[Voices of ASMR] Can ASMR be triggered on command or spontaneously?

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.

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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94 thoughts on “[Voices of ASMR] Can ASMR be triggered on command or spontaneously?”

  1. I can trigger it on command, it is not very intense on the skin and doesn’t give me goosebumps like a normal ASMR would. I can feel it predominantly in my legs, around the calves the most intensely, as well as my arms and groin area. The head is basically unaffected. It feels like a signal going up and down my body, as if it shoots into my legs and back. It is not always a pleasant feeling, however.

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  2. It’s not hard to get a tingling feeling on top of my head. When i meditate it starts after a few minutes. I became aware of it about 12 years ago during a 10-days Vipassana meditation course. I feel it as well when sitting on a chair, stretching my back and moving my head slowly. It disappears when I take a different position.

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  3. I can trigger it whenever I want to. I’ve sat for almost an hour and just triggered it over and over and over again and I’ve never been more relaxed in my life. It’s very stimulating and opens my mind to where I can really focus on deep thoughts and really plan out long term goals and how to achieve them.

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  5. I can do it on my command whenever and wherever I wish to without any trigger. But its hard to explain how to do it. I don’t remember actually.
    Try to relax yourself, and do the breathing and deep sleep meditation.

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