Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music

(journals.plos.org)

14 points | by coloneltcb 1 day ago

4 comments

  • krzat 20 minutes ago
    Frequent music chills were an unexpected side effect of my meditation practice. It matches with their "openness to experience" conclusion.

    I also found out that you can encourage chills with meditative techniques:

    1. Play your song, for example Sogno di Volare.

    2. Close your eyes.

    3. Think about awesome things: how cool it is that humans invented airplanes and rockets and satelites.

  • fcatalan 1 hour ago
    I get chills from music here and there. The piece that most reliably will produce the strongest effect on me is "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

    Looking at the article there seems to be a genetic component, but no one in my family has ever mentioned them, I should go ask.

    We are not a "musical" family. No one plays competently any instruments or goes to concerts. I have an ukulele that I use mostly as a noisy version of a fidget spinner.

    From the article I see that the openmindedness trait fits, at least musically: I sometimes go on YouTube musical late night binges and they can easily range from Renaissance guitar pieces to KPop via Mozart, Slipknot or some obscure Latvian folklore.

  • xnx 1 hour ago
  • rspoerri 33 minutes ago
    i'd like to see the list of media they used to create the chills :-)