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I used to think I was the only person to get this feeling until I noticed Ang mention it, and then discussed it with another friend. This is the feeling when you see something truly beautiful, or powerful, or touching, or majestic, and your face starts to tingle.
I first got this feeling when reading Tolkien and innocently named it the "high" feeling (before knowing the colloquial connotations of that word). I meant high as in "High Elves" or "High fantasy" - something noble and powerful and beautiful. Later I saw Ang refer to it as the "blood tingling effect" and was very proud to have induced it in him with something I'd written.
A couple of times every year, I go to the Temple for a Hindu festival. Often, when I'm surrounded by music and watching all the people dance in their many colours and appreciating the history of the occasion, I get the blood-tingling effect.
More recently, though, it's been music that makes my blood tingle the most. Here are three songs that make my blood tingle:
Linkin Park - What I've Done. The effect goes on more or less throughout the whole video. This video also fits in with Sarah's last post about humanity - it shows you the depravity and the wonder of mankind in a beautiful way in less than 4 minutes.
I only get the effect when I watch the video with Linkin Park, but I get it without when I listen to Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blP9LWyK
It is however strengthened by the video. (5mins30).
Finally, I only get it for very briefs periods of time during The Killers - When You Were Young (5:09) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCkSMwa
Of course, music has incredibly different effects on different people so I don't really expect anybody to get the feeling from the same videos. However:
Poll #1004365 Blood-tingling
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10
In other news, the results of my last poll:
62.5% are more left wing than right, 12.5% more right than left, and 25% didn't have an opinion. When they're taken out of the equation, 83% were more left than right, so I can safely call it LeftJournal.
Oh, and I found this on the internet: Adrenaline surges... result in tingling of the face, as well as other parts of the body.
I first got this feeling when reading Tolkien and innocently named it the "high" feeling (before knowing the colloquial connotations of that word). I meant high as in "High Elves" or "High fantasy" - something noble and powerful and beautiful. Later I saw Ang refer to it as the "blood tingling effect" and was very proud to have induced it in him with something I'd written.
A couple of times every year, I go to the Temple for a Hindu festival. Often, when I'm surrounded by music and watching all the people dance in their many colours and appreciating the history of the occasion, I get the blood-tingling effect.
More recently, though, it's been music that makes my blood tingle the most. Here are three songs that make my blood tingle:
Linkin Park - What I've Done. The effect goes on more or less throughout the whole video. This video also fits in with Sarah's last post about humanity - it shows you the depravity and the wonder of mankind in a beautiful way in less than 4 minutes.
I only get the effect when I watch the video with Linkin Park, but I get it without when I listen to Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blP9LWyK
It is however strengthened by the video. (5mins30).
Finally, I only get it for very briefs periods of time during The Killers - When You Were Young (5:09) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVCkSMwa
Of course, music has incredibly different effects on different people so I don't really expect anybody to get the feeling from the same videos. However:
Poll #1004365 Blood-tingling
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10
Do you get the blood-tingling effect?
8 (80.0%)In other news, the results of my last poll:
62.5% are more left wing than right, 12.5% more right than left, and 25% didn't have an opinion. When they're taken out of the equation, 83% were more left than right, so I can safely call it LeftJournal.
Oh, and I found this on the internet: Adrenaline surges... result in tingling of the face, as well as other parts of the body.
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