[ExI] Sublime messages and Goose Bumps

[MB]

> The other day as I was watching a touching story and
> experienced goose bumps.  As I am highly sensitive
> person I wondered how the reaction occurs and why it
> occurs?  As the reaction was not one of fear and
> stress I assumed it had to do with sublime messages
> being sent to the brain.  Curious as always I wanted
> to know how these messages where being sent.  My
> confusion lies in the Google responses.
> It says that the reflect starts in the sympathetic
> nervous system and that it's actions during the stress
> response comprise the fight-or-flight response.  This
> doesn't make much sense to me since there was no
> stress involved in the instant reaction. In the
> automatic nervous system maintenance activities are
> primarily performed without conscious control or
> sensation. I assumed that because there is no cause
> and effect such as fear and stress that my instant
> reaction of a sublime message is being performed
> without conscious control yet there is a sensation.
> Does anybody have any ideas, thoughts or a direction
> that can lead me to understand this better.
>

You can read the book "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" by Robert M. Sapolsky.  You will
learn more about stress and the sympathetic nervous system than you ever expected to
know, and if you understand it all you're way ahead of me!    ;)  But it was a good
read and I did learn stuff.

Regards,
MB