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From Wikipedia: Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or cognitive stimuli. The nature and classification of the ASMR phenomenon is controversial, with much anecdotal evidence of the phenomenon but little or no scientific explanation or verified data.
Pingywings wrote:do you have the ability to experience ASMR?
Bludek wrote:Actually I do! I even wanted to write a topic about it on lauta, but then I thought it would be maybe pointless.. I am subscribed to THIS channel on youtube and I watch those videos hapilly from time to time. I have experiences ASMR many times in my life - mostly by calm voice (usually woman's). Although even tapping sometimes triggers ASMR experience for me. I have discovered ASMR like a year ago because somebody wrote short comment to Bob Ross' video (example), so I tried to discover a little more about it.
The topic Bludek could never start. I only recently discovered the name of this feeling after experiencing it many times throughout my life. In my case I get the feeling in my chest area, and not the head/neck (like with most people). The thing that triggers it for me is usually a woman's soft voice (example). I thought this would be a cool topic because ASMR isn't very common, and it'd be interesting to see how many Elmans have this ability.
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I strongly experience ASMR and semi-regularly visit the ASMR Sub-reddit as a result.

It's an incredible feeling and I experience it from all types of stimuli, usually strongly associated with nostalgia for me. As I said, I get it strongly and it affects my entire body (although primarily my non-peripheral regions).

I believe that the chills you get down your spine from listening to certain parts of certain music are closely linked to ASMR as well. For example, 1:05 into the official trailer for The new star wars film gives me reliable ASMR without fail. Additionally, 1:20 has the same effect, but stronger.

It's an amazing feeling, but significantly better when it's not sought out intentionally.
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Is this feeling really that rare? Or maybe I am not understanding it correctly? If it is the same feeling I get when I hear paper rub carpet, or chills from really nice song, or maybe when a girl kisses my neck I am very sensitive, or even during a piss, then I've always assumed this was common in all human beings and honestly believe everybody here has probably felt these feelings. To do it at will though is difficult, and I can only really do that by rubbing paper on carpet. If someone could do it all the time I guess they'd probably become some ASMR junkie.
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Problem with this topic is never sure if you're thinking about the same thing as other people.
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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.
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My right (90 percent of times) parietal / temporal lobes gets electrified (very vivid sensations of really fast bubble popping in random places creating heat) quite often with certain types of music, similar to what Bludek just told. Most of the times that kind of music is just an associate to some kind of emotional memory I had (personal stuff), sometimes I feel some kind of implicit no-content memories (archetypical stuff in Jungs' terminology).
Always thought that this ,,electrification" is really common, but the more I talk about it with people, the more I understand it's not the case.
Never got any sensations from calm voice though.
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The Human body is so amazing!
Never heard of this before and don't think I've experienced this (consciously) in my life.

What really freaks me out are these whispering women. Nightmare material :)
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Bludek wrote: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.
WTF, uncontrollable shaking. That sounds like something else. I think ASMR is a very certain feeling and if you're not sure you're experiencing it or not you probably aren't.
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Uncontrollable shaking can be ASMR-related if it's for a short period of time, but if it's constant or drawn out I imagine it's at least partially due to something else.

@gimp - It's not that rare, but it's rare for it to be a strong feeling. Your paper rubbing carpet is 99% likely to be ASMR-related.
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I get tingling in back of my head if an girl whispers in my ear, if that's not about this thing then I have no idea what is "ASMR". Some mans talked about nostalgy and music, that sounds more like nostalgy goose bumps to me.
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I get a tingling too, Zweq, down my spine, when my cat purrs into my ear, but that is a completely different feeling to what I get in my chest. One is ASMR and one is not. I would describe the feeling of ASMR as the most comfortable feeling you can imagine. When I experience it I just want it to last forever. It's also unique. Not like an orgasm or anything else. I feel like what a lot of people think is ASMR actually isn't (just my guess).
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I'm just writing to inform you that I haven't experienced any of the tingling described above. :(
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Mmmm love this feeling, happens rarely, easiest way to get it is to work hard and then fully relax in perfect temperature with good music or beatiful voice from a woman.

