Anyone tried ASMR to help them sleep ?

[MoriaRoseForever]

I struggle to sleep , my mind races .

googling for ideas, I came upon ASMR .

Anyone tried it ? It seems to not just be for sleep.

is it worth a go and any ones people can recommend ?

thanks

I listen to snow storms howling wind bliss 😴

Sleep, relaxation, reducing anxiety, helping to come out of a panic attack, etc.

ASMR is something produced by the brain in response to certain triggers. It’s called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response - it’s the tingly relaxed feeling that some people get from the videos. I always knew I had it - when I was little went to the hairdressers it would happen - the click of the scissors on the wet hair by my ears, or someone cutting fabric with a pair of very sharp dressmaking scissors would trigger it, sometimes a very attentive calm speaking person in a call centre would trigger it. Or watching someone very precisely and purposefully wrap a gift in a department store, etc.

It’s only in the last ten years or so that it became a thing that people were talking about, and then there was a big boom of YouTubers making content to deliberately induce the lovely relaxing sensation.