complicated – foto Smith
Facebook friend gave me a term for something I’ve been experiencing for decades but didn’t know had a name — ASMR = Autonomous sensory meridian response.
It’s a rolling shiver that moves up the back of my neck into the rear of my brain vibrating in waves of pleasure.
I experience this reliably when I’m driving and look up at chain-linked fenced overpasses as we pass beneath — when I see the moving moirĂ© patterns of the front links against the rear, it sends shivers up the back of my brain.
Also get it when I slowly lower my torso into a hot bath . . . once my neck hits the water, the tingles roll up my neck into my brain.
Plan to use this sensation in a novel about stealing a second section of my soul. Appreciate finally having a term for what I’ve been trying to explain. I’ve always seen it as ‘recharging’ some psychicsoulspirit gland.
When I get a good hit from a highway overpass, it also causes a small body shudder as it fades, and an inner flesh afterglow.
Sometimes I mentally “squeeze” inside my head down in the back and send a small wave up on demand, but they’re always way weaker than those induced by heat or moirĂ©.
soothing – foto Smith