Sometimes I get what I can only describe as a feeling of pleasant numbness in my head.
It happens when I'm listening to someone with a nice voice speaking, especially someone reading from a book or power point out loud. Weirdly, I also get it when I get my hair clippered (but only when its done by someone else). It's something I've had since being a young child; I used to get it in class storytime or reading classes whenever a teacher or child with a mellifluous reading voice took their turn to read a few pages. As a kid I labelled it (in my own mind anyway, this isn't something I've ever shared) a "nice headache", but ache is the wrong word though, it's not painful at all, just a fuzzy sense of numbness.
It's something I had always taken for granted, but recently for whatever reason I haven't heard anyone reading aloud or had my hair cut etc., so I haven't experienced it for a while. I've just watched a series of Hans Rosling videos on youtube and got the feeling big time.
Does anyone else get this? Or do I just have a fucking brain tumour?
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If it isn't a very discomforting feeling/tingling or pain, you probably don't have to worry about a brain tumor.
http://www.asmr-research.org/
I usualy get it from music, watching a flickering light (like from a candle flame) and sometimes when getting a haircut.
Just googled ASMR.
It's also known scientifically as WHS or "Weird Head Syndrome". Apparently another name given to the phenomenon by the internet is "attention-induced head orgasm" which sounds much better. Next time I get my hair cut I'm going to tell the woman that she's just given me an attention-induced head orgasm
I guess it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one who experiences this, but somehow I feel less special...
Just remember that for the rest of your life.