Weirdest experience ever had was when having sex some years ago, I was sick and really exhausted. And when climaxed it was so good that my body got paralyzed and I couldn't move at all. It was weird cause I was on top of her and she had to push me aside. She thought I was dying or something :P
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(How) is this different from the eargasms I get every time I sit on a seesaw and listen to music, when my chest/head/spine starts to give me trembling feel?
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We can't know that, Tigro. It's interesting that everyone feels something different in different parts of their body.
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i used to get that feeling but not anymore or very rarely. i think i got used to it because i actually put asmr video on every night before bed as a white noise. before that i always fell asleep watching series but when you watch it takes longer to fall asleep so i replaced that with asmr videos.

99% of the time i only watch content from this channel and im very picky about what i listen to. those roleplay asmr vids are cringy as fuck to me but they seem to be popular for some reason. i like that channel because she uses a very nice expensive binaural mic and you can hear the sound pan around very well and gives nice 3d effect which is what i like the most in these kind of videos. some other content producers have same type of mic but often people seem to be too lazy to walk around the mic or use it properly for the effect
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Based on descriptions I'm pretty suar I don't get the spesifik effect, but still get some special enjoyment out of most ASMR-inducing sounds.
then again i don't know anything
maybe easier not to think abouut alöl things thought than not things thought ... or something..=?
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I just get aroused by such things. A continious gentle whispering in your ear... Come on, how can you not think of sex.
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your comment actually reminds me: i like asmr videos but holy shit the community is absolute worst. depending on video you probably couldnt distinguish the comments from a pornhub video. its so retarded that the channel i linked has to make a disclaimer every time she does those bubble popping or like kiss "smack" sounds because so many weirdos gave her comments thinking it was some personal love making session or something. overall you see in comments section many people having quite unhealthy obsessions with the content creators, quite sad really.
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Tigro wrote:(How) is this different from the eargasms I get every time I sit on a seesaw and listen to music, when my chest/head/spine starts to give me trembling feel?
Today I tried some of the videos from ASMR reddit, and I can say that ASMR creates different sensation than listening to some music.

What I realised is that the feeling near my spine is biased to the right side a bit, which creates a unconfortable-ish (not really unconfortable, just weird) feeling. At first I thought it's because the sounds from right headphone were more intense, so I tried swapping speakers. But even when it came from the left, I trembled on the right side.

Definitely ASMR is a great experience and I didn't expect it to work almost immediately. It's not like feeling aroused, just like my brain tells me that I should feel being tickled on the back. Very good for semi-active relaxing.
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Vermin Supreme wrote:i used to get that feeling but not anymore or very rarely. i think i got used to it because i actually put asmr video on every night before bed as a white noise. before that i always fell asleep watching series but when you watch it takes longer to fall asleep so i replaced that with asmr videos.

99% of the time i only watch content from this channel and im very picky about what i listen to. those roleplay asmr vids are cringy as fuck to me but they seem to be popular for some reason. i like that channel because she uses a very nice expensive binaural mic and you can hear the sound pan around very well and gives nice 3d effect which is what i like the most in these kind of videos. some other content producers have same type of mic but often people seem to be too lazy to walk around the mic or use it properly for the effect
Started watching one video, felt mega weird and awkward, turned it off. Don't get why anyone would watch those.
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My girlfriend's voice effectively induces ASMR in me.
Realised that a few days ago when I was lying with head on her lap and she was talking to someone, I then started to get spine chills.
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then again i don't know anything
maybe easier not to think abouut alöl things thought than not things thought ... or something..=?
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Oh I forgot we hev an ASMR topic too. Well here is a thing posted in 2 topics: Instructions for relaxing your hat: https://youtu.be/XqjeUsIO5uA?t=445
then again i don't know anything
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