What gives you ASMR?

[Doctor Amadeus]

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson.

ASMR signifies the subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control.

Sensation

The subjective experience, sensation, and perceptual phenomenon now widely identified by the term 'autonomous sensory meridian response' is described by some of those susceptible to it as 'akin to a mild electrical current...or the carbonated bubbles in a glass of champagne'.

Triggers

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ASMR is usually precipitated by stimuli referred to as 'triggers'. ASMR triggers, which are most commonly auditory and visual, may be encountered through the interpersonal interactions of daily life. Additionally, ASMR is often triggered by exposure to specific audio and video. Such media may be specially made with the specific purpose of triggering ASMR or originally created for other purposes and later discovered to be effective as a trigger of the experience.

Stimuli that can trigger ASMR, as reported by those who experience it, include the following:

Listening to a softly spoken or whispering voice
Listening to quiet, repetitive sounds resulting from someone engaging in a mundane task such as turning the pages of a book
Watching somebody attentively execute a mundane task such as preparing food
Loudly chewing, crunching, slurping or biting foods, drinks, or gum
Receiving personal attention
Initiating the stimulus through conscious manipulation without the need for external video or audio triggers
Listening to tapping, typically nails onto surfaces such as plastic, wood, metal, etc.
Hand movements, especially onto one's face
Whispering triggers
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Psychologists Nick Davis and Emma Barratt discovered that whispering was an effective trigger for 75% of the 475 subjects who took part in an experiment to investigate the nature of ASMR, and that statistic is reflected in the popularity of intentional ASMR videos that comprise someone speaking in a whispered voice.

Auditory triggers

Many of those who experience ASMR report that some specific non-vocal ambient noises are also effective triggers of ASMR, including those like the sound of rain, fingers scratching or tapping a surface, the crushing of eggshells, the crinkling and crumpling of a flexible material such as paper, or writing. Many YouTube videos that are intended to trigger ASMR responses capture a single person performing these actions and the sounds that result.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto...idian_response

Personally mine is auditory like listening to Stephen Fry narrate or both auditory and visual Bob Ross.

But it can be almost anything similar so how about you.

What gives you ASMR?

[Dug]

Is this just the same thing as getting the chills from listening to a really good song? Otherwise all the typical ASMR videos do nothing for me other than creep me out most of the time.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Is this just the same thing as getting the chills from listening to a really good song? Otherwise all the typical ASMR videos do nothing for me other than creep me out most of the time.

Yeah I don’t get that but I understand not everyone gets it from the same thing. But the music you mentioned that can do it.

[Morae]

Ooh. This AMSR thing thats been going around means the chills? Is that it. I never really understood what it was supposed to be. Nice to know!

[Nasuuna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ntHpYocc0

When the guitars overtake the rest of the strings in the instrumental solo


sounds so freaking awesome

[Celista]

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JFC Mallcop will literally spam this forum with any random bullshit he sees on his phone. Mods, put a muzzle on him before the forums are nothing but random bait and trash articles please.

Think it's too late.

[Powerogue]

I get a weird happiness out of the sound and feeling of crushing hard snow, does that count?

Outside of that, music, obviously. The Journey soundtrack just takes me on, well, a journey every time I listen to it.

While it generally isn't for me, I did love the Game Grumps episodes on it.

[the game]

Frivolous fox is one of my favorite asmr artists. I love the videos she does with fuzzy microphone covers or her soft singing videos. It's always nonstop tingles.

[Templar 331]

I really like the hand motions across the screen and soft talking.

The one thing that ruins it is when the person "smacks" their tongue or mouth in a kind of wet clicking noise.

[McFuu]

Sex... Foreplay. Other than that, cold showers on a hot day, usually after working out.

[Ashleyxoxo]

Nothing, but I do enjoy watching ASMR on Twitch.

[smityx]

Nothing on the Youtubes or Twatch. It's cringe or annoying at best.

[PACOX]

Most ASMR is trash, if not SFW fetish porn.

ASMR itself is just a kind of meditative state. What puts you in that state is kind of subjective, so just throw my first sentence out the window. One mans trash is another mans ASMR. Nobodies voice really puts my in any sort of meditative state besides a bit of guided meditation. A bit of 'white noise' and some music. Give me some jazz/hip-hop instrumentals and I'm good.

[Forgettable]

Ooh. This AMSR thing thats been going around means the chills? Is that it. I never really understood what it was supposed to be. Nice to know!

Nothing does that to me. I am devoid of feeling /s

[Dead Moose Fandango]

Yeeea. I'm agreeing with ASMR basically being fetish porn.

[derpkitteh]

the first lyrics of this song do it for some reason.

there's some other songs, too. some from kittie, i think. but i can't remember them all.

[Super Kami Dende]

Yeeea. I'm agreeing with ASMR basically being fetish porn.

Not being able to understand it doesn't make it something disturbing. I listen to ASMR purely to relax after a long day at work with constant jarring noise. ASMR is often predictable noise and can help relax by giving my brain a patterned sound collection.

[Irefusetodie]

I've never gotten "tingles" from the 2-3 videos I've listened to.

[Fargus]

JFC Mallcop will literally spam this forum with any random bullshit he sees on his phone. Mods, put a muzzle on him before the forums are nothing but random bait and trash articles please.

Torturing rodents in his house gives him ASMR.

[NoKingRulesForever]

I'm not convinced this whole ASMR craze is the same as the tingles in your spine you get when you experience things like expressions of compassion or inspirational acts. Some would say the latter is your soul speaking to you, others say it's unexplainable.