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What weird videos relax you?

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henrysugar12 · 28/09/2023 14:48

Recently discovered TikTok (I know, late to the game!) and usually watch videos in bed before going to sleep.

Some are just crap, but I like watching the paranormal ones, glitches in the matrix etc...

However, I've come across videos, usually live ones of pearls being shelled and they are oddly satisfying and relaxing to watch.

So am I the only one? lol. Are there any weird ones you like watching?

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FlowFle · 28/09/2023 16:08

jet washing
mowing overgrown lawns

Warmhandscoldheart · 28/09/2023 16:17

Unblocking outside drains, I'm fascinated by the amount of debris and love when the water drains away

youdo · 28/09/2023 16:19

Funny kiss cams at us sports and when the mascots are having dance offs.

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henrysugar12 · 28/09/2023 16:22

HowDoYouExpectMeToGrowIfYouWontLetMeBlow · 28/09/2023 14:54

Pimple Popping videos 😳

Oh how did it forget those! And ingrown hairs too!

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henrysugar12 · 28/09/2023 16:24

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 28/09/2023 14:59

ASMR videos of close up looking for headlice, like the nit nurse used to do in school!
Videos of hair brushing/hair playing
Videos of muscles being massaged to get the knots out

Yes I am weird

Oh I couldn't watch headlice videos! I'm itchy just thinking about it!

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henrysugar12 · 28/09/2023 16:27

So I'm not weird! Hahaha.

I don't really like the cleaning videos, maybe because it makes me think about cleaning my own place!

And ASMR doesn't do anything for me. Never had the tingles people describe.

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cloudjumper · 28/09/2023 16:29

Hoof trimming (love The Hoof GP)
Cake decorating
Dog/cat grooming

So there 😂

forgivingfiggy · 28/09/2023 16:31

Gym chalk. Dyed, dipped, crushed, pasted, reformed.

Thankgodforwine · 28/09/2023 16:34

Black head popping
Pool cleaning
The guy the cuts overgrown grass
Rug cleaning ..
..all so relaxing 😂

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henrysugar12 · 29/09/2023 00:30

@Soubriquet well Alan Rickman's voice always gave me tingles! Him in Sense and Sensibility....

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Zoomie1 · 29/09/2023 00:35

Traditional Russian dancers are mesmerising and look like they are floating. Ugly fish in the deepest darkest part of the ocean.

Dreamingofasandybeach · 29/09/2023 00:42

Asmr Mukbangs! Basically people eating in silence 🤣 I love listening to crunching! sends me right to sleep

CallieQ · 29/09/2023 00:55

Read a book instead

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henrysugar12 · 29/09/2023 01:28

Dreamingofasandybeach · 29/09/2023 00:42

Asmr Mukbangs! Basically people eating in silence 🤣 I love listening to crunching! sends me right to sleep

Oh no! I have misophonia so eating noise is a problem for me!

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henrysugar12 · 29/09/2023 01:29

@CallieQ I read all day at work so don't tend to read for pleasure much anymore...

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Tarkan · 29/09/2023 01:42

Hoof trimming is my latest obsession. The Hoof GP and Nate the Hoof Guy are my favourites but I watch a few others too.

I also love:

Miniature cooking

Slime mixing (with the sound off, see my bottom comment about ASMR sounds)

Rug cleaning (watched so many when I had Covid I'm a little bored of them now though)

Japanese sweets (the ones with different powder packets to mix up and they react differently)

Hair dye/hair cut ones that usually end in disaster

Street food cooking

Foreign cooking recipes in languages I don't understand. I can work most things out by sight or I'll check the comments afterwards.

I can't watch ASMR ones though. The sounds freak me out and make me really uncomfortable. Cooking ones especially with all the chopping and the scraping type noises.

Californiabound · 29/09/2023 01:51

No, I don't watch a video if its less than 10 minutes. I like in depth things. Stop training your brain to be dopamine addicted.

Allthingspeaches · 29/09/2023 02:08

Warmhandscoldheart · 28/09/2023 16:17

Unblocking outside drains, I'm fascinated by the amount of debris and love when the water drains away

I was coming on to say this! I watch Post10. Fascinating and so strangely relaxing.

Forgottenmypasswordagain · 29/09/2023 02:19

I guy on youtube who cuts overgrown lawns down for free.

sprigatito · 29/09/2023 02:31

Time lapse baking videos. Utterly pleasurable.

SirenSays · 29/09/2023 02:35

Those ice cream roll videos

burntoutnurse · 29/09/2023 03:23

Pool boy videos
Rug cleaning videos
Dog videos

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henrysugar12 · 29/09/2023 20:11

Californiabound · 29/09/2023 01:51

No, I don't watch a video if its less than 10 minutes. I like in depth things. Stop training your brain to be dopamine addicted.

The ones I mainly watch are "lives" so they go on for hours...

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Nitgel · 29/09/2023 20:13

Hoof trimming too