Do you get random shudders/shivers?!
Question: I sometimes will just be sitting still not even thinking particularly about anything, and my body will tense and I'll shudder, my hair will all stand up, and then it will go away. I'm 100% sure it's not a seizure.lol but does anyone else get it too? Do you know where it's from? (I like weird superstitions but I already know the one about walking on the grave, so I'd appreciate at least a different one, or an actual scientific explanation)
Answers: I sometimes will just be sitting still not even thinking particularly about anything, and my body will tense and I'll shudder, my hair will all stand up, and then it will go away. I'm 100% sure it's not a seizure.lol but does anyone else get it too? Do you know where it's from? (I like weird superstitions but I already know the one about walking on the grave, so I'd appreciate at least a different one, or an actual scientific explanation)
I get those all the time. I usually get them the most when it is either cold in the room or if I've been holding still for a long period of time. I think that it's pretty much just an involuntary twitch, similar to where your leg or hand will twitch after staying in one position for too long. It's really not natural for your body to not be moving for a long period of time, so it's just your body saying that it wants you to move around & stretch a bit. Your body even twitches like this when you are asleep (much to the chagrin of some people who share a bed with the more active twitchers).
Yeah, i get it its freaky. prolly something to do with your mind
omg i get them all the time
i dont know what it is but yea im with ya!
I get them all the time...idk what it is but it IS really wierd...........???
I know why we say this when you have a shiver down your spine and where it originated from?
: The following is from a July 2000 discussion of the phrase. Does anyone have any insight into this old saying?
: Does anyone know the origins of the phrase "someone walked over my grave" that people use when they shiver for no reason?
: : : : It is taboo in my part of the U.S. (mountains of West Virginia) to step on a grave. You walk around it. I'll have to do a little research to get more details.
: : : So far, I've found two versions of this saying:
: : : "If you suddenly shudder, it means a rabbit (or goose) has run across your grave." This is from The Mountain Times, Appalachian Folk Beliefs, online. Another source yielded the belief that shuddering meant a goose was running across your grave.
: : : I am not exactly sure what this means. A person or animal walks across your grave. Does that mean the site where your grave will be located? Or does it mean a trespass on your grave in the future causes a retro effect and makes the "living you," in the present, shiver?
: : Thanks. I've never understood that either. I've always wondered if the phrase came from Ireland, which would it might through the Appalachian connection.
: It is definitely used in the Appalachian Mountains. But I also saw it on a site of Newfoundland sayings. I didn't find it in any of the reference books I have.
yea i get them sumtimes too.. and i too wonder what is the cause... hmm lets search for the answer together..
i get those sometimes too