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'Messiah' give you chills? That's a clue to your personality
It turns out that getting chills upon hearing music is an actual thing. Musical chills are “sometimes known as aesthetic chills, thrills, shivers, frisson, and even skin orgasms [who knew?] … and involve a seconds-long feeling of goose bumps, tingling, and shivers, usually on the scalp, the back of the neck, and the spine, but occasionally across most of the body.”
The scientific explanation for chills is that the emotions evoked by beautiful or meaningful music stimulate the part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which controls primal drives such as hunger, sex and rage and also involuntary responses like blushing and goosebumps. When the song soars, your body can't help but shiver.
What were we talking about? Oh, yeah, wandering minds
We do it while we eat, while we work, even while we pray. In fact, new research has found we let our minds wander almost half the time we do anything.
The problem? It’s making us unhappy.“In every situation that we measured, people were considerably less happy when they were mind-wandering," says Matt Killingsworth, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Harvard University whose findings were just published in the journal Science. "And this was enormously true when mind wandering was unpleasant."
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