Musical Chills

Have you ever had the experience of listening to a favourite piece of music and suddenly you get a little spikey feeling running down your spine?
How about goose bumps on the skin? Maybe a tingling sensation at the back of your neck? All these unique emotive reactions to music fall under the definition of ‘musical chills’, also termed frisson, thrills and shivers (and apparently, and intriguingly, ‘skin orgasms’!) Not everyone gets this sensation and some people get it very frequently. It is an extremely intriguing emotional response to music that is almost entirely unique to each individual – both in terms of the sensation itself and the music that triggers it.
So if you are really into your music, whatever that is, then chills are likely to follow!
Many of the triggers involve somebody playing close attention
It’s like a little explosion, and then just little sparkles and little stars going down [your back]. Depending on the strength of the trigger, it might just go into the top of the spine of the shoulders, but sometimes it goes down to your arms and legs, and other parts.”