how come sound can give you goosebumps?

peasant · 03-09-2008 8:50am #1

You know ...fingernails on blackboard, that kind of noise ...

It doesn't really *hurt* your ears, nor is it particularly loud ...yet it goes right through you, makes you shiver and gives you goosebumps.

How does that work? How are your ears connected to your hair follicles?

Answers on a postcard, please

Sherifu · 03-09-2008 8:53am

Neurons.

KTRIC · 03-09-2008 8:53am

Between this and the "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" thread I think AH has gotten far too deep for the average poster.

Sherifu wrote: »

Neurons.

You're a neuron :P

biko · 03-09-2008 8:53am

Fingernails-on-blackboard: it sounds exactly like the destruction of tooth enamel. We're instinctively programmed to respond instantly. The scraping of fingers on a blackboard is the classic, high-frequency violin-like waveform of hard dry surfaces moving with chaotic stick/slip motion. And that could very well be why our instincts are programmed to respond to it so strongly.

It's the sound of body damage; but it's a particular type of body damage for which there is no pain ...yet no healing.
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cHaTbOx · 03-09-2008 9:04am

X-factor:D:pac:

Lirange · 03-09-2008 9:30am

High pitched noises make my plums shrivel for some reason.

chin_grin · 03-09-2008 9:34am

Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
trying to forget my feelings of love.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl; you'll never come again.

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feel you again in my arms.

Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
and feelings like I've never have you again in my heart.

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.
I wish I've never met you, girl; you'll never come again.

Feelings, feelings like I've never lost you
and feelings like I've never have you again in my life.

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings,
wo-o-o, feelings again in my arms.
Feelings...(repeat & fade)

^ Are what gives you goosebumps. Not sound. It's the emotion associated.