Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

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There has been a growing number of YouTubers subscribing to channels where individuals can watch and listen to someone who is whispering, who is flipping pages of a book, who may pretend to give the viewer a shoulder rub, and so much more. Why are there videos made containing these actions? The answer is to trigger a process called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR. For individuals who have experienced ASMR, they describe it to be a tinglly sensation that begins from the back of the head traveling down along the spine, and for some individuals, it continues to travel into the shoulders. The ASMR community say that there must be some type of physiological process occurring because it is visual and audital stimuli that can “trigger” the ASMR response. So, what gets these "triggers" started? In a list with the order starting from the most common "trigger," are: whispering, personal attention, crisp sounds (ex: metallic foil, fingernail tapping, flipping…show more content…
That, socially, we lack the intimacy aspect we experience from relationships (friendships, family, loving partners, etc.). Intimacy is not limited to couples who are in love. There is a quality of non sexual intimacy that we gain, and that is very healthy for us, from all our close relationships, whether we are aware of it or not. In survey done by Nick Davis and Emma Barratt, the first, a Swansea University lecturer of psychology, and the second, a psychology grad student discovered that personal attention was found to be an ASMR trigger for 69% of the individuals surveyed. So, speculating on these results, some believe that people have now found a way through the internet to experience a false sense of connectedness with someone who is pretending to care for them; it's a way to recreate the intimacy of relationships that has almost been lost within daily
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