We are a frontier AI lab using neuroscience to help you feel, think and connect in radically new ways. Our first product, ChillsTV, helps you discover content that gives you chills and goosebumps.
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About the researchCreate audiovisual experiences designed to give your audience chills. Our own voice and music models compose every layer, and our chill models show where your audience will feel it.
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We are building a closed-loop affective system, and we ran the largest neuroscience study of chills, with 64-channel EEG, heart, skin and breath.
Our research
We design novel AI tools that create content to induce chills, and tailor it to individuals or to whole audiences.
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Read the preprintChillsTV plays you, one after another, the YouTube videos most likely to give you chills.
Not everyone feels chills, and that is normal. In our studies, between 47 and 82 percent of people felt them, depending on the video. ChillsTV is for curiosity and research. It is not a treatment.
Every video is a public YouTube video, chosen because it reliably gives people chills. Songs, speeches, film scenes and live moments.
Videos play from YouTube, inside ChillsTV. Titles and thumbnails belong to their creators.
We tested 40 videos on 2,937 people. This performance of Hallelujah was one of the strongest: three in four people who heard it felt chills. In a second study, listeners pressed a button the moment they felt one, and the line under the video shows when. Press play and see whether you feel it too.
The line shows the share of listeners feeling a chill, second by second, over the first five minutes of the performance.
You answer a few questions, and we start with the videos most likely to move someone like you.
Each time you feel a chill, you tap once. Over time you build a list of everything that moves you.
Invite a friend and compare the moments that move each of you.
Send a link to a friend, a partner or your sister. When they have watched a few videos, you see the moments that move you both, and the ones that move them that you have never seen.
Our lab studies how the brain, the body and the world around us create experience, and we turn what we learn into friendly products that help people feel great and connect, like ChillsTV, Edge and ReWire Studio.
Today, Netflix, YouTube and ChatGPT do not really know you or understand you. They see your clicks and your words, and they never see how you feel.
We are closing that gap. We are building a loop between your brain, your body and the computers you use every day, so that what you watch, hear and read adapts to you as you experience it. We are building toward moments that feel like “I really needed to hear that”, and that help you progress in life.
We are making sense of multimodal data, from brain activity, heart, skin and breath to the context a person is in, and we read it through the lens of affective neuroscience.
We are training machine learning models that turn these signals into predictions, such as how a person will respond to a treatment and which dose fits them.
We are designing digital experiences that adapt as you go, across video, music, conversation and learning, so that what reaches you fits where you are right now.
To build that future, we first need a state that shows up in the body and the brain and that the environment can reliably trigger. Aesthetic chills, the shiver down the spine you feel during a song, a film or a speech, are exactly that. Over the past decade we have run dozens of studies on chills with thousands of participants. Here is some of what we learned.
ChillsDB is the research kit we built over ten years. It gives laboratories films, songs, speeches and animated scenes that reliably give people chills, timestamped and ready for surveys and body recordings.
Reports on what we are learning.
What changes in the body and the brain during a chill, and how people feel afterwards.
What happens when music gives you chills, how we found the videos that cause them, and who feels them.
Early research on chills in people with low mood, and what it does and does not show.
A few questions predicted who gets chills 73.5% of the time in a study of 2,937 people.
The ReWire lab is led by Félix Schoeller and Nicco Reggente in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. Building on hundreds of published research papers in neuroscience and engineering, the lab works with machine learning engineers, neurotechnology enthusiasts and scientific advisors from Harvard Medical School, UC Irvine and UT Tyler.
ChillsTV and our other products are for wellness and research. They do not diagnose or treat depression or any other condition.
Before ChillsDB, there was no shared set of videos that reliably gives people chills. We built one, tested it on thousands of people, and published the data.
ReWire Research, with MIT Media Lab, Bar-Ilan University, Wellesley College and the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies
Researchers who wanted to study chills used to ask participants to bring their own music. That makes studies hard to compare and hard to repeat. We wanted a common starting point that any laboratory could use.
People often write "chills" or "goosebumps" in the comments under a video that moved them. We searched YouTube and Reddit for those comments and ranked videos by how often people described the feeling. We found 204 videos across music, film and speech, then tested the top 50 on more than 600 people.
For ChillsDB 2.0 we studied 2,937 adults in Southern California, balanced for age, sex, education and political orientation. Each person was randomly given one of 40 clips and told us whether it gave them chills, along with their mood, personality and experience.
