. . Hanna Aalto . .

You might feel shivers when hearing your favourite music piece, tingling feeling inside your head during haircut, relaxation and pleasure when someone is giving you head massage with this long legged spider looking device. Many get these sensations also when hearing people speaking or whispering, when they are watching some one working or when they get attention from a stranger. Most commonly this sensation is called to Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Cause of these symptoms is not fully known, but it is thought to come from sudden release of hormones and other chemicals in brain.

Very visual persons like me, can have this kind of sensations when they see art. My strongest sensations include shivers and vibrations starting from head, euphoric feeling, tingling feeling in head, I have red face and my eyes water from joy and happiness. These feelings disappear in few minutes. Spaces and art has the strongest effect on me. Larger items and spaces affects more than small things. Usually I have seen these things earlier in pictures but sometimes new items surprise me. Photographs from same places or items don’t have any effect. I have to see them live.

I asked in Bird Forum if other artists had similar physical sensations and there were plenty of others who knew what I was talking about. They got similar sensations when they saw art or things that mend something for them. Items varied from Archaeopteryx- fossil to Ennion watercolour painting.

Here are some examples of art pieces, architectural spaces and situations that I remember having affecting to me.

Tuthankhamun mask in Cairo Egyptian museum when I saw it first time.

Echo statue by Ville Valgren in Ateneum

Vase crafted by Itaya Hazan

Arhip Kuindzhin painting from Crimea

Hall of British museum

Huge “miniature” of Hogwarts

Dream Theater playing Octavarium in Helsinki.

Lots of experiences of this in comments of this article.