I am genuinely shocked that this isn’t a universal experience. I routinely experience this at dramatic or highly emotive points in cinema or television.
I assumed this was what people meant when they say that something “sends shivers down your spine”. Although thinking about it, there’s a similar but distinct and less pleasant experience (which I associate with the expression “like someone walking over your grave”) that I also experience.
I am genuinely shocked that this isn’t a universal experience. I routinely experience this at dramatic or highly emotive points in cinema or television.
I assumed this was what people meant when they say that something “sends shivers down your spine”. Although thinking about it, there’s a similar but distinct and less pleasant experience (which I associate with the expression “like someone walking over your grave”) that I also experience.