100+ weird body phenomena you have experienced

gross is good

100) when you take a sip of water and it hurts really really bad for no apparent reason, and you have to drink more water right away

99) if you're really tired and you get, like, a funny time dilation thing where you think to yourself ... how long have i been standing at the front door? is it minutes? is it hours? oh, i guess i just got here.

98) when you cough up a hard little white ball. these are apparently called tonsil stones, and they are made of trapped food and/or white blood cells and smell of death

97) http://sparkasynapse.blogspot.com/2007/11/weird-sensory-phenomenon.html

good thread idea! i need time to think of ones that aren't drug related or rooted in severe ADD though

97a) actually, sometimes when i'm falling asleep i get this weird... err... repetitive thought thing, where i'll keep visualizing something like mickey mouse's bowtie getting bigger and smaller, bigger and smaller, bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and, oh god, how can they be so big? and then i sort of come to my senses, realize this is a dumb thought and move on. p.s. i was not molested by mickey mouse.

96) wld not recommend: serotonin syndrome

97a is a nightly occurrence when i go to sleep. i usually have two of these going simultaneously, one visual, one a completely inane avenue of free associative thought.

95) first sip of water (or OJ, or coffee) in the morning causes a crazy synaptic overload in your entire mouth, then business as usual.

94) Sneezing and (I assume because the sneezing was in some way traumatic to my olfactory nerves?) smelling a vague whiff of shit for a while thereafter. This has happened to me several times.

93) for a good period of my 20s i used to wake up time to time from intense nightmares (or highly emotionally charged dreams) to mild hallucinations. usually when i've been pretty consistently deprived of sleep. they only ever lasted 10 or 15 seconds or so and stopped being scary after the first time or three and started to become fun in a way. laundry on the floor would appear to be moving. an old wizard sitting on my records. little people hanging from a plant. all sorts of things. these days they've thinned out almost completely and have become increasingly more mild. i think it's been about two years since i've experienced it.

92) i burped a demon

91) when liquid gets caught somewhere in one of the tubes in your neck, and for 15 minutes you can't speak without coughing

What I get more often is almost choking on liquid but managing to just avoid doing so, followed by temporary near-laryngitis. Like I can't speak in more than a whispery croak. Is that weird?

90) Sneezing when light gets up your nose

89) a sudden, overwhelming, urge to vomit is assuaged by a sneeze. i actually thought the urge to throw up was an integral part of sneezing until i mentioned it to someone about ten years ago. now i know it's a rare-ish condition called pre-sneeze nausea.

I keep thinking of 93 as related to me by a sentient Arby's, and even though it is an abomination, a nightmare, I can only be sympathetic.

88) flossing will sometimes make my nose itch

87) when your eyelid twitches non-stop for like three days but nobody can see it

86) I had a bad lung infection a couple of years back. I would often end up having these nasty coughing fits where I would often double over because of the intensity of the coughs. As soon as I would cough in this position I would literally see stars - like thousands of glittering, popping little flashbulbs - and my ears would roar with this intense vibration like I had become some giant tuning fork. Then the coughing would stop. Really freaky.

85) I once forgot what a comb was. Like, someone was showing me a comb they had just bought and I could not interpret what the object was, what it would possibly be for, had no memory of the word. Took about a half-hour to "remember."

I don't know if this counts but the other day the word "and" looked made-up and wrong and stupid. Same thing happened with the word "house" about three years ago.

84) I had a sinus infection once for ages and blew my nose extra hard one day and a polyp/cyst the size of a chickpea came out, from somewhere wayyy up inside my sinus cavity. And I could breathe for the first time in MONTHS. No idea what the gross little hard thing was :(

85) i have an involuntary 'squawk'

think i have mentioned it on ilx before but it started probably 7 or 8 yrs ago and i have no idea what causes it. it's not a burp and it's not passing gas and it's not a hiccup or a sneeze. it's just a weird squawk. sometimes it's quiet, and sometimes it's so fucking loud it makes my husband jump. and sometimes it really hurts my throat, like a hard lump is being pressed upwards.

84) Since an operation I had 10 years ago to remove great chunks of my nasal cavity, something inside my nose/throat makes a weird clicking noise 3-4 times a week. It's loud and it sounds gross but it isn't, and I can't work out how to stop it happening.

83) My sinuses are pretty huge, possibly due to a number of sinus infections and I get fairly prominent toothaches when I have sinus pressure.

