Its a strange but pleasant tingling sensation at the top of my head, as if thousands of littIe fingers where giving me a scalp massage, I get it when someone is explaining something to me with lots of detail, or I'm seeing someone doing something meticulous. Am I crazy or does this happen to anyone else? And If so, does anyone know what causes it? I've wondered my whole life...
2007-05-09 18:21:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Medically speaking, the best studied form of concentration is that associated with meditation. If you google for _crown-chakra sensation_ you will find many reports of similar feelings. " The general crown chakra sensation takes over the entire crown of my head and has that "1000 fingers fluttering" sort of feeling" Another meditation / concentration-related physiological reaction of a skull-top sensation is reported at -- http://www.chicagoyoga.org/meditation-techniques -- So, you are not the only one to have this sensation, although you are finding it through a more scholarly form of concentration.
Having found cases of concentration-induced skull-top sensation , we turn to MEDLINE --- http://www.pubmed.gov -- for articles on the physiology of meditation. Some of the measured physiological changes are listed in the sources below. My _guess_ is that you are feeling the results of an alteration in one (or more) of these -- but I couldn't find a straight one-to-one relationship in five minutes ... and gave up on the tedious search for each chemical's physiological effects.
Added: Master's thesis on the psychophysiology of Flow:
http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/kay/psyko/pg/kivikangas/psychoph.pdf
2007-05-10 06:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called flow. flow occurs during intense concentration, where everything else fades out except the task at hand.
2007-05-10 15:19:11 · answer #2 · answered by bad guppy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