General / Off-Topic ASMR (or Brain Tingles). Do You Get Them?

[tolm]

I do! I've tried explaining it to my girlfriend, and people at work, no one else gets it.
And often just gives me funny looks. Lol

ASMR ( Autonomous Sensory Meridian Sesponse), or Brain Tingles, is an odd sensation, triggered seemingly at random by random things.
Nothing at all sexual in nature, usually (at least not me anyway).
It often feels like static, or tingling sensation on your head, and works it's way down your neck and back.

I personally find the sensation oddly relaxing.

Mines usually triggered by soft speaking, usually directed at me, anyone touching my hair. Doesn't matter if they're male or female, even animals can trigger it.
Even just thinking about it and trigger a mild brain tingle. Lol

It's so weird, but I know I'm not the only one, because 1), it has a name. And 2) there are literally hundreds of YouTube videos designed to just trigger ASMR.
Some work on me, most don't.

But, does anyone here get it?
Maybe you do, but didn't know it had a name (I didn't for ages, I thought everyone got it, but no one spoke about it! Lol), or maybe you don't, and you'll think I'm insane.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

On my god - I’ve had that for as long as I can remember! Hair touching definitely triggers it as can certain accents or voices ...

Had no idea it was “a thing” ... thought I was just weird!!

 

[SMcA]

Talking about strange things that happen to us, that you don't know are not normal until one day it clicks or you check with others.

How true. I only found out a couple of years ago that not everyone associates pain with colours. Pain synaesthesia.

I have a condition called Visual snow. Didnt even realise it was a thing until about a year ago, it clicked and i researched it and my Doctor says its a thing.

always thought i was normal.

But you are, for you.

Anyone else get this?



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

No but I've seen something similar when I was young and took acid. Similar to an embossed walpaper patern.

Anyone else not get headaches or hangovers?

 

[Vasco Sapien]

How true. I only found out a couple of years ago that not everyone associates pain with colours. Pain synaesthesia.

Ive always found synaesthesia fascinating, Some beleive that Mozart had Chromesthesia which is sound-to-color synesthesia. he could see music.

Maybe with your Pain-Colour synaesthesia you could be a savant at BDSM.

 

[SMcA]

Ive always found synaesthesia fascinating, Some beleive that Mozart had Chromesthesia which is sound-to-color synesthesia. he could see music.

So did I until I realised I had it. I finally got fed up with doctors looking at me like a one. When they asked how sore something was on a scale of 1 to 10. And I answered with a colour as well. White 9 or Reddish 4. The colour is associated with the type of pain. Toothache is red to orange. A dental abscess is white.
I once had an episode of smell synaesthesia. It was one of the worst organic smells I had ever smelt. It looked like a florescent yellowish green vapour. Just like the toxic vapour from Doom 1.
DC electricity tastes like brass, to me.
But it is just normal for me. [NFN, although I’m not from Norfolk. ]

Maybe with your Pain-Colour synaesthesia you could be a savant at BDSM.

If your name was Clive. This would be appropriate.

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Bad language warning.

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I made it for a friend, yesterday.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I know what you mean

OP, if you find it relaxing, you need one of those: https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Newalp-Hea...9046326&device=c&campaignid=1057747883&crdt=0

You'll thank me later

Oddly enough, I can't use those things.

It's like a brain tingle overload, I hate it!
I automatically try and get out of it, like when you use static to attach a balloon to a cat. Lol

 

[verminstar]

I have something similar in some respects. When I keep my head upright, I have full use and sensation in my left leg, but the more my head goes down thereby stretching the vertibrae in my upper spine where 3 lesions press down on certain nerves and I lose all use and sensation in my leg leg only. I get severe pins and needles in my right but still full mobility.

I lose so much sensation that I can hold a lit cigarrete on the skin and not feel anything at all. Its quite a novel sensation sometimes as its that simply movement of my head position that turns it on and off virtually like a light bulb switch. Does mean one has to walk bolt upright...bending the spine to get under stuff is problematic as the balance is the first thing to go...not that easy when yer 6ft 5 inches tall. Its as though yer inner centre of balance is on a scale and every now and again, it goes to the other end of it and ye lose control of yer limbs. Makes ye look drunk as ye fall into things and appear to be very clumsy.

Its like an upgrade...not one ye want though ^

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I have something similar in some respects. When I keep my head upright, I have full use and sensation in my left leg, but the more my head goes down thereby stretching the vertibrae in my upper spine where 3 lesions press down on certain nerves and I lose all use and sensation in my leg leg only. I get severe pins and needles in my right but still full mobility.

I lose so much sensation that I can hold a lit cigarrete on the skin and not feel anything at all. Its quite a novel sensation sometimes as its that simply movement of my head position that turns it on and off virtually like a light bulb switch. Does mean one has to walk bolt upright...bending the spine to get under stuff is problematic as the balance is the first thing to go...not that easy when yer 6ft 5 inches tall. Its as though yer inner centre of balance is on a scale and every now and again, it goes to the other end of it and ye lose control of yer limbs. Makes ye look drunk as ye fall into things and appear to be very clumsy.

Its like an upgrade...not one ye want though ^

If I sit on a toilet seat for more than a few minutes I lose all feeling in both legs. Lol
But only toilet seats.

 

[verminstar]

If I sit on a toilet seat for more than a few minutes I lose all feeling in both legs. Lol
But only toilet seats.

Thats cos yer restricting the circulation...let the blood flow and the sensation comes cack and ye dont end up walking with club feet.

My old job we had to wear climbing harnesses and work at extreme heights...if ye fall and the harness saves ye, ye got 45 minutes before ye have to be assisted otherwise the decreased circulation could mean the loss of a limb. More than an hour and it could be yer life ^

 

[Vasco Sapien]

If I sit on a toilet seat for more than a few minutes I lose all feeling in both legs. Lol
But only toilet seats.

You need an Asian toilet..

Good for the Colon....apparently.

I used one of these on a train in india when it was moving a few years back.
Trying to get my kecks off without putting my un-shoed feet down on the filthy floor all while being jostled about was the greatest feet of bathroom Gymnastics i ever managed.

But seriously though, these are apparently good at preventing hemorrhoids.
And if you are not sitting down while using it.... no dead leg.
No news paper reading either.

 

[steevaavoo]

I get that ASMR thing too.

From basically all all the same stimuli.

Plus Bob Ross painting videos. That guy has the most relaxing voice I’ve ever heard. And I’ve spent a weekend on a Transcendental Meditation retreat surrounded by ultra-chill people - I never got close to how relaxed good old Bob can get me with happy little clouds and trees.