To find ASMR really disgusting

I love ASMR. It helps me sleep, and calms me when I’m anxious.

This is possibly my absolute favourite:

@MrsCapGarland it's interesting that it's not commonplace, I thought most people had it.

Also get it too with the hair brushing, absolutely love that, but it's usually more audio for me than visual/tactile. Even listening to meditation doesn't always relax me, it has to be the right kind of speaking voice, but couldn't tell you what type.

@ Cherrytreat
Contentment bubble is a perfect description.

I’m not a fan (my daughter loves it, the nail tapping skincare ones make me shudder).

Having said that, I have a weird fascination with some of those ASMR videos of people eating vast amounts of really slurpy food. I could watch those for hours which I really don’t understand because I can’t tolerate the sound of people eating if they’re in the room with me.

ASMR is the name of the physical response some people get to certain audio or visual cues. It is often described as "tingles" and that's how I experience it too, that tingly feeling going up my spine, the back of my neck and back of my head. It's not at all sexual, although I do think some "influencers" have tried to sexualise it. I first experienced it at primary school when my friend was playing with my hair sat behind me in assembly.

I don't like the videos but like some audio ASMR tracks. I hate the nail tapping thing but brushing hair, or playing with the cover on the microphone in different ways can trigger the response.

Sorry should have tagged Cherrytreat.

I quite like it, done well.

😆. You get it. You really understand this sensation.

I agree with other posters in that you don’t understand the term.

Bloody autocorrect 😆 @MrsCapGarland

@mrsclapgarland, that is exactly what I get. I've never watched an ASMR video, but I experience it when listening to others talk sometimes, especially if they're just talking on the phone in the same room as me.

I can remember listening to my English teacher talk and feeling the same tingly, wave like comfortable feeling. She seemed pretty ancient when I was 14 and the subject really didn't interest me at the time, so definitely nothing tantalising or sexual whatsoever. Just a contentment bubble, a massage for the brain

I find it when listening to certain voices on podcasts too. I'm not sure it can be forced in an amsr video, they don't sound great to me and it's a shame it's mixed in sexual pleasure, because I really think it's separate to that.

Yup. You either understand the physical reaction to an emotional experience or you don’t. My first experience was at around 8 years old and I quickly worked out what led to these experiences.

In my experience, anything designed with ASMR in mind doesn't really work - you need to encounter it unexpectedly. For me it can be aural or visual, and I first became aware of it as a child, although it didn't have a name then and I assumed it only happened to me. We were watching a film and there was a really long sequence of someone cracking a safe - the small movements and sounds triggered it. The best one ever was when I was on a train next to someone reading a document in braille. Music can do it as well - improvised jazz, or anything percussive is very powerful for me.

I agree with the OP though, and hate that it has become something slightly pervy in some contexts.

Pass the soma

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie_(Brave_New_World)

I've just had to google it and the whispering thing is bloody creepy.

Folks are weird

I watch ASMR. Have done for years. Thing is you either experience tingles/relaxation or you don't. There is nothing sexual or icky about the brains response. It actually helps put me to sleep and is effective on anxiety.

Yes I do agree it can be sexualised and filters into everything these days which is annoying.

I'd never heard of it till just now. Watched a couple of youtube videos. I still have no idea what it is.

I like some of the videos. Not the tapping or whispering or eating but just the simple things like cleaning or people doing massages on others with certain noises.

When I was a kid there were lots of things like teachers writing on the blackboard that made me feel really relaxed and sleepy. There was no name for it then but it was just something that I noticed about myself. There was certainly never anything sexual in it! Just sounds that made my brain feel calm. There was a certain feeling like a tingling in the scalp to that calmness - the ASMR lot on social media use this 'tingling' as something to focus on and I think that makes people think it sounds a bit sexual?

Either way I like it as I watch videos to help me sleep if I am struggling or if I am anxious. It certainly helps a lot of people in that respect.

Yes it's over done and I hate the ways it's spilled into all videos. Fashion types wiggling their 'pieces' before putting them on, beauty bloggers tapping packaging. Just stop.

I only like unintentional ASMR videos, like the kind of stuff you're talking about - the V&A have a whole series on fashion that's ASMR-y that I love, and I'm a big fan of craftspeople in general carving things or making things and talking about it quietly! A lot of them have clocked onto the fact that ASMR is popular and tag their stuff with it now - sorry for those of you who hate it... (I hate anything too whispery or intentional so I understand the ick of it).

I have no idea what this is? Can someone give a brief synopsis?

I absolutely hate it. Yes it does have a very physical effect on me, but one of intense rage. It makes me want to hit or smash things. This is entirely out of character for me. I am genuinely a very calm person.

And I don’t mean just that I find them annoying and the annoyance makes me angry. It’s a Hulk-like switch.