I have thought that the two feelings may be related. I’ve had that blissful, tingling response to many different kinds of sounds all my life, and I also used to sometimes have a feeling of revulsion and almost rage at the sound of someone eating. At some point I discovered that if I thought about the person eating as someone with a body just like mine, sort of imagined that I was the one eating and enjoying my food and focused on this feeling of identification, my response would suddenly flip and change from revulsion to an ASMR-type pleasure. After doing this for years, I almost never feel that revulsion anymore. It’s convinced me that the two feelings are related, like two possible reactions to the same sensitivity.
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