I'm pretty sure there are a couple teeth that getting a root canal done on would be a huge deal because they have a couple roots actually in my sinuses

I have a concave chest and sometimes experience weird muscle discomfort, like knuckles cracking. Really unpleasant. I've had a few bad dreams in which my chest REALLY hard and my body like turns inside out.

Sorry, 82

81) sometimes I'll get a very specific rhythm stuck in my head & I'll be left with a feeling of heaviness, as if my head is made of concrete, and a sense of time slowing down. I can get a hint of that feeling when I call the rhythm to my mind now, but to get the full unpleasant effect, it has to get stuck in my head unbidden, and that might only happen once every few months and only last for a couple minutes at a time. I've experienced this since I was a kid, and as far as I can tell the rhythm has always been the same:

THUMP-----THUMP-----THUMP--------THUMP

the dashes very roughly mark the interval between beats, with spaces of slightly more than half a second between beats 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 and a space of slightly more than a second between beats 3 and 4. it seems really precise (even moreso than I can notate) and consistent, but maybe that's not the case. I wonder if it's a premonition, like I will be crushed to death under a train that's chugging along at that exact rhythm. hopefully not.

80) farting

most of the posts itt could be the very first thing a person says upon meeting a doctor at a dinner party

this is a wonderful thread idea, ty

ok it's a little spooky that the way I typed out that rhythm (w/ 5 dashes for the first two intervals and 8 for the third) the ratio of long beat:short beat is very close to the golden mean (5/8 = 1.6; the golden mean is about 1.62). if the golden mean is somehow toxic to me, then I must have a very diseased, unnatural, satanic psyche.

cool.

79) my left abs seem to be tighter/more contracted than my right abs. I deal with this by ignoring it, but when I become aware of the problem (usually while I'm sitting), I flex my right abs to compensate, but that usually leaves me feeling sore after a while, so maybe I should just accept the fact that I am Asymmetrical.

5/8 = 1.6

I mean "8/5 = 1.6". fuck.

90) Sneezing when light gets up your nose

Is this the same thing as sneezing in really bright sunlight? Sometimes when I get really squinty due to sunlight it makes me sneeze, as though my body is confused about why I'm squinting.

sneezing in bright sunlight is really common and has to do with the optic nerve acting upon...whatever nerve is responsible for sneezing. but sneezing merely because someone shines a flashlight up your nostrils is a rare and miraculous phenomenon, imho.

come to think of it:

78) seeing a red glow when I close my eyes, and stick a flashlight in my mouth w/ the light aimed at my soft palate. this is probably just in my imagination though.

77) that gorgeous kaleidoscope pattern you see when you squint really hard for a few seconds

76) sleep paralysis ;_;

come to think of it:

78) seeing a red glow when I close my eyes, and stick a flashlight in my mouth w/ the light aimed at my soft palate. this is probably just in my imagination though.

not your imagination!

76) the Cronenbergian incident

75) ^

74) the pitch drop when you yawn

73) When one eye won't open for 10 minutes after you wake up.

I have a benign fatty tumor in my upper back, right by my shoulder blade. It keeps getting bigger. I may have to have it removed.

I don't know if that counts for this thread.

74) the pitch drop when you yawn

think about this harder

72) the way all sounds drop by a semitone if you yawn hard enough

Woah! I've had occasional random twitches before. Hope it goes away soon for you.

I've had an eye twitch for about 3 weeks and it's just killing me. I've got all the causes: excessive caffeine, booze, stress, and lack of sleep. Trying to wean myself off the caffeine. Hope I don't have to start going after the booze as well.

Im getting Hypnic Jerks all day long, my head just goes backwards, or my back sort of juts. Its fairly minor but im realizing its happening so much im kind of inured to it, but Ive no idea exactly how often its happening, id lose count

81) sometimes I'll get a very specific rhythm stuck in my head & I'll be left with a feeling of heaviness, as if my head is made of concrete, and a sense of time slowing down. I can get a hint of that feeling when I call the rhythm to my mind now, but to get the full unpleasant effect, it has to get stuck in my head unbidden, and that might only happen once every few months and only last for a couple minutes at a time. I've experienced this since I was a kid, and as far as I can tell the rhythm has always been the same:

THUMP-----THUMP-----THUMP--------THUMP

the dashes very roughly mark the interval between beats, with spaces of slightly more than half a second between beats 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 and a space of slightly more than a second between beats 3 and 4. it seems really precise (even moreso than I can notate) and consistent, but maybe that's not the case. I wonder if it's a premonition, like I will be crushed to death under a train that's chugging along at that exact rhythm. hopefully not.

― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:11 AM (4 years ago)

this happened to me a few minutes ago! me irl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtojIDeXiVg

I don't experience the rhythm as a sound or vibration — it's more like a very mild version of asmr, or the recollection of asmr when you're not currently experiencing it (a sort of phantom tingling confined to the scalp). or maybe it's a mild, not-quite-tactile variant on the 'brain shivers' you get during ssri withdrawl. the actual phenomenon was very brief this time, but the rhythm is still stuck in my head like an earworm popsong.

maybe a Shining Time Station sound effect was encoded in *a weird part of my brain* when I was 7 years old? I don't know how else to account for it.

sometimes I'll be having a dream that involves a serious problem that needs to be solved with no clear solution, and I struggle to get to sleep because I'll wake up and still be convinced the problem needs solving and be attempting to solve it while half-awake, not realizing until I fully wake up that it was part of the dream and a bunch of rubbish.

I've no idea what the appropriate number for this would be, but I am able to induce a light dew of sweat on my scalp simply by thinking about hot spicy food.

xp this has been the last few days and nights for me.

34. when i first wake up it feels incredibly unpleasant to ball my hands up into fists

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, July 9, 2012 7:32 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whoah!! This!! My hands feel like I have no grip strength when I wake up, I can make a fist if I concentrate and ignore what my body is telling me, but it's very hard.

I often wake up with weak/numb/pins-and-needlesy hands, which is a common symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome. maybe you guys are going through the same thing?

i sometimes wake up with weak, numb hands but it's usually after i've been sleeping awkwardly somehow, partially cutting off the circulation to one of my hands - could that be it for you guys?

once i woke up with my whole arm asleep & unable to move. i kept trying to get it to flex and when it finally did i ended up slapping myself in the face, hard.

lol crut

I don't think it's a circulation issue — it seems to happen to both of my hands even when I sleep on my side with my arms folded neatly in front of my torso

i often wake up like that - i tend to sleep with an arm underneath the pillow xpost

I used to experience what I've come to believe (based on what I've read about it) is some version of sleep paralysis, mostly when I was a teenager, and stopping, I couldn't help but notice, around the time I started sharing a bed. Last night I fell asleep not long after reading this thread and had a moment where I was trying to turn towards my husband and call out his name to wake myself up, but I felt physically frozen during my half-consciousness. It had been many years since anything like this happened, and it was freaky as hell.

Also maybe significant: I had smoked weed earlier that day (not something I do very often, plus it had been like 11 hours earlier, so I highly doubt it was a contributing factor) and I was dreaming about either that or some other experience about getting high when this happened. So...did a combo of the weed + reading about weird body phenomeon on ILX cause this? idk.

a few friends get sleep paralysis and i think they would say it's almost always in and around occasions when they've taken drugs

Mentioned several times in this thread but I get the extreme dizziness when standing up sometimes. It's often quite amazing, it's like I lose touch with reality for a good 5 to 10 seconds.

^ This is usually attributable to a quick drop in blood pressure.

When you stand up, suddenly your heart must work against gravity to move blood several feet up from your legs to your heart and also up to your head. If you're somewhat dehydrated and your blood volume is a bit low it definitely makes it worse. When this happens to me I go drink a large glass of water right away.

for the same reason, my vision occasionally goes black and cloudy (to the point of total blindness) when I stand up abruptly. it's cool.

34. when i first wake up it feels incredibly unpleasant to ball my hands up into fists

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, July 9, 2012 7:32 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whoah!! This!! My hands feel like I have no grip strength when I wake up, I can make a fist if I concentrate and ignore what my body is telling me, but it's very hard.

― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Monday, September 7, 2015 6:29 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I often wake up with weak/numb/pins-and-needlesy hands, which is a common symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome. maybe you guys are going through the same thing?

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, September 7, 2015 10:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i sometimes wake up with weak, numb hands but it's usually after i've been sleeping awkwardly somehow, partially cutting off the circulation to one of my hands - could that be it for you guys?

