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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For me, it is always self-triggered. If I want to make it happen, it happens. I am not even sure how I make it happen. If I make it happen over and over, sometimes it becomes less intense. I think I have always had this but wasn’t as aware of it in my earlier years. I am now actively experimenting with it for stress reduction.
Also, I have never experienced it in response to sounds or sights.
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I ought to answer this in the format maybe:
Can you stimulate ASMR on command? If so, how do you trigger it?
Yes, easily and it’s like having another set of mental muscles – it’s a deliberate tactile sensation that is enhanced with emotional friction. Best way I can describe it.
Does it ever happen spontaneously/randomly? Sometimes, especially with new music, though a thought can do it.
Do you consider this meditation or something else? Used it for healing work to be honest as I was able to pass the strongest of these feelings onto other people (yep, I can sustain it and really build on it. Alters physiology).
Do your immediate surroundings make a difference?
A little.
How is the sensation similar or different from ASMR triggered by a video or by a real world stimulus?
Not 100% sure IT is ASMR, feels heavier, deeper and more involved in the body but ASMR is the nearest description I’ve seen other than biolelectricity.
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Very easily, can generate the sensation to a depth of feeling that causes tears of joy, a sensation of heat and more. Also can do it specifically into limbs and deep in the spine, just like the reported sense of Kundalini.
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Spontaneous is best for me. Have not vids
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I just figured out what I’ve been dealing with for years I never really could understand why I just excepted it I learned or really started paying attention to it when I listened to music the louder the better in a quiet room I unknowingly learned how to control it I use it for depression,anxiety, resolving inner issues of pain I make playlists of songs that will stimulate it I prefer music I haven’t had time to research videos on YouTube fully well I just figured this out all I can say is it’s a blessing for me I always wondered why I was so focused at those moments I haven’t even attempted to apply myself in school I don’t like loud noises but LOVE loud music kinda weird I’ve always thought….until today I don’t like to put names on things like this I’ll just call it a gift that’s what I’ve learned so far hope this helps you as much as finding some others who I can relate to and put a name to all this
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