. I shake just a little, and it’s like warmth flows through my body. If I’m tired, it will make me feel more awake. If I’m anxious or uptight, I’ll feel more relaxed. I can do it on command as long as I’m at least slightly cold.
If this is the feeling they are talking about, I’d suggest getting really cold, and then warming back up, give a little shiver, and see if you feel it. If that’s not the feeling they are talking about, I can’t help.
Unless they are talking about taking shallow breaths, which makes some people feel energized…
Me, I think. I believe I can relate about the feeling, but I can’t make it happens. It just happens spontaneously. Saw a doctor and a couple specialists, they found nothing abnormal but didn’t appear very convinced that I felt anything at all out of the ordinary. The neurologist told me, in fact, that if I couldn’t explain clearly what I feel, it couldn’t be, according to her experience, an ailment but rather something psychological.
And fact is I can’t describe it clearly because it’s unlike anything I felt previously. “Shock” is the word I used too, even though it’s not exactly that.
Okay, this sounds exactly like the sensation I get when I do Kegel exercises. Or maybe I’ve done the Kegels wrong my whole life?
I’m exactly the same; I’ve started doing Kegels and I get that sensation every time. I feel that it’s triggering some sort of hormonal reaction, and I wonder if it could be a “bad” thing; if it could lead to a hormone imbalance or dysfunction?
I’ve also noticed a similar sensation when trying to fall asleep at night. One minute I’m drifting off, and the next second I have a surge of energy (adrenaline??) and my brain kicks into high gear. Tiny problems or tasks left undone during the day suddenly loom huge in my consciousness, and there is little chance of sleep. It’s not exactly like adrenaline though, there are no jitters or increased heart or respiratory rate. It just feels like a small flood of energy or a frisson. Every time I do a Kegel.
I mentioned it to the physiotherapist who prescribed the Kegels, and she looked at me like I have two heads.
You don’t need analyzing
It is not so surprising
That you feel very strange but nice
Your heart goes pitter patter
I know just what’s the matter
Because I’ve been there once or twice
Put your head on my shoulder
You need someone who’s older
A rub down with a velvet glove
There is nothing you can take
To relieve that pleasant ache
You’re not sick, you’re just in love
It’s the onset of the ‘zombie virus’!
It shouldn’t be too long, before you start having cravings for ‘braaaaaiiiiinnnssss’!
I do this all the time. I think it is definitely an adrenaline rush. My technique involves imagining spinning up a large rotor wheel in my head. The faster I imagine making it go, the more adrenaline I pump. I can usually keep it ramping up for 10 - 15 seconds before it rapidly falls off. Repeated back-to-back attempts usually result in a lessening of the ramp.
As an aside, I’d love to have an EEG while I ramp-up, just to see if there is any indication of the “feeling”.