Crawling
by wjw on May 4, 2018
I few nights ago, I woke from a really scary nightmare.
I don’t remember the dream at all, which is a shame, because judging from my reaction to it, it would have made an excellent premise for a fright film. At any rate, I woke very suddenly, with my heart pounding and my eyes wide with terror.
Plus, my scalp was crawling. As in: all the muscles in my scalp (and apparently there are a lot of them) were involved in a tug-of-war to try to decide where my new hairline was going to be.
My scalp crawled. I always thought that was a metaphor!
My scalp has never crawled before, and I hope it never does again.
After a while my scalp calmed down, along with the rest of me, and I rolled over, went back to sleep, and promptly forget whatever had caused the fright.
So, how many of your scalps have crawled? Or any other parts of you? I can’t remember experiencing a sensation quite like this before.
Gray’s Anatomy confirms what my fingers find: there aren’t any subcutaneous muscles over the dome of the scalp, beyond the margins of the frontalis, occipitalis, and temporalis muscles.
But so far as I can find, scalp hairs have arrector pili muscles like other hairs, so maybe they cause of the sensation — your body is trying to make those hairs stand on end along with the rest, to make you big & intimidating.
Can’t help you with the crawling scalp, but I did see red once. Someone got me so angry (I was in a service job and just had to take it), that a red film came over my vision for a few moments. I’d thought that was just a metaphor, but nope, it’s a real thing.
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