I used to get this all the time when the school nurse would do the lice checks in elementary school. Having those little sticks run through your hair felt so good for some reason. I guess it just combined someone paying attention, the soft touch...etc. Anyways, the way I can induce it myself is to watch massage videos on youtube. Check out the massage nerd channel. Chair massage usually does it for me, but they 're all really good.
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Hi,
I'm 16 Male and I just found this topic after a google search for "my head gets weird feeling when watching craft" lol.
I get the head tingles when watching people make things, and that video of the masterlock triggered it haha. Also,
Finally found this after trying to explain it to others haha
I'm 16 Male and I just found this topic after a google search for "my head gets weird feeling when watching craft" lol.
I get the head tingles when watching people make things, and that video of the masterlock triggered it haha. Also,
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That guy's voice triggered it too!Finally found this after trying to explain it to others haha
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I JUST found out what this is. I believe what we are talking about is "ASMR" or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Google it ya'll! It blew my mind!
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It's hilarious I never would have guessed there was a term for this. I just assumed most people had this happen, but that I was just a little more aware or addicted to it.
I used to watch Bob Ross after school every day just for the head-gasm.
Some things that do it for me, the most effective at the top, I guess:
- People reading books who whisper the words out loud to themselves... or even just seeing them read to themselves silently
- People talking quietly in a language I can't understand (I live in Asia... working with quietly-speaking Japanese people makes it difficult to get work done... too relaxing)
- Watching someone do a crossword or sudoku... something about the pointing of the pen back and forth , but not actually writing, because they're thinking of the answer, triggers it most.
- Libraries... period... pages turning
- mouse clicks in a quiet room
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I have always had the sensation too - i think its just called goosebumps. Look goosebumps up on wikipedia, you get the tingling sensation all over in reaction to eg.nostalgia, awe, pleasure...
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I think goosebumps are different. I get goosebumps in situations like some amazing performance, or if there's a spider above my head ( I dislike that). But it's different from asmr. Goosebumps aren't the same kind of headgasm as asmr situations.
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Holy cow... just reading some of this thread has my head spinning, lol!
It's nice knowing there's other people out there who get it. Bob Ross, How It's Made, nails clicking on glass... I was never particularly worried about nobody understanding me when I tried to describe why I liked certain things, but being able to put a name to it and have a language to really think about what I've been experiencing is great. I've been feeling it since I was in grade school!
I'm wondering if it's an actual advantage. I think it has a lot to do with a successful education... I know I could just listen in rapt attention when in class, and I love watching someone do something and learning from it. How can that hurt?
It's nice knowing there's other people out there who get it. Bob Ross, How It's Made, nails clicking on glass... I was never particularly worried about nobody understanding me when I tried to describe why I liked certain things, but being able to put a name to it and have a language to really think about what I've been experiencing is great. I've been feeling it since I was in grade school!
I'm wondering if it's an actual advantage. I think it has a lot to do with a successful education... I know I could just listen in rapt attention when in class, and I love watching someone do something and learning from it. How can that hurt?
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bound4thefloor wrote:
There seems to be a lot of folx here trying to put some kind of medical term for this. I have to be annoyed at this. To me it is simply a dump of dopamine like bound4thefloor has stated. Cocaine and Heroine users talk about this same kind of "high", or "orgasmic" sensation. Many of us are feeling this from "triggers", like interactions with people, etc. We are simply getting a "dopamine high".
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I am 36 and I too have this sensation. I have had it for as long as I can remember. When I was a child someone was talking about situations that gave them "warm fuzzy" feelings. I always assumed they were talking about this sensation. I thought everyone has these moments. I'm amazed that only some people experience it.
Has anyone bothered to ask a neurologist about what causes it? is it more prevalent in males or females? Does everyone of all races have the sensations or is it more common in some over others? In medical terms is it linked to any other conditions? Is it a type of seizure?
I too thought is was seizure related and the more I read about Dopamine and Seratonin releases, I'm curious to know how many people that experience this have been diagnosed with ADHD, Manic Depressive/Bi-Polar or both? I have been and I believe it is incorrect. The "manic" episodes are this sensation and sometimes they last for hours and I get a lot of extra energy and don't sleep well. Also how many people are artistic/creative in some form? Musicians, painters, writers.
There seems to be a lot of folx here trying to put some kind of medical term for this. I have to be annoyed at this. To me it is simply a dump of dopamine like bound4thefloor has stated. Cocaine and Heroine users talk about this same kind of "high", or "orgasmic" sensation. Many of us are feeling this from "triggers", like interactions with people, etc. We are simply getting a "dopamine high".
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Oh my, I never thought I'd find responses based on this ever since my original post on the matter didn't have a response. As for me, I had it ever since I hit puberty and suffered a concussion. Nearly all of mine are triggered manually and it starts on the back and avalanches from there. Apparently the few triggers I know of include cats purring, whispering, and my own level of energy.
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I get this too! I have told my friends about it but they just look at me with a "wtf" face on... I get the sensation when someone is doing something very carefully and quietly. Sometimes I find myself staring at random people doing something with such focus and tranquility, because it gives me this amazing sensation! I would really like to know what it is... I don't get nauseous or anything just a very satisfying sensation all around my scalp. I love it!
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Hello fellow ASMR people,
I decided to make a Facebook page myself since the other one was just nothing. Maybe we can get this out there and let others like us share some experiences and find some great new triggers. =]
Just search "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response" and click the one with the calm purple face I made in like, 2 seconds lol. Can't wait to find more people like us! Only we know how amazing ASMR is. xoxo
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Oh thank the UNIVERSE on this posts!!!!