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, September 7, 2015 11:06 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have definitely slept on a limb awkwardly, to the point where it's kind of scary how totally dead it feels, but this grip strength thing isn't it. there's no pins-and-needles sensation or pain at all that would suggest anything odd until i actually try to ball up my fist, and then i don't know how to describe the feeling other than very unpleasant.

If I have a nightmare and wake up, I will return to the nightmare if I fall asleep with the same side of my head on the bed. If I change sides, I am out of the dream. Same with nice dreams: if I fall asleep on the same side, I can get back to the dream and continue making out with 1994 Winona Ryder.

i thought the weak-grip-upon-waking thing was pretty universal?

I don't have it and had never heard anyone mention it before reading this thread.

try making a fist right when you wake up tomorrow!

Deal!

I'm sure it's universal, when I was a kid I remember reading some kids' book from like the 50s and one of the 'science' questions was 'When I wake up, why can I not grip a bar tightly?' and I was happy to see I was normal in not being able to do this.
I can't remember what the answer was though, something something science

two of my toes kind of spasm and force themselves in different directions if i do a lot of lower leg stretching, like yoga or warm-ups or whatever. it's my big toe and the toe next to it on my right foot.

kinda lol, possibly early stages of thing my mom has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcot%E2%80%93Marie%E2%80%93Tooth_disease

'When I wake up, why can I not grip a bar tightly?'

A bar? Yeah, suuuuuure "a bar".

Tried it, grip was fine - maybe slightly wobblier than it will be when I'm fully awake, but no unpleasant feelings. Admittedly it was about 2 mins after waking, does that count?

Another pre-sleep one: objects I look at seem to be both growing truly gigantically massive in scale, but also simultaneously moving far away at speed, so that they objectively remain the same apparent size, and yet I am now surrounded by vast, titanic looming shapes. very odd and disconcerting.

probably a medical reason for it, but....in either scenarios of heavy anxiety or physical exertion, I get spasms in my hands (often my left, sometimes my right). which means when I go to grip something, the hand seizes up and closes and can't get a firm grip, and I have to flex it and then it's fine.

I had thought maybe it was due to dehydration and also due to being heavily out of shape, but after helping the parents with moving today my hand is still doing it off and on, 4 hours later.

Very similar to last post, my right hand has been killing me for days - had this on and off for a few years and pretty sure it’s just an rsi from work/iPhone, just treat it the same as my rotator cuff tendinitis in both shoulders viz chug ibuprofen and curse capitalism - but now I’m also getting spasms up my LEFT arm, along with (v slight) tingling/numbness, making holding my book difficult

So what’s this - incipient carpal tunnel? First signs of ms? Only one thing for it: ignore and maybe make a doctors appointment if it doesn’t go away in a month

make a doctors appt and you'll probably wait a month anyway so why not book it now!

the back of my hands tingle when i sneeze really hard

i had an eyelid twitch for maybe a month or two, which is annoying but not that abnormal i think, and it seems to have resolved itself, however, i'm afraid it migrated and now the bodily situation is indeed weird. now i have an inner ear twitch that creates a sound like when you intentionally "flex" your ears to relieve pressure as one does on a plane (some people can't do this apparently so they swallow to produce a similar effect,) except minus the crackly aspect of the sound, just the low end. it's very very annoying b/c it's obv involuntary and when it comes on it can happen like dozens of times in a row

i feel like this thread should be busier. idk why i'm the only one fascinated by my strange body lately

Similar to 35: Eating chili tends to give me hiccups, usually on first bite as if my body is surprised. I used to eat spicy food with no problem, then stopped for some years, the hiccup only appeared recently. It's super embarrassing.

23. A little after covid, I got two-three infections that seemed to come from my bellybutton area, where the skin would become red a little after the fever settling in. In the end I had it checked. The doctor and specialists said it could be either fat or a remnant of my umbilical cord being squeezed through my abs and out of reach of white cells or something. I refused the scanner / operation and it hasn't come back since, to the point where I am seriously wondering if it was not something else, and if me and my doctor didn't imagine the red patch. My friends thought of new nicknames when I told them.

22. Pleasant tingling sensation and goosebumps when I am given attention (hairdresser but not only) or when I observe someone receiving attention. I was amazed by this sensation as a child and sought it.

I get an UNpleasant tingling and goosebumps from the sound of anyone brushing their teeth. I can't STAND it, even on TV. Actually even imagining it is giving me the horrid tickling sensation. It's not too bad when I brush my own teeth.

the back of my hands tingle when i sneeze really hard

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, April 7, 2022 3:12 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Probably related: After a coughing fit, I will feel joint pain in my arms and torso. It dissipates, but takes longer to do so after more severe coughing.