ChillsTV grew out of this work. Many of the videos you see there were first found and tested here.
Some people feel chills often and others rarely do. In a published study of 2,937 people, a few questions predicted who would feel them 73.5% of the time.
ReWire Research, with the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and MIT Media Lab
If chills are going to be useful, we need to know who is likely to feel them. Using the ChillsDB 2.0 data from 2,937 people, we built statistical models to predict whether a person would report chills from the clip they watched.
A model using age, sex, how aroused a person felt before watching, and two short questionnaires predicted whether people got chills with 73.5% accuracy. In that sample, about half of the people reported chills, so guessing would be right about 51% of the time.
This describes that research dataset. It does not forecast how any particular video or product will perform for you.
This research is the reason ChillsTV asks you a few questions before your first video. Your answers shape which videos we show first.
Read the paper: Predicting individual differences in peak emotional response, PNAS Nexus, 2024.
Some of our research involves people with low mood. That makes it important to be precise about what the evidence shows.
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Some of our studies involve people with depressive symptoms or anhedonia, the difficulty of feeling pleasure. In one, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, 103 adults took part, 59 of them with elevated depressive symptoms. Participants with high anhedonia who had chills showed a larger shift toward rewarding choices than those who did not. These are encouraging research findings.
They are not proof that watching videos treats depression. They come from controlled studies, with specific materials and specific measures, over short periods. That is why we say clearly that ChillsTV and our other products are for curiosity, wellness and research, and that they do not diagnose or treat any condition.
Not everyone feels chills. In our studies, between 47 and 82 percent of people felt them, depending on the video. If you do not feel them, that is normal, and it says nothing about your health or your worth.
Our clinical research program, ReWire DTx, is separate and investigational. No study is enrolling today. If future studies show a benefit, we will publish the results and seek the appropriate regulatory review before making any medical claim.
What changes in the body and the brain during a chill, and how people feel afterwards.
A chill is felt in the body first. People describe a wave of goosebumps, a shiver down the spine or a tightness in the chest. Our 2024 review argues that these bodily sensations are not a side effect. They help shape the emotion itself, as the brain reads signals coming from the body.1
In a lab study at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, described below, we also recorded heart, skin and breathing signals. A model trained on these signals could tell moments of chills apart from other moments about two times in three. It did best about eight seconds before people pressed the button, which suggests the body starts to change before a person notices the chill.2
Brain scans have shown which deep regions are involved in chills, but they follow changes slowly. EEG records electrical activity at the scalp many times per second. That makes it suited to the few seconds around a chill. Our lab study at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica used EEG for this purpose.2
In this study, 103 adults from the Los Angeles area came to the lab twice, 10 to 14 days apart. They were 18 to 65 years old and had no neurological or psychiatric diagnosis. In the second visit they listened to three pieces from ChillsDB 2.0, our database of videos and music that give people chills. These were an Aramaic chant, Hallelujah and the Miserere, each about five minutes long.2
We recorded brain activity with a 64-channel EEG cap. Each time people felt a chill, they pressed a small button worn on one finger. We also recorded heart, skin and breathing signals, described above. The study had two randomized arms for a separate question that this page also does not cover. The two arms did not differ in how often people reported chills or in the brain measures below.2
Of the 103 people, 85 reported at least one chill, 14 reported none and 4 had missing data. Hallelujah worked best, with an estimated 90 percent chance of at least one chill. The Miserere followed at 82 percent and the chant at 70 percent.2
We compared four-second windows just after each reported chill with matched windows from the same piece without a chill. Each chill window started 1.5 seconds after the button press, to leave out the movement of the press. This analysis used the 57 people who reported chills and had recordings clean enough to analyze. It compared 102 chill windows with 102 matched windows.2
Four measures of signal complexity rose during chills. They were Lempel-Ziv complexity, sample entropy, Higuchi fractal dimension and short-scale permutation entropy. In plain terms, the signal became less predictable and harder to compress. The effects were small to medium, with standardized effect sizes (Cohen's d) between 0.37 and 0.55.2
The figure above maps the change across the scalp. For Lempel-Ziv complexity, the increase covered 41 of the 64 channels after correction for multiple comparisons.2 Five other measures of complexity and criticality did not change reliably.
