What causes goosebumps? Is there a way to prevent it?
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She gets goosebumps because it feels so dam*n good.  No worries!
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Oh my gosh! I don't feel so alone now! Everyone of my friends thinks that it's so weird but it is terrifying to me. I don't understand why i have this fear but man, i'm scared to get pregnant because of this fear. I get shaky, hot-cold flashes, dizziness, sweaty, just plain horror. I don't wish this on anyone but i hope we both can get over it! Do you remember anything that could have triggered your phobia? I remember going on vacation when i was younger and my sister would always get sick in the back of the car; i think i felt trapped or something but i really want to end this terrible fear! I hope you don't feel alone, i'm here for you now! :)
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Most of us have a ticklish spot somewhere on our bodies, and it is usually pretty easy to find. For some it's just above the knee, for others it's the back of the neck, and some of us go into fits of laughter if someone grabs our sides. Laughing when another person tickles you is a natural reaction. Scientists have discovered that the feeling experienced when we are tickled causes us to panic and is a natural defense to little creepy crawlers like spiders and bugs. Slight tickles from insects can send a chill through your body letting you know something is crawling on you. \nThat same ticklish feeling sends us into a state of panic and elicits a response of uncontrollable laughter if a person tickles us. It's the moment that you least expect to be tickled and are that causes you to feel extremely uneasy and panicked, which leads to the most intense ticklish feeling. Even if you do know that you are about to be tickled, the fear and unease of someone touching and possibly hurting you causes you to laugh. Some people are so ticklish that they begin laughing even before they are touched. \n\nSo, if someone else's touch can tickle us, why can't we tickle ourselves? Much of the explanation for this question is still unknown, but research has shown that the brain is trained to know what to feel when a person moves or performs any function. We aren't aware of a lot of the sensations generated by our movements. For example, you probably don't pay much attention to your vocal cords when you speak. For the same reason, we can't tickle ourselves. If we grab our sides in an attempt to tickle ourselves, our brain anticipates this contact from the hands and prepares itself for it. By taking away the feeling of unease and panic, the body no longer responds the same as it would if someone else were to tickle us. \n\nBrain scientists at the University College London have pinpointed the cerebellum as the part of the brain that prevents us from self-tickling. The cerebellum is the region located at the base of the brain that monitors our movements. It can distinguish expected sensations from unexpected sensations. An expected sensation would be the amount of pressure your fingers apply to your keyboard while typing. An unexpected sensation would be someone sneaking up behind you and tapping you on the shoulder. While the brain discards the sensation of typing, it pays a lot of attention to someone tapping on your shoulder. The difference in reactions from expected to unexpected is a built-in response that probably developed in early human history to detect predators. \n\nAlthough we are not able to tickle ourselves unassisted, there is a way to trick the brain by using a robot tickler. That's right. With all of the know-how of science and technology, a robot has been designed to allow people to tickle themselves. The same British scientists mentioned above have designed a machine that enables you to tickle yourself by remote control. To use the machine, a person lies on their back with their eyes shut. The robot is located near the person with a piece of soft foam attached to a plastic rod that is controlled by a remote control joystick. When the person activates the rod, the robot will react after a short delay. Even with delays as short as a fifth of a second from the time the person activates the rod until the robot tickled the person's hand, subjects have described the sensation as the same as another person tickling them. So, in a sense, you could tickle yourself with a robotic assistant.
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It depends on how often you are having them, and what brings them on.  The cause could be anything from serious to just too much caffeine (coke or coffee?)  I have noticed that excitement, stress,  or hot weather may also have an effect on having them.\nYou should see a dr. to rule out any serious cause.  There are medications you can take to regulate the heartbeat so that you aren't aware of the palpitations.  To a certain extent, everyone has them once in a while and it is considered normal.
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they call them goose bumps because you get little bumps all over.  It's when your freezing and just can't get warm.  Or you are overcome with a cold chill.  Next time its snowing, stand outside with a t-shirt and see them magically appear.
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this is a simptom which happens to people due to anxiety and to some with a neurological condition which causes the same effect. \ntry simply avoiding caffine for a while then if that isn't enough try various relaxation tecniques. if none of this works consult your physican.   \np.s. it may pass as you get older.
