Based on your ASMR experiences…
Explain if you can stimulate or experience ASMR on command or spontaneously, include details like:
- Can you stimulate ASMR on command? If so, how do you trigger it?
- Does it ever happen spontaneously/randomly?
- Do you consider this meditation or something else?
- Do your immediate surroundings make a difference?
- How is the sensation similar or different from ASMR triggered by a video or by a real world stimulus?
Note: Sometimes self-induced ASMR is confused with self-induced frisson. If you feel chills, see your arm hairs rise up (piloerection), or experience goosebumps then you may be experiencing self-induced frisson (AKA voluntary piloerection) rather than self-induced ASMR.
- Read about frisson here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
- Read about voluntary piloerection here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6071615/
If you think you are experiencing self-induced ASMR (rather than self-induced frisson), then please do share your answers and experiences in the Comments section below.
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I always wondered what it was. I can do it over and over. Have been able to since I was a kid. Goosebumps and tingles, the whole 9
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I can trigger it on command. It almost feels like I’m moving my spine sometimes lol idk.
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Can you stimulate ASMR on command? If so, how do you trigger it?
I can’t trigger it on command. I get light head tingles sometimes when I run my fingernails on my skin, but that’s as far as it goes.
Does it ever happen spontaneously/randomly?
It mostly happens spontaneously and randomly.
Do you consider this meditation or something else?
Just a relaxation technique.
Do your immediate surroundings make a difference?
Yes.
How is the sensation similar or different from ASMR triggered by a video or by a real world stimulus?
it’s not as intense.
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Yes , I am able to do it on command. It happens naturally , randomly , but ever since I was a kid I could do this. I asked people and they thought i was crazy. I didn’t know anything about amsr until recently. I can just trigger it and without fail , it happens every time. starts in the back of my head , goes down my spine and out my arms. I end up with crazy goosebumps with my arm hair on end.
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I can’t trigger it by command but I can help induce it in a very strange way. I have to be watching ASMR video and doing so I will press my shoulders up towards my head, squeezing my neck between them. It builds tension and after the right sound trigger from the video I can release it by sideways-upward movement of my head and stretching my shoulders. It is the same kind of movement that you do when you have shivers up your spine from cold or things like that.
– It does not happen spontaneously for me (as far as I can remember)
– I don’t consider ASMR meditation. I consider it relaxation.
– My immediate surroundings make a huge difference between the feelings I can get from ASMR (distracting elements can even trigger anger for no apparent reason for me).
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