ASMR is weird, creepy and disgusting.

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Original (Avstängd) 27 dec, 2024 @ 20:24

ASMR is nasty.

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Tabun Gas 8 jan @ 15:04

looks like asmr has something in common with you hah

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crunchyfrog 8 jan @ 15:29

No it really isn't.

I really don't like it either as it irritates me.

But that's kind of the point - to us it irritates, to others it's the OPPOSITE. It can be soothing or intriguing.

That's the beauty of sound - it REALLY is one of our senses that really nails straight into our subconscious. It's one of the reasons I studied audio engineering because I loved doing certain tricks to mess with your mind.

The brain is a wonderful thing and you can EASILY fool yourself, especially by audio. It also works slightly different to other senses too.

For example, you can look at a "tromp l'oeil" poster and spend a while trying to see the trick. Once you got it, great, but you can return and spend time again trying to find it.

Not so much the case with audio. Your brain tends to remember things easier.

I can demonstrate easily.
Go to Youtube.
Search for The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" - the official single version.
This song was made from two different version spliced together. They were quite different.
Find the join.

You likely won't (unless you already know).

Now if I tell you it's between 59 seconds and 1 minute on the nose, you'll now listen to it and spot it instantly.

And now EVERY time you hear it you won't forget - you can't UNHEAR things.

So ASMR can be a bastard if you don't like it, but don't diss it for those that do, because they REALLY like it.

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the vampire of time and memory 8 jan @ 15:33

Ursprungligen skrivet av cool murderer rap-killa chicago:
looks like asmr has something in common with you hah

he's cooked...

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Esoteric 8 jan @ 15:39

What exactly is asmr?

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DOOMGIRL69 8 jan @ 15:43

Ursprungligen skrivet av Esoteric:
What exactly is asmr?

ASMR is triggered by things like whispering voices, paper tearing, and scalp massage" · "I've often experienced ASMR when having a haircut"
a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck, as experienced by some people in response to a specific gentle stimulus, often a particular sound:

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Kamiyama 8 jan @ 15:51

Ursprungligen skrivet av Esoteric:
What exactly is asmr?

Tingly feeling in your scalp and spine, combined with a sense of euphoria. It feels uplifting, almost spiritual.

I get it when I find a new song I like. I have a music thread and some songs in there give me ASMR. Unfortunately listening to the same song over and over kind of burns me out and stops giving me the same "high"

I think the first time I really noticed it was watching the opening to GitS:

https://youtu.be/QxkMzn4et2U

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crunchyfrog 8 jan @ 18:28

Ursprungligen skrivet av AdahnGorion:
Ursprungligen skrivet av Esoteric:
What exactly is asmr?
Younger generation doing odd things on video to relax themselves and you.. something like that

Nothing to do with younger generation.

Just because it's popularized in recent years doesn't make it a "young" thing.

All ages use it, if it floats their boat. It's not something disparaging either - there's fact behind it.

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crunchyfrog 8 jan @ 18:43

Ursprungligen skrivet av ๋:
Ursprungligen skrivet av Kamiyama:
Unfortunately listening to the same song over and over kind of burns me out and stops giving me the same "high"
You're right. That does happen. That happened to me when i started watching asmr videos to relax; now i just watch them on occasion. Taking breaks from triggers helps bring it back.

What is your music thread? Is it here?

That's a fair point.

As this is a trick to fool the mind, your mind gets familiar with it and it has less effect.

I feel the best approach might be use it sparingly, and try and mix it up with other examples to vary it.

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TGC> The Games Collector 8 jan @ 18:45

I kinda miss cable TV.

It used to have the perfect white noise.
Especially when there's some weird unknown channel fading in and out.

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Mr. Wombat 8 jan @ 18:46

I don't think ASMR is awful, it just triggers the opposite response it's supposed to in me

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crunchyfrog 8 jan @ 19:01

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mr. Wombat:
I don't think ASMR is awful, it just triggers the opposite response it's supposed to in me

Yeah that's the thing with audio stuff generally.

It's no different really to any music you don't like that others do.

Maybe a bit more visceral but still similar.

I cannot stand it at all, and some even brings me out in goose pimples, but I love the fact it exists because I know it works for some.

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Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser 8 jan @ 19:46

ASMR is a physiological response (autonomous sensory meridian response, hence the acronym) some people experience involuntarily, not the content people are seeing online intended to elicit it. Something as simple as wind blowing the right way through a tree can induce ASMR in some people, but since there's a small cottage industry catering to inducing it intentionally now, people have popularly started thinking that content is what ASMR itself is, not the response to audio stimuli.

It's a bit like (ironically) the evolution of the word "meme," where the most popularly recognized example of a thing (in this case, humorous viral images on the internet) became what people think of when they hear the term at all now, even though originally it very broadly referred to any kind of transmissible unit of cultural information from ideas to concepts to behaviors to styles, etc.

Such is the plasticity over even very shorts time frames of etymology I guess. But it's strange to know I'm someone who involuntarily experiences ASMR when someone rakes their leaves outside, but if I say that then people's minds go to a very different place I wasn't even in the same ballpark as lol.

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