At great risk of getting flamed...anyone else try ASMR stuff?

[smokehouse]

A little back story here...

I'm an auditory person. At one time, I was borderline obsessed with audio and sound. My eye sight is for shit and my nose is jacked...but I can hear things like a damn house cat.

As a matter of fact, I'm so sensitive to sound that I sleep in earplugs.

Sitting in a dark room, listening to good sound equipment was actually a big hobby of mine years ago. I found it to be calming. (Long story short, I sold off my stuff years ago.)

Yesterday, I stumbled on an article on ASMR, if you do not know what that means, here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

So I write it off to yet another mumbo-jumbo line of bullshit, but it did interest me.

So...last night before bed, I popped on my ear goggles (of decent quality, nothing crazy) and found this video:



To listen to it straight up...it sounds boring/dumb. To watch it is also boring.

But to turn off the lights in a silent room, crank the volume on your headphones (this is an important part...volume must be high as it is so soft/detailed), close your eyes and just lay there listening to it...my jumping jesus...

Wow...it's hard to explain but it landed up putting m in this half in-half out sleep/trance thing. The sounds are highly calming to me...but keep me awake at the same time.

I may or may not tire of this...but it was actually pretty amazing.

 

[NeoSneth]

If it works for you, have at it.
Pills
Aroma's
Sound.
Massage
exercise.

i like a warm towel and a nice incense.

 

[Neodogg]

I too sleep with ear plugs, white noise is ok i.e. Fans, rain, wind blowing through the pine trees...but those damn short nose dogs snoring.

I've never heard of this but might give it a whirl.

Will await the flames involving if you are in your dress and make up while listening.

 

[Dr Shroom]

I found this hard to masturbate to.

 

[Endlessnameless]

Had never heard of this before, but sounds interesting. I was looking into binaural recordings there for awhile, but never really got into it. The video is quite odd =P

 

[BladeDancer314]

I found this hard to masturbate to.

Amateur

 

[smokehouse]

Had never heard of this before, but sounds interesting. I was looking into binaural recordings there for awhile, but never really got into it. The video is quite odd =P

It really is...and like I said, to watch it or even listen to it through some speakers is useless. Good headphones loud enough to simulate the volume made if you rub your own ear is required.

I thought I'd add that a good ear rub will knock me right out...

 

[NeoSneth]

http://www.rainymood.com/

I sometimes like to have this on in the background as well.

 

[evil wasabi]

I found this hard to masturbate to.

If it's easy, it's not worth it. If it's difficult, it's worth it.

The most gratifying rub will be the one where you stare at a turd in your toilet for 10 minutes wondering if you might catch fire, wondering when your life went this direction.

 

[StevenK]

If it's easy, it's not worth it. If it's difficult, it's worth it.

The most gratifying rub will be the one where you stare at a turd in your toilet for 10 minutes wondering if you might catch fire, wondering when your life went this direction.

I'm opened this thread to write a genuine comment on ASMR, but instead I just read this and shot ribena out of my nostrils.

 

[smokehouse]

I'm opened this thread to write a genuine comment on ASMR, but instead I just read this and shot ribena out of my nostrils.

Aw man...come on now, I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

 

[Rot]

Smokepants... going thru a mid-life crisis....

That's pretty much sums my feelings about this thread and the topic on hand... which i don't care for... ONE BIT!

xROTx

 

[StevenK]

Aw man...come on now, I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.

Have regained some composure now...

Yeah, I'm willing to jump on the flame wagon with you on this one, I love this stuff.

There was a woman at work who I did some training with a long time ago now and she had this voice that just made my whole chest turn to mush, in a good way. It's not at all a sexual thing either, it's just some kind of quality in certain voices or sounds that really resonates with me in an odd way. Years later I remembered it and did a bit of google searching and came across sites that are dedicated to the very thing, I found a couple of clips that really worked for me and spent a good few nights in a row blissed out on the sofa.

What I found though, after a while, was this:

- not all the videos that each site listed as good did it for me at all (in fact it was a small percentage of them)

- it didn't matter if it was a male or female voice, it was just something in the voice (my favourite one of all time was a guy unboxing a mobile phone cover, fuck knows why)

- it turned out that it didn't even have to be a voice. I actually posted up a video clip on here ages ago of a clip that I loved, but I didn't mention specifically why I posted it as I wanted to see if anyone else just happened to pick up on it. Which leads me to the next one...

