You should read Dune.

What are the dimensions and materials of your shower?

I think you may have accidentally stumbled on a principle called Hemishperical Syncronization.

Everything in the known universe resonates at a set frequency, from elementary particles to skyscrapers to your body. There is a practice call psymatic medecine in which an ailing organ is exposed to it's distinct resonant frequency, allegedly promoting healing.

I believe what is happening in your shower is something like this.

Ever been walking across the floor at a bar or club and all of a sudden the bass gets really heavy around you, like being squeezed by the hand of God? The next step you take it goes away? These are called nodes and anti-nodes, created by standing waves.

A standing wave occours when the length of a room is equal to the length of a particular frequency's cycle period. Instead of the compression and rarefaction typically associated with waves moving through a fluid (air, in this case) the compression stage, or the high energy point of that wave is constantly occouring in the same places, 90 degrees into the cycle, every cycle. As the wave bounces back and forth, these high energy areas overlap, increasing the amplitude of the case frequency as a result.

If your shower was 3 feet across, it would associate to a frequency of roughly 191.7Hz (1/2 speed of sound divided by distance : 575/3= ~191.667Hz. If we divide that frequency into the four stages of a cycle (even, positive, even, negative pressure) we get ~47.92Hz, if we reduce the full cycle into octets (eighths) we get ~23.99Hz.
The human range of hearing clinically stops at 20Hz, but as we get older and stand in front of loud speakers, you lose more and more range.

There are four basic levels of awareness: beta (13 to 30 Hz), alpha (8 to 12 Hz), theta (5 to 7 Hz), and delta (1 to 4 Hz). The highest level is beta, and in this state the brain is active and very awake. This state is usually associated with intellectual thought and verbal expression. When you are talking up a storm, your brain is vibrating between 13 and 30 cycles per second.

The alpha level is the next state down, and it is associated with a much more relaxed, calm, and creative waking state. A nice alpha level can be achieved with a simple meditation of slowing your breathing. As your breathing slows, other body functions including your brain frequencies will begin to relax and slow down. When you are completely relaxed _ but not yet asleep _ your brain hums at around 8 to 12 Hz. 8 or 9 Hz is considered a very creative state, marked with contemplative thought and increased intuition.

Theta frequencies, are a very interesting set of frequencies. This 5 to 7 Hz range is where dreams, deep hypnosis, ESP, out-of-body projections, channeling, and other odd mind phenomena start to pop up. Somewhere in this range lies what is called the hypnagogic state _ that twilight-zone of consciousness on the border between being awake and being asleep. This is grey area where conscious and subconscious start to overlap. Most of us only get quick, half-remembered glimpses into this realm as we are going to sleep or waking up. However, with a researcher named Robert Monroe's techniques of brain entrainment, this theta state can be sonically induced _ allowing the entrainee to have extended periods of theta exploration.

The last level of brainwave activity is the delta range, and these frequencies are usually only associated with deep, dreamless sleep.

Without performing a spectral analysis of your shower and accounting for the reflective and absorptive properties, angles of reflection and diffusion and the change in humidity, and keeping in mind that the math above is just an example, I would assume that what's happening is that you are standing in either the axial, tangential or oblique node or anti-node of one of the thousands of frequencies produced by your shower and the lowest frequency in the harmonic scale of the node or anti-node lays somewhere in the 5 - 12 Hz range, inducing a shift towards alpha or theta awareness. Also consider that if you shower as soon as you wake up, your brain is probably in a rather malleable state as it is.


The phazer effect is just you altering the angle of attack of the frequencies you percieve, which is noticeable not just in your shower but in any small space. I should have explained the easy part first...

Hope that helps!

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Originally posted by Leon Oziel

Thats quite interesting, well at least about the "chemical being released" kind of feeling.
I do experience a similar feeling, eventhough I am not sure if its same as yours. I can allow this to happen by first relaxing my body, and its muscles to a point where i feel i have no control over them. I start to feel something almost like a very intense rush(almost like an orgasm) in combination with Vertigo and a -G feeling. I let this feeling amplify and cover all my body. It can sometimes make my knees go if I'm standing. However, the "chemical feeling" that I feel is almost more intense if I lie down or if I'm sitting down. I see it as some sort of intense euphoria, and I find that when I'm tensed up or upset it is hard to achieve.

I also tried having this rush when i did some bowls and Lord was it ever intense. Once actually my friend and I were sitting in the car waiting for our friend, both of us high as kite. I decided it would be a good time to get this euphoric chemical released, so I tilted my head back onto the headrest, and closed my eyes,.... and Boom it hit me so hard and i guess i started jolting around a bit and my friend asked me what I was doing. So i told him about it, and he being as curious wanted to know how its done, so I told him. We both attempted this and i started to explain to him the steps, in a story like manner. Next thing i know he says, " oh, its coming... its coming, its coming" and he grabs on to his jeans and is screaming to escape the rush that he was having....
He now says that its funny how the feeling is so readily available, almost anytime... he just has to think about it. Almost like a flashback.

I'm not sure if there is any explanation or research done on this, It might very well be "Hemishperical Syncronization" as Dr. Das mentioned. However, I am sure everyone is capable of achieving this natural euphoria.

Armin

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Originally posted by Dr. DAS

ur smart

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Originally posted by jennypie

wut u say ;/?

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Originally posted by arminOcaine

haha I think I know what you're talking about... if you flip your head back and flip it back up it feels retarded

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Originally posted by Dr. DAS

Holy moly, just the person I was looking for. I actually put on classical music to try to understand what you wrote but nothing but the definition of the words you wrote and half-ideas passed through my ears haha

What kind of doctor are you?

and yea I did take a shower when I woke up today, but I could do this whenever I'm in a shower really. Any shower, or any room with flowing water. I remember showing my friend when I was like 8 or something without the use of water -- I meditated for a minute outside in the school yard and he was like "oh cool" and walked away. I can't get it to work as easily now without water, but I'm going to try running water and taking a video cause that shiver feeling is sensory rich!

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Originally posted by jchung52 ur smart

no, he plagiarized it right out of Erowid.

http://www.erowid.org/culture/refer...project_1.shtml

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Originally posted by Abercrombie no, he plagiarized it right out of Erowid. http://www.erowid.org/culture/refer...project_1.shtml

i guess i should have added sasha's signature

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OK, so you're able to fool your brain into releasing some extra endorphins or serotonin. Fantastic. A lot of people can do this at will without any external influence, especially people who've dropped at some point in their lives.

I don't see any evidence that this is actually lowering your body temperature. That would be quite a feat. If you can show us this on an oral thermometer or something, I think there are several people in the medical profession who might like to speak to you.

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Originally posted by Abercrombie no, he plagiarized it right out of Erowid. http://www.erowid.org/culture/refer...project_1.shtml

Actually I only copy/pasted the paragraphs on awareness states, the rest is all me. Standing waves and resonance are basic acoustic principles and I did a project on psymatic medicine in school.

Also, Erowid wasn't my source, though it does have the same article.

Plagarized is such an ugly word, and this isn't university. Did you really expect me to re-type the whole of the borrowed text, just for the sake of referencing the resonant freqs of awareness states on TA? In future I'll include a bibiliography...

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i sometimes wish i could increase my body temperature.