In this video, I discuss the neuroscience of ASMR. How does ASMR affect the brain? Is it good for the brain? Is there any scientific evidence to support that it decreases anxiety or insomnia? Watch my video to learn more about ASMR!
I can’t explain but I can’t get enough of it, I have complex depression and trauma, when I am using asmr I forget the world I forget everything and I feel so good .
It did exactly what you explaining here. I felt less lonely, relaxed and deeply moved when I hear ASMR. It helped me a lot in a time, where i felt isolated and stressed.
I get insane tingles if I listen to ASMR when not sleepy. And then if I wake up too early I put on some ASMR and go back to sleep. Then later when I check my watch, my heartrate is way lower after I put on the ASMR. I love it, listen to it everyday😊
Thanks for sharing your experiences, Tina! That's really neat that you can measure heart rate decrease after you listen to ASMR. It truly is a great way to relax!!
ASMR is like a natural drug, i can remember the 1st time I would experience it in the school library where it's real quiet and hearing pages turning that produced tingles down my spine, it is definitely a real thing that relaxes and can put you to sleep. Typing on a keyboard and button pressing on a game controller can do it to, i also get them when getting a haircut.
I'm old and have experienced this since a child of 6. Mainly a response to music and touch, but also sight. These recordings are unreal, fantastic, inspiring, like WOW! Thank you, artists! You are transforming people!
When i was in elementary school, I would try to explain this feeling to my mom and ask her what was happening to me. She had no idea and thought I was bring weird. So I never talked about it with anyone. I loved that feeling (whatever it was) and figured out that it always happened when the teacher would lean over my desk to explain something on my paper. She would whisper and take my pencil and show me how to do it. I got to where I went to her desk a lot for further explanation😄 I experienced asmr a lot with different things but I spent my entire life thinking it was just something I imagined or that I was just a weirdo! I am almost 50 yrs old now! Then Five years ago I stumbled onto a video explaining asmr.... I WAS FINALLY VALIDATED!!! AND IT HAS A NAME!🎉😁 Now I can tingle and see colors and know it's an ACTUAL THING!😂
I deal with Post Traumatic Stress… invasive memories… insomnia. ASMR empties my thoughts and puts me to sleep. It is soothing. Soft voice, graceful movements, music, lights, listening to someone read, playing w my hair, car rides- quickest ways to put me to sleep
All I can say is that it totally works for me, it’s like as soon as it comes on my eyes get real heavy and I get the tingling on both sides of my brain and I get goosebumps and I just want to loose myself in it, it’s really that intoxicating for me, like a drug maybe
wow! I just figured out what this really means! I have an insane sense of touch. I've always loved having people lightly touch my hair or skin, like feather light. and certian sounds sound super cool too.
the best unintentional asmr i've ever seen and watch daily are dr. hollie berry's medical exam videos for the teaching hospital, manchester medical school. they make me feel relaxed yet engaged, and looked after somehow
I would always experience it when I was little in the hospital getting a check up by the doctors when they would check my breathing my neck my heart rate and they would whisper what they are doing. It got to a point where I would purposely make something up to go to the doctor just to get that down and then when I was 13 I discovered asmr and to this day have not gone to sleep without it and of course most of the asmr I listen to are doctor checkups 😅
Ive been experiencing asmr since i was a young child but it wasnt until i was about 20 years old i found out it had a terminology for the phenomena. I watch to relax, meditate, and sometimes just for the experiences of tingles itself.. Its so euphoric and relaxing. it helps me sleep, relax, meditate, sometimes ill just play it in the background while im doing other things.. but yeah love ASMR thanks for this video very informative and ive been looking for more content talking about this !
Weirdly I get the same tingles in my head watching neck massage videos 😂. Also ASMR chiro/massage vids helped me distract from my pain post wisdom tooth surgery.
I'm not sure if this is true with anyone else, but I've noticed the "tingles" happen more when I'm really stressed or worried about something. Other then that they are super rare
I was just coming to ask if anyone had experienced the opposite. I'm in 'freeze' state rn and while I do find it relaxing, I'm not experiencing tingles and I usually do. So interesting!
I think childhood really plays a big role Classical music dosnt apeal to me but country music does so because of what my family listened to Same as cooking sounds relaxed me because i listened to my mom Where someone might be more drawn to paper moving
Soft voices are a big ASMR trigger for me. Previous videos you have done have caused that for me, so it was nice to hear you talk about it. Others are very light touch, tinkling sounds, certain visual stimuli, and when someone is very close to me, but not touching. There are some triggers that are commonly performed on ASMRtist channels that are intensely horrible for me - so much so that I throw off the headphones. Its either really really good or really really bad. And I can only experience ASMR for about 15-30 minutes before I get overwhelmed and need to stop. ASMR is a wonderfully strange phenomenon.
