Based on your ASMR experiences…
Explain what ASMR feels like to you, include details like:
- What physical sensations do you feel?
- Where do you feel these sensations on your body?
- What emotional and psychological sensations do you feel?
- How strong are the sensations?
- How long does it last?
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I always called the feeling “brain tingles” because I mainly experience them in my head, but when they are more intense the tingles can also move in waves down my neck and spine. It feels kind of like pins and needles when your foot goes to sleep but pleasurable rather than painful. Sort of sparkly and fizzy, in waves of intensity. Although I feel very relaxed all over, I have not had tingles extend to my lower torso, arms or legs. I generally feel very warm and cozy and relaxed. It’s like a good dream you don’t want to wake up from. And I sometimes feel so relaxed I could just fall asleep instantly if I put my head down. The strength of the sensation differs from day to day and depends on the setting – in public usually weaker, at home usually stronger. Sometimes just a quick movement, like turning my head, could disrupt them instantly. But other times I could sit still for 10 minutes after having my hair brushed and the tingles would continue and just gradually fade away.
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The first time I realized that this feeling that I get had a name and that other people experienced it too, was on a 3 hour drive home one Sunday listening to NPR’s This American Life: Tribes. Andrea Seigel described the sensation she felt and it perfectly described it for me …
“… it was like starbursts in my head. Starbursts that open on the crown and then sparkle down at the nape like this warm, glittering water rushing under your scalp.”
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please need to know whats the name of this.bybthis mean i can trigger this feelings whiout any external source. Im capable since i was a kid. In just found out theres people who feels these but whit external input thats not my case i cant trigger what they describe but just whanting to do so. How is that call? Please tell me.
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You’re so lucky! I wish I could trigger it myself.
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It starts from the back of my head, like everyone else says. Then goes down to my arms and sometimes to my calves. It makes me get very relaxed. Of course, ASMR videos trigger it, but when people whisper for a while to me or when the back of my head is touched in a certain way (my friends call me a cat because rubbing it relaxes me). As for how long it lasts, it lasts a while after the feeling ends.
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This is so cool, wow.
Never was able to explain this growing.
I experience the below:
-Tingling starts off strong then varies in strength
-I feel it at the crown of my head and it makes its way down to my ears, neck, back (spine), shoulders, arms, down to my calves, in the calf area I usually feel the same thing after drinking a couple glasses of wine
-My body loosens imensely (again, like after drinking wine)
-Often it makes me feel cold and get chilly
-I start laughing uncontrollably sometimes or I smile throughout the experience
-I get sleepy and my eyes start closing
-My body becomes sensitive, not in a sexual way
-It’s triggered by certain touches, like when I am getting my hair cut or during a massage
-When someone speaks in a soft voice
-When someone is making very meticulous and slow movements that are often repeated
-Make up tutorials often trigger my ASMR, back rubs (very gentle and light finger strokes)
-It lasts for extended periods of time varying in strengths, comes and goes
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