Slow theta rhythms (4 to 8 cycles per second) weakened over 37 channels at the front, center and top of the head. Fast gamma rhythms (30 to 45 cycles per second) strengthened over 27 channels at the back and right side of the head. The ratio of gamma to theta rose across all 64 channels.2
We also followed complexity through the 20 seconds before and after each reported chill. Lempel-Ziv complexity, Higuchi fractal dimension and sample entropy peaked shortly after the button press. Sample entropy dipped briefly just before the press. Criticality, a measure of how close activity sits to the edge between order and chaos, showed no consistent change.2
These are associations. They show what the brain was doing during chills, not that these changes cause the feeling. EEG measures activity at the scalp, so it cannot show the deep reward regions seen in brain scans.
Fast gamma activity recorded at the scalp can also pick up muscle tension, which the team tried to remove during data cleaning. Chills were timed by a button press, which misses any chill that a person did not report.2
In our EEG lab study at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, people filled in questionnaires right after listening. Those who reported chills scored much higher than the 14 who did not on moral elevation, the uplifting feeling of seeing goodness in others. They also scored much higher on ego dissolution, a softer sense of the boundary between self and world.2 They scored higher on feeling connected as well.
The effect sizes were large for moral elevation and ego dissolution (d = 1.40 and 1.30). The effect was moderate for connectedness (d = 0.82).2 Differences in psychological insight and emotional breakthrough were smaller and less certain.
Among people who had chills, those who had more of them reported more moral elevation. In the same study, chills did not predict changes in generosity in a money-sharing game. They also did not predict changes on mood and emotion questionnaires or in negative beliefs about oneself.2
These results have limits. The comparison group was small, since only 14 people reported no chills. Two of the three pieces come from religious traditions. All measures were taken right after the session.2
Larger online studies point the same way. In the ChillsDB 2.0 sample, analyzed at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies with Harvard Medical School, people who reported chills, and people whose chills were more intense, scored higher on measures of self-transcendence. This held after accounting for demographics, personality and mood before the clip.3
In the original ChillsDB validation study of more than 600 people, run at the MIT Media Lab and Bar-Ilan University, those who had chills rated their feelings during the clip as more positive and more aroused than those who did not.4 Both of these studies are correlational.
What a chill is, how we found the videos that cause them, and who feels them.
A chill is a brief wave of shivers or goosebumps that comes from an emotional moment rather than from cold. Researchers call it a psychogenic shiver.1 Music, film, speeches and stories can all trigger it. Most research looks at pleasant chills, although threatening scenes can cause them too.1
Brain imaging studies by other groups link pleasant chills to the brain's reward system. In a 2001 brain scan study, stronger chills went with changes in blood flow in regions tied to reward, emotion and arousal.2 A 2011 study found dopamine release in the striatum at moments of peak emotional arousal during music.3 In a 2019 drug study of 27 healthy adults, a drug that raises dopamine increased musical pleasure, and a drug that blocks it reduced pleasure.4
Our 2024 review, written by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, the MIT Media Lab and McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School, brings this evidence together.1 It asks how the bodily sensation of a chill shapes the feeling that comes with it.
Our work on chills began with a simple idea. In a 2015 opinion article, written while he was a doctoral researcher at EHESS in Paris, Félix Schoeller proposed that chills mark moments when our understanding of the world suddenly comes together, when something finally makes sense or opens up a new way of seeing.5
Much of this early work was done with the physicist Leonid Perlovsky, whose mathematical theory of the mind describes a knowledge instinct: a drive to make our inner models of the world fit what we experience. Together they proposed that aesthetic emotions, and chills in particular, arise when that fit suddenly improves at the highest levels of meaning, at the edge of what the mind can understand. They applied this idea to stories, where chills tend to come at the moment a narrative resolves,6 and brought it together with experimental tests in a 2018 review of mathematical models of perception, concepts and emotion.7 A later paper extended it to the unconscious emotions that accompany learning.8
Researchers who studied chills used to ask volunteers to bring their own music. That made studies hard to compare and hard to repeat. ChillsDB was built at the MIT Media Lab and Bar-Ilan University, with the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and Wellesley College, to give laboratories a shared set of tested videos.9
People often write "chills" or "goosebumps" under a video that moved them. The team wrote software that searched YouTube and Reddit comments for those words. It found 204 videos across music, film and speech.9 The top 50 were then tested online with more than 600 people, and ten stood out as the most reliable.9
ChillsDB 2.0, run at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies with the MIT Media Lab, scaled this up. In total, 3,259 adults in Southern California took part, and 2,937 were kept after data cleaning.10 Recruitment quotas balanced sex, age, education and political orientation. Each person was randomly given one of 40 clips, made of 20 stimuli in an audio-only and an audiovisual version. People also answered questions about their mood, personality and reactions.10
Not everyone gets chills, and that is normal. In ChillsDB 2.0, 1,508 of 2,937 people (51 percent) reported chills from their single clip.11 In our lab study at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, 85 of 103 people reported at least one chill across three pieces of music.12 Rates depend on the clip, the setting and the person.
