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TemporaryPosition · 2025-02-02T20:04:25+00:00

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.

Rhaenys · 03/02/2025 19:55

I don’t enjoy the talking ones, but love the scratching and tapping ones. They’ve even provided me with headache relief in the past. I was amazed!

Pussycat22 · 03/02/2025 19:59

No, no idea. What is ASMR please

Rhaenys · 03/02/2025 20:00

Agix · 03/02/2025 07:35

I hate ASMR videos. I find they cause an overwhelming and unpleasant feeling. However I enjoy the ASMR type tingles I get, but seem to get them from regular sounds - such as songs, usually female singing voices.

I believe that’s called frisson.

Preoo · 03/02/2025 20:01

I love asmr, so relaxing and just calms me down so much

Blueberrymuffin8 · 03/02/2025 20:26

It triggers me beyond belief!The worst is to come across it wearing headphones and all you can hear are the worst mouth noises. Just thinking about it makes me feel crazy! Arghhhhh!!

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 20:28

Doggymummar · 02/02/2025 21:54

Agree. I used to be able to orgasm from ASMRr. I've not tried for a year or two. But I avoid it for that reason

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WTF......I'm jealous that anyone could orgasm that easily.
What type of ASMR were you watching??

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 20:30

BatchCookBabe · 02/02/2025 22:30

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

Because people like different things.

PeachyPeachTrees · 03/02/2025 20:35

I love ASMR. I've always had it but only realised recently that not everyone experiences it. It feels tingly and wonderful. But it can't be forced on to me. I don't like long nails taping on a beauty product or a video whispered for no reason. Just act normally please or I'll scroll past!

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 20:37

TemporaryPosition · 03/02/2025 15:19

The same reason you seem to be affected by my disgust

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You've started a really odd thread about an optional thing that you don't have to watch and you're very defensive when anyone can't understand your stance....

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 20:39

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 03/02/2025 18:19

Hadn’t heard of this until this post.

just watched/listed & it really creeped me out! Awful !

What's so awful about people finding something relaxing?

Tallyrand · 03/02/2025 20:47

I love watching the ASMR hair cuts or walks in the rain.

There's also a very good YouTube channel called the French Whisperer who talks about History in an amazing accent, it's so peaceful.

Coconutter24 · 03/02/2025 20:54

The videos of a woman putting makeup on or pretending to put makeup on and just making disgusting sounds 🤢🤮🤮

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TemporaryPosition · 03/02/2025 21:23

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 18:43

So you find it icky that people might find a hair styling video relaxing after a stressful day?
I find your repulsion to this really weird.

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I watch hair styling vids to when I'm chilling out. That's not ASMR though. That's something else.

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Titsywoo · 03/02/2025 21:25

locomotive98 · 02/02/2025 21:04

In my experience, anything designed with ASMR in mind doesn't really work - you need to encounter it unexpectedly. For me it can be aural or visual, and I first became aware of it as a child, although it didn't have a name then and I assumed it only happened to me. We were watching a film and there was a really long sequence of someone cracking a safe - the small movements and sounds triggered it. The best one ever was when I was on a train next to someone reading a document in braille. Music can do it as well - improvised jazz, or anything percussive is very powerful for me.

I agree with the OP though, and hate that it has become something slightly pervy in some contexts.

Yes this is true. I get some relaxation from certain videos but real life ASMR is the properly relaxing stuff. You can't understand it unless you experience it and not everyone does!

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TemporaryPosition · 03/02/2025 21:26

Newfoundzestforlife · 03/02/2025 20:37

You've started a really odd thread about an optional thing that you don't have to watch and you're very defensive when anyone can't understand your stance....

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Where am I defensive?

If you read my posts you'd notice that the ASMR feature is incidental and not the prime focus or the USP of the content I'm watching. They've just got good mics, the fact that ASMR is tagged is off-putting

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ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:33

If you don't experience ASMR tingles then you won't get it. I have to admit though, most of the "ASMR" videos out now are very annoying and not what I would call ASMR. I've been watching them for about 14 years now (back when most people hadn't heard of it) because they help me sleep.

