ASMR: What it is, what it stands for and how it works

Today, we're going to try and explain, Asmar, what it is, how it works and why millions of. people are watching Asmar videos. Yeah, I don't get the whole dungeon thing at all. Dungeon. What do you mean? Who could be comfortable in all that level? No, no, no, no. You're thinking of you're thinking of something different. Asmar It causes people to feel the tingling sensations all over their body. I think we're talking about the same videos. We're not these are the ones where they pick a safeword, right? No peanut brittle. We don't need it. I guess that's two words Asmar has nothing to do to put.

Welcome to the Y files were high IQ folks like us come to laugh and learn. Today, we're talking about Asmar Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, which is a. pleasurable, tingling feeling that some people experience when exposed to certain. stimuli. The sensation is described as starting at the top of the head and then running. all the way down the spine. And some people will feel it in their extremities.

Fingers, toes, limbs. Those are our extremities. No idea what I'm talking about. That's OK. Most people don't. ASIMO is pretty new, but there's an active and rapidly growing community online of Asmar. enthusiasts. What makes Asmar such an interesting phenomenon is that not everyone. experiences it, and the people that do they have different triggers. Common triggers are whispering, finger tapping, clicking, hair brushing. Some people, if you crumple a piece of paper right up against their ear, they'll have.

what some folks call a brain orgasm. Know every time someone hits the likes button. I feel that tingling in my dorsal fin. Whoa. Oh, boy. Someone just did it. I felt that, too. Oh, baby. Oh, OK. Ease up on the like button. We don't want Hellfish to stroke out Goodlow. So what's actually happening to the brain and body during an Asmar experience? The science is still pretty thin, but research is underway.

In twenty eighteen. The University of Sheffield exposed one hundred and twelve people to ask similar videos. About half the people experience the response. The other half got nothing. So what's going on here? Well, some studies say that Asmar could be linked to Misophonia, which is we're hearing a. sound could elicit a negative emotional and physiological response automatically think of. nails on a chalkboard, which for some people is intolerable, intolerable, intolerable.

Why is that word in every script? Misophonia like Asmar could be a type of synesthesia, which is we're experiencing one. sense causes an involuntary reaction in a completely different sense. So people with severe synesthesia say they can hear colors or taste sounds. With Misophonia and Asmar hearing a certain sound is triggering a feeling. Just like Asmar, people have different monophonic triggers. For example, nails on a chalkboard doesn't bother me at all, but nails on cardboard or.

cardboard rubbing together. I can't even think about it without getting chills. It's definitely the most awful sound ever born. Other common monophonic triggers are chewing noises, lip smacking, tongue clicking, joint. cracking. And those bother me too. Like if I'm at a restaurant and someone is slurping their soup, it's all I can do to not. walk over there and punch them right in the face.

I fantasize about it. Yeah. Let me ask you something. Is it hard being so neurotic? Oh, it ain't easy. But just like some people find pain pleasurable to push sounds that are. painful for some are actually pleasurable. Some are triggers for others. And there are hundreds of YouTube videos of people chewing and slurping and eating right. in your ear. Now, I can't stand it, but that may be in a similar trigger for you. So I will link to some of those videos below and you can check it out.

There's also a visual element to Asmar. There are videos on YouTube showing people doing nothing but cutting bars of soap into. little squares or shaving bars of soap into these thin curls and then crushing them at. the tiny little bits. This type of Hazama has been called visual white noise, and some. people find it really relaxing. Other visual, asimilar videos show people squishing their hands and buckets of slime or. pouring the colorful slime from one container to the other.

Now, these videos have millions of views, so they're working for somebody. But what happens when we combine visual triggers with auditory triggers? We get the Greek god of Samaa, Bob Ross. Dr. Craig Richard, a professor at Shenandoah University, wrote a book called Brain. Tingle's, which is kind of an anthem our users guide. Dr Richard recalls experiencing asthma as a child while watching Bob Ross paint.

He said Bob would turn his brain into this enjoyable, relaxing fuzziness. Let's make a happy little guy. I totally get that. And it's no surprise that Bob Ross is hugely popular in the Asima. community. He hits a ton of triggers, the scraping of the knives on the canvas, the. repetitive washing of the brush strokes, Bob's gentle whispering play by play of the. painting, the fluffy little clouds and the happy little trees. We build a happy little cloud. It's really relaxing in going.

It's scrapper. Go ahead at that. Don't smash like, but we do like that, gently rubbed like, but that's. snapped and didn't Bob make you feel like he was talking directly to you? Think of this tape as a private lesson in my studio, and I reserve this front row seat. just for you. This kind of intimate personal attention is common with Asmar. Brain scans of people experiencing Tingle's have similar scans to people that are being. groomed or gently cared for.

And for people with this trigger, it's not the touching that causes the tingles, it's the. personal attention. Many Asmar content creators or role-play, caring, grooming activities like hair washing, hair brushing or blow drying. And the sound of a blow dryer does nothing for me but bubble wrap off all day long. Other creators known as ASRM artists will roleplayed doing your makeup for you just like.

that. Or they'll pretend to be a teacher, giving you gentle praise and reassurance. So welcome to your first day of class. Some of these triggers may sound silly, but to people who are Asmar sensitive, the. experience has been proven to lower their heart rate, reduce their blood pressure and. reduce levels of fight or flight hormones in their bloodstreams. Hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. These are the same benefits that people get from meditation. So there might be something to this that was a good one.

But why does Asmar work with some people and not others? Well, we don't know yet. Every individual has unique physiological characteristics and. there are other factors like the culture in which they live or the environment where they. were raised. Asima, is just another example about how the human brain is fascinating and. complicated and downright weird. And if being weird is wrong, I don't want to be right. Platypus. Thanks for hanging out with us today. My name is A.J. That's Hellfish.

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