Using the ChillsDB 2.0 data, researchers at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and the MIT Media Lab tested which facts about a person predict whether they report chills.11 Five inputs gave the best result. They were age, sex, how aroused the person felt before the clip, and two short questionnaires. One measures absorption, the tendency to get lost in an experience. The other measures how often a person feels deeply moved.11
With these five inputs, the model predicted who reported chills with 73.5 percent accuracy. About half the sample reported chills, so guessing would be right about half the time.11
This result has limits. The model was trained and tested many times on random splits of the same data. It was also the best of 2,054 combinations of inputs tried on that data, so accuracy in a new group may be lower.
The result describes that research sample. It does not forecast how any product will perform.
Two other patterns stood out. People who felt more aroused before the clip were more likely to report chills. In this sample, men were somewhat more likely than women to report chills.11
Chills also change over a session. In a study at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies and the MIT Media Lab, 58 people each watched six chill-eliciting videos in a random order, and the chance of chills fell as the session went on.13 Among people who still had chills, the chills grew more intense and lasted longer.13
Early research on chills in people with low mood, and what it does and does not show.
Some of our studies include people with depressive symptoms or anhedonia. Anhedonia is a reduced ability to feel pleasure. It is one of the two core symptoms of major depression, and it is linked to poorer response to treatment.1 Because chills involve the reward system, we asked how they relate to reward learning and to beliefs about oneself in these groups.
These are research findings with clear limits. None of them shows that watching videos treats depression.
This study, run at the MIT Media Lab and the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies with colleagues in Paris, recruited 96 adults online. All reported a past diagnosis of depression by a physician. In a single session, each person watched one of two videos from ChillsDB and answered questionnaires before and after.2
People who reported chills scored higher on self-acceptance than people who did not (p = .003). Self-acceptance was one of five self-belief scales tested, and it was the only one that differed. People who had chills also reported more emotional breakthrough.2
The study compared people who did and did not have chills, so it cannot show cause. It relied on self-report, and there was no clinical interview at the time of the study. It was also a single session.2
This study, run at the MIT Media Lab and the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies with McLean Hospital at Harvard Medical School, included 103 adults recruited online. Of these, 59 had elevated depressive symptoms, and 26 of the 59 had high anhedonia. A comparison group of 39 people had no elevated symptoms.3
Everyone played a simple computer game before and after watching one short video. In the game, one of two answers is secretly rewarded more often, and people usually learn to favor it over time. People with anhedonia often show less of this learning.3
High-anhedonia participants who experienced chills showed a larger shift toward rewarded choices than those who did not (p = .004).3 There was no such difference in the low-anhedonia group. The high-anhedonia group was small, with 13 people who had chills and 13 who did not.
Chills were not assigned at random, because some people simply had them and others did not. Learning was measured only right after a single video.3
ChillsTV, Edge and ReWire Studio are consumer wellness products. They are not treatments. They do not diagnose, treat or prevent depression or any other condition. The studies on this page used research stimuli and study tasks, and their results do not describe how any product performs.
ReWire DTx is a separate research program. It is investigational, it is not available and it has not been reviewed by FDA. Its effects have not been established. We are planning future studies, and none is enrolling today.
We will update this page as papers are published or corrected.
Aesthetic chills have garnered increasing interest from researchers investigating their neurobiology and genetic basis. As a result, a growing number of scientists are looking to reliably induce chills in laboratory settings. Over the past ten years, our team has developed the scientific instrumentation to do exactly this. Today, we are making these tools freely accessible to researchers worldwide so that together, we can discover something new about consciousness and cognition.
Comments analyzed across social media. Clips were sourced by scanning for self-reported somatic markers to establish a baseline elicitation probability prior to lab validation.
| Top Sourced Stimulus | Total Comments | Somatic Markers |
|---|---|---|
| Ed Sheeran - Give Me Love | 91,597 | 479 |
| Hans Zimmer - Time (Inception) | 40,173 | 432 |
| Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream | 16,871 | 291 |
| The Great Dictator Speech - Chaplin | 17,633 | 215 |
Includes live vocal performances, classical choral pieces (e.g., Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus), orchestral movie scores (Interstellar, Gladiator), and acoustic covers.
