“ASMR” fucking riles me up, I can’t understand how that stuff is supposed to be nice. The only desire I have listening to it is to smash my fucking speakers / headphones after a short while. Imagine someone holding stuff close to your ear making obnoxious sounds, same thing.
ASMR isn’t supposed to be relaxing, some people just found it relaxing and somehow that completely bastardized the genre(also it became soft core pornography). ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response, basically some people get a pleasurable tingling sensation on their head/neck/spine when they hear certain sounds, and ASMR content is supposed to stimulate that response for those people.
What I don’t get is that people encountered ASMR and unquestionly went “guess that’s what it’s called” and didn’t wonder at all what the obvious acronym stood for, literally 5 seconds to Google 4 letters and you’d understand what it’s all about.
I’m one of the people for whom ASMR actually works, when listening to nearly inaudible words, like when getting caressed - intimate, but not sexual. The tingling down my neck and spine is very pleasurable and relaxing, but neither erotic nor sleep inducing for me. What doesn’t work for me are pure mouth sounds or other types of sounds, and it stops working after about 15-20 minutes or so.
I have fairly severe misophonia. I wish my reaction to ASMR was this mild. I can’t be in the same room or hear it at all because it literally triggers fight or flight for me and I will likely have to restrain myself before I involuntarily sprint away. The best case scenario is covering my ears blocks the sound, the worst case is I scream, beg, and cry for it to stop until it does. I fucking hate how asmr bleeds into things like ads or even movies since it makes my life he’ll for a time.
Big same. I have never enjoyed ASMR, it’s more likely to irritate me than anything else. Up-close mouth sounds make my skin crawl. The idea that ASMR sounds are “relaxing” is paradoxical to my experience. I get angry or disgusted instead.
If you also find that anger or fight-or-flight instincts are triggered by such sounds, you might have a touch of misophonia.
mouth sounds
that’s softcore porn by online thots.
Best way I can describe a positive ASMR experience is “music from another room”.
I remember being a kid and falling asleep listening to the TV playing in the living room as my parents were talking. the volume of everything just barely over ambient volume. the safety and security I felt ad a child knowing my parents were near by and nothing bad was happening relaxed me and allowed me to lazily drift off to sleep.
that, is what ASMR does (at least for me). I listen to similarly “made up” content that’s background ambiance rather than the direct tongue in ear shit.
I thought ASMR was about getting horny for whisperers
