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I think anyone can experience it. It’s a matter of finding the right trigger from person to person. My fave is vocal whispering, which is just audible enough to hear but is a notch below the “soft-spoken” category.
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I am getting really worried about my ASMR experiences. Everywhere I’ve been reading that the more you experience ASMR, usually the more desensitized you become to it. But that has been the opposite scenario for me, and not in a good pleasurable way. For background, I only experience ASMR via touch or active thoughts. Before ASMR videos became big on YouTube, I used to trigger ASMR sensations by gently brushing my finger tips along my body (especially my back and arms). It helped a lot with reducing anxiety and managing stress levels (almost like a quick fix). I even got to a point where I trained myself to trigger ASMR without the need for any external triggers. It felt like a superpower in a way. I think I overdid it though relying on it as a stress management tool. Because over the past year, I have had episodes where the ASMR would reach peak intensity (tingly feeling would shoot strongly through my arms and legs) and then the tingly feeling would not go away for the next 24 hours . It’s like my nerves would keep misfiring over and over uncontrollably. There is no pain associated with the sensation but it does make me sometimes laugh or cough involuntarily just to release the bubbling up tension being released via the tingly ASMR feeling (If that makes any sense). But yeah the tingly goosebump feeling won’t go away no matter what I do. The scary thing is it feels like my body, and my heart especially, are on a non-stop rollercoaster as the ASMR cycles uncontrollably. I just want to figure out what is going on because when these intense episodes occur it affects my daily functioning. I feel out of breath and like my heart is constantly skipping beats. I can’t focus on my work and if I move the wrong way, it makes the sensations worse – almost paralyzing. When I am not experiencing one of these episodes I have an otherwise good bill of health – no cardiac or neurological issues (at least that I know about). I am a 27 yo female. Has anyone else experienced anything similar to my situation?? Just hoping to find answers and some relief.
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I used to experience asmr as a child, but seem to have lost it as an adult. Was almost always in school when I was already pretty zoned out, relaxed, in a daydream/trance like state and the teacher would write on the chalkboard. Oddly enough, certain types of chalk/chalkboards would “work better”, like the blackboard style (opposed to green) and with a shorter piece of chalk. Something about the light tapping in a quiet room. Occasionally certain shoes walking and echoing down the hallways would do it too. Asmr videos don’t work for me either. I’m assuming it’s because I’m older now and less relaxed, maybe less dopamine.
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I also first experienced ASMR as a child, and for me, my first experiences were listening to the teacher write on the blackboard in an otherwise quiet room. Or other kids writing. I do still experience it even though I’m in my 50s. A few years ago, in a quiet office, it was triggered by a colleague writing with a pencil on a piece of paper on her desk. So it produced a soft wooden tapping noise. And I also get it in an evening if the room is quiet and my husband is turning the pages of a large book or a magazine. When the sensation is at its most powerful (usually after a period of experiencing the trigger without interruption), the tingling moves from the top of my scalp down my neck, shoulders, and arms, and my hands get so relaxed (or weak) that I can’t hold a pen. I also feel so relaxed and drowsy. I can re-create it by watching ASMR videos, but I have to find that very specific sound. I find that the more I watch videos, the more likely I am to be desensitized. But if I stop for a few weeks, I’ll get the tingles again. Even when I’m not getting the tingles, listening to the sounds is so calming and relaxing.
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I’m 69, I’ve experienced this since the age of 4 or 5 and never knew what it was or that anybody else ever felt it. I would like to see someone do research on what shows up on external brain electrodes (like alpha,beta, theta waves) during this feeling. I started feeling this as a child watching the cat groom herself, and I liked it so much I sometimes put a dollop of butter on the cat’s fur to get her to wash!
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I don’t really get how the ASMR that people make videos about is the same kind as how I experience ASMR . For me all the whispering and such triggers my misophobia.. Mine is more experience like as for example the moment where the ambulance is driving past and EVERYONE just drives to the side, so the ambulance can pass as quickly as possible/ needed. It can also be a simple line from a poetry ore like a quote ore a song, it can also be listening to a lecture told by a specific calming speakers voice and tone of language, about stuff that I love learning more about.
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I think I get the ambulance thing… I think it’s because you’re moved by the general public all cooperating together like that for the benefit of somebody else (even if it is the law to pull aside). ASMR is commonly triggered by someone unselfishly doing/saying something nice for/to you, especially if they went out of their way and/or it was unexpected. I think the ambulance thing is like a cousin to that… instead of one person doing something nice for you, it’s a collective of people doing something nice for someone else. Also, just plain experiencing a large group of people all thinking or being emotional about the same thing at the same time, basically operating as a single mind, can trigger ASMR… for instance, it happened to me once at a Pink Floyd concert when the entire stadium quit yapping and sang the lyrics to Wish You Were Here in unison (1987 JFK Philly, anyone else? lol)… so maybe the ambulance thing is kinda related. As far as you being triggered by certain lecturers’ voices, and especially when they’re speaking of something you enjoy or that moves you, that’s not unusual at all… I experience that too. Whispering is only rarely a trigger for me (like maybe if it involved saying/doing something nice to/for me too), and I personally don’t really get the mouth noises thing that I’ve seen in videos (I feel more embarrassed for the person in the video than anything, lol).
For me, my surest ASMR trigger of all is when someone is counting money out to me… especially if they have a nice voice and/or are speaking quietly (think bank teller)… and it’s not so much about the money itself, although I’ve learned the sound of crisp paper is a common trigger for many… and it definitely gives me that feeling of someone doing something nice for me… so basically it’s a bunch of different common triggers all happening at once, so no wonder it’s my surest chance of an ASMR experience! I wonder why I don’t hear people talking about this money counting trigger more often, or why there aren’t videos of this (or maybe there are? If not, it’s a good suggestion!).
I still think it all goes back to when we were babies and small children, listening to our mother’s lovely voice as she read us books (crisp pages turning), or spoke softly and soothingly to calm our fears or put us to sleep, and just generally unselfishly did and said nice and thoughtful things for and to us. Maybe people who don’t experience ASMR weren’t fortunate enough to have mothers like that? I wonder if the studies on ASMR have revealed any insight on this.
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