Features specific climactic cinematic scenes, including battle sequences, character reveals, and emotional peaks (e.g., Jurassic Park, The Hobbit, Inception, Rocky).
Includes film monologues (The Great Dictator, Scent of a Woman) and real-world motivational addresses (Admiral McRaven, Denzel Washington, Rick Rigsby).
Specific scenes from animated series (Naruto, Dragon Ball Z) featuring high-stakes narrative moments, character sacrifices, and synchronized musical scores.
Stimuli are provided in standardized formats with precise timestamping for event-related designs. Easily deployable across behavioral surveys and neuroimaging environments. Request the free kit to get the full metadata files and media package.
These capabilities operate on top of the standard ChillsDB toolkit as an API integration. We charge a small implementation fee for API access and compute, though sponsored credits are available for academic labs.
Inquire about API AccessOur machine learning model evaluates participant inputs (personality, music-reward sensitivity, state affect) to calculate individual elicitation probabilities. Based on our predictive models published in PNAS Nexus, this API allows researchers to dynamically select the highest-yield stimulus per individual subject during an experiment.
A separate generative pipeline capable of synthesizing bespoke, multimodal speech stimuli on demand. The system is engineered to target specific individual reward sensitivities and optimize the probability of eliciting a psychogenic shiver in real-time without relying on pre-existing library clips.
The ChillsDB kit is built upon the following peer-reviewed literature and open-source datasets. We ask that researchers utilizing the kit cite the relevant papers below.
Neuroscientist and founder of ReWire Neurotechnologies, working at the intersection of affective neuroscience, interoception, and emotional wellbeing.
Human-computer interaction researcher and founder of Nocturnal Health, building wearable interfaces that interact with the body's internal states.
Cognitive neuroscientist and Director at the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, specializing in predictive modeling and neurotechnology.
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ReWire DTx is our clinical research program. It studies whether structured experiences that give people chills can help people who struggle to feel pleasure, building on our published research on reward learning and self-beliefs. It is investigational, it is not available, and it has not been reviewed by FDA. ChillsTV, Edge and ReWire Studio are wellness products and are not part of it.
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Serial entrepreneur building companies in AI and mental health technology.
Read bioFélix Schoeller is a repeat founder and the CEO of ReWire. He co-founded BeSound, a wearable that turns body movement into music in real time, designed to help people recovering from trauma and PTSD. He co-founded Nested Minds, whose AI artist Huxley created the music video for Duran Duran’s Invisible in 2021. At the Fireside Project he directed Fireside Lab and was the primary architect of the AI model behind Lucy, a voice simulation that trains psychedelic support facilitators. He holds a PhD in cognitive science from EHESS in Paris, was a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab, and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, many of them on aesthetic chills. His work has been featured in Nature, VICE and Rolling Stone.
UCLA neuroscientist and research director of a consciousness institute.
Read bioNicco Reggente is a cofounder of ReWire and its Director of Neuroscience. A cognitive neuroscientist, he earned his PhD at UCLA as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and now teaches functional neuroimaging there as a lecturer. He is also the research director of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies, a nonprofit lab in Los Angeles, where he leads a team of five and is principal investigator on grants from the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, the Bial Foundation and others. His research combines brain imaging, EEG and machine learning to study meditation, aesthetic chills, memory and empathy. He was lead author of a 2018 PNAS paper showing that resting-state brain connectivity predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. With Félix he co-authored the ChillsDB 2.0 dataset and a PNAS Nexus study predicting who gets chills. He has published about 40 peer-reviewed papers. Outside the lab, he is a disc golf enthusiast.
Machine learning engineer, expert in deep learning and voice models.
Read bioAshwin Murali is a machine learning engineer and an expert in deep learning, time-series forecasting and voice models. At the Fireside Project, he worked with Félix on the voice models behind a simulation that trains psychedelic support facilitators. Before that, he built data systems for enterprise clients at Accenture. He holds an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence with Distinction from the University of Liverpool. In his free time, he is a cricket fan and player.
Leading expert on anhedonia and reward, founding director at UC Irvine.
