Whispering Video

 Hey!

I want to start posting up some ASMR audio files that are my own whispers. Because blogger won't let you directly upload audio files I will have to link them to drive. 

I done a test ASMR video back in 2019 which I uploaded to my channel on YouTube. I will share it here. Let me know what you guys think. 

Cheers!

I'm back!

 Hey all!

I've been away for such a long time I decided to revisit my blog again. I just lost motivation in the past. But I guess there's only one way to keep a blog going and that's to keep moving forward and keep posting which I am hoping to do. 

I still enjoy listening/viewing to ASMR content on YouTube. Which by the way what's happened to YouTube? It has changed a lot. So many ads. So much irrelevant video recommendations. And when it comes to ASMR videos, it's been over saturated!

It use to be a nice little niche. It was like a little spot in the corner of YouTube for ASMR followers and those posting videos. It was like a secret community. But over the last several years it has become oversaturated. I guess things change and things can't stay the same forever!

ASMR For Stress Or Depression

I thought i would write about how ASMR can help with depression, as it has helped me. I don't think any research has been done on how positive ASMR can help ease stress or depression. I have suffered from severe depression for many years, even tried antidepressants which have awful side effects. I have also had a go with herbal natural remedies like St Johns Wart. They are ok for someone with mild depression or stress but not for severe cases.

It was not helpful until i came across ASMR and the benefits it can provide to someone who is under alot of stress or suffers from depression. Alot of people that suffer from depression, do so because they are lonley or in other cases there is nobody for them to sit by there side and tell them everything is ok. I find listening or watching some of the ASMR videos on YouTube has helped alot with stress and depression because it sets off triggers in the brain which stimulates the brain and therefore puts you at ease at night when you are trying to sleep. I am not saying this is a cure for depression but it does help at difficult times when you have alot on your mind and find it difficult to sleep due to stress or depression.

 
Just by listening or watching your favourite ASMR videos and how they can benefit stress or depression have great effects on relaxing you and giving you that temporary relief from insomnia at night time. It may not be a cure but it does help those that are lonely and need something stimulating like listening to a calm soothing whispering voice to help them relax and doze off.
I would love to hear what others think of this and would love to hear any of your comments on this discussion.

How ASMR Started For Me

Wind back the clock to when i was a child. Maybe 7 or 8 years of age. I would be sitting in the classroom and the teacher would be telling us to do whatever was on the blackboard.

I would be writing in my textbook and problem solving. It would be quiet in the classroom, when out of nowhere i would hear a kid sitting next to me or opposite me or even behind me start to whisper as she/he was thinking to themselves. The whisper was when they were reading from a book and trying to problem solve. The whisper was soft and thoughtful. The classroom had a kind of ambience feeling to it. All i could hear was kids writing with their pens or pencils. 

The sound of the pencils writing on paper made me feel so relaxed.  This would send me into a trance like state. I would be sitting there with a pencil in my hand and not being able to concentrate because i felt so relaxed that i could of fell asleep right there in the classroom. I felt almost comatose. This would happen on many occasions through the years at school and even in high school. I felt rewarded each time i heard a student start to whisper. Actually i will rephrase that, it felt like my mind was rewarded each time i heard a classmate start to whisper. It felt like i was on cloud nine and off with the fairies.

I never knew as a child growing up what effect these whisperings had on me. All i knew was when a student would whisper as they were thinking to themselves and the leaf turning of each page of a textbook by the student, or even the pencil drawing on a piece of paper,  in perfect harmony, that it would feel so relaxing, so calming, so enjoyable. I could not concentrate on my own thinking listening to this. All i knew is that each time i heard these sounds i would get a slight tingling sensation in my head. I felt as if i needed to lay my head down on the desk and just relax and dose off. I felt so calm and at ease. It was like a special moment for my brain to relax and be rewarded by these sounds.

