New ASMR Info!!!!! (softly spoken)

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http://jody-whiteley.blogspot.com/2012/02/asmr-stats.html
More may be known about this cool little neuro quirk than you think. After asking my viewers what they know about ASMR, it seems to be likely that ASMR is a form of Synesthesia. So much more is known about Synesthesia than ASMR so if you have ASMR you can compare that to Synesthesia here and find out more about yourself and your unique abilities.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ASMR
• Synesthesia
• whispered
• softly
• spoken
• neurology
• female
• voice
• relaxation

[jodywhiteley]

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 .

[AngelicWhisperings]

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!

[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.

[MrSuperOrgasmic]

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?

[jodywhiteley]

@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.

[SOUNDsculptures]

I have synaesthesia and experience ASMR. My mother experiences ASMR but not synaesthesia.

[jodywhiteley]

@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.

[AdrianEaston]

Hm, then that means I can also feel sights, when sights trigger ASMR, and I can feel my thoughts of I trigger it on my own.... hmm it's interesting, not sure if its correct but an interesting way to look at it

[gaiagogo888]

a close mic makes the effect

[TheEpisteme]

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]

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.

[gemarrs]

And the zen lifestyle seems to really provide a lot of the ASMR experiences naturally.

[gemarrs]

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.

[mekanikerdy8]

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.

[ShaunberryiPod]

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 :)