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.
Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor consistently does it for me (https://youtu.be/8V41D0Uczf0). I stopped and stared the first time I heard it (thanks Wednesday Addams!), and learning that it is a reflection on the humanity-altering changes of WW1 makes it more emotional than just another ASMR tingle (which I also sometimes get, as does my daughter).
Looks like the statistical geneticists have jumped the shark with this one. This big problem here is that their endpoint (chills) is poorly defined, reported by subjects (and thus highly subjective), and not measured using any type of validated instrument. So I question whether they might be fitting a model to noise here.
In the land of drug development patient reported outcomes, even when captured with meticulously designed instruments in prospectively designed clinical trails, are notorious for being noisy and confounded by the placebo effect.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 27.2 ms ] threadLooking 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.
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.
In the land of drug development patient reported outcomes, even when captured with meticulously designed instruments in prospectively designed clinical trails, are notorious for being noisy and confounded by the placebo effect.