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Why don抰 people get goose bumps on their face?\n\nGoose bumps are caused by little muscles in the skin called erector pilae. \nEach of these muscles is attached to a hair follicle. So, when the muscle \ncontracts, the hair stands up straight. In many animals this provides \nextra insulation by trapping air between the hairs, or makes the animals \nlook slightly larger by causing all its hairs to stand out (which can be \nuseful when the animal is threatened and wants to make itself look as big \nand mean as possible). In humans the same phenomenon is going on, except \nthat our hair is not thick enough to make a real difference for insulation \nor for threats. Still, the erector pilae involuntarily contract when we \nare cold or frightened and give us goose bumps.\n\nThere are, however, several parts of the body where the skin does not \npossess erector pilae muscles. These are usually areas where the skin is \nserving other functions, such as the grasping function of the palms. In \nthe face, we still have erector pilae like muscles, except that they have \ngrown much larger. Collectively, these muscles are known as the muscles of \nfacial expression. In most animals, their main job it to aid in chewing \nand keeping the mouth closed. They still serve these functions in humans, \nbut they also allow us to smile, frown and make a number of other faces to \nconvey emotion. So, we don抰 get goose bumps on our face because the skin \nmuscles have other, more important, functions in that area.
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Goosebumps are known scientifically as pyeloerection. Perhaps your husband suffers from pyeloerectile dysfunction... There's a pill for that you know.
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When you sweat your body is trying to cool itself and the sweat creates moisture to cool the skin the blood vessels underneath the skin dialate and release the heat in the blood that then makes your body sweat. When you are cold the blood vessels contrict holding the heat in. and when your hairs stand up that is from the tiny muscles attached conracting, pulling inward helping so heat cant escape, that why you get goosebumps too!
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Muscle spasms generally occur when your body is not hydrated and is low in much needed electrolytes.  Drink a bottle of water or Gatorade, it won't make it stop right away, but it will prevent it from happening later.  If it keeps spasming (even if it doesn't hurt) call your doctor or health care provider, they may have a hot line that helps with general things like this.
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Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.\n\n(one of the odder ones that I have heard of)
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you may have raynounds syndrome,which your nerves usaully in hands or feet ,but can move to the whole body if it worsens,what happens is the nerves for unknown reasons start restricting blood flow in the vains causeing not enough blood flow to hands and making them cold,then there is also a secound type thats the reverse the nerves cause the blood vessels to get bigger and then your hands can start getting to much blood flow and feel fiery hot.there is no cure for this but there are medicences and herbs that can help,and one other new thing just recently invented that might get rid of the syndome once and for all is doctors think they might have found the main nerve that causes this to happen located in the rists and can possibly be sergically removed.so if i were you i'd talk to a doctor about it and see if he thinks it is rynounds syndrome and then mabey he can give you the medince to help and explain more about the possible sergery.also if the syndrome gets worse what will eventually happen is it could start to move to other parts of the body too,and after a while it can get so bad that basically you would be in danger of your body giving it self frostbite litterally.so look into it and see if thats what it is,but if hopefully it isnt that then mabey it can possibly be realated to just stress ?.also one last thing that is a sign that its raynounds is if you hold something cold or out in the cold for some amount of time usaully your hands ect.would start to feel major ice cold that seems to hurt from the inner-core of your bones outward.makeing you need to cover them up or put what-ever cold thing down.
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Muscle spasms. You may need some vitamins !
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it oculd be a nerve problem. it happens to me sometimes. you could have just been sitting for too long or in a werid position,  I talked to a nerulogist about it and he said don't worry unelss it gets really bad and your whole legs an arms start shaking all the time
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It would cause your neurons to fire. That's why when you get zapped by electricity your muscles tense up. If you've ever been in physical therapy they have something where they attach electrodes to your skin and send a small pulse through you and it causes mild contraction of the muscles.\n\nThat's basically it.
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Yeah. Geese get people bumps. Unfortunately for them, it is a fatal condition. It involves a club to the back of the head and the goose getting seasoned ere it checks into the oven motel.
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Since you had recently suffered from flu, and having sat around during the party in the night where you could have lost your body’s core temperature.  Your body had reacted to it by curtailing the circulation of the skin (goose pimples) and other non essential parts of the body so conserve heat of your body.  But once you were back in your bed, the outside temperature being returned back to normal, blood would have started flowing out to the skin, which was so far curtailed by your body mechanism.  This caused the body losing heat and this started the shivering and this way the muscular activity generated had built up your core body temperature while diverting your blood to the splanchnic pool (the blood pool which supplies to the viscera of the body).  \n\nNow since your blood was pooled in your visceral area and therefore could not reach the brain in sufficient quantities while you were straining to void your bladder, it caused you a spell of dizziness/fainting.  MICTURATION SYNCOPES are known to occur, but in the old and the frail, after prolonged illnesses, or in those with obstruction like BPH (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy) where one has to strain more to pass out urine through the obstructed tract.   \n\nDo not be unduly worried.  Start taking plenty of warm fluids, soups etc.  Keep your body well protected from cold and do not jump out of the bed, get out slowly and do not hurry.  Do not strain too much while standing to void your bladder.  Good luck.