Have you ever had a ''brain orgasm'' (ASMR)?

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I never knew there was a name for this till today but I was reading on another forum that specific things can trigger you into a state that can be described as ''a really strong tingling sensation along your scalp and a huge sense of euphora/happiness + numbness of your body'' . Mine were (and I'm not joking or trolling) : one of my childhood friends telling me which stamps out of my collection he had or not, my dog licking himself and more recently, haircuts.

I don't know why it's called ''orgasm'' because it's more like a drug induced, relaxing mood. I had no idea this was a thing and it had a name. There's tons of videos on YT with all sorts of ''triggers''.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

Yes! Watching my A Level art teacher draw something - totally!

Oooo yes and hairdresser too.

My triggers are:
Eating lentils (I can't describe the feeling it creates on my teeth!)
Having my hair played with
Someone putting their face near mine e.g. Hairdresser, dentist
Carpet shops and looking through carpet samples.

My feeling doesn't just go down my spine. It starts at the base of my head, but also travels up over my scalp, and down over my forehead and eyes. This lovely fuzzy feeling often makes my eyes go fuzzy too.

I love a bit of ASMR but the weird whispery ASMR videos don't do it for me, with all their really slooooow movements. I find random videos of people cleaning ovens (!) or computers really soothing. Watching people clean something methodically totally blisses me out.

Try Bob Ross, he painted on TV in America in the 70s and it is soooo relaxing to watch!

Oh yeah, he's epic.

Head massages, particularly with one of those weird 'octopus' prong things. I don't know their proper name. Also when one of my children puts their head on my shoulder/neck when looking over my shoulder at a computer etc.

I can normally identify with anything slightly quirky but I really don't think I've had this.

Oh I don’t get this.
I can look at tiny holes without losing my shit too.

I’m beginning to think I’m not normal.

I tend to have the opposite response to a lot of ASMR triggers. Many of them, especially the whispering sounds, make me feel really queasy.

Yes I cannot stand the sound of someone whispering.

Oh yes, Bob Ross,I could watch and listen to him for days. So satisfying. The other day I almost snatched a stamp out of someone's hand, the noise of it was lovely. Someone's mention of a library stamp up thread gave me goosebumps. Have always assumed everyone's had these sensations (my first one was in childhood - a satin ribbon on a blanket), but maybe not.

Do you all have very strong negative sensations too? A sheet has to feel perfect, with no wrinkles,a label on clothes could drive you mad, and a scratchy pen is unbearable.

I do not understand what you’re all on about, at all. Am I dreaming I wonder..?

Getting my feet measured as a child. The way they gently held your foot in place and slid the length bar up to meet your toes, then drew the tape across the top of your foot to get the width measurement. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when the foot measuring machines were brought in - the ones that looked like treadmills that encased your foot front, back and sides - even the lady writing my measurement on a piece of paper and her kneeling in front of me, pressing down on the toes to check the fit - absolute bliss!

I’ve had asmr since I was a kid except I didn’t know that it had a name.

My first triggers were sentences or passages in a book that described methodical detail to what a character was doing at a particular time ie describing the steps involved in making a cuppa or a sandwich etc.

Now my triggers are close personal attention to detail to myself like a haircut or massage, sometimes just a look or a touch can set me off. I had it recently when I had an op and one of the assistants in the anaesthetic room touched my face and arm in a certain way but it was purposeful.

It’s not sexual at all, it’s just relaxing I can also set of the tingles myself by tickling my back and sides.

Hate all the unnatural stuff on YouTube though, although I quite like gentle whispering

Yy banjo I used to get asmr from getting measured in shoe shops

I also got it in marks once getting fitted for a new bra it was the measuring and the writing down that did it for me

Agree about opticians, and also I get it when someone is explaining something to me in detail.

Yep.

This is my favourite trigger video:

Place marking so I can look in to this properly tomorrow!

I was reading this thread last night and even looked at a few of the YouTube videos but didn't really understand...until ten minutes ago when I plugged my headphones in and started listening to an album by James (I know - old fart!!). I haven't listened to it in years and I had an almost immediate feeling of calm coupled with intense euphoria. It's so very strange.

It appears I have had these experiences before but didn't seem to recognise anyone's description or trigger.

I think it could become addictive...

I'm glad to be able to put a label to something I've experienced for as long as I can remember. Interestingly a definition says it can be linked to synaesthesia which I also have.

I get it from the sound certain shoes make when people walk in them. The sound my P.E. teacher's trainers made while walking slowly on the hard wooden gym floor. Heeled boots on gravel or cobble stones.

When I used to take some clothes to the seamstress for alteration/making and with slow, fine, dainty hand movements she examined the fabric, then cut it, put pins in it and prepared it. Could have watched her all day and get into an otherworldly trance.
When you see these things purposefully recreated in YouTube it's just silly and doesn't work. It has to be spontaneous and happening in real life.

The YouTube videos are daft. They take too long typing out one word on the keyboard. That wouldn't happen in real life. They are too over the top and it just doesn't work for me.

Shopping craft channel on the telly can be ok. When someone is demonstrating how to cut card etc

The opticians is a major trigger for me. I’ve felt it since I was a child and I’ve been getting glasses since I was under two (can’t remebee exactly when). I get so relaxed that every single time I have to ask a few times for the lense to be repeated simply because I wasn’t paying attention. I also get it when my feet are measured or if someone touches my hair or leans in close like a doctor or a hairdresser etc love it, it’s a great feeling and wish it could last for hours.