To continue from my previous comment I suppose its likely that this is something that we all experience strongly as infants or small children but lose as we get older. Many of the triggers described seem to be resemblant of sounds that might be heard in the womb or by infants when being cared for and before their senses become fully developed. Perhaps as we develope and our senses become more organized most of us lose the associations that trigger these sensations.
I honestly believe everyone gets this and thats why its not something that special research is being done about as some sort of 'condition.' Most people if you were to ask them if they get a physical tingling sensation if someone were to whisper a complement into their ear they would say yes. If you were to ask them first if they get it from rustling bubble wrap they would probably look at you funny. I think some people are just more sensitive to it than others.
I have ASMR and if there is one thing I have most definitely benefited from it other than just the ability to fall asleep at the sensation, is that it helps me very easily fall into a state of meditation. I've heard that many people who are naturally zenful are able to achieve and even sustain an authentic state of meditation throughout long periods of time through the triggers around them. Many common and small things are experienced as small brain massages.
nice info but i think for me sound isn't the primary trigger. i can get asmr from a girl brushing her hairs for example. or someone writing a form about me... so my opinion is that it's not alays related to sound.
Thanks Shaun. I am about to upload a video with more asmr info and some triggers. I have mentioned you in it and I hope you don't mind I kinda stole your potpouri idea. I gave you credit for it in the video. The new video should be good to go in an hour or so. Thanks again .
This was so interesting! Thank-you for all of the effort that you've invested into researching! I'm not sure if I have many of the other aspects of synesthesia...but I'm interested to find out more...I think you have a great theory about ASMR being one aspect of it though...it makes total sense! Eureeka!!!! LOL! Thank-you again...Marni :)
Thanks for these videos, very interesting! I experience ASMR but I can't relate to any of the examples of synesthesia I've read about. I did read someone mentioning confusing left & right, is this to do with synesthesia? As still to this day I sometimes have to do the trick of making an L out of my left hand to remember which is which. I studied art & have been diagnosed with depression & social anxiety disorder. I'm assuming somehow all these tendencies must correlate in 1 region of the brain!
@AngelicWhisperings I think you have something good here. I wish I could include it in the video I am uploading today but I can follow this trail some more so I can expand upon it in the video after that. Thank you so much. It would be really nice if other viewers could discuss these issues to help point me in the right direction. Thanks again.
wow, i just looked it up and none really related to me untill i read, 3d timeline of dates and years... thats exactly how i see years and months and days. strange. and ive had asmr from at least when i was a young child.
I have asmr, i first felt it when i was a child and one of my friends played with my hair but I never knew what it actually was until late last year. All of your facts sound right. I am terrible at maths, but i am very creative musically and artistically. I love listening to whisper videos and watching slow hand movements. I have some videos on my channel so please check them out and see what you think.
I think its great that you have such an interest in ASMR, thanks for posting videos :)
Yep i just found out i have synethsesia as well as asmr! (sunday: golden monday: cyan tuesday: pink wednesday: orange thursday: dark blue friday: yellow saturday: black) are there any problems or issues that come along with this? Anything serious?
@MrSuperOrgasmic I have been gathering some really fun stuff together for another ASMR information video and I haven't come across anything very negative so far. Some of us have problems "fitting in" socially. I will address that in further detail when I have my factual ducks more in a row. Thanks for the comment. These are home base for my research.
I have ASMR and Synesthesia. I see names in colors (John: green David: orange Cassie: red) but i didnt know there was a name for that too! I just figured it was because as a young child alphabet letters were different colors, and everyone was like that. However, I was studied in first grade by a child psychologist because I described events as having textures.I would have wild nightmares that were only geometric shapes,colors and textures.
@SOUNDsculptures I am honoured you should comment upon my humble video. You do some wonderful ASMR videos that are very popular here on youtube. I encourage those with ASMR and the ASMR curious to check them out.
I have asmr, but do not have synesthesia. I really don't even need sound to trigger asmr tingles sometimes, depending on what I'm watching. In fact my strongest asmr usually occurs when I'm watching someone doing something diligently and with a purpose like drawing, doing magic tricks, or folding clothes(especially if they are nervous). I think you simply have to be in the right state of mind to get tingles. If I'm in certain moods, I find it can be almost impossible for me to have asmr.