This is very interesting Danielle - thank you for sharing!! I'm happy to hear my voice can create soothing experiences rather than horrible ones :-) Your description of the bad experiences reminds me of something I was going to put in the video but ended up not. People who experience ASMR also tend to experience misophobia, an extreme dislike/discomfort to certain sounds. Perhaps that is what is going on when you have those negative experiences.
I’d be interested in an update on any anxiety related findings since this was originally released. Or any findings for that matter on the ASMR topic. Such a fascinating and misunderstood thing.
I used to experience it whenever I went to the doctor as a kid. Something about Dr. Gotanda's voice would have my whole head buzzing. I never knew what was happening and no one knew what I was talking about when I tried to describe it. Haven't been able to truly duplicate those experiences but the right asmr videos can do a little.
I started watching ASMR video a few weeks ago. I did not know what that meant, but really enjoyed watching these videos. I did get tingling on the right back part of my head and was worried about it. I'm not sure what started it, maybe the papers she was handling. So tonight I googled what is ASMR and your video was the first. Now I feel much better knowing why I was tingling. LOL. The videos are very relaxing and I watch them an hour or 2 before bedtime. I've also noticed that I sleep through the night too. Thank you for explaining this ASMR thing. Getting ready to watch some more. Hubby is watching a horror movie...oh no!! I will have to take this to another room...lol
I primarily listen to science related theories ASMR. For example Calculus lessons, quantum, fluid dynamics, and programming lessons. Sometimes random facts. The first video which got me into ASMR was listening to Edsger W. Dijkstra - Lecture: Reasoning About Programs - Solving 2 problems using programing - 1990. I found your video searching “ASMR science”. Not sure how my creativity would exist in the above subjects but when I write or problem solve, I do have an emotional or color like connection with the problem. Almost like when you called it as a colorful swirl. The crinkle sounds, mouth clicking, and finger rubbings bug me. ASMR videos with casual vibes make me the most comfortable. I think a genuine conversation is what causes the triggers for me. I think I listen to these ASMR videos because I want to have these conversations with friends but never met someone who wants to nerd out? Or I love the topics so much it calms me.
First time experienced this i was 7 years old. We were working on math at school and i had a question. So the teacher came up to me and explained but she wasnt loud about it, she talked softly close to my ear and showed me thats when i had the tingling sensation. It was satisfying
I don’t get frisson in response to music, usually just cry or get happy or whatever emotion. In response to traditional visual art, I react less, usually just obsess and keep going back and looking and smiling if I like it. I have always experienced ASMR. I never had the words to describe it and I thought everyone got it. The sound of a cat grooming itself is an early trigger I remember. People playing with hair etc. Now whispering is a big trigger, binaural sounds, mouth sounds, slow hand movements (visual trigger), quick finger movements (auditory trigger), tapping, sticky sounds, fire sounds, rain sounds, wind sounds, the sound of touching microphone wind shields. To me it’s like the quiet sound when a caregiver would make while you go to sleep. Oh and I catch myself doing stereotypical ape behaviours like grooming (pets, partner) and it is hard to stop. I also have weird quirks where I find it hard to stop picking my skin, biting my mouth etc, I no longer have to repeat actions to match both sides of my body, but that was a thing I automatically did for a while. My partner gets frisson, but not ASMR.
First time I remember experiencing ASMR was in first grade. A friend and I were quietly playing a game while waiting on the rest of the class to finish an assignment. I remember asking my mom about it, apparently she doesn’t experience it. I wonder how much of a genetic link there is.
I don't get tingles, but I really like listening to the sounds that are supposed to trigger them. The first time I made a passion for a sound like this was in kidergarden, I loved hearing high heels on the street.
It’s interesting that the ASMR response has been linked with meditation. I believe the tingling sensations are what is referred to as piti during jhana meditation in Buddhist practice. It’s fascinating to see modern science like Laukkonen’s paper on nirodha samāpatti begin to shed light on thousand year old meditative practices.
