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Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Frission[0] is the academic term for chills experienced while listening to music (and or exposure to other stimuli).

There's a subreddit[1] in case anyone is curious about the various frission triggers people report. IMO the subreddit is interesting because people evidently experience frission from a surprising variety of things.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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I think it is interesting they express music as some sort of universal when deaf people exist, and there are even able bodied people who just do not like music.

when people say music is a universal, they mean that music is universal in all human cultures. that a small %age of people in this culture or that culture don't like music doesn't stop it from being a cultural universal. (if there is a parsing of a sentence that means what the speaker means and is true, that's good enough, and whether someone can find an alternate parsing which fails might be interesting, but doesn't take away from the intended meaning)

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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This is quite fascinating. Would love to hear more. Have you ever enjoyed any music whatsoever? What about movies? Reading fiction? Looking at art / photography?

I’ve never enjoyed any music. I do enjoy movies, reading fiction, creating and looking at art, etc.

does the addition of a soundtrack help you enjoy movies? surely that is part of the whole package.

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Deaf people can feel the music at various degrees. Some deaf people even quite famously were composers themselves. Also, not liking music doesn't mean you don't feel anything. And lastly, some people indeed have an inability of feeling but that typically extends beyond the realm of music, so it does not remove anything from the statement of the author.

I have musical anhedonia. Music does absolutely nothing for me. No emotional response at all. In my 50+ years of life I have never heard a single piece of music that gives me the chills, unless by that phrase we mean that all the music leaves me cold. But, to the best of my knowledge this doesn’t extend beyond the realm of music for me. Though, on other odd thing about me is that I do not dream at night. At least, I’…

You are not alone. I too do not feel any kind of emotional influence from music, at least not any different than it would be if the words were read.

I do however dream at night 10-12 dreams a night.

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deaf people can feel the music at various degrees. Some deaf people even quite famously were composers themselves. Also, not liking music doesn't mean you don't feel anything. And lastly, some people indeed have an inability of feeling but that typically extends beyond the realm of music, so it does not remove anything from the statement of the author.

I have musical anhedonia. Music does absolutely nothing for me. No emotional response at all. In my 50+ years of life I have never heard a single piece of music that gives me the chills, unless by that phrase we mean that all the music leaves me cold. But, to the best of my knowledge this doesn’t extend beyond the realm of music for me. Though, on other odd thing about me is that I do not dream at night. At least, I’…

Thanks for sharing. I wrongly assumed that it could not come isolated. The specificity makes even more interesting.

If you have resources to share beyond your own experience, they'd be welcome.

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Frission[0] is the academic term for chills experienced while listening to music (and or exposure to other stimuli). There's a subreddit[1] in case anyone is curious about the various frission triggers people report. IMO the subreddit is interesting because people evidently experience frission from a surprising variety of things. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson

Frisson, not frission. I’d say is literary than academic.

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Frission[0] is the academic term for chills experienced while listening to music (and or exposure to other stimuli). There's a subreddit[1] in case anyone is curious about the various frission triggers people report. IMO the subreddit is interesting because people evidently experience frission from a surprising variety of things. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson

frisson is the french word for chills

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Frission[0] is the academic term for chills experienced while listening to music (and or exposure to other stimuli). There's a subreddit[1] in case anyone is curious about the various frission triggers people report. IMO the subreddit is interesting because people evidently experience frission from a surprising variety of things. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson

Thank you a lot! I've been experiencing this since I was a kid. Specially in orquestral soundtracks like "The breaking of the fellowship" but also in electronic music like "Ode to joy" from Savant or "Herz an herz" from Blümchen.

The anticipation of the climax of this songs give me chills that go way beyond what an orgasm feels like.

Re: Emotion in music, giving you the chills

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Frission[0] is the academic term for chills experienced while listening to music (and or exposure to other stimuli). There's a subreddit[1] in case anyone is curious about the various frission triggers people report. IMO the subreddit is interesting because people evidently experience frission from a surprising variety of things. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson

Thank you a lot! I've been experiencing this since I was a kid. Specially in orquestral soundtracks like "The breaking of the fellowship" but also in electronic music like "Ode to joy" from Savant or "Herz an herz" from Blümchen. The anticipation of the climax of this songs give me chills that go way beyond what an orgasm feels like.

You should listen to the full first movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. It's one of the most popular pieces of music in history, and for good reason!
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