@Winteraconites I really really want to know this too. I went to the ASMR page and it was nothing but Misophonia triggers for me. Well, some of it wasn't bad, like unboxing videos... but the saliva with speech, and some scraping type noise... just want to cry.
I've had ASMR for as long as I can remember and literally two weeks ago I just found out that its called ASMR and other ppl have it!! I always thought that it was just a funny little quirk I had! Little did I know about the hundreds and hundreds of videos on youtube devoted to making ppl like "tingle" lol! Its like a whole new world has opened up for me.
I do have ASMR and I am creative, I suck at math, I tend to have a photographic memory especially when it comes to my childhood and as far as left and right, I have to think about it if someone (for example) ask me if they have to turn left or right. And directions, let's just say nobody every asks me for directions because they know they will end up in china! lol
@julieg1985 Thank you so much for this comment and thank you to all the others who have left comments here. I read them all and find them very interesting. I don't reply to every one because I don't want to make this all about me having to put my two cents in every time someone says something but I love the comments and I am sure there are hundreds of others who are enjoying them too. Thank you.
Thanks for this! About a year ago, I discovered that my grapheme-color synesthesia had (that) name. Similarly, about a month ago, I discovered that my ASMR had (that) name. I'm now certain that I have both abilities but didn't realize they could be linked. As for other correlations proposed, I fit in some ways but not in others.
I fit:
-I have left/right confusion & a poor sense of direction
@filletweld05 I too have asmr and have left right confusion, i'm creative as i am a musician, i have a terrible 'word' memory, math was by best subject, i am very good with numbers.
That's so weird. I personify things, and I get asmr. O_O I didn't know this had been studied. I always just figured I was weird and never thought twice about it.
I have just recently discovered ASMR (I've "felt" for as long as I can remember!) but now, it has a a name!! lol I always felt weird about it cuz let's be realistic here, telling ppl you feel "tingles" in your head sounds kinda odd lol And now I'm starting to see that I might have Synesthesia (I feel music and never thought anything of it....) I always felt like a freak but now I feel kinda "special" because it's not common but other ppl have it. Thank you so much for the video! :)
Interesting how you mentioned having trouble with your left/right and sense of direction. I've got ASMR and I've always had to concentrate real hard to tell which is my left or right, and I can't navigate at all, even in places I've been to hundreds of times.
Thanks for all your efforts in piecing this ASMR/Synesthesia stuff together :) There's so little research out there, so it's nice to hear such an interesting and new take on the subject.
@LLearners I think there's def. a link to ASMR and the whole direction thing.... I have the SAME problems! I work in a busy restaurant and I can remember a persons order from 2 months ago but telling them how to get to the nearest store takes me 10 minutes! lol
As I’ve thought about ASMR, I’ve had something of a theory that it could relate somehow to infancy. Whispering, gentle movements, repetition of words, or maybe relaxing rhythmic sounds you heard but did not understand, seems all these type of things are used around or to calm babies, & perhaps the responsive feelings to those triggers stick with some people even as adults.
@Brontosaur1234 As soon as I read this comment I remembered all the times I have shook a rattle to make a baby happy. I think you have something here.
To continue from my previous comment I suppose its likely that this is something that we all experience strongly as infants or small children but lose as we get older. Many of the triggers described seem to be resemblant of sounds that might be heard in the womb or by infants when being cared for and before their senses become fully developed. Perhaps as we develope and our senses become more organized most of us lose the associations that trigger these sensations.
TheEpisteme 3 days ago
I honestly believe everyone gets this and thats why its not something that special research is being done about as some sort of 'condition.' Most people if you were to ask them if they get a physical tingling sensation if someone were to whisper a complement into their ear they would say yes. If you were to ask them first if they get it from rustling bubble wrap they would probably look at you funny. I think some people are just more sensitive to it than others.
