Sounds that cause a pleasant reaction - crinkling papers

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Aphelia,

You may enjoy the various comments that people have made over this years on

this video of our cats jumping around in packaging paper:

Because my husband entitled the video with a line from a Wallace s poem,

" A crinkled paper makes a brilliant sound, " the comments are almost entirely

about the mysterious but pleasing reactions some people find induced in

themselves by these sorts of sounds, for example:

" for some reason when i hear paper crumbling i get gosse bumps and i feel

weird pulses shooting up to my head. It feels really good though and it makes me

feel relaxed. "

" Haha. I'm with ya there, buddy. I don't know how it happens, but I'm so calm

and relaxed when I hear the sound. Plus, with all the " tingling " and

" goosebumps "  going up my head, it makes me feel sleepy. "

" it makes me shiver in a good way "

Steph

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> Posted by: " Aphelia " aphelia@... ailehpa

> Date: Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:13 pm ((PDT))

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> As I posted in my newbie intro, I've also have trigger sounds that cause the

opposite emotions than the negative ones. The crinkle of tissue paper is one,

the crackle of cellophane. Those things are probably negative triggers for some

of you These cause a calmness and unexplained joy in me. It's a pleasant

departure from the usual hello of rage and then hopeless despair.does anyone

else experience this sort of thing?

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