I’m not an expert by any means, and I only discovered the term in the past week. It’s sorf of a tingly sensation in the head or scalp in reaction to certain cues. Whispering (whether meaningful speech or random words) and sound effects like tapping, crinkling, etc seem especially common on Youtube.
The proposed way to induce ASMR is to listen to a whisphery voice or meaningless noises of haircuttting.
If you do that you induce a light trance.
Sometimes when you induce a light trance some muscle in the head will relax and that will produce a tickly feeling.
If you however give specific suggestion that your subject will feel a tickly feeling in the head and the subject has decent hypnotic suggestibility they will feel the feeling every time.
I don’t see the big mystery or the need for a crude extra term like ASMR.
That’s something along the lines of what I was wanting to find out. I’ll have to test this sometime, since (I think) I can be not-suggestible when I know it’s coming.
I’ll have to test this sometime, since (I think) I can be not-suggestible when I know it’s coming.
So you think you can reliably avoid to think of a pink elephant?
More importantly, if you want to use “ASMR” for practical purpose I would recommend to maximize the power of the suggestions. Feelings that you create through suggestions are real.
So you think you can reliably avoid to think of a pink elephant?
I can’t, but I can reliably avoid thinking of any other thing that is presented in the form “Don’t think of X”—I’ve trained myself to actively think of pink elephants in such scenarios (thus leaving no scope for thoughts of ‘X’). It works rather effectively. I haven’t tested it on extreme cases like “Don’t think of boobs” though. That might be too strong to counter.
So you think you can reliably avoid to think of a pink elephant?
I can. I don’t have total control over the direction of my thoughts, but if someone tells me “don’t think about pink elephants,” I can avoid thinking about pink elephants even for an instant.
I didn’t suggest that nobody can. If you can than you are good at going into a state where you are non-suggestible. PhilipL suggested that he can go into a non-suggestible state, so I asked that question to verify.
Er, does hypnotic suggestibility have a meaning I’m not aware of?
I don’t know how much you know about hypnosis.
You perceive the pink elephant when you ask yourself whether you perceive a pink elephant in a similar way that you will perceive a ticklish feeling in your head.
For the average person the pink elephant effect is stronger but in principle the effect is very similar.
High hypnotic suggestibility means that you acutally go and see the elephant clearly and that you feel the suggested tickle.
The process of going into a trance state increases the effect.
I only heard about it recently, and did not think I ever experienced it/was capable of experiencing it. I was reading the /r/asmr reddit the other day, and saw a reference to “the goosebumps you get from really good music”, and then got an ASMR-like response. Not sure if it was a true reaction, and I was listening to music that wouldn’t fit with the usual description of ASMR triggers. I’m pretty suggestible I think, so it may have been the effect of remembering “really good music goosebumps” and then overreacting to that.
I experience ASMR and have sometimes used it to help me fall asleep when taking melatonin would be inconvenient. I have a pair of SleepPhones that I use for this and for lucid dream induction.
Act 2 of this episode of This American
Life
is the story of a person who experienced ASMR for years in
response to certain quiet sounds—and would spend hours
seeking out things to trigger it—before she knew that
other people experienced it too and had come up with a name
for it.
I’ve never heard of this before but reading the article reminded me of an experience I had in a Pentecostal setting. I was praying for the Holy Spirit to make me speak in tongues. I was very concentrated and prayed a chant over and over. I was lying in my bed and my chest started tingling. It was sort of like how your leg feels when it falls asleep. I also felt physical warmth and muscle relaxation, and lot of pleasure. The tingling spread all over my body and I became paralyzed. But it felt good so I didn’t care.
I re-induced it lots of times until I saw a Darren Brown video and concluded that my effect came from a placebo and God wasn’t real.After I had been an atheist for a few months, I successfully re-induced it. But the novelty has worn-off and I don’t do it anymore.
Does anyone know anything about, or experience ASMR?
What’s exactly the claim? Sometimes people feel a tickly feeling somewhere in their body?
