What is ASMR?

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I didn't realize my previous post about it would spark so many questions, lol. So ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response. It's basically a sensory response to stimuli (typically auditory) that gives you this kind of tingly feeling in your brain and it kind of moves down your body. Not in a scary way, but in a relaxing sort of way. The most common tingle triggers you'll see in ASMR videos consist of tapping on things, scratching, brushing out different fibers, writing or drawing, page turning, eating, and low whispers. Everyone responds to these things differently so in order for it to work you have to just try out the different sounds/videos and see what works best for you. The reason you'll see these as videos more often than just sound bites is because there's a little bit of visual stimuli in there too. If you're more of a visual or tactile learner, odds are that the sounds alone may not set you off. I have to see it myself. A lot of times I don't even need the sound. If I see a person reading three seats in front of me on the train, for instance, just the visual of watching them turn the pages will set off my tingles. It's relaxing for me. ASMR first became popular in Korea where a creator there made the very first ASMR-only channel. It got huge and spread around the country pretty quickly. I discovered it myself watching some of the boys in my favorite KPOP (Korean pop music) band at the time doing their own version of an ASMR video. It's gotten more worldly popular since then. If you plug in ASMR on YouTube or whatever video service your country uses I'm sure you'll come up with hundreds or even thousands of available videos. I'd definitely recommend checking them out. Don't rule it out if you listen to one video and you hate it; it just means that's not your trigger. Try different things and you're sure to hit on something that sparks those tingles!