looking for more opinions - ASMR

[Teasel]

I've had the nice tingling feeling from certain peices of music, for as long as I can remember, dunno if that's what they're on about, don't have that reaction to these videos though, nor do I intensely dislike them. Mildly creepy / boring for me instead.

I hadn't heard of this especially, had vaguely seen such videos ridiculed on comedy shows, but I'd not heard of this ASMR thing and just thought well it takes all sorts :)

 

[whiteraven]

Oh yeah. nonononono. Annoying and creepy doesn't even begin to cover it.

My T may or may not actually get around to watching the videos.

I find *this* rather annoying. If a T is going to pass along something to his/her client, why would he/she not watch it first to make sure it's not...well, like this?

 

[Ronin]

to make sure it's not...well, like this?

To be fair, they have no way of knowing how is anyone going to react to it, and if the T just seems quite interested in interesting stuff people do, I guess this might be enough of a thing to go O.O over and share ideas.

(But ehh, not my cuppa tea, either. Not triggered for sexual/sensual reasons, whatsoever, but that goddamn sound range and indistinct sounds and other auditory suckery is pass.)

 

[scout86]

why would he/she not watch it first to make sure it's not...well, like this?

He does that. LOL He blames it on ADHD. He has a rather huge list of things he hasn't finished yet, it seems. We talked about the videos yesterday. He hadn't gotten around to watching them yet but said that, because I thought they were THAT creepy, they'd moved the list, a lot. He was pretty surprised they had that effect. (I haven't told him, yet, that it's not just me.) Is there anyone here who thought they were ok?

 

[Ronin]

Is there anyone here who thought they were ok?

LMAO. Ok, I am forgetting, he treats trauma, broadly, or does he specialize in ptsd, or is he a therapist with other main clientelle? (I remember he is Rogersian in focus, if I recall right, but that does not tell me the dx categories.)

Mighta be over specific group, us.
In which case you could be all, Well, therapeutic it may be for sufferers of other disorders, ptsd sufferers may not benefit..., leave it there.

 

[scout86]

He has a pretty diverse group of clients. (I'm thinking that suits the ADHD too. He likes the variety.) He works with everything from little kids to "retired spooks". I kind of think those are his favorite groups. LOL

He's also very curious and likes to learn, as am I. It's kind of evolved that if he runs across an article he thinks I might find interesting, he passes it along and i do the same. When he said he thought the article was interesting, that was literally what he meant. He told me he's never actually watched a YouTube video, mostly because he's afraid he'd find so much to watch he'd never get anything else done. So, I get why he sent it without watching the video.

I have to confess, my brain is busy designing experiments to test whether or not there's a relationship between having PTSD and how you react to those videos. (They clearly mentioned them being useful for people with PTSD, didn't they?)

 

[RVA21]

I stumbled across these ASMR videos on youtube a while ago and found them totally unbearable and I found myself being angry watching them too for some reason. I just don't understand how anyone can find them helpful!

 

[DogwoodTree]

Most of the ASMR videos are painful to watch, and so I don't. Especially whispering, or light touches. Ew! However, I did find that watching someone else get a deep-pressure back massage is pleasant. Not enough for me to sit and watch a video of it, but enough that I didn't get creepy tingles from it. That's the only kind of physical touch I actually enjoy.

Have you tried looking for an ASMR video that might not be painful to watch? I wonder if there would be any consistency to that for ptsd people, too.

 

[barefoot]

A friend just mentioned ASMR to me today – she said she loves the ones that involve paper folding and gift wrapping...

I accidentally stumbled on one (?!) the other day where someone was eating a bowl of pasta. Very loudly. It was very...slurpy. Yuck! But still preferable to me than someone whispering!

Some of the videos seem almost fetishy to me...the one above felt like I was watching slurpy pasta porn! Shudder, shudder...!

 

[scout86]

Have you tried looking for an ASMR video that might not be painful to watch?

That's an interesting idea. It really hadn't occurred to me that some of them might NOT be painful to watch. The ones I did watch were bad enough that I don't know that I want to try. But, it WOULD be kind of interesting to know if some of them are ok. And then to speculate on what makes some ok and not others.

Paper folding?

 

[barefoot]

I’ve just watched paper folding, paper crinkling and covering books in brown paper. No talking!
I sort of liked it. But not enough to keep watching them. And they didn’t make me tingle!

Also watched a tyre crushing ice. Again, quite s nice, satisfying noise. But no tingles. And I can’t imagine myself saying I really must go and watch my favourite car-driving-over-snowballs vid!

My friend mentioned that lots of ASMR videos contain role plays...basically, just someone doing am dram - being in role and talking to people who aren’t there! I just watched a paper folding role play and she was talking to an imaginary person, asking how their evening one and having a one-sided conversation about s film. I found that very cringey.

I’m sure there are enough sounds that we could all probably find something we could tolerate or even like. But whether we like it enough to get tingles or to want to keep revisiting it, I’m not sure.

For me, no talking is a must!

I am intrigued for the moment to see what other sounds there are and whether I like any. But beyond this current burst of curiosity and even having found some that didn’t make me feel I’m having a breakdown, I don’t think this is my thing!