To find ASMR really disgusting

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And find it really off-putting when otherwise interesting and entertaining youtube videos are tagged with this. Makes me not want to watch/listen to them.

https://www.youtube.com/@GentleWhisperingASMR

https://www.youtube.com/@WhispersRedASMR

https://www.youtube.com/@ASMRMagic

Enjoy 😁

I'm also prone to this! There are some sounds I can't stand, others eating is one of them. It's known as misophonia.

Similarly, in terms of sensory stuff, I get extreme nostalgia and happy vibes from certain smells (perfume, for example) and songs. A song can take me right back, like I'm almost in that moment again, to a happy time (the song Last Christmas takes me right back to Christmas as a child, for example). It's a very strong mental reaction, I'm not even sure how to describe it.

What is ASMR? I have googled it but I can't get a straight answer.

It's mad to me that I've never heard of this before. I definitely don't have it.There are noises that I like and find soothing, but I've never experienced a physical tingle.

Someone mentioned rain upthread - are raindrop on windows on in forests examples? Because those have been around for ages, I had an ambient sound rainforest CD way back in the 90s.

Does this count cooking videos where every sound is enhanced from slicing to chopping to stirring - it drives me insane it is a sensory overload

OK, what the fuck is this - is it like hypnosis??

The memories evoked from hearing a song and smelling a smell are truly staggering. However, while the internet has provided us with endless means to locate and play songs so as to exorcise a demon within, it has yet to do the same with smells of course.

Thus, if I wish to be reminded of being a 17 year old stacking lampshades on the shelves of a British Home Stores lighting department on a Saturday afternoon in the winter of 1995, I've only to ask Spotify to play Private Eyes by Hall & Oates (because that was on a friggin' loop along with Kiss on My List and It Must Have Been Love by Roxette) and I'm right back there.

I yearn for the day I can ask Google to provide me with the scent of Miss Wilkinson's perfume from when I was at nursery school in 1982. But If I got a whiff of it in the street, I'd think of her right away.

From what I can see, it's a load of bollocks. Just weird and annoying soft and whispery sounds? Like why?!

As some people have mentioned it's not just about "sounds". I get the strongest ASMR from personal attention, or watching other people focus intently on something. Watching someone do calligraphy, or having someone do my hair or makeup, paying really close attention. It's not just tapping and whispering.

Just the sight of a theatre (watching Michael McIntyre's big show last night, for example) and I can all but smell/taste marshmallows and mars bars (in a paper wrapper!). A happy memory from childhood pantomimes.
It's a lovely thing.

Agreed, it's horrible. Makes my skin crawl.

I don't think many people understand what ASMR is. I only remember experiencing at primary school when other girls would plait my hair and mess about with it. I don't get that feeling at the hairdressers and I don't get it from videos. It's just a lovely comforting, tingling feeling ...not sexual in any way. I guess it's an evolutionary thing to encourage mutual grooming.

There is a building I work in from time to time, it's the communal areas of a very posh block of private flats built in the 1960s. The front doors are all stained dark wood. The carpet is brown. The walls are cream. At least two of the residents are smokers, and the smell of the smoke hits me as I walk in. It reminds me of just about every building I was ever in as a child of the late 70s/80s/90s.

While the smell of cigarettes on someones breath is enough to make me retch (likewise old ashtrays), that aroma of fresh cigarette smoke is so reassuring, because it was associated with a sense of safety, I suppose knowing adults must be nearby, this being a time where adults you knew or adults in authority were instantly trusted.

What you say about the the theater is interesting too, because a few years ago I had to wait in a long queue to enter a church hall for a particular treatment that the NHS were offering, and as I went through into the lobby-cum-cloakroom area, I could almost smell the cigarette smoke that would have filled the place (probably) on a Saturday night thirty and more years earlier, with the person on the cloakroom desk quite likely puffing away as they took in / handed out coats.

Seriously?
I have read this thread completely puzzled.... but willing to give it a try! Can you link to whatever it is that does it for you? I am dumbfounded what this is about but don't want to miss out !!

Me too. I found some youtube videos of hair-brushing and hair-cutting a couple of years ago, which I'd forgotten about until I read this thread. I've also found a cute video of a guinea pig crunching things thanks to this thread! It's a big no to slurping, tapping etc though.

YES!! I have many videos of my little herd eating all sorts of foodstuffs. 🥹

And me.

Aren't all terms invented? What a weird comment.

I'm glad someone gave it a name. Before that I had no way to describe the feeling I got in my head as a kid when someone would play with my hair, or explain something to me slowly, or move their hands doing something mesmerising.

It's a bit like when you get pleasant shivers down your spine when a certain piece of music plays. But a different sensation.

I can't stand it either. Awful.

My least favourite is that bloody sofology ad. I suspect it's suppose to induce ASMR when in reality it sounds like all the sofas are made out of polystyrene.

"ASMR" whispering just makes my bum itch.

Listening to this just gives me the rage! Just wanna slap her!

Amazing how we are all so different.

When mine are crunching veggies to me it represents such utter bliss and contentment. Hearing them purr is another ASMR I can't get enough of .

Btw, I love your username. My sister also has piggies and she has a sow named Echo-Boo!

WTAF is AMSR?

Agree with this!! I used to sit at work of an afternoon and when one lady would come and quietly sort through her paperwork at the photocopier behind me I would feel so at ease and relaxed listening to her. Then, I heard about ASMR and it's changed my life in terms of relaxing before bed.

Some of it, like pouring water and the eating ones make me want to die, but there are certain niche ones that I just love and send me to sleep immediately.