The tendency to seek new sensations is permanently inscribed in our psyche, while fashion only influences its form.

There are four components that characterise novelty-seekers:

• a constant search for adventure and horror, and thus taking on risky challenges,
• thrill-seeking, i.e. a longing for unplanned events, e.g. spontaneous travel, openness to new experiences, meeting interesting people,
• disinhibition, i.e. a tendency to unacceptable behaviour, e.g. binge drinking, gambling,
• high susceptibility to boredom, aversion to routine.

Consideration of the experience of pleasure may help to explain this mechanism. In order to survive we need to satisfy our basic needs: sleeping, eating, drinking, avoiding danger, reproducing.

Each of these activities is associated with emotions that tell us whether a need is satisfied or not. Fear, hunger, fatigue trigger negative emotions that motivate us to look for something to satisfy the key , "lack". We feel pleasure when these needs are satisfied.

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Dopamine plays a key role in the sensation of pleasure. It is a neurotransmitter that significantly influences the feeling of pleasure. Dopamine deficiency causes feelings of sadness and depression. These symptoms occur when our needs are unmet. In every person, the brain functions differently. Some secrete large amounts of dopamine, others less, and consequently, some act spontaneously, others lazily. Therefore, each of us finds quite different sensations pleasant.