ASMR what's all that about then?

[TheAverageJoanne]

I don't get all these videos with people whispering and pretending to be giving you a haircut.

Makes me want to scratch my eyes out. The tapping and God someone said there are EATING ones?! Horrific.

My 8 year old loves them, most of them want to make me claw my eyes out. I do enjoy the Lego cooking ones

I'm not sure if we're allowed to post links but look at Moonlight Cottage ASMR. Her voice is lovely (French/Dutch?) and the production quality is astonishing.

I also like Japanese hair, make-up and skin treatments by ASMR Twix. They're so polite.

The nail tapping on everything can categorically fuck off. Drives me round the twist.

Autonomous sensory meridian response. If you don't experience it, then you won't understand it

Ok my kids played me some..that's just bloody weird and creepy! Totally a haven for weird fetishes.

It does nothing for me at all.
But I do know what that weird tingly feeling is. I used to get it when someone borrowed something of mine (like a pen). I looked that up once because it was so weird and seems I’m not alone!

Whispersred asmr on YouTube got me through a doctoral degree 😁

I hate all the tapping and whispers on social media - it's just annoying - but I do get a lovely feeling when someone is concentrating - like watching my kids get their feet measured. I loved when we had our loft converted as there was a lot of concentration and measuring going on!

My son gets it too and he calls it the "shy shiver". In fact, until he told me about it when he was quite little, I thought it was just a weird thing I did that no one else had.

(The only sound that almost gives me the feeling is in We Don't Talk About Bruno from Encanto when she sings about the sound of falling sand!)

It's a thing that has ruined lots of otherwise satisfying to watch videos. Stop tapping your nails! Stop turning up the volume on background sounds!

I found them years ago when I was suffering awful pregnancy migraines. I remembered how relaxing I used to find watching people have shoulder or head massages was and I found these on YouTube, then found asmr videos. It felt like it was soothing my brain. Some I find properly irritating, all the loud clicks and tapping, sets my teeth on edge! I prefer fuzzier sounds, more like white noise. I agree some are just weird though!

I get the physical response to some sounds as well, it's like static bristling all down my head and neck.

Yup! This is ASMR. I’ve had the feeling to all my life and thought I was weird. Never told anyone. Can’t tell you how amazing it was when around 7 years ago I discovered others had it and it had been given a name! Then videos started popping up. Obviously it’s blown up to huge proportions since then.
Latte ASMR and Twix ASMR are amazing and so so relaxing.
Eating ones are horrid and do nothing for me!

This 😂

I'm so glad it's not just me it does that to!

I like some, but not all asmr (no weird mouth sounds or food ones please!) But I totally get people who don't get it finding it totally bizarre as well!

The Japanese head spa ones are brilliant, in fact, anything Japanese is my go-to for relaxation.

I also like Kewas ASMR. I think she's Czech and she's so direct, it's refreshing, compared to our ever so polite social norms. She has a lovely, natural, soft demeanour and I love the way she concentrates and takes it very seriously.

In real life, I like to hear people read, as again, it's the concentration while performing an activity which I like.

I really like these.

Some of them are off and imo overly sexual - I don’t like those.

I think it’s because I find listening to “background” noise soothing. I listen to a few of the videos and I also like the brown/green noise videos as well as the ones that feature rain sounds.

Helps me relax and sleep. I like Twix, kewas, tingting and a few others.

I suffer from insomnia and will try anything - and I have found some ASMR videos to be really helpful.
That said, there is a HUGE variety out there, of very variable quality, and there's a lot that doesn't work for me. I don't like the tapping ones, I don't like talking either (it just tends to keep me awake), especially not the weird "wet" whispering ones, and there's definitely a sexual element to some of them that has crept in recently (to cater to their male audience, I guess).
The good ones tend to have quite sophisticated equipment and make very clever use of their microphones.
There is a Korean man who does lots of ASMR videos with wood and paper etc. which I do really like (e.g. turning pages of a manuscript, writing in pencil etc.), I find it really soothing.
It's all down to personal taste though.

I adore ASMR. Many a tough night trying to get to sleep while worrying about stuff, has been eased by Pigsbum53, GentleWhispering, QueenofSerene, Jeanie B... and many more 😂

I find a lot of the purpose made ASMR off-putting and generally I respond better to visual triggers rather than auditory. The chewing, the nail tapping etc. don't do it for me, but watching nail painting, make up application(I barely wear any myself and have no interest in it as a subject) and hair styling is very calming for me.

I get the feeling but watching a video doesn’t do it for me. It has to be in real life. Although maybe it’s worth checking some of the recommended ones out. I really can’t understand how eating would be in it!

I do get the sensation in real life sometimes too. And I do get it from some of the YouTube ASMR-ers, but the standard is very variable and some are pretty terrible.
The better ones are very clever at replicating the sensation via their use of microphones, but the really good ones are few and far between IMO.

Whispering is really contrived

I used to love the last lesson on a Friday when I was at primary school where our teacher would read a chapter of a book he was reading to the class. It was just lovely and I still remember the feeling. I get the same when my hair is brushed, or when my kids used to 'do my make up'
I then heard about asmr and thought that was the feeling I got! It was soothing and relaxing and not sexual like some people try to make it, or make out it is.
I too hate the tappa tappa tapping of nails on things videos. The purposeful noise making in bristles of brushes and not when you get the small amount of bristle noise, iyswim. I don't need whispering either, just low calm speaking.
There was an asmr person on YouTube who I loved to watch, Vendi something or other, but she stopped quite soon after I found her. I I found her videos just lovely to watch and I hope she is ok.

August ASMR is brilliant. She does hairstyles and stuff on another person and it’s not creepy or sexual. You can usually tell by the thumbnails ones that are pervy so I click to hide those.