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Chills from trance/music?
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| sheffy |
It's funny you post this today. I was just looking at some similar studies recently. Check this one out:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/0...sical-pleasure/
Blackwell on Health: Study reveals brain chemistry behind musical pleasure
A flavourful dinner, sex and cocaine all do it. And now there is evidence, from a new Canadian study, that intensely pleasurable music – a much more abstract stimulus – also triggers release of dopamine, a key element of the brain’s reward system. Not only that, but mere anticipation of a favourite musical passage can prompt a dopamine surge, though in a different region of the brain, researchers at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute concluded.
The scientists studied the brains of their subjects with PET scans and functional MRI, which tracks changes over time, not just a snapshot in time like regular MRI. Participants were asked to pick music that gave them intense pleasure, so much so that they actually felt “chills” at certain points. Researchers then examined what was happening in the brain during those chilling moments of musical satisfaction.
The scans showed there was a release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain implicated in the euphoric qualities of psychostimulants like cocaine, during the pleasurable passages. There was also dopamine produced in the lead-up to those sections in another part of the brain, linked to how people respond to rewarding stimuli.
Conclude the authors:
Dopamine is pivotal for establishing and maintaining behaviour. If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued.
These results further speak to why music can be effectively used in rituals, marketing or film to manipulate hedonic states.
And this:
http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.2726.html
(a longer and more scientific article detailing the study) |
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| Swamper |
| When I updated the singles on TA on a regular basis one of the main criteria in determining what got posted was whether the track gave me those 'chills'. Interesting if it is indeed the case that some people never experience such a thing - I find that surprising. |
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| in2muzikk |
| Uh oh, now music will be banned as a drug... :whip: |
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| Apeattack |
I've had goosebumps on a number of occasions when listening to various music genres. I feel a little sorry for those who have never had the experience. |
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| system-7 |
| when a track you listen to, whichever your flavor may be, if it can make you stop, think, say, and feel.. like damn!... gotta share these melodies and emotions... That's when you get chills. :P |
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| TSG |
| Mariachi music gives me chills too. :toothless |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| It's nice to get with new tracks, but I really love how some older tracks that I've known for a while can still do that to me. Listening at home, if I'm fortunate enough to totally remove myself from everything else going on and just listen, I find the the same parts of the same songs can get me almost every single time. Love it. |
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| mobius9 |
| System F - Out of the Blue does it almost every time. |
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| DizkokidD |
| or airwave by rank 1.. lol im telling you.. specially when im sitting here and watch some youtube video of some party out in buenos aires and then a toon comes out of nowhere and your like oh damn.... |
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| Apeattack |
| quote: | Originally posted by mobius9
System F - Out of the Blue does it almost every time. |
The Ferry Corsten song that gives me the biggest chills is "Star Traveller"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtIxO28oDM |
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| Nerologic |
Marvin Gaye + good female company = chills!
I only get the chills with older classic house tunes that are more soulful, or songs that remind me of something in particular.
NEVER with trance =P |
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