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Goosebumps.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/07/30/the-curious-case-of-the-people-who-can-control-their-goosebumps/

I thought everyone can do this but apparently not. I have been able to do this easily my whole life and even have it happen when I don't want it, listening to something corny I disagree with and I have to control it not happening. I can will it easily just doing nothing, repeatedly with just a few seconds to recharge.

My mother can't and she's also a super bitch. (sorry mother, love ya but you are). She's unable to feel music or anything uplifting. She's also a hardcore liberal. So, I'm wondering if there's a correlation but seeing most of the population can't do it, maybe there's not. Idk, can you do it?

Goosebumps. https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/07/30/the-curious-case-of-the-people-who-can-control-their-goosebumps/ I thought everyone can do this but apparently not. I have been able to do this easily my whole life and even have it happen when I don't want it, listening to something corny I disagree with and I have to control it not happening. I can will it easily just doing nothing, repeatedly with just a few seconds to recharge. My mother can't and she's also a super bitch. (sorry mother, love ya but you are). She's unable to feel music or anything uplifting. She's also a hardcore liberal. So, I'm wondering if there's a correlation but seeing most of the population can't do it, maybe there's not. Idk, can you do it?

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I've always been able to close my eyes and give my self the sense of riding a rollercoaster - sometimes that causes goosebumps .

I can't do that, but I can "pop my ears" on command.

Very helpful on flights.

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Are you flexing your ear drums? Can do that but not pop the pressure. Need to plug my nose and blow.

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I believe so. I'm not really sure what I'm doing

I have to shift my jaw forward slightly and flex near my ear (drums?). Don't have to hold my nose

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Damn dude that's fucking useful. I just yawn over and over like a fuckin idiot and my ears still hurt after.

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I can control my boner hardness with a finger up my anus

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Sorry I made this post. I didn't realize how many retards are here below the age of 12.

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I am 50, but still very youthful in all the wrong ways

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I can wiggle my ears, that's mildly entertaining to 3 year olds.

They seem to go off when I'm feeling strong emotions. I imagine there must be a way to trigger that mentally.

Do you think about anything specific?

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No, I don't have to think of anything other than the wave sensation I expect to feel. I think there might be a muscle somewhere at the back of the head/neck I can flex to bring on the rush.

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No I cannot. I can move my eyebrows at will (which apparently some people can't) and I can flare my nostril at will (without breathing in or scrunching my face). I can also move my dick up and down, which my wife seems to enjoy A LOT.

Out of all of those only the dick has ever proved useful in life. Has your super power ever been useful?

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Has your super power ever been useful

Idk yet. Perhaps it's good to weed out liars and psychopaths.

I can dilate my pupils at will by inducing copious amounts of adrenalin.

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Haha. I can flare my nostrils and wiggle my ears. Raising individual eyebrows and switching is tough though.

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I can slow my heart rate. I've read that people can be trained to do with with bio feedback, but I've never used bio feedback. I can also turn on bloodflow in my ears so that they never freeze, no matter how cold it gets or how hard the wind blows. I can have melting snow over my ears in a 50 MPH wind at 0 degrees F. and my ears won't freeze. It's useful when clearing the snow out of my driveway. I never bother wearing a hat.

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Your ears are mostly cartilage tho. Hard to think controlling blood flow would be possible but I'll offer deniability knowing some people's ears burn when they're mad, so blood flow is the reason. But to be devil's advocate as well, freezing has the sensation of warming past a certain point and ears get cold quickest. Not discounting your post.

Yes, I can do it at will. Yet to meet anyone else who can.

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My mother can't and she's also a super bitch. (sorry mother, love ya but you are). She's unable to feel music or anything uplifting. She's also a hardcore liberal. So, I'm wondering if there's a correlation but seeing most of the population can't do it, maybe there's not. Idk, can you do it?

I'm like the guy who's somewhere to the right of Hitler and Franco, but I too do not have any emotional connection to music and cannot willfully summon goosebumps. I like some music, but there's no emotion attached to it any more than there is to liking the color blue.

I can pop my own joints like a chiropractor can. Knuckles, knees, back, toes, wrists, neck, shoulders, etc. It freaks out a good number of people. I used to only do knuckles, then when I started jiu jistsu, I was able to pop a lot more.