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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1. There are a variety of ways to trigger ASMR on command w/o external triggers. I intentionally tap into the energy of loving intimacy and connectivity by staring at my own eyes in the mirror. Once I lose focus, I continue to stare at myself in the mirror and breathe into specific chakras. Connecting to myself and all that breathe the air, create ASMR on command.
2. Yes it can occur randomly. Why do we not deserve to be treated to random, harmless pleasure? I am grateful for the gift.
3. It can be a long list of things including meditation and spiritual communication. Everyone is different. We don’t need to be validated to acknowledge, enjoy and receive this personal, informative and meaningful human experience.
5. My immediate surroundings make no difference.
6. This sensation only occurs throughout my entire crown, unlike audio or visual triggers which may present as shapes on my head or also on my forehead.
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I can do it any time I want to, without having to think about anything at all. I do have to inhale first and then there’s some physical thing I do centered in my upper back, almost like a tiny shrug, and I feel the tingling all the way to my toes. It’s a sensation that is in my skin.
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Triggering on command for me means just releasing the energy literally on command with no prerequisites. For example, I don’t need to think or do anything to trigger voluntary piloerection, I just trigger it and then boom goosebumps all over. It’s as simple as raising an eyebrow or moving a toe.
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I can do it on command. I trained my body how to replicate the sensation. It feels like activating something at the base of my neck, deep inside my spinal cord. It is not frisson because I don’t get physical goosebumps. It is just this tingly sensation that rolls down my back and I can even control what areas of my body it expands out to. Like if I feel tension in my arms or legs from stress, then I can command the ASMR sensation to go to that area and release the tension. CAVEAT: I don’t recommend trying to learn how to command the ASMR because it has backfired for me. I got so good at it that I kept trying to intensify the feeling and I overused it. This has caused me to have intense episodes now where my ASMR can’t be turned off so to say. So it has grown out of control. My body will get stuck in fits of tingly sensations that are unrelenting. They just keep coming over and over again, lasting for fits as long as 24 hrs. It’s scary and I have yet to hear of anyone with a similar story. So please share if you have a similar experience!
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Hi,
You’re description is on point. I don’t get goosebumps either and yawn if I go too hard. It’s only the tingling for me and I don’t need any outside stimulus (triggers). Now, I have experienced the opposite of not being able to turn it off. I did some of handed research and read in a forum that this person, similar to us, was able to slowly release the tingling into short,yet intense bursts. I tried it one night and I think I exhausted myself and couldn’t fir an entire day.
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It happens whenever I want under any conditions. It begins in my head then quickly travels throughout my body reaching my toes. It’s a pleasant tingling sensation that also causes body hair- most noticeable on my arms- to stand up. Its a pleasant feeling and I sometimes find myself doing it to help alleviate headaches.
One thing I noticed fairly recently while watching myself do this in a mirror is that I noticed my nostrils flare very slightly when I will this to happen
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Its as easy to do as deciding to raise my hand.i never thought it was something rare
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Same for me. I can make it happen whenever I want to. I feel that tingle from my scalp right down to my toes.
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I have been able to do this for as long as I can remember. I can’t explain how to trigger it.
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There isn’t a physical trigger, it’s just something I decide to do and then do it, like anything other action. If it happens spontaneously I’m not aware of it, but since to me it’s such a normal thing I might not notice it as unusual if something external triggers it.
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