Jolie Elizabeth Scalfano • 26 days ago

Frisson is a physically felt signature of an emotion, a somatic marker. Like nausea and disgust, or a rapid heartbeat and anxiety, this feeling in the body coincides with an emotion in the mind (and thus makes the body-mind distinction much more blurry). The specific somatic marker of frisson is experimentally tied to peak emotional experiences and the most meaningful moments during exposure to different stimuli, such as  songs or speeches or art pieces. And amazingly, aesthetic chills seem to be an almost universal marker of peak emotional experiences across a wide range of cultures and continents. This universality is really rare—usually, expressions of emotion are quite different across cultural contexts—and this means that we can potentially use chills as a way to study emotion in the body in diverse peoples and places. We have a remarkable embodied feeling (a somatic marker) which is tied to this abstract emotion (meaningful moments), as if we could reach out and directly touch 'meaning-making'.

For The Dead Travel Fast • about 2 months ago

Found this wonderful list of horror films for people just getting into the halloween spirit and aren't super comfortable with horror films.  See the original post here  

Jeff Richardson • 6 months ago

A collection of haunted thoughts, strange essays, and eerie little things i can’t stop thinking about. Some of it’s beautiful. some of it’s unsettling. all of it feels like home.

gray • 6 months ago

from the odd to the wholesome, to the disturbing and the comforting, i welcome you all to experience my collection of internet art. art, being very subjective. have fun! try not to trip over the sheer absurdity on your way in. a collection of things i have observed and catalogued during my time here.