Julie Young and Ilse Blansert have finished writing “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to ASMR” which should be available in May. You will be able to buy it everywhere books and e-books are sold.
Julie is a freelance writer and author, and has previously published The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Catholicism, Historic Irvington, and the young adult novel Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
Below are my questions to Julie in bold, followed by her replies in italics.
My co-investigators and I are still collecting data for our on-going ASMR research survey (information about that research survey HERE).
But I do have some data to share from my website polls.
Below are responses from visitors to this site who answered the polls on the “First Time Visitor?” page. There were 130-161 respondents for each question.
The majority of poll takers:
If you would like to see the full data from the polls, including which responses were least selected, then keep reading.
Interested in participating in some ASMR research?
I am collaborating with members of asmr-research.org on an on-line survey that may be the first published, global, demographic study about ASMR.
The survey is not only for those who experience ASMR, but it also for those who don’t experience ASMR or may not even know if they do experience ASMR. Comparing these different groups of people will help us to understand ASMR even better.
Author Julie Young and ASMR artist Ilse Blansert are collaborating on the first book from a major publisher about ASMR titled, “Complete Idiot’s Guide to ASMR.”
Julie has experienced ASMR for a long period of time and brings her extensive author experience and deep interest about ASMR to this endeavor.
Ilse is an ASMR artist (AKA The Water whispers) with over 120,000 followers on YouTube, so you can expect she will be providing some of the best understandings and perspectives about ASMR to be found anywhere.
It is the ASMR HQ podcast. It is hosted by Paula and Wanda.
The same dynamic duo that created the websites ASMR HQ and ASMR Academy.
As well as tons of spectacular ASMR videos.
I really like these two women. They embody the true kindred and sharing spirit of the ASMR community.
All of their websites and their podcast have a huge amount of helpful content to ASMR artists and others.
I’ll probably write more posts about their websites in the future, but for now let me tell you more details about their podcast. Continue reading
It may have for Alan Atchison. I just stumbled on a recent article he wrote about ASMR.
The article is a very well written summary of ASMR intertwined with flashbacks to his ASMR moments in youth.
He included this view on ASMR that intrigued me, Continue reading
Last month, guest Molly Shannon started a discussion with the host Conan O’Brien about ASMR.
It begins with her talking about going through airport security and then develops into avery well-done descriptive explanation of ASMR and her experiences.
But let me first answer, who is Molly Shannon? Continue reading
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