To find ASMR really disgusting

Oh God - yes! Absolutely hate hearing people slurping, crunching, etc..... Sets my bits right on edge!! My idea of torture.

Animals, however🤗, are a totally different matter altogether!
Watching Chunk the groundhog slurping a tomato or crunching a carrot is the most endearing relaxing form of ASMR ever. 🥰

Hadn’t heard of this until this post.

just watched/listed & it really creeped me out! Awful !

Oh I love it - but to each their own.

Mostly whispered reading, it makes me feel relaxed and weirdly safe.
I don't enjoy the eating videos though, but I can't stand people eating loudly in real life either.

One thing I really don't like is when an asmr youtuber makes a video titled something like "sleep video" or "relax time" and then enable ads.
One moment I'm in a forest hearing fairies whisper and speak to woodland creatures, the next I'm shooting out of bed as someone starts yelling in my ear about car insurance 😂

Omg I have misophonia and absolutely HATE audible asmr or the like. Chewing, nail tapping, saliva, whispering it creeps me out. Visual however, I could watch mesmerised for hours. I hate that nail tapping and running fingers along the steering wheel or the leather of a luxury car that seemed to be all the rage in any videos about 6 months or so ago. Enraging!

What is ASMR - I hardly ever watch tiktok etc.

It definitely is for some people. They express this in their comments. As PPs have said, there is nothing that someone hasn't got a fetish for. A lot of people men seem unable to experience a pleasant sensation without linking it to sex.

Oh yes, totally agree with you there. Annoys me so much when people sexualise it. It’s not about that!!

Why does someone else's reason for watching a video affect you, though? Firstly, ASMR isn't a sexual thing. But even if it was, you realise that there will also be people getting sexually turned on by literally anything you've ever watched? There are people with fetishes for really ordinary, mundane things. I guarantee you that anything you've ever watched will be sought ought by someone for the 'physical sensations' it gives them, including things like ordinary cookery shows or TV dramas that have certain settings, adverts for really ordinary products, etc.

I don't think you really understand what ASMR is.

For a start, ASMR triggers are different for everybody. For some people it's the whispery voice thing, but for plenty of people it's not that at all, so I don't really know why you mentioned saliva noises?! Most ASMR I'm familiar with doesn't involve any talking at all. Sometimes there's no sound, even, it's just a satisfying visual.

My absolute favourite is people writing very neatly with a fountain pen, drawing/painting, or doing something like journalling/scrapbooking. Or typing nicely on an expensive keyboard. No talking or human noises at all.

I had never heard of this until I saw this thread. If I have ever seen any videos where this technique is used it has clearly gone right over my head.

Thank you ♥️

Safe Space ASMR is one of my favourites.

I love some ASMR videos, anything with silent massage will send me to sleep! But no whispering, tapping nails or scratching surfaces please!

If you get it, you get it, if you don't, you don't. It's one of those weirdly individual things.

Ooh please point me in the direction of a really good skincare one!

Asmr isn't sexual, as someone who actually experiences it I also despise the overly sexualised videos which are clearly aimed at making ££ rather than to people who have ASMR.

Quite. I like Sophie Michelle's channel. She was a performing arts student and she puts quite a lot of thought into her videos and uses green screens etc. her videos are never sexualised but she ended up with a really full-on stalker who caused her a lot of problems.

The skincare ones are fab! I love watching someone 'do' my bedtime skincare before I go to sleep.

Sorry autocorrect changed my post it should have said sexualise not specialise. I love ASMR and the 'feeling' it triggers. There's nothing sexual about it and people who think there is are the ones who clearly have issues.

I love them, they are really hypnotic and relaxing. I like the skincare and housework ones 😂 I’ve never admitted it before in case people think I’m weird.

What you are describing is not ASMR, but the sometimes cack-handed attempts to induce it on YouTube…
ASMR itself is a natural phenomenon. I have always been able to induce it in myself, just by a small movement that is akin to swallowing, and find it helps me to relax if I’m tense or have neck or back pain. It is definitely not arousing!
You also see it in animals, E.g. when a dog shakes itself, then the tremors travel from the neck to the tail of the dog - so I’m guessing it’s a very ancient primal response in many mammals…

It’s very specific. It’s not just ‘feeling relaxed’ It’s a particular feeling that it only triggered by certain things.
If you have never had it then it’s hard to understand / believe

Same for me since childhood but never knew what it was.
When it happens it’s like someone has poured liquid relaxant down my spine. You just don’t want it to end, it’s such a lovely incredible feeling. But it passes within about 30 seconds to one minute. ASMR videos can bring a small feeling of it but nothing compared to when it happens organically.

I hate ASMR videos. I find they cause an overwhelming and unpleasant feeling. However I enjoy the ASMR type tingles I get, but seem to get them from regular sounds - such as songs, usually female singing voices.

I find it very concerning the amount of people on here who seem to specialise everything.

Asmr isn't sexual, as someone who actually experiences it I also despise the overly sexualised videos which are clearly aimed at making ££ rather than to people who have ASMR.
I have it from childhood and it would always trigger really randomly, It started when my mum used to plait my hair or clean my ears with a cotton wool bud, then when I was older people with soft spoken voices triggered it (gender made no difference) often when they were moving their hands instructing me to do something.
It is an extremely relaxed feeling with euphoria you feel hypnotised and like you can't move and don't want to move. My feeling starts between my upper shoulder blades and sort of spreads throughout my whole body.. I'd liken it to a massage that hits just the right spot.. Yes you also feel really sleepy and relaxed.
I rarely get full on triggers from videos but the occasional one does get me (weird ones eyebrow threading and some guy making stuff) and I find they calm me down when I am feeling overwhelmed.
If you sexualise ASMR you may as well sexualise therapeutic massages while you are at it.