Read bioDiego Pizzagalli is a global authority on the neurobiology of anhedonia and reward processing and ranks among the most cited researchers in depression. He is the founding director of the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine and the former director of the Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research at Harvard Medical School, where his research defined the field’s understanding of reward system dysfunction. He created the Probabilistic Reward Task, the standard instrument for quantifying blunted reward learning in clinical populations and a core mechanism the ReWire platform aims to address, and he is a coauthor with the ReWire founders on the peer reviewed publications establishing the mechanism behind the platform.
Harvard Medical School neuropsychologist and founder of a resilience program.
Read bioKim Willment is a board certified neuropsychologist, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and the founder and director of the RENEW Program for resilience through neurological and emotional wellness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has spent two decades pioneering the clinical implementation of non pharmacologic interventions for neurological populations, and her expertise in neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation guides the translation of ReWire’s embodied digital therapeutics from laboratory protocols into real world clinical workflows. She sees ReWire as a tool for both patients and clinicians that helps people reconnect with more expansive, adaptive ways of experiencing themselves and the world.
Clinical psychologist leading federally funded trials on positive emotion.
Read bioAdam McGuire is an associate professor of psychology, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a leading researcher on veterans’ mental health and trauma related disorders. As a federally funded principal investigator he leads clinical trials on positive emotion induction, specifically moral elevation, to treat trauma and comorbid depression, and his expertise in digital affect exposure and trial design for high acuity psychiatric conditions keeps ReWire’s therapeutics grounded in evidence based practice for complex mental health populations.
ReWire DTx is an investigational research program. It studies whether experiences that give people chills could one day help people with depression and anhedonia, the difficulty of feeling pleasure. It is not available and has not been reviewed by FDA. ChillsTV, Edge and ReWire Studio are wellness products and are not part of it.
These are early research findings with real limits. They do not show that any product treats depression.
In a study of 103 adults, 59 with elevated depressive symptoms, participants with high anhedonia who had chills showed a larger shift toward rewarding choices than those who did not.
We intend to register any future study, run it under ethical review and publish the results, whatever they are. We will not make a medical claim without the appropriate regulatory review.
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Answer one or two questions about your listener, in your own words. ReWire Studio turns them into a script written for that person.
Start each experience with a three-minute primer to settle the body: somatic, breath, attention, compassion, induction or reflection.
Edit every line, and place pauses and long pauses exactly where you want silence to land.
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From your home screen, ReWire opens straight into ChillsTV and tells you when a friend’s chills match is ready.
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In the next two minutes, we will ask you a few questions about yourself, then match you to the video most likely to give you chills. There are no right answers so go with your first reaction.
In our studies, about three in four people get chills from the first video. If you don't, that is common and says nothing about you. You can try another.
That happens to about one in four people on their first video, and it says nothing about you. Chills often come from the video you least expect, so try another one whenever you like. Thank you for your answers; they count toward the research.
Here you can watch hundreds of videos that have been validated to give people chills. The more you tell us about what you like, the easier it becomes for us to find your chills.
Tap “I feel chills” whenever you feel one, and we will do the rest.
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See the full result
Every video that gave you chills, in one place. Come back to any of them whenever you want to feel it again.
Newest first. Tap one to watch it again.
Find out how compatible you are with your friends, and discover the videos that give you both chills.
Pick a video for a friend. If it gives them chills, the point is yours. If the algorithm's pick does better, the point goes to the machine.
A song, a speech, a scene, a link, a memory. Anything you send goes to our research lab, where it improves ChillsDB and shapes our next studies.
Edge makes ten minute audio sessions about what gives you chills. A voice and music, written for you, bring the feeling back and open a new way of seeing your own life.
Edge makes ten minute audio sessions about what gives you chills. A voice and music, written for you, bring the feeling back and open a new way of seeing your own life. It also carries meditations designed with world experts.
ChillsTV is a free test that tells you how easily you get chills, those shivers and goosebumps that certain songs, films, and moments can set off, and which videos are most likely to give them to you.
ChillsTV is made by ReWire Neurotechnologies in Los Angeles together with the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, by Felix Schoeller, Nicco Reggente, Abhinandan Jain, and Ashwin Murali. Your score comes from published research. Every answer you give feeds that research, so if you know a video that reliably gives people chills, please send it to us. You can also find us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Find out whether you chill together. Send one link to anyone, a friend, a partner, your sister. They take the short test, and the moment they finish, your result opens for both of you at the same time.
People this close tend to share values and a way of looking at the world.