Whispering or gentle soft speaking triggers it for me, but only very specific whispering, most of the asmr whisperers that I have encountered here on RU-vid don't trigger my response. I also have synesthesia where numbers have personalities and entire lives. However, I am a natural born extrovert
started in 4th grade. Usually triggered by observing a person(very few people) with a very particular quality of calmness and settlement about their being and the task they are performing. An example would be an older art teacher of mine who pulls out the construction paper, licks her thumb, and starts thumbing through the corners counting out sheets. the bit about this that would trigger is that she performs this task as if she'd done 50 times before exactly the same way... in conjunction with the stillness of her personality. This type of personality are people who can't be rushed. they have a calmness in the way interact and perform tasks. another great example would be the older Japanese woodblock carvers. there are vids here on youtube.
I got them whenever a teacher or anyone really, would explain things to me. The finger running across the paper and their soft voice always put me to sleep. No wonder my grades were shit. Got extreme ASMR when the guide was giving my cousin the talk about pricing for the wedding venue. The almost laminate style papering and folders making noise as he flipped through pages were awesome. Then the price jumpscared me awake lmfao
For me, It's more the sleep sound with the sound of rain : Rain under a tent , inside a car etc...that remind me so good memory for sleep when i was young. That's help me a lot for sleep.
Back in the 70s, I tried to explain the tingles to family and folks, but no one knew what the heck I was talking about. Now it's suddenly EVERYWHERE and I'm like... really?! Was I the only one or was everyone lying to me back then??
whenever i got my shoes tied for me as i kid it triggered asmr effects lol i would be instantly relaxed and sort of sleepy. this is my earliest memory of it. i then discovered keyboard sounds had the same effect in highschool.
Strangely, I have synesthesia but struggle greatly to experience ASMR. It’s rare. The only trigger I’ve discovered is when someone is filling out a form for Me. That literally it. And yet, seeing colors all day long is my norm
My first ASMR experience was when my next door neighbor girl came over to my house and sat on my bed and played with my comfortable blanket sheets when we were about 5 years old.
Thank you for the great video for some reason my body likes extremely deep tissue massage. I am a very physical person, an outdoors person. So when I lie down on the massage table and the massage begins, I doze away due to the extreme relaxation, hear my self snore and at times feels like im being submerged in a cool body of water. Would this be ASMR?
I get ASMR when in a NSDR state or when listening to/remembering music or when imagining ASMR 3:11 also synesthesia is both a trigger and a effect of ASMR.
6:05 Even alexithymic people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum are still easily or deeply moved by their experiences they just don't recognise it as well. Could the same apply to neurotypical people to a lesser extent? and would the same ASMR pron brain pattern be created in neurotypical people if they were more self aware?
I listen to ASMR a lot. When I'm bored, stressed, can't sleep or when I'm drawing. Last one, mostly because these videos aren't as distracting as listening to music or a TV show. It helps me to focus and keep my attention on what I'm doing in that moment (I have a tiny bit of ADHD going on). But I mostly dislike eating/mouth sounds and whispering. Most of the times I watch "no-talking" videos. Just a handful of Asmrtists whisper in a way that I like. Also the few videos I like whispering it's in a foreign language (preferably one, that I don't understand) 🤔 don't know why exactly.. My personal favorite videos consist of scratching, massage, writing/drawing/painting, wooden object sounds, outdoor ASMR, rain and heavy thunderstorm sounds, "stress pulling", fast changing triggers, focus/attention ASMR and really close up objects (visually and soundwise). As long as I remember I got the tingles... While my sister brushing my hair or reading to my when I was little, playing that "draw on the back" game, listening to music, watching movies... It seems that I'm kinda a sensitive person in that way 🤔
You didn't even listen to this video did you. If you did you would realize you are not listening to A s m r. You are listening to something that triggers a s m r.
In my humble opinion, I feel that if you so much as even "think" in your own brain (whose else brain would we think from anyway? lol) that you do in fact feel calmer and can sleep better then whether it itself (ASMR) is scientifically or medically (clinically) proven to help these things then it indeed will be true (at least for the testimony of the individual). Person B may disagree and not feel that they've benefitted from such a thing (let's hope they're forming an subjective opinion of this over an objective opinion) since whatever a person subjects themselves to will have any number of personal experiences as opposed to an objective opinion where you have box in the middle of the room supposedly said to be good for you if you crawl into it and sleep and yet the person hadn't crawled in it and slept (so they really don't know the fact of the matter) having just "seen" and formed and opinion about that said "box". So too is the thoughts and feelings of anything really.
When discussing these type of topics to me it seems like we are attempting to use language to describe behavioral phenomenon that predates language so it's never adequately explained through language but rather through behavior /the experience itself. However this emoji describes the receiving end of the phenomenon pretty well: 🤤
I partially retract my above statement. I said it out of mild annoyance because I've heard people associate ASMR with relaxation so many times and that description never lined up with my experience. But when you got to the primate grooming and personal attention part of it it started to make more sense.
