ASMR... Still not entirely sure.

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Why would they know about it? Hypnotic trance wears off after about 6 hours. I think it sounds like ASMR, hypnotism, and meditation are fairly similar. If you don't want to do something than you just choose not to do it. When you are hypnotized you have complete control, espically if you are nervous about it, cause then you want be as deeply hypnotized

It works great, I usually use self hypnotism so I will remember my dreams. But it would also be useful to relax or calm down. I can do it with my eyes open, even though it isn't as effective.

i was 13 or 14 when i felt it.

Yes, I do experience ASMR, and have for as long as I can remember. I only discovered that it was a specific kind of response when someone else on WP mentioned it a few months ago. That's also when I discovered the many ASMR YouTube videos out there, though I don't like the ones involving the human voice, which creep me out rather than relaxing me (too much exposure to human voices is a strong hyper-sensitivity/melt-down trigger for me.)

I have mild audio/visual -> tactile synaethsesia (the tactile element includes my proprioception and interoception as well as skin touch sensations), and my impression is that this is closely tied to experiencing ASMR - stimuli which bring out the synaesthesia often cause ASMR, though generally I only get the ASMR reaction if I'm very relaxed. For me, this includes both sound (e.g. rustling leaves, running water) and vision (e.g. certain moving geometric patterns, foliage blowing in the wind.) More rarely, tactile stimuli will cause it, mostly from soft touches to my back or head (having a haircut is a very intense experience sometimes!) But it seems more as if the "internally generated" tactile sensations from the syneasthesia cause the reaction rather than "real" tactile sensations.

I remember getting it when I was about 13 from my mom talking to me in the car while on the way to drop me off at middle school. For some reason I found her voice unusually gentle, like when she read to me as a baby, and just sorta fell into it mentally, and forgot what she was really saying. It was a cascade from the scalp, to the shoulders, and down the back. Like the emotional equivalent of being wrapped in a warm blanket and feeling the heat seep in to relax cold muscles.

I've felt it many times since then. During haircuts (going bald has made me very sad in part due to this), some lectures, and generally people explaining or doing things mindfully. Interestingly, the same exact triggers can either work or not and I suspect it has something to do with the minute details of how it's being done, and how I'm oriented mentally at the time.

It's linked to frisson as far as I can tell. I've gotten it from musical arrangements that speak to me as well, but it seems to fade after the first listenings alongside the perception of novelty in the piece.

This song still seems to do it (Fixions - Yearning Gold).


Writing can trigger it, but (wild) scribbling can't. Whispering can, but just talking as usual in a whispered voice can't. Tapping can, but flailing fingertips at something can't. Hair combing with a 3d microphone does a lot. It seems the people who employ more care/control over their movements/sounds are better able to elicit it from me in general. And, like with music, a particular trigger dampens with repeated exposure. The same video only works a handful of times.

With enough exposure I could even hook into the cascade a bit and embellish it, replay/rekindle it, or even generate it myself with a bit of luck, the right state of mind. I think it's like noticing a muscle you don't generally have a reason to think about. It's like a little vibration already there in the background and it seems almost like it can be gathered up or 'found' in the back, shoulders, and neck, and then amplified.

A lot of ASMR videos do not work for me. They just don't do it right. You don't hear the 'gentleness' in it. And since it's become a thing everyone in the world out for attention is making terrible crap by shallowly emulating prior work.

This works for me. It's like it's less about the content and more about the delivery.


And this doesn't. The focus seems to me to be really centered on the content and the 'gentleness' is a bit mechanical, just a schticky veneer to my ears.


And this strikes a functioning balance (despite not introducing any new information to my life).


What this guy makes is nonsense, but it works (and the absurdist inclinations in me love him).

I get the sensations when performing acupuncture on myself when I hit certain acupoints correctly. I feel it in my head, like a calming sensation. I have never experienced such an effect by listening to sound though.

I used to experience it watching a neighbor lady do her nails. And also anyone washing windows. Until the internet, it seemed like a rare thing. The YouTube videos mostly don't work for me, but some work like halfway, some crafting things. It's in real life that I've noticed it the most.

I ran across this on Thursday. After watching a couple of videos and portions of others, I don't get it. Except for the sounds of people eating on some of them (I hate that) and some scratching sounds, it's not unpleasant, but I sure don't get any kind of relaxation out of them.