I experience ASMR and itās wonderful. To me itās like giving your brain a massage or a soothing warm bath. However I think the triggers for this experience are different for everyone. Having a haircut does do it for me but these videos donāt. To allow the onset of ASMR reliably for myself, I listen to Tibetton singing bowls or tabla music. Or even a real heavy drum solo by John Bonham et al. Personally I find spoken words to kill the effect. Anyway Iād love some actual research to be done.
I tried a few of those videos and got nothing - and I find whispering annoying. Then I found one with various metal objects, and the socket wrench ratcheting in particular was surprisingly pleasant.
Is there a term for people who experience rage while listening to ASMR videosā¦
No seriously, I listened to that āDepartureā video for maybe 15 seconds and I couldnāt take it. Kind of like manybellsdown mentioned above, I find the non verbal ones to be neutral at best for meā¦but whispering, no - JUST NO.
Crinkling a mylar āchipā bagā¦I swear Iāll crawl though these series of tubes and slap that shit out of your handā¦
But I realize why it is, at least for me. I canāt tolerate the āclickingā and overly emphasized air sounds. Really it is more the mid to low grade mics everyone on youtube uses do nothing to help this. I feel if someone used a studio mic setup itād cut out the harsh clicking noise with certain constants (like T), or the overly breathy issue. Hell, maybe she does have a nice setup, either way just NO, NO, NO.
I do however experience the whole tingling euphoric feeling if someone uses electric trimmers on my neck or gives a really good head massage. I think itās more physical for me than auditory.
The main reaction I get is wanting to sample the audio and drown it in reverb and add some low drones.
Oddly enough, an MP3 of this talk is my relaxation jam that I regularly listen to whilst getting my teeth cleaned.
I was just about to post about misophonia. I experience this as well. Iād love to know if thereās a correlation between these āpositiveā and ānegativeā audio experiences in an individual.
Yeah, the non-verbal ones work best on me. I find even the whispered voice is too distracting. Music, rustling, scratching and crinkling are all very effective.
The problem seems to be that the vast majority of videos are verbal.
I think I get the ASMR tingling feeling, again not while listening to these videos, but in videos of people explaining things in a quiet voice especially when they pause to think about something or focus their attention on something. If they are lecturing off a script or from memory, no feeling. If they are thinking and talking at the same time, I get it. It almost seems to me that I can feel them thinking but I am pretty sure it is just a lot of non-verbal clues like body posture and tones of voice. Bob Ross doesnāt do it most times. I think he had done so many paintings he did not really need to think anymore. For example, when this guy explains the Crwth i get the tingles: http://www.bragod.com/bragod2.html
ASMR has a lot of different triggers. For spoken-word for me, accent plays a large role. I trigger on some music like Rei Harakami (RIP).
These are AMSRtists posting for a particular niche who triggers on whispers, soft-voices, there are a few sites were folks talk about other triggers they have like particular music pieces or artists, or physical things like haircuts.
The metal-objects thing sounds neat. Do you have a link?
Werewolf.
I think it might have been this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCy4Yhqn3Ls
Thereās also one with a typewriter that I find very soothing.
All the artifacts youāre complaining about are actually sort of the point. For me at least, those sounds and similar mic sounds (see: Bob Ross) are one of the most reliable ASMR triggers out there.
I have misophonia with high frequency noises, which I think is related to CAPD (Iām on the spectrum). I tend to hear tiny high frequency noises (and some very low frequencies) painfully loudly. Itās not hyperacusis. I suffer mild panic from it, so I always carry earplugs. Itās much worse when Iām tired.
Thank Satan for the extinction of CRTs, thatās all I can say.
This sound is the closest thing Iāve had to ASMR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MsDFLTMMY
Oooh that old video game music does give me a tingle. I donāt know if itās nostalgia or what.
My friends and I would lie around with someone tasked at keeping the car running at top speed as long as possible for the buzz. I think itās the harmony.