I think it’s implied to be very reproducible compared to random tingles
I’m not an expert by any means, and I only discovered the term in the past week. It’s sorf of a tingly sensation in the head or scalp in reaction to certain cues. Whispering (whether meaningful speech or random words) and sound effects like tapping, crinkling, etc seem especially common on Youtube.
The whole thing reminds me of Franz Anton Mesmer.
The proposed way to induce ASMR is to listen to a whisphery voice or meaningless noises of haircuttting. If you do that you induce a light trance.
Sometimes when you induce a light trance some muscle in the head will relax and that will produce a tickly feeling. If you however give specific suggestion that your subject will feel a tickly feeling in the head and the subject has decent hypnotic suggestibility they will feel the feeling every time.
I don’t see the big mystery or the need for a crude extra term like ASMR.
That’s something along the lines of what I was wanting to find out. I’ll have to test this sometime, since (I think) I can be not-suggestible when I know it’s coming.
So you think you can reliably avoid to think of a pink elephant?
More importantly, if you want to use “ASMR” for practical purpose I would recommend to maximize the power of the suggestions. Feelings that you create through suggestions are real.
I can’t, but I can reliably avoid thinking of any other thing that is presented in the form “Don’t think of X”—I’ve trained myself to actively think of pink elephants in such scenarios (thus leaving no scope for thoughts of ‘X’). It works rather effectively. I haven’t tested it on extreme cases like “Don’t think of boobs” though. That might be too strong to counter.
Maybe you could avoid thinking of pink elephants by actively thinking of boobs. ;-)
Ok, this is perhaps too effective. Now I’m actually trying to think of elephants and all that pops in to my head...
I can. I don’t have total control over the direction of my thoughts, but if someone tells me “don’t think about pink elephants,” I can avoid thinking about pink elephants even for an instant.
I didn’t suggest that nobody can. If you can than you are good at going into a state where you are non-suggestible. PhilipL suggested that he can go into a non-suggestible state, so I asked that question to verify.
Er, does hypnotic suggestibility have a meaning I’m not aware of?
I don’t know how much you know about hypnosis.
You perceive the pink elephant when you ask yourself whether you perceive a pink elephant in a similar way that you will perceive a ticklish feeling in your head.
For the average person the pink elephant effect is stronger but in principle the effect is very similar. High hypnotic suggestibility means that you acutally go and see the elephant clearly and that you feel the suggested tickle.
The process of going into a trance state increases the effect.
I only heard about it recently, and did not think I ever experienced it/was capable of experiencing it. I was reading the /r/asmr reddit the other day, and saw a reference to “the goosebumps you get from really good music”, and then got an ASMR-like response. Not sure if it was a true reaction, and I was listening to music that wouldn’t fit with the usual description of ASMR triggers. I’m pretty suggestible I think, so it may have been the effect of remembering “really good music goosebumps” and then overreacting to that.
I experience ASMR and have sometimes used it to help me fall asleep when taking melatonin would be inconvenient. I have a pair of SleepPhones that I use for this and for lucid dream induction.
Act 2 of this episode of This American Life is the story of a person who experienced ASMR for years in response to certain quiet sounds—and would spend hours seeking out things to trigger it—before she knew that other people experienced it too and had come up with a name for it.
I’ve never heard of this before but reading the article reminded me of an experience I had in a Pentecostal setting. I was praying for the Holy Spirit to make me speak in tongues. I was very concentrated and prayed a chant over and over. I was lying in my bed and my chest started tingling. It was sort of like how your leg feels when it falls asleep. I also felt physical warmth and muscle relaxation, and lot of pleasure. The tingling spread all over my body and I became paralyzed. But it felt good so I didn’t care.
I re-induced it lots of times until I saw a Darren Brown video and concluded that my effect came from a placebo and God wasn’t real.After I had been an atheist for a few months, I successfully re-induced it. But the novelty has worn-off and I don’t do it anymore.
I’m also curious, and would like to add a poll: [pollid:420]