"Someone walking on your grave" is much less pleasant, and sometimes painful. ASMR is more of a buzz than a shooting chill/spasm. Plus, ASMR has to be triggered, while the other can happen at any moment that your brain decides to derp itself.
"Someone walking on your grave" is much less pleasant, and sometimes painful. ASMR is more of a buzz than a shooting chill/spasm. Plus, ASMR has to be triggered, while the other can happen at any moment that your brain decides to derp itself.
Ah, okay. Because I have that happen at least once every few days ^_^; was hoping this was the explanation, it's never painful though, just unpleasant.
I don't know if it is exactly the same as what I feel whenever I used to see either that 9/11 footage or the feeling I still get when I see the 'The Times They Are a Changin' part of the Watchmen movie, but it is generally pleasant and it's more whole-body than just head.
Anyhow, I most certainly don't get anything from these wispering and touching things videos.
Well, I had reactions but none of them were what you described. I found the noise from the first one was only slightly more pleasant than nails on a chalkboard. Something in the second video's sound bothered me. I think it was the way the woman was whispering but the clinking of cups and the crinkling of the bag felt exaggerated, plus her weird stress pattern when speaking and her only being barely intelligible. The third actually bugged me visually: a paintbrush is being repeatedly applied to a picture and nothing is happening. My brain expects there to be some result and is unhappy for not getting it.
Clearly, if I have a trigger, it is not one of these.
The first video did nothing for me, but the second was pleasantly odd... I had never heard of this before, although I recognized the feeling when it started. Never really placed much stock in it though, kinda just figured it was normal.
For me, I can recognize that it happens when I get head/neck and hand massages (not as much with back/leg/foot/whatever else), and apparently whatever the combination of sounds and visuals of that video were. I'm still watching it as I type this, and I've noticed that the feeling diminishes significantly when I'm not actually watching it. I'm thinking I might have to look into this some more, see if I can figure out anything specific.
On topic, it's not really sexual at all (for me anyway), just randomly pleasurable. Feels almost like a neck massage, like a tingling in my throat and the back of my neck. Now that I know what it is, I don't see anything wrong with it. Seems like a cheap version of a spa day to me.
It's very cool to learn about these weird things because I know what it's like to experience something and feel that nobody knows what you're talking about. I finally saw a commercial for Restless Leg Syndrome a couple years back and realized that's what I had as a kid. I thought there was something seriously wrong with me (that was over 20 years ago).
The one thing I haven't been able to identify is this sensation I sometimes get when sitting very still. It can happen after an hour or just a few seconds. My head starts to feel like it's floating away from my body, or like my body is stretching out over several dozen feet. Very strange. It used to happen all the time but not any more.
Ever read a book by Oliver Sacks? He's a neurologist who encounters absolutely bizarre things on a regular basis, like rejected limbs, patients who have no method of balancing, a woman who couldn't comprehend the idea of "left" and had to spin all the way to the right to turn a bit to the left, and the like. He may have recorded a patient like you, as well as the science behind the condition. I've read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" and "Musicophilia", and his stuff is worth a read even if you don't find the answer.
I've heard Oliver Sacks speak on Radiolab before. Is he the one that wrote about the people who experienced time differently? There was a girl that could move so fast that she could catch a ball and throw it back at such a tremendous speed that it was almost dangerous. And there was a guy that moved so slow he looked like a human statue, but in his mind he was moving normally. Fascinating. I'm going to have to read his books!
Try these specifically the bottom one as it has 17 seperate triggers compiled into one video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT5tuIdzCY4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlDFG2SCgn8
I have been watching these for 12 months or so. It helps to wear comfortable headphones or ear buds, sit quietly, don't do anything else and have the volume set comfortably for your ears.
unfortunately i still don't get MUCH asmr i only get a tiny little amount. I mainly use these softly spoken/whisper videos to help me get to sleep and oh boy do they work well at that.
Well, the pure sounds ones people have posted haven't done anything for me, and the ones that have people talk in them, (see both links in above post, and also the second video in the OP), are pretty much unbearable due to the almost "hippy" way they talk and act. Can't stand it. Oh well!
Okay, I didn't really get it from these videos, but I know what you're on about.
Years ago, I used to go "far away" sometimes when teachers would show me personally how to do some school work at my desk, and now I know not only that it has a name, but that pretty much everybody experiences it too!
This was an odd sensation indeed. The earliest I remember it happening to me was when some soldiers came to our school and helped us with math by holding up flash cards. For some reason the one on one sessions with the flash cards gave me this sensation. I suggest everyone watch this video, it might give you the sensation too. I suggest wearing headphones and closing your eyes while listening to it.
Huh? Were any of the videos in this this thread meant to make me feel anything other than mild to moderate annoyance? Because that's all I got. I have no idea what's meant to be happening. I've never felt anything like what people are describing in this thread. I'm kind of glad to be honest. Seems freaking weird.
Her fingers in the first video looked like a spiders legs trying to crawl around the tin can. I'm an arachnophobe so i wasnt exactly placed into a state of relaxation.
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Interesting thing to learn about though.