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 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 :-)
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 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 :-)
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