And what triggers work best for you?
For me, mouth sounds(such as chewing) work extremely well, which is strange since in real life they're the kinds of sounds that totally gross me out(and, if loud enough, make me want to punch someone). Whispers(especially the unintelligible kind), various types of tapping, crinkling, and brushing work pretty well, too. I recently discovered layered sounds, too, in which you get bombarded with multiple triggers at once, and when they're well done, they're amazingly effective. And I think it goes without saying that recordings made with a binaural mic are much, much better than those without. I had no idea that playing around with the sounds' positioning could make a difference, but it does.
I guess I should share my story, too.
I discovered at a very young age that certain kinds of sounds caused a tingling sensation in my head and down my neck. The sound of gentle breathing when someone looks over your shoulder to read along with you. The rapping of fingernails on a desk, if it went on long enough. And I also figured out that I couldn't cause this myself. No amount of rapping my own fingernails on a surface worked. I clearly remember that the person who sat next to me in 6th grade would do it occasionally. That was about 23 years ago. It wasn't until a few months ago that a certain College Humor video about ASMR was released, I happened upon it by chance, and I found out:
A) It doesn't happen to everybody. In fact, it only happens to a small minority of people. I honestly didn't realize that most people never experience this, and it never really occurred to me to ask.
B) That it had a name at all. I still don't like that the M -- Meridian -- is supposed to mean "orgasm." The tingles are definitely not an orgasm, and there's nothing sexual about it at all.
C) That there was an online community of sorts on Youtube that caters to it. The videos range from the straight-forward to the extremely weird. I stick to the straight-forward ones.
D) That I had more triggers than I could have imagined. All of the common triggers -- tapping, whispering, crinkling -- work for me to some degree, but some kinds of quiet humming and metallic sounds work for me, too.
Weird, but true.
For me, mouth sounds(such as chewing) work extremely well, which is strange since in real life they're the kinds of sounds that totally gross me out(and, if loud enough, make me want to punch someone). Whispers(especially the unintelligible kind), various types of tapping, crinkling, and brushing work pretty well, too. I recently discovered layered sounds, too, in which you get bombarded with multiple triggers at once, and when they're well done, they're amazingly effective. And I think it goes without saying that recordings made with a binaural mic are much, much better than those without. I had no idea that playing around with the sounds' positioning could make a difference, but it does.
I guess I should share my story, too.
I discovered at a very young age that certain kinds of sounds caused a tingling sensation in my head and down my neck. The sound of gentle breathing when someone looks over your shoulder to read along with you. The rapping of fingernails on a desk, if it went on long enough. And I also figured out that I couldn't cause this myself. No amount of rapping my own fingernails on a surface worked. I clearly remember that the person who sat next to me in 6th grade would do it occasionally. That was about 23 years ago. It wasn't until a few months ago that a certain College Humor video about ASMR was released, I happened upon it by chance, and I found out:
A) It doesn't happen to everybody. In fact, it only happens to a small minority of people. I honestly didn't realize that most people never experience this, and it never really occurred to me to ask.
B) That it had a name at all. I still don't like that the M -- Meridian -- is supposed to mean "orgasm." The tingles are definitely not an orgasm, and there's nothing sexual about it at all.
C) That there was an online community of sorts on Youtube that caters to it. The videos range from the straight-forward to the extremely weird. I stick to the straight-forward ones.
D) That I had more triggers than I could have imagined. All of the common triggers -- tapping, whispering, crinkling -- work for me to some degree, but some kinds of quiet humming and metallic sounds work for me, too.
Weird, but true.
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