Options
Do you get "ASMR"?
Ænima
Posts: 38,548 Forum Member
✭
ASMR: 'Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response', is described as a tingly feeling, sometimes called a brain orgasm, or brain massage people feel when they watch others perform simple activities, instructional videos or from people with certain softly spoken voices and accents.
It is described as an incredibly pleasant feeling, but is not usually at all sexual. Some feel it on their neck and on or around the back of their heads, others feel it down their back or face.
There are lots of videos on youtube with people trying to help others trigger ASMR. I think until recently, it was a feeling that had no name and has only recently been documented and described.
So, do you have it?
It is described as an incredibly pleasant feeling, but is not usually at all sexual. Some feel it on their neck and on or around the back of their heads, others feel it down their back or face.
There are lots of videos on youtube with people trying to help others trigger ASMR. I think until recently, it was a feeling that had no name and has only recently been documented and described.
So, do you have it?
0
Comments
It's not nonsense, I get it myself
It may sound like nonsense to someone who doesn't have it I suppose.
I always thought it was just me who got it till I searched google. Actually, the google search itself took a bit of skill- I mean, how do you google something like that?
It's "nonsense" because everyone experiences these tingles of pleasure to a greater or lesser degree.
Giving totally normal human experiences a ridiculous quasi-scientific label, acronym and all the research accoutrements that they hope will flow from it, is just part of a need for some people have to define themselves as being somehow special and different from the masses.
EDIT - Buy an Orgasmatron for the nearest physical feeling.
Couldn't have put it better myself
Wow, you are very antagonistic.
I would differentiate this from just a tingle, it can be pretty intense and it's triggers are incredibly specific and odd and don't happen with other scenarios. It's nothing about being special or different. I wanted to know if other people here got it.
Whether something is normal or not, it can still be labelled. I don't see a problem with that personally. A label was useful for me in this case as it helped me find out about it and find youtube videos and such.
No?
Am I missing something?
epicurian: I would describe it as incredibly relaxing, strong feeling of calm, it does feel like a brain massage
Everyone who gets it seems to get it from similar triggers- instructional videos are the main ones, with someone calmly making something.
I find it really quaint myself, but I still get it! It's not like other relaxed feelings and as you can see, the triggers are oddly specific! I think if it was just relaxation like any other relaxation, it would have more normal triggfers- like yoga maybe?
Do you feel the same about déjà vu?
I think saying that people inventing the term just to feel "special" is a bit harsh. There may well be a scientific explanation for it all.
I'm sure everyone has experienced déjà vu. There's something distinctly odd about it and I'd be interested in seeing it from a scientific viewpoint.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=59293452&postcount=15
Nauseous or antagonistic?
eta: I'm sure I haven't experienced it, but I believe you when you say it's not an everyday sensation.
Oh no, a trawler!
You were holding a grudge?
Jeez, it was only yesterday.
Fair enough
I just have this mental image of you now angrily waiting at your keyboard for the time you could refer me back to my pukey comment at the American love in
Yes, Sensory Neurons
Nothing odd about it at all
As you wish.
Sorry to have derailed your thread.
I find it odd. I think Deja Vu is interesting
What?
So the explanation for this phenomenon is that they are merely detecting a stimulus? Maybe I'm an idiot, but to me that doesn't explain very much.
And I trust you've done extensive research into the phenomenon in order to arrive at this conclusion?
It's ok, I know I post the occasional shitty comment, I'm sorry
I suppose we are remembered for all the wrong reasons here eh?
OMG I used to get that at work when a lady used to instruct me how to do things.
She had a really soft voice and it made me go tingly and excited.
How about adverts?