I was thinking about this for long as I remember myself.
In 22 years I found only 3 guys that could describe this feeling, because they felt it also.
Mine conclusions are next:
-concentration is the key
-being in your friend or intimate zone (radius of 2meters max)
-concentration of other persons that triggers our concentration
-concentrated actions, not dynamic ones
My personal examples:
-when someone is writing or drawing on mine notebook or mine papers (in my presence of course)
-when someone is reading my notes
-when someone is just slowly summarizing my notebooks or notes
-when someone is watching my books and talking about them
I personally can trigger this feeling when I fully concentrate and reproduce the memory of past ASMR situation.
The last time I had it with a guy that I just met. He was writing me down the facts about -what laptop model should I buy-. He was doing it slowly, fully focused, had nice handwriting, and all the time he was talking, and I was falling into a chair deeper and deeper :)
And I had to admit that to him, because I felt like I was using him :)
It is like a brain sex, and you can not do it without another person involved.
Even if you try to trigger it without direct stimuli, you can imagine one, and it ends like brain masturbation :) Doesn't it?
People we must be on some kind of special level.
I was thinking about this for long as I remember myself.
In 22 years I found only 3 guys that could describe this feeling, because they felt it also.
Mine conclusions are next:
-concentration is the key
-being in your friend or intimate zone (radius of 2meters max)
-concentration of other persons that triggers our concentration
-concentrated actions, not dynamic ones
My personal examples:
-when someone is writing or drawing on mine notebook or mine papers (in my presence of course)
-when someone is reading my notes
-when someone is just slowly summarizing my notebooks or notes
-when someone is watching my books and talking about them
I personally can trigger this feeling when I fully concentrate and reproduce the memory of past ASMR situation.
The last time I had it with a guy that I just met. He was writing me down the facts about -what laptop model should I buy-. He was doing it slowly, fully focused, had nice handwriting, and all the time he was talking, and I was falling into a chair deeper and deeper :)
And I had to admit that to him, because I felt like I was using him :)
It is like a brain sex, and you can not do it without another person involved.
Even if you try to trigger it without direct stimuli, you can imagine one, and it ends like brain masturbation :) Doesn't it?
People we must be on some kind of special level.
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I was Googling this because I specifically wanted to seek out this feeling! I have had in the past.
I feel like I have gotten it in the past when people explain something that would normally be really simple. Like to see someone explain something with construction paper in a really simple way. Sometimes it's just the voice. I work in customer service/ tech support, and tonight I had a caller who was a nice sweet man and explained things in this slow, logical, serene way and I started to get the feeling again I haven't in years. I wish I could get it on demand.
The first time I remember it was when I was 9 years old living in Sweden, sitting on the floor of an art museum on a class trip, and it was when I was listening to someone describe an artist in a droll manner.
The other vivid times I remember it were my freshman year at college. There was a guy who came into my room with a microwave bag of popcorn and he must have had an itch on the top of his hand because he kept putting it back into the bag rubbing it against the top of the bag and making a scratching sound. I never wanted him to stop. There was a girl too who came to play video games in my room. She was really overweight and out of breath a lot and would chew bubble gum. And I loved just listening to her breathe and chew the gum. The way she moved and made sounds was very unique.
It's been so few times I've had the feeling, though, and I have a bad memory from years of taking anti-anxiety meds (started after I first had this phenomenon) so I can't remember all the times I experienced this, but for some reason i recall thinking it was most likely to be caused by an adult male voice, usually calm and droll, and explaining something, slowly, ilke you're a kid, or I don't know, almost someone explaining something that didn't need to be explained. I think of my uncle explaining a card trick that involved a story about four kings--that may have given me the sensation.
As someone prone to panic and anxiety, I would call the feeling the exact opposite, yet it seems to perhaps be related to my propensity for anxiety, using the same mechanism, but using them for good feelings rather than bad. I would call it becoming like a baby on its back that is just totally giving in to the lack of control. But that visual does not describe how it feels. It tingles. It feels warm. It feels like relief. It feels like an orgasm,but better and softer and gentler and in your head. It's a melting. But there's an active energy. Like right now I'm tired and I don't feel it. It requires letting go, but not just letting go like going to sleep, like letting go and having a wonderful feeling it gives you to let go into.
This is a video that used to do it for me, but doesn't any more for some reason (or at least right now). But it's an example of something that did. The content is not relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHb0BZyF5Ok
I also almost feel as if it's like a partial seizure state. The type where you stare off into space. But it's good.
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I have this! I am so excited to finally find out other people do too. How great. For me, it's not usually associated with touch, but occasioanlly it is. It's usually when someone is behaving kindly or gently toward me. Haircuts sometimes do it too. I LOVE finally finding other people who know what i'm talking about. Does anybody have any sense of teh physiological mechanism that creates the feeling?
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Me too! Except I always experience it when I'm helping someone (again, usually working quietly, sometimes using my pen, paper, etc). I always thought it was this pleasurable kick-back from helping someone, but I see that the triggers might actually be the close work, quiet, sharing part of it. Has anyone else gotten the ASMR feeling when helping someone? (as opposed to being helped, as I have seen some people post?)
Also, I'm a 31 year old female. I've noticed this since about first grade, like so many other people. I think I was either drawing a picture for someone (I did that a lot in elem school, draw on request), or explaining something while someone looked over my shoulder. White, college-educated, and I'm a writer (aspiring novelist).
P.S. I was able to self-induce ASMR while reading all these comments. First time that's ever happened.
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