Goosebumps in Off Topic

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Mar 13 2008, 4:48 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_pili_muscle

So I guess people aren't suppose to be able to control goosebumps. I can voluntarily give myself goosebumps. I can make myself get a tingle in the base of my spine on my neck and I can get goosebumps whenever I want.

Do I win a special person prize?

~Kujila
#1 Mar 13 2008, 4:54 pm
I can imagine myself chewing on a brick and it gives me goosebumps. However, I don't think psychological control counts.
#2 Mar 13 2008, 5:19 pm
#3 Mar 14 2008, 8:03 pm
In response to Foomer (#1)
Foomer wrote:
I can imagine myself chewing on a brick and it gives me goosebumps.

"Go chew a brick" is one of my mother's stock expressions.

Lummox JR
#4 Mar 14 2008, 11:00 pm
I can somewhat do it voluntarily but not perfectly, sometimes when I try it I'll get stuck halfway between getting the chills and not getting them and I get kind of uneasy after that because my body wants that last little shiver (and goosebumps) from it to happen but it won't.
#5 Apr 5 2008, 8:17 am
In response to Nadrew (#4)
Meh, same here, that's pretty annoying when it happens, I keep trying until I get it. Seems to be easier to do when it's colder, or you've got your shirt off or something, which makes sense, I suppose.
#6 Apr 5 2008, 8:33 am (Edited on Apr 5 2008, 8:38 am)
In response to Nadrew (#4)
I can think of the theme from the first movement of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 and it gives me goosebumps. So, like Foomer's brick, it's semi-voluntary.