TheEpisteme 3 days ago
And the zen lifestyle seems to really provide a lot of the ASMR experiences naturally.
gemarrs 6 days ago in playlist About ASMR
I have ASMR and if there is one thing I have most definitely benefited from it other than just the ability to fall asleep at the sensation, is that it helps me very easily fall into a state of meditation. I've heard that many people who are naturally zenful are able to achieve and even sustain an authentic state of meditation throughout long periods of time through the triggers around them. Many common and small things are experienced as small brain massages.
gemarrs 6 days ago in playlist About ASMR
nice info but i think for me sound isn't the primary trigger. i can get asmr from a girl brushing her hairs for example. or someone writing a form about me... so my opinion is that it's not alays related to sound.
mekanikerdy8 1 week ago
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xVancha 3 weeks ago
Thanks Shaun. I am about to upload a video with more asmr info and some triggers. I have mentioned you in it and I hope you don't mind I kinda stole your potpouri idea. I gave you credit for it in the video. The new video should be good to go in an hour or so. Thanks again .
jodywhiteley 3 weeks ago
You're a lovely person with a dry sense of humour which is wonderful. Just wanted to let you know in case no one else has lol :)
ShaunberryiPod 3 weeks ago
This was so interesting! Thank-you for all of the effort that you've invested into researching! I'm not sure if I have many of the other aspects of synesthesia...but I'm interested to find out more...I think you have a great theory about ASMR being one aspect of it though...it makes total sense! Eureeka!!!! LOL! Thank-you again...Marni :)
natureswhispers 3 weeks ago
Thanks for these videos, very interesting! I experience ASMR but I can't relate to any of the examples of synesthesia I've read about. I did read someone mentioning confusing left & right, is this to do with synesthesia? As still to this day I sometimes have to do the trick of making an L out of my left hand to remember which is which. I studied art & have been diagnosed with depression & social anxiety disorder. I'm assuming somehow all these tendencies must correlate in 1 region of the brain!
AngelicWhisperings 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from jodywhiteley
@AngelicWhisperings I think you have something good here. I wish I could include it in the video I am uploading today but I can follow this trail some more so I can expand upon it in the video after that. Thank you so much. It would be really nice if other viewers could discuss these issues to help point me in the right direction. Thanks again.
jodywhiteley 3 weeks ago
wow, i just looked it up and none really related to me untill i read, 3d timeline of dates and years... thats exactly how i see years and months and days. strange. and ive had asmr from at least when i was a young child.
madbab00n 3 weeks ago
I have asmr, i first felt it when i was a child and one of my friends played with my hair but I never knew what it actually was until late last year. All of your facts sound right. I am terrible at maths, but i am very creative musically and artistically. I love listening to whisper videos and watching slow hand movements. I have some videos on my channel so please check them out and see what you think.
I think its great that you have such an interest in ASMR, thanks for posting videos :)
lozasmr 3 weeks ago
Can anyone with this remember very very far back into their childhood/infanthood?
faithm 3 weeks ago
Yep i just found out i have synethsesia as well as asmr! (sunday: golden monday: cyan tuesday: pink wednesday: orange thursday: dark blue friday: yellow saturday: black) are there any problems or issues that come along with this? Anything serious?
MrSuperOrgasmic 3 weeks ago
@MrSuperOrgasmic I have been gathering some really fun stuff together for another ASMR information video and I haven't come across anything very negative so far. Some of us have problems "fitting in" socially. I will address that in further detail when I have my factual ducks more in a row. Thanks for the comment. These are home base for my research.
jodywhiteley 3 weeks ago
I have ASMR and Synesthesia. I see names in colors (John: green David: orange Cassie: red) but i didnt know there was a name for that too! I just figured it was because as a young child alphabet letters were different colors, and everyone was like that. However, I was studied in first grade by a child psychologist because I described events as having textures.I would have wild nightmares that were only geometric shapes,colors and textures.
CassieAnnaCary 3 weeks ago
I have synaesthesia and experience ASMR. My mother experiences ASMR but not synaesthesia.
SOUNDsculptures 1 month ago
@SOUNDsculptures I am honoured you should comment upon my humble video. You do some wonderful ASMR videos that are very popular here on youtube. I encourage those with ASMR and the ASMR curious to check them out.
jodywhiteley 1 month ago
p.s. nice research and your lava lamps are awesome! :D
stranger534 1 month ago
I have asmr, but do not have synesthesia. I really don't even need sound to trigger asmr tingles sometimes, depending on what I'm watching. In fact my strongest asmr usually occurs when I'm watching someone doing something diligently and with a purpose like drawing, doing magic tricks, or folding clothes(especially if they are nervous). I think you simply have to be in the right state of mind to get tingles. If I'm in certain moods, I find it can be almost impossible for me to have asmr.
stranger534 1 month ago
I have ASMR and also some degree of Misophonia (decreased tolerance to certain sounds) Do you think these conditions may be related to each other?