Thanks for sharing and for the thoughtful comments, Neuro! It certainly is a difficult experience to describe.. I'm not sure any language can describe the way it truly feels to a tee!!
This is very interesting, I have tried ASMR videos on RU-vid in the past but not really had much of a reaction to them; however I do react to music and experience chills and goosebumps which I think is termed Frissons. Is this an ASMR effect or is it something different entirely? I do try to find music that I’ve not heard before to see if it results in that effect, I suppose you might say that I’m a Frisson junky 😂!
Music does it for me most often. I say of some tunes they are so beautiful it hurts, in a good way. I can get it from visual, tactile, or olfactory input that evokes strong feelings. I felt like a mutation until I heard of this.
Those who experience it have higher scores on openness to new experiences because they are weak in mind and unable to prioritize healthy input from harmful or garbage input. Proof given in the next breath 5:56 exhibit lower levels of consciousness. 6:26 individuals more easily express emotion because they are emotionally engaged with the world and not grounded in fact, reason, and truth.
Hello Dr, question. Is ASMR the same feeling someone gets when they feel a breeze behind the neck? For example, my girlfriend and I were at an amusement park this past weekend and it was really hot. She pulled out one of those mini fans and started to pass it around the back of my head and neck. I instantly felt that tingling sensation from the neck down to my back. Felt like chills or a shiver but nonetheless, it felt good. Is that the same phenomenon? Thanks!
I have a brain injury and I remember what it was like to be able to be a maths whizz. You just had to say the numbers and I would without conscious thought would spit out the answer. Now an answer doesn’t come back. Since the assault (I was punched 15 times by a meth addict whilst I lay unconscious on the road) I have very weird little peccadilloes like I always have to check know and now. For some reason I now mix them up. Weird thing is my memory is deteriorating of late and I think I am getting early onset dementia. I just turned 50. I was bashed when I was 40. I had post traumatic amnesia for 18 months. Could asmr help? I also have cptsd.
I believe ASMR is just a vitamin B1 deficiency (even if only subclinical) that has caused a structural abnormality in the central nervous system. It's not supposed to happen I believe, but I guess I could be wrong
Post- Frisson and ASMR, responses are those related to proximity. Music being not only prosodically stimulating seems intimate through similarly influencing different circuits to respond. We alert our interoceptive associational processing of experience. The intensity of confined exposure to music, prosodic recognition, the smells, sights, and rituals in "worship," has been a tool of centuries to induce hypnotic-like openness to uncritical experience. The frisson of a mob, videoed on January 6 2021, inducing mass mob behaviors, will allow you to understand the phenomenon's power to induce extraordinary group entrainment, whether in our own species, or those occurring in social animal concerted (!) attacks. Seeking the stimulus, then, of disinhibited behaviors, may be not epiphenomenon, but a feature of evolved obligate sociality!
I don't think I get an ASMR response to anything. I am an artist and was an art teacher, so I feel I should be in this group! 😂 I think it is very interesting.
I am increasingly convinced that ASMR release oxytocin...which results im a braingasm. Oxytocine is a strong ally to fight cortisol the stress hormone.
What?! Huh?! That sensation always felt like a bad sensation to me! It used to happen me with the barber using the electronic hair cutter on me! I hated it.
My ASMR experience... not great. Came across a random vid, what the girl was doing looked so strange I had to watch, and the sounds were so sharp in contrast with her whispering breathy voice. So I did a search for ASMR on here and was not impressed. several days later I searched ASMR on Twitch and found several ladies were doing very well for themselves by the look of it. At that point I passed it off as a new age fad. Months later a friend begged me to watch a youtuber that does ASMR, swearing I'd be out like a light if I watched a video of hrs with headphones. Didn't work.
I only looked at this cuz I was like how come this dude puts sum cardboard to his mouth and touching it make my nerves tingle on my arms just because I hear him
I’ve never experienced any tingling sensation or any enjoyable feelings from watching these videos. However watching videos of people falling off skateboards gives me a weird feeling throughout my body
@@neurogalmd Oh my bad (Not a native speaker). I didn't mean it gets triggered by those but similarly to those acts I can simply consciously trigger the ASMR "reflex".
@@jeffb.140 Ohh ok haha. That makes more sense :) Looking back at your initial comment I see that now. I have heard of some people who can voluntarily trigger an ASMR response!
