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Shiver (up and) down your spine. › a frightened or excited feeling: At its most terrifying, his writing sends shivers up and down my spine. Whenever I hear that music, I feel a shiver down my spine. And it sends a shiver down my spine. I always thought it was adrenaline or something. It feels good alot of the times too, for me. I do have pinched nerves in my lower back, and off and on in my neck. But this hasnt always been the case. And I have experienced the tingle/shivers most of my life. I do not have the buzzing noise however.
Its about a genie in the lamp,and a limp guy who hasnt got a clue what to wish for,so instead of the obvious wish every potent young men would have made,he instead wishes to hear stories that are groovy and horendous. And that is the base for the 10 stories that makes this film., its about seks,jealousy,a bit murder,and seks,some stabbing and jabbing,even bare breasts inbetween.it feels like roald dahls 'tales of the unexpected' that were televised in the 1970's, with some small differances.dont expect too much,i didnt and werent dissapointed.,the acting are theatrical and amateur like,so are the dialouges,some familiar faces. If made as silent movie on high speed it would have been better, i give it a high 5 out of 10.
When your playlist strikes all the right chords, your body can go on a physiological joyride. Your heart rate increases. Your pupils dilate. Your body temperature rises. Blood redirects to your legs. Your cerebellum—mission control for body movement—becomes more active. Your brain flushes with dopamine and a tingly chill whisks down your back.About 50 percent of people get chills when listening to music.
That’s because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain activated by addiction, reward, and motivation. Music, it seems, may affect our brains the same way that sex, gambling, and potato chips do.Strangely, those dopamine levels can peak several seconds before the song’s special moment. That’s because your brain is a good listener—it’s constantly predicting what’s going to happen next. (Evolutionarily speaking, it’s a handy habit to have. Making good predictions is essential for survival.)But music is tricky. It can be unpredictable, teasing our brains and keeping those dopamine triggers guessing. And that’s where the chills may come in.
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Because when you finally hear that long awaited chord, the striatum sighs with dopamine-soaked satisfaction and—BAM—you get the chills. The greater the build-up, the greater the chill. Gray AreasBut there are competing theories. Neuroscientist for example, discovered that sad music triggers chills more often than happy music. He argues that a melancholy tune activates an ancient, chill-inducing mechanism—a distress response our ancestors felt when separated from family. When a ballad makes us feel nostalgic or wistful, that evolutionary design kicks into gear.What’s interesting about Panksepp’s theory, though, is that chills don’t sadden most people. The experience is overwhelmingly positive.
Shows that sad music actually evokes positive emotions—sadness experienced through art is more pleasant than the sadness you experience from a bad day at the office.And this may hint at. The amygdala, which processes your emotions, responds uniquely to music. A somber tune may activate a fear response in the amygdala, making your hair stand on end. When that happens, your brain quickly reviews whether there’s any real danger. When it realizes there’s nothing to worry about, that fear response becomes positive.
The fear subsides but the chill remains. Anything GoesYou can feel chills from any genre, whether it’s Mozart, Madonna, tango, or techno.
It’s the structure—not the style—that counts. Goosebumps most often occur when something unexpected happens: A new instrument enters, the form shifts, the volume suddenly dims. It’s all about the element of surprise.Well, maybe.The most powerful chills may occur when you know what’s coming next. When our expectations are being met, the nucleus accumbens becomes more active. This ties back to that dopamine-inducing guessing game our brain likes to play. As a result, being familiar can enhance the thrill of the chill.
(Perhaps that’s why 90 percent of musicians report feeling chills.)Your personality matters, too. Scientists at found that people who are more open to new experiences are more likely to feel a quiver down their spine (possibly because open individuals are more likely to play instruments). Meanwhile, found that people who felt chills were less likely to be thrill seekers, but were more reward-driven.
When you reach into Scrabble’s drawstring bag of tiles and pull out an X, a Q, and a Z all in one handful, it’s hard to suppress a small groan. As some of the least frequent letters in the English language, they’re notoriously difficult to place on the board—especially Q, considering that it usually (though not ) must be followed by a U.However, the high values attributed to those rare tiles can easily make up for the struggle of forming words with them. For example, one well-placed Z, which is worth 10 points, could much more significantly than a one-point A or N. It makes sense that less common letters would be worth more points, but how did game makers decide exactly how to distribute them?It all during the Great Depression, when an unemployed architect named Alfred Mosher Butts passed the time by studying games like bingo, chess, and anagrams. He came to the conclusion that -related games weren't as popular because there simply wasn’t a good way to keep score.
So Butts devised his own word game, a fusion of crossword puzzles and anagrams that he called Lexiko, then Criss Cross Words, and finally, Scrabble.To figure out how to score it, Butts looked no further than the front page of The New York Times. According to the, he tallied the number of times each letter appeared in print and used that data to determine two things: how many points each letter would be worth, and how many tiles there would be for each letter.While the deemed admissible in Scrabble has evolved since the board game first hit shelves around 1950, Butts’s original letter values have remained the same. Every official Scrabble bag just one X and one Z tile—each worth 10 points—two four-point tiles each for F, H, V, W, and Y, and so on.Find out more fascinating Scrabble facts—including the story of one world championship’s “strip search incident”—.Have you got a Big Question you'd like us to answer? If so, let us know by emailing us at. Shaking hands seems like a gesture that has been around forever. Cloudberry kingdom levels. Indeed, a from the reign of ancient Assyria's in the 9th century BCE clearly shows two figures clasping hands.
The, usually dated to the 8th century BCE, mentions that two characters “clasped each other's hands and pledged their faith.” Centuries later, Shakespeare in As You Like It that two characters “shook hands and swore brothers.” It might seem like shaking hands is an ancient custom, the roots of which are lost to the sands of time.Except.Historians who have pored over old etiquette books have noticed that handshaking in the modern sense of a greeting until the mid-19th century, when it was considered a slightly improper gesture that should only be used with friends. But if Shakespeare was writing about shaking hands a few hundred years earlier, what happened? Defining the Handshake.
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