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:37

MrsJHernandez · 02/02/2025 20:27

Its so creepy. Like, what the fuck are you doing, you utter weirdo?!

It's more likely to anger me than calm me!

Proper ASMR is to help people to relax or to sleep. It's very calming for people with anxiety.

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:38

locomotive98 · 02/02/2025 21:04

In my experience, anything designed with ASMR in mind doesn't really work - you need to encounter it unexpectedly. For me it can be aural or visual, and I first became aware of it as a child, although it didn't have a name then and I assumed it only happened to me. We were watching a film and there was a really long sequence of someone cracking a safe - the small movements and sounds triggered it. The best one ever was when I was on a train next to someone reading a document in braille. Music can do it as well - improvised jazz, or anything percussive is very powerful for me.

I agree with the OP though, and hate that it has become something slightly pervy in some contexts.

Yes! Unintentional ASMR is the best!

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:42

Thevinegardiaries · 02/02/2025 21:51

I had no idea too until 2022, when I went to university as a mature student...I have no children, so I am really not "up" on a lot of what's going on in the world with the younger crowds.

Anyway, in one of the modules we had to review a case-study (totally fictitious but based on facts) of a boy whose many interests included ASMR.

ASMR as I now know is listening to everyday noises on a loop, such as fingernails tapping, or someone whispering. You name it, some people can't get enough of it, and I cannot understand it at all. It's like listening to nails down a blackboard - literally in some cases.

I struggle as it is when it comes to hearing certain people speaking, and whispering can cause a red-mist to descend instantly - there are no words to describe how irrationally angry it makes me (it's the same feeling I get when I hear or see the words "cringe" and "judgy" and "chill" being used in place of "cringe-worthy", "judgmental" and "chilled", ditto any sentence written down and ending with a question mark where no question is being asked at all).

Anyway, at uni, luckily for me the tutor was around my age and offered up a disclaimer before showing a Youtube clip that ASMR is really not for everyone, and I am so glad she did, because I could cheerfully have punched a wall. I didn't of course, I simply left the room wanting to scream and slam the door loudly behind me.

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It's not a new thing so I don't know why you mentioned younger crowds. I'm 45 and have been experiencing ASMR for as long as I can remember.

It stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response; a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck, as experienced by some people in response to a specific gentle stimulus, often a particular sound.

ASMR can be triggered by things like whispering voices, paper tearing, and scalp massage

I guess a lot of people don't experience it.

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:45

Mirabai · 02/02/2025 22:03

ASMR doesn’t actually mean anything though it’s just an invented term.

It means Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

Mirabai · 03/02/2025 21:47

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:45

It means Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

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Yeees and that’s the invented term that doesn’t actually mean anything.

HaddyAbrams · 03/02/2025 21:49

Mirabai · 03/02/2025 21:47

Yeees and that’s the invented term that doesn’t actually mean anything.

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All terms were invented at some point.

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:50

mirrorglitterball · 02/02/2025 21:39

I like some ASMR videos for example cleaning and tidying ones, cleaning messy houses and cars. V satisfying and motivates me to clean!

Hate ones with people talking/making noises especially if it sounds saliva-y and nail tapping etc makes me cringe 😡

That's not ASMR. ASMR makes you relaxed and sleepy and gives lovely tingles down the back of your head / neck. It's definitely not motivating!

ImthatBoleyngirl · 03/02/2025 21:51

5foot5 · 03/02/2025 14:47

I had never heard of this until I saw this thread. If I have ever seen any videos where this technique is used it has clearly gone right over my head.

It's not a technique, it's a natural response to certain sounds. You either get the tingles or you don't.

Mirabai · 03/02/2025 22:01

HaddyAbrams · 03/02/2025 21:49

All terms were invented at some point.

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ASMR is a pseudo scientific sounding term invented, according to wiki, by someone on an online forum, which describes a physiological phenomenon that as of yet has no scientific explanation, and is essentially meaningless.

Sensory response would be more accurate but it sounds less grand.