I'm just curious. From experience, a lot of people get it, but don't actually know what it is.
ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a tingling sensation you get that is triggered by certain things. The sensation typically begins in the head and scalp and can travel down the body.
Triggers include:
- Listening to specific people talk (usually soft-spoken, well-spoken voices or lispers).
- Listening to the radio or podcasts when these people are talking.
- Watching certain TV programs, or YouTube videos, like instructional ones, infomercials, adverts, historical or factual programs.
- People talking in a foreign or indigenous language.
- Getting tickled lightly, especially on the back or shoulders.
- When someone strokes or plays with your hair softly.
- Having your hair washed and cut at a salon.
- When you listen to certain soft or distant, and usually repetitive, sounds like a bouncing tennis ball, trickling water, or construction noises like tapping hammers.
- Listening to certain types of music – perhaps ambient or industrial, for instance.
- Watching someone draw a picture, paint, or build something, perhaps like a sculpture or even a card tower.
- Watching someone write.
- Someone drawing on your body.
- People reading a newspaper over your shoulder.
- People looking for something in their handbags.
- Someone doing something very slowly and carefully.
- People working at computers; perhaps the sound of keys being tapped or the click of a mouse.
- Listening to someone chew gum.
- Someone using sign language.
- People whispering.
- Listening to elderly people talk.
- Listening to strangers talk, rather than family or friends and more well-known individuals in one’s life.
- From reading various pieces of reading material.
- Someone showing you how to do something.
- Someone clipping their nails or using a nail file.
For me, it's people tickling my neck and shoulders, watching someone tickle someone else or play with hair, someone do something slowly and carefully and people slowly stroking an animal.
What about you guys? Do you have any triggers? Or are you not actually affected by ASMR?
Also, it's something that can help people who suffer from insomnia sleep. A form of sleep hypnosis. I tried it last night and wow... I had an amazing nights sleep.
(Have a tingly video: )
