Friday, March 29, 2013

ASMR? (Though I don't have it, it sure is relaxing)

So I was asleep in my dad's bed after having recovered from being treated for a nasty throat infection today, and woke up and was all alone in the house. The radio/alarm/clock was still on as always and it was about 6:50 PM. The radio was just starting a program about dis-enrollment and casinos in tribes from California, and I listened to that for about twenty minutes. Then afterwards up came the program I had heard about in the car on the way to the doctor's office: something about a woman who had a tingling sensation in her head whenever she heard things like whispering or blocks moving, stirring paint or et cetera. She would have this sensation when the "boring" old librarian from a library read books out load to her and other six to seven-year-olds when she watched a certain TV program, and, when she was an adult and could watch as much television as she wanted, she began to be obsessed with home shopping shows and watched makeup and jewelry videos on youtube. Once she had watched so many videos she couldn't find any more, she spelled jewelry with two 'l's and found a video at the top of the list with "ASMR" at the top. The person was whispering; showing off her grandmother(who had passed away)'s old jewelry. She was whispering. She began to wonder if ASMR was a medical condition, and when googling it found the following description: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a term used to describe a sensory experience characterized by a tingling sensation in the head and scalp, which can be triggered by sounds like whispering or brushing, and visual stimulus like painting or drawing. On YouTube, the phenomenon inspired the creation of “whisperer” videos, in which people attempt to trigger the viewer’s ASMR by speaking in a soft voice and making various sounds with inanimate objects.

So after coming back from my dad's room I searched up ASMR on Youtube. I found this video of someone moving wooden blocks around and whispering in dutch to trigger ASMR. I do not personally have ASMR but I find this rather relaxing. Me having asperger's syndrome, I am fascinated by these sounds and could watch a person moving blocks for a long time. If you have asperger's you should check this out as well as if you are fascinated by these things and/or need relaxation.

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