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To ask if you get asmr?

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asmrl · 15/04/2014 01:35

Just this really, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response I don't really know how to post links but I get it when people play with my hair or if people are very softly spoken. Nothing sexual just a lovely relaxed feeling that starts with a tingling sensation in the back of my head. I thought everyone got it until I spoke to dh and he thinks it is odd. I have found on youtube and through google that there seems to be a whole community of people who gets this. Do you get it or is it unusual? It is a lovely feeling but very difficult to explain

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crazykat · 15/04/2014 17:09

I get it when DH strokes my hair, rubs my shoulders/top of my back or there's a breeze across my shoulders. It really calms me down when I'm wound up and stressed. It just feels nice but I can't explain how or why.

I'd never heard of this, I just thought I was weird.

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neverthebride · 15/04/2014 17:19

I've always got this, with hair-stroking or someone applying my make-up.

Also get it if someone is drawing me (discovered when I did some modelling for artists).

Sounds like I just like attention (!) but it's definitely a tingly, very relaxed 'zoned out' blissful feeling. I didn't know it had a name till today!.

jenipat · 01/05/2014 14:55

So glad I found this thread. I'm not the only one to get this. Lol.

Check out this lady on youtube:

yanghaiying

Just type in yanghaiying and youtube and you'll get a few hits.

Her voice is absolutely soothing and brilliant.

GatoradeMeBitch · 01/05/2014 18:32

Yes! I especially love the wrapping presents/crinkly plastic bag videos. I've put several on my ipod for bedtime and if OH strokes my arms while I'm listening I practically turn into a big purring kitty!

I used to love GentleWhispering but only her earlier videos do it for me. I haven't quite forgiven her for taking down a present wrapping video that was one of my favourites Angry

I adore this video!

GatoradeMeBitch · 01/05/2014 18:43

Interesting squoosh! I hate the sound of spectators applauding at a cricket match, each time I hear it I get more ragey. I didn't know there was a name for it!

Canthisonebeused · 01/05/2014 18:50

I get that if I have had to hold in a poo Confused ???

pregnantat50 · 22/02/2017 11:24

I have it now, my colleague is munching crisps and my hair is on end listening while I zone out :)

InfinityPlusOne · 22/02/2017 11:27

Head massages, someone stroking my back and occasionally music, but it's been a long time since it was triggered by music, happened more often in my teen years.

I don't like the videos, whispery voices were never what did it for me.

InfinityPlusOne · 22/02/2017 11:29

Does anyone who gets ASMR think they may also have a touch of misophonia? Certain sounds and repetitive movements fill me with rage so I thought maybe the two meet somewhere in the brain.

Oh yes the sound of my husband blowing his nose is absolutely maddening to me. It sounds like nothing on earth and drives me round the bend. I also get annoyed by loads of loud repetitive shouting, but I think that's normal with young kids!

InfinityPlusOne · 22/02/2017 11:30

Oh no zombie thread! Agggh

MusicToMyEars800 · 22/02/2017 11:34

YY!!! finally.. I a not alone I get it really strong my triggers are keyboard typing, but when it's not too fast and it has to be the right type of keyboard, also library ones get me.. there's a youtube one I watch and every sound makes me melt, it all makes sense as to why I spent so much time in the library as a child lol. and when someone is reading a book the page flips set me off too.

I don't like the keyboard ones where they just stroke it though, it drives me mad!! it has to be realistic.
MusicToMyEars800 · 22/02/2017 11:35

Does anyone who gets ASMR think they may also have a touch of misophonia? Certain sounds and repetitive movements fill me with rage so I thought maybe the two meet somewhere in the brain.

YY some sounds or movements make me want to scream with rage!!

TwatteryFlowers · 22/02/2017 11:44

Those whispery videos do my head in - whispering is as bad as screeching to me. I do like watching people have their hair brushed though and that gives me the tingles (it makes me imagine someone playing with my own hair) so I watch them with the sound off!

If someone was to draw it sketch me that would give me that tingly feeling too though I don't know why.

I used to like it when I lay on the settee and my dc sit on my back. They're getting too heavy for it to be comfortable now though! I sometimes ask them to comb my hair but it ends up all tangled because they don't comb it properly.

HotNatured · 22/02/2017 12:27

Zombie thread but I get this, have done since I was little, eye tests are a big trigger and people putting boxes gently into paper bags. Watch ASMR every night on youtube, don't know what I'd do without it. I feel sorry for people that don't 'get it'

weirdo Grin

RaspberryOverloadTheFirst · 22/02/2017 12:35

I get it. Haircuts in particular.

One odd one is when I watch an artist drawing, pencils or similar not paint, and if I hear the sounds it heightens the response.

everythingburrito · 22/02/2017 12:36

I get this too from various things!

Agree with everyone that said about drawing on backs during primary school when sitting in the floor.

I really get triggered these days when DH is playing his console and the sound of the controller buttons clicking sends me off into a trance.

I also enjoy writing sounds (pencil on paper), typewriters or keyboard typing sounds.

FelicityGubbins · 22/02/2017 12:41

Swishy sounds are my trigger, Ice skating is the biggest particularly as the blades go across the ice.

everythingburrito · 22/02/2017 12:49

I have a question.

I suffer from misophonia very badly and I wondered if anyone here who gets ASMR also has misophonia.

It's just that they are both sensitivities to sound but one is severely negative and the other very positive. Feels like they could be linked.

FatCatFaces · 22/02/2017 12:59

Sorry to keep the zombie alive but my people!! You are here!

I used to love checking out library books when I was a child. All those crinkly covers and tappy tappy keyboards. Sometimes they'd have a shit keyboard and I'd be really disappointed!

I do have misophonia. Mouth sounds, audible eating and certain types of creaking caused by things rubbing against each other set me off. I posted on a different thread earlier about nearly getting off a train due to the creaking sound a plastic hand rail strap was making against the pole - my whole jaw clenches when I remember it. It produces a fight or flight reaction in me. Creaking = flight. Eating = fight.

WatchingIZombie · 22/02/2017 13:14

Ooh, this is an exciting zombie thread though! I get this but didn't know it was a 'thing'. Misophonia too. I only get the asmr ASMR thing two or three times a year though. :( I don't particularly like the words she says but Emily Thornberry's voice is a trigger for me. ConfusedHmmGrin

MusicToMyEars800 · 22/02/2017 14:47

FatCatFaces you are just like me I get triggered by those things but also the mouth sounds Angry I actually threw the tv remote at my OH because he was eating making the worst noises..

pregnantat50 · 22/02/2017 15:24

misophonia - yep I used to fill with murderous rage when my ex snored

everythingburrito · 22/02/2017 15:44

The eating noises are the worst! Wish I could train myself to react to them like I do to ASMR trigger sounds Sad

zukiecat · 22/02/2017 15:47

Yes, I've had ASMR since I was a kid

I didn't know it was a thing or that anyone else got it til I stumbled upon a YouTube video

Anyone playing with my hair sets me off, but my favourite sounds are the crinkly plastics, whispering and book tapping

Visuals don't do it for me at all

I also like the videos to be just the trigger and absolutely no background noise at all