- Nobody else seemed to notice it, and nobody I've spoken to irl has ever had a clue what I was talking about. I think it's actually pretty rare to give a shit about this stuff so you're destined to walk alone on this one unfortunately

- Finally, I didn't find many clips that worked for me, and I was pretty gutted to find out that the effect from ones that do work wears off after time, and quickly too, just like trying to rub one out to old porn.

So I've since run out of clips to listen to and it kind of drifted back out of my life again.

But they were some good times. I never thought I would have such warm memories of lying back with a beer in the evening listening to a guy open up his new $5 iphone case. Strange world.

 

[smokehouse]

Have regained some composure now...

Yeah, I'm willing to jump on the flame wagon with you on this one, I love this stuff.

There was a woman at work who I did some training with a long time ago now and she had this voice that just made my whole chest turn to mush, in a good way. It's not at all a sexual thing either, it's just some kind of quality in certain voices or sounds that really resonates with me in an odd way. Years later I remembered it and did a bit of google searching and came across sites that are dedicated to the very thing, I found a couple of clips that really worked for me and spent a good few nights in a row blissed out on the sofa.

What I found though, after a while, was this:

- not all the videos that each site listed as good did it for me at all (in fact it was a small percentage of them)

- it didn't matter if it was a male or female voice, it was just something in the voice (my favourite one of all time was a guy unboxing a mobile phone cover, fuck knows why)

- it turned out that it didn't even have to be a voice. I actually posted up a video clip on here ages ago of a clip that I loved, but I didn't mention specifically why I posted it as I wanted to see if anyone else just happened to pick up on it. Which leads me to the next one...

- Nobody else seemed to notice it, and nobody I've spoken to irl has ever had a clue what I was talking about. I think it's actually pretty rare to give a shit about this stuff so you're destined to walk alone on this one unfortunately

- Finally, I didn't find many clips that worked for me, and I was pretty gutted to find out that the effect from ones that do work wears off after time, and quickly too, just like trying to rub one out to old porn.

So I've since run out of clips to listen to and it kind of drifted back out of my life again.

But they were some good times. I never thought I would have such warm memories of lying back with a beer in the evening listening to a guy open up his new $5 iphone case. Strange world.

I'll definitely say this is an asexual thing for me...it's an odd, super calming type of deal.

I have wondered if the potency will wear out over time...I guess we'll see.

With me, the ear rubbing thing is quite possibly the most calming another human can do to me. The physical sensation coupled with the auditory input is a serious KO...

 

[nug]

My dad gave me a bunch of hemi sync tracks. You should look into it. Really works for me

 

[Neo Ash]

Wow...it's hard to explain but it landed up putting m in this half in-half out sleep/trance thing. The sounds are highly calming to me...but keep me awake at the same time.

I can relate to this. When I listen to music, and really get lost in it....there's nothing else. I sometimes enter sort of hypnotic-like state, where the emotion of the artist is truly felt...sometimes to the point of tears.

 

[Setsuna1982]

I actually do have ASMR reactions since I was a kid, but I just never new how to define it until recently. Is a really pleasant sensation in the back of the head, and it doesn't need to be triggered by "random girl talking sexy". IE: the sound of a vacuum cleaner in winter makes me feel it. I have no idea of how that works, but I know for a fact that not everybody experience it.

It is not related to sex, btw. Is a totally different sensation, really pleasant and relaxing. As for the videos, i've been watching some and I find that a big portion of them leans towards weird stuff like rubbing etc. And I like my ASMR free of innuendo. ASMR for me is a relaxing experience and sex make me feel anything but relaxed.

 

[lithy]

But they were some good times. I never thought I would have such warm memories of lying back with a beer in the evening listening to a guy open up his new $5 iphone case. Strange world.

Just kidding. I know exactly what you guys mean, its a weird thing, I'll find sometimes on customer service calls this will happen. It is definitely an aural thing and not at all tied to the visuals.

 

[Ip Man]

i have been watching asmr videos all the way back when they were known as whisper videos. suffered from insomnia most my life and asmr has been one of the best solutions for it. i even mentioned it in F4U57's recent thread about insomnia.