Winteraconites 1 month ago
@Winteraconites I really really want to know this too. I went to the ASMR page and it was nothing but Misophonia triggers for me. Well, some of it wasn't bad, like unboxing videos... but the saliva with speech, and some scraping type noise... just want to cry.
faithm 3 weeks ago
@Winteraconites by ASMR page I meant the subreddit for it.
faithm 3 weeks ago
I've had ASMR for as long as I can remember and literally two weeks ago I just found out that its called ASMR and other ppl have it!! I always thought that it was just a funny little quirk I had! Little did I know about the hundreds and hundreds of videos on youtube devoted to making ppl like "tingle" lol! Its like a whole new world has opened up for me.
buibear88 1 month ago
I do have ASMR and I am creative, I suck at math, I tend to have a photographic memory especially when it comes to my childhood and as far as left and right, I have to think about it if someone (for example) ask me if they have to turn left or right. And directions, let's just say nobody every asks me for directions because they know they will end up in china! lol
julieg1985 1 month ago 2
@julieg1985 Thank you so much for this comment and thank you to all the others who have left comments here. I read them all and find them very interesting. I don't reply to every one because I don't want to make this all about me having to put my two cents in every time someone says something but I love the comments and I am sure there are hundreds of others who are enjoying them too. Thank you.
jodywhiteley 1 month ago
@julieg1985 I'll be sure to ask you when I need to go to China then.
JacFreDK 1 month ago
Thanks for this! About a year ago, I discovered that my grapheme-color synesthesia had (that) name. Similarly, about a month ago, I discovered that my ASMR had (that) name. I'm now certain that I have both abilities but didn't realize they could be linked. As for other correlations proposed, I fit in some ways but not in others.
I fit:
-I have left/right confusion & a poor sense of direction
-I'm creative
I don't fit:
-I do not have a photographic memory
-math is my strong suit
Good video!
filletweld05 1 month ago in playlist About ASMR
@filletweld05 I too have asmr and have left right confusion, i'm creative as i am a musician, i have a terrible 'word' memory, math was by best subject, i am very good with numbers.
rich1051414 1 month ago
That's so weird. I personify things, and I get asmr. O_O I didn't know this had been studied. I always just figured I was weird and never thought twice about it.
LucidWhispers 1 month ago
and btw, this video def. triggered my ASMR :) LOL good job! :)
julieg1985 2 months ago
I have just recently discovered ASMR (I've "felt" for as long as I can remember!) but now, it has a a name!! lol I always felt weird about it cuz let's be realistic here, telling ppl you feel "tingles" in your head sounds kinda odd lol And now I'm starting to see that I might have Synesthesia (I feel music and never thought anything of it....) I always felt like a freak but now I feel kinda "special" because it's not common but other ppl have it. Thank you so much for the video! :)
julieg1985 2 months ago
Interesting how you mentioned having trouble with your left/right and sense of direction. I've got ASMR and I've always had to concentrate real hard to tell which is my left or right, and I can't navigate at all, even in places I've been to hundreds of times.
Thanks for all your efforts in piecing this ASMR/Synesthesia stuff together :) There's so little research out there, so it's nice to hear such an interesting and new take on the subject.
LLearners 2 months ago
@LLearners I think there's def. a link to ASMR and the whole direction thing.... I have the SAME problems! I work in a busy restaurant and I can remember a persons order from 2 months ago but telling them how to get to the nearest store takes me 10 minutes! lol
julieg1985 2 months ago
As I’ve thought about ASMR, I’ve had something of a theory that it could relate somehow to infancy. Whispering, gentle movements, repetition of words, or maybe relaxing rhythmic sounds you heard but did not understand, seems all these type of things are used around or to calm babies, & perhaps the responsive feelings to those triggers stick with some people even as adults.
Brontosaur1234 2 months ago
@Brontosaur1234 As soon as I read this comment I remembered all the times I have shook a rattle to make a baby happy. I think you have something here.
jodywhiteley 2 months ago
Not so sure on the linkage here. I have ASMR, but none of the cross-wiring senses stuff as described in synesthesia.
Seems to me like while Synesthesia has to do with thought patterns - inside your mind - ASMR is primarily external, a physical sensation.
Brontosaur1234 2 months ago
Funny I smell, taste, and feel in color which got me in trouble when I was young. I never heard of this before interesting
1023lauren 2 months ago