gimp wrote:Is this feeling really that rare?
I am not sure. I though it happens to the most of the people, but after I read about in on internet, it is not that common and the majority of ppl is more likely to make fun of it instead of trying to experience it.
Few years ago, I wrote everthing I wanted to write here about ASMR on a small piece of paper, put it onto my bedside table and then the next day it was gone and I never made this topic (the loss pissed me off kinda). Also I tend to experience ASMR less and less in my life. I watch some of those ASMR videos sometimes, but it is a rare occasion for me.
I have discovered it at gymnasium, because of our german language teacher. She was super calm all the time and sometimes I experienced ASMR triggers when the class was silent and she spoke uninterrupted for a longer period of time. I ofc didn't know anything about it back then. I can't rly remember how I found it is called ASMR, maybe there was an article about it somewhere. But the first video I saw and gave me strong "tingles" (that's how they call it) was
THIS one and it still works for me to this very day. After all, soft calm voice, whispering and tapping still triggers it for me, but it happens so rarely IRL...
These days I get it mostly from high BPM (beats per minute) music. When I am rly focused on listening to songs like
Venetian Snares - Ultraviolent Junglist I get a lot of tingles and my body sometimes even shakes uncontrollably. I never heard or read anything about this phenomenon, though. All the people I know get it from soft voice and stuff like that and this is quite the opposite experience. But it is much more common to hear a whisper than this crazy type of music, so maybe that's why
Or maybe it is a bit different phenomenon, but I experience it pretty much the same way. It even happened to me when I was really focused on a movie in a cinema (like 3 times during Interstellar, once during Martian and maybe once during new Star Wars, iirc). It literally cannot occur to me until I am very concentrated on something.
Thx Lee for starting this topic. I should have done it long time ago, it is quite interesting subject (i think). Btw, I never told about it to anyone, except few months ago to my current gf. She found it quite interesting as well and wanted to know everything about it, but it might be quite hard to describe sometimes.