20. I assume everyone here is familiar with strained/pulled muscles. But I somehow managed to strain a muscle in my back by sitting down in my car.

It's one of those things where, especially when you're a kid, you don't realize when your physical experience differs from the norm, but I just assumed when I was young that everyone developed welts on their face and had their hands swell up like inflated rubber gloves when they went out in cold weather, but nope. Didn't learn until many many years later that it's an actual condition (cold urticaria). And one that ceased for me in childhood, for some reason. Thankfully, as I don't need another reason to despise these frigid-ass midwestern winters.

Pleasant tingling sensation and goosebumps when I am given attention

YES! I think of incidents from childhood where a classmate who was not specifically a friend would do something nice to me. The one that sticks with me involved someone drawing on the back of my hand; I sometimes recreate the feeling by lightly running a finger around my other hand.

A couple of months ago I had a bad cold which gave me a sinus and ear infection. A small hole opened up in my nasal septum cartilage, which eventually grew to maybe a centimeter wide--I can fit the tip of my pinky in it.

It makes picking my nose really difficult--I just push the booger into the other nostril. I have to block the hole with a finger in one nostril and pick out of the other nostril. Or I grab the offending item with tweezers.

The one that sticks with me involved someone drawing on the back of my hand; I sometimes recreate the feeling by lightly running a finger around my other hand.

this is just so sweet and evocative i feel like it could be my own memory. i do sometimes get tingly chills from the kindness of strangers/mere acquaintances, or even tear up. and it's visceral, just an instinctual reaction. it's odd to walk out of a grocery store with watery eyes because of the way i was addressed at the deli counter

There is entire YouTube community devoted to making videos that trigger that sensation. Search “ASMR”.

19. A few months ago, I woke up feeling a little queasy, which escalated within about 5mins to feeling like my blood was boiling. My heart was racing, I felt really weak, and I truly thought I was dying. My whole body was on fire. Idk how long this lasted, maybe 10mins? until I suddenly expelled everything from my gut, and then it was suddenly over.

just assumed when I was young that everyone developed welts on their face and had their hands swell up like inflated rubber gloves when they went out in cold weather, but nope. Didn't learn until many many years later that it's an actual condition (cold urticaria).

Not nearly so extreme but I have or had dermatographic urticaria - if I scratched my skin lightly with my nail it would raise up, so that I could write on my skin, especially on the inside of my arm. In uni I used to write '4 REAL', for the lols. It was variable - maybe more pronounced in the summer when my hayfever also kicked in? I haven't tried or noticed it in a long time, it's definitely not happening right now.

lol thank you Justine. I was reading those posts thinking wait this is just ASMR?

Got a weird thing lately where when I wake up one or both of my eyes takes a few seconds to actually open. Just a few seconds so trying not to freak out about it like maybe it's a form of sleep paralysis unusually specific to the eyelids or something. Maybe better than the conjunctivitis I woke up with from severe allergy issues a few week back.

19. A few months ago, I woke up feeling a little queasy, which escalated within about 5mins to feeling like my blood was boiling. My heart was racing, I felt really weak, and I truly thought I was dying. My whole body was on fire. Idk how long this lasted, maybe 10mins? until I suddenly expelled everything from my gut, and then it was suddenly over.

― just1n3, Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:12 AM (three hours ago)

Not sure which direction you're talking about expelling things, but I've started having this experience occasionally, and it always ends in me defecating, typically starting solid and then progressing to diarrhea.

Anyway I've had plenty of weird body phenomena over the years. The older I get, the more weird stuff happens, so a lot of things don't seem really weird to me these days. Things other people have mentioned:

* Sleep paralysis. That sucked. Haven't had that in a while.
* I definitely get hypnic jerks, positional vertigo, etc.
* I used to have a lot of blepharospasm. I got plenty of nervous tics. I got a nervous disposition. Lately my left shoulder has started popping up when I walk, which it hadn't been doing since about 2000.

Haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this stuff has been mentioned. Kind of on the ILTMI tip, but since remy bean said "gross is good" I'm not gonna hold back.