I never talked about these feelings with anyone. I felt that it was nothing and just something i liked listening to when the opportunity was there.
Through the years even after school on many occasions i would get that same feeling. Sitting somewhere and listening to someone do a chore. It would make me feel relaxed. Or even listening to someone brush their hair. I never knew how relaxing and mind tingling it would be to listen to someone brush their hair. The sound of the brush stroking through hair. What a relaxing mind tingling sound that is. Then when i would go to the barbers to get a haircut, that would bring out my ASMR as well. Sitting in that comfortable barbers chair, while he would snip my hair with those special barbers scissors. The sound of the snip, snip, snip of the scissors while sitting in that comfortable chair and my hair being held as it was being snipped off just made me feel so relaxed.
Listening to a girl rustle through her handbag would give me tingling sensations as well. Or when someone was counting something but was whispering the numbers (one, two, three, four, five etc) would give me an overall good feeling.

There are so many other sounds and instances that gets my ASMR started. But how did i find out about ASMR? Well thanks to YouTube, i was viewing a video one night on my phone about some guy who spotted a UFO on his way home from work. So he decided to rush home and film it. He then done the voice over for it separately to the video and put it together. Just listening to him describe the UFO in a toned down, soft like voice made me relaxed. I then thought to myself, there has to be videos out there on YouTube with the sole purpose of just soft whispers. Boy was i surprised when my christmas' came at once when i searched for "whispers" on YouTube. The first ASMR video i stumbled across a girl. 

I clicked on her video and started watching and listening to her. Wow was I in for a treat. She has this soft, so gentle and calming voice. A kind, but sweet voice that her purpose was just to relax me and put me to sleep. She did more than that. The back of my head was tingling. It felt great. Memories started flooding back to my childhood again and listening to a kid in the classroom whisper and remember how great it felt. I then discovered more videos by this user on YouTube. I then looked at some of the related videos and noticed alot of them had the heading "ASMR" in their video title. 

I thought there has to be some kind of meaning to what ASMR stood for. So i googled it and researched ASMR. I discovered that i was not alone on these wonderful sensations of hearing someone whisper. Or even someone doing an ASMR roleplay on YouTube. There was a community for this!
I am glad to be part of this ASMR community on YouTube. 

 I think ASMR is growing each day. There would be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people world wide that have no clue on what they are experiencing when feeling these sensations and I am hoping my blog can benefit the curious to discover what ASMR is and how great it can be to relax you and to even put you to sleep.

I do suffer from insomnia from time to time and find it difficult to sleep at night. But thanks to YouTube and the Internet i can now relax and listen and watch my favourite ASMR videos on my phone and fall asleep. I do take herbal tablets (Valerian) to help me relax and sleep. But I'm finding that i need them less and less now thanks to the wonderful community on YouTube and their fantastic ASMR videos.

I believe that ASMR can be a natural, calm and relaxing sedative without the need to take a pill to make you feel at ease. The pill is YouTube, and the substance is the wonderful community of ASMR followers and posters of ASMR videos :-)

What Is ASMR?

ASMR stands for: - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is a relaxing, tingling, warm and fuzzy physical sensation which is triggered by a stimulus. This can be triggered by certain noises or whispers of other people. ASMR can also be triggered by watching someone do a certain chore or packing away things. There are various ways ASMR can be triggered and varies for each individual. Some people find it relaxing to watch somebody eat. For others it may be watching someone brush their hair. 

ASMR can be reffered to as an "orgasm for your brain and body." It is a stimulating experience. There are two types of ASMR triggers: - "Type A" and "Type B" Basically Type A episodes are achieved by specific thought patterns by the individual and Type B triggers are involuntarily by one or more senses. It may involve thought patterns. Both type of triggers vary between individuals but both are common types. Most people do not even know they have "ASMR" or are unaware of what it is. 

Alot of individuals have most probably experienced an ASMR event and felt a tingling or relaxing sensation through a certain sound or task but are unaware of what they were experiencing! Now in recent years ASMR has become more popular and people are starting to become more aware of what it is and how these mental orgasmic almost euphoric like sensations work thanks to the world wide web.