* Sexual sneezing. Sometimes when I get first get sexually aroused I sneeze. It doesn't work the other way around - sneezing isn't sexually arousing or anything, and I sneeze for lots of reasons aside from being aroused. It's just a physiological response that happens sometimes. I'll start feeling a certain way and then I'll sneeze once. And it's not, like, I'm in throes of ecstacy or anything. It's when things are just kind of starting up. It's not a big deal at all but it is weird. It's also an actual thing. Like it's documented.

* Multiple orgasms. This isn't actually unusual for where I'm at now. Sexual response is linked to hormones more than anything else, from what I can tell. Julia Serano writes about it in _Whipping Girl_. I've heard a lot of trans women talk about having multiple orgasms. I don't have multiples in the sense that I hear other people talk about. In fact, I rarely orgasm at all. I was hoping GRS would change that, but it really hasn't changed anything, except that I no longer have genital dysphoria and orgasm doesn't feel awful and _wrong_ in some way I can't quite name. I mean it also feels good, but the _wrongness_ would override that feeling, so I kind of hated it.

Anyway, when I say that GRS didn't change anything, I mean that I experienced multiples long before transition. It's a documented side effect of an atypical antipsychotic called, I think... Abilify. I think that was the one. I can't remember for sure. I was on a lot of different atypical antipsychotics. None of them worked. The only thing with any proven efficacy, as far as treating gender dysphoria, is gender affirming treatment. But, you know, I tried damn near everything else, including a lot of different atypical antipsychotics.

When I hear people talk about multiple orgasms, they seem to be talking about serial orgasms. Like, they'll have one, and then they'll have another, and another after that, and it just, like, keeps building in intensity. Or something. Maybe I'm wrong. I've never had that. What I have are _parallel_ orgasms. Multiple orgasms at the same time. Like I'll be in the middle of one orgasm and all of a sudden another one will start up on top of that. Honestly I'm not a huge fan. Mostly it's awkward and gets in the way of me enjoying the orgasm I'm already having. It kind of reminds me of... I have had an experience once where I simultaneously orgasmed with my partner - this was PIV. And people talk about it like, they imagine it must be this great spiritual experience, but no, it was awkward. It was both of us spasming at the same time. I didn't feel like some intimate spiritual connection with my partner.

* While I'm full on in TMI, this is... I don't know if this phenomenon has a name, but I've heard other people talk about it. I rarely orgasm with partners, and when I do, it doesn't feel like a "real orgasm", it feels more like masturbating, just with a partner involved. A lot of dissociation. This was all pre-transition - I haven't orgasmed with a partner post-transition at all. What I find does happen sometimes, though, is I get into this state where everything becomes pure overwhelming sensation. All forms of sensation are intensely, uncontrollably euphoric. No matter what the intensity. Like, someone _breathing_ on me is pleasurable to the point where I can't control my body. This isn't sexual pleasure, it's something else. Honestly in a lot of ways it feels better than orgasm, although it doesn't provide the sense of _resolution_ that orgasm often does. A lot of times this is something that happens to me within the context of kink, but it's not exclusive to that. It is pretty much a bottoming thing, I think, because it involves me losing all control over my body and mind and, like. That doesn't go well with topping. Anyway it's nice. But it pretty much only happens with partners, and there has to be a certain sort of trust and intimacy in that relationship. It's something that I've only experienced post-transition. It's not really compatible with dissociation - it's just this experience of complete _embodiment_, kind of the opposite of dissociation.

I stretched weird recently and felt a pinch in what seemed like some central nerve running from head to toe, was very strange

I was reading those posts thinking wait this is just ASMR?

Not exactly, but certainly a similar result. It wasn't just a reaction to the physical or audible sensation; the intention and intimacy of the "giver" was a major part of the feeling.

Not exactly, but certainly a similar result. It wasn't just a reaction to the physical or audible sensation; the intention and intimacy of the "giver" was a major part of the feeling.

― Hideous Lump

so, like. head scritches?

During movie days or assemblies in elementary and middle school, my friends and I would sit behind one another in a line and draw on each others backs or braid our each others hair. Every few mins the girl at the front woukd go to the back so everyone had a turn. My mom would always have me braid and play with her hair when we watched TV at night. To me those things produced that feeling but it's all ASMR in my head. I'm finding it hard to think of an example where there isn't intention or intimacy. Like the whispering stuff - I think the intimacy there is implied because whispering is kind of an intimate act in and of itself? I have no idea what I'm talking about so feel free to ignore.