What is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) | What Personality is Associated with ASMR?
Dr. Todd Grande
This video answers the questions: What is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, otherwise known as ASMR? What is the relationship between ASMR and personality?
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Fredborg, B., Clark, J., & Smith, S. D. (2017). An Examination of Personality Traits Associated with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR). Frontiers in Psychology, 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00247
Poerio, G. L., Blakey, E., Hostler, T. J., & Veltri, T. (2018). More than a feeling: Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is characterized by reliable changes in affect and physiology. PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0196645. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0196645
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So glad Ariana grande’s dad is informing me at this very moment
I’ve been watching your videos for awhile as I find them super interesting. As for ASMR being real yes it is
I used to get really irritated and anxious when watching asmr videos but recently I've been getting tingly sensations and those same videos calm and help me sleep. I'm just curious, what could have changed ?
Dr.Grande is ASMR
A deaf person did this exact video speaking about a bizarre thing called "hearing".
I used to think everybody had this.
There is a "Sothern" lady with a channel here on YT. when she speaks
she reminds me of my dearly departed mother. very comforting.
the first time i experienced asmr i got extreme tingles all over that tickled more than anything so i had to stop. even though i’m not a frequent asmr listener, the effect dulled since the first experience and now i only get tingles on my right side. if i only listen to asmr from my left side, nothing happens. however the tingles i do get mimick the first ones in the sense that they tickle only on the right side of my body, so the right side of my head, down my spine, through my tailbone and into my thigh
Thought I'd give my perspective, as someone who experiences ASMR. I have experienced it since I was a very young child, I remember being in preschool (about 3 or 4) and listening to the teacher read a story in a soft voice, and when she said the word "ducklings" it made my head feel warm and fuzzy (nowadays you can find ASMR videos with the specific "sk" trigger). I also experienced that feeling when people played with my hair, but I'm not sure if that was ASMR or if that is how it feels for everyone. Anyway when I got older I noticed that sometimes youtube videos with people talking elicited this sensation, but it was hard to search for videos that would do that, because it was a specific type of video for me. I ended up stumbling onto an ASMR channel randomly later, and was glad to have a name for the feeling. These days, I listen to ASMR videos while I'm drawing or doing other work, even if they don't elicit the sensation, because I like to hear people talking while I do things. But I find that the things that trigger the sensation the most are visual stimuli now, usually slow moving hands, videos of people opening boxes slowly or some of the makeup-applying videos where they use gentle hand gestures; and also auditory stimuli, usually low or soft voices (not whispering), and accents. But I usually have to be actively paying attention to the video to get the feeling, it doesn't just happen if I have it on in the background, which seems to be in line with what Dr. Grande was saying about focus. The last thing is that I have ADHD, and I would be interested to know/wouldn't be surprised if neurodivergent people are more likely to experience ASMR since neurodivergent people often have different sensory experiences (like sensory processing disorder, or just very sensitive hearing, smell, taste, touch, vision, balance, and so on). Hopefully more research is don't into ASMR, because I think it's interesting
Different strokes for different folks= different ASMR triggers for different ASMR people. When it first hit the internet, I said to myself I probably have it. The videos that trigger it were annoying and irritating and then some. Then I realized that I have certain things that against my intentions relax me. It’s predictable for me. It makes my wonder how would one screen for this? What would be the screening questions be like? I had to start analyzing myself and know about it before I recognized it.
By the way I will only divulge my triggers to people close to me. It feels like it is my kryptonite.
A great idea for a business start up would be ferret out an individuals ASMR triggers and put together compilation videos for them. You heard it here first.
Also , Dr Grande, those new eyeglass frames are much better on you. Throw out the old ones so you are not tempted to put them on.
The Pauly Shaw(?), Owen Wilson joke was so lame, I pissed myself laughing.
I still don't understand what counts as ASMR. I love the sound of rain, freight trains in the night, or quiet white noise, but one video I saw was some guy wearing rubber gloves rubbing a melon and that did nothing for me.
Oh now I know why I get triggers
IMO, your voice is ASMR. Real talk. No thirst. There are some people with a voice or tone that makes me agitated or anxious. Your voice is low and non-threatening.
I want to find someone with traits 1-they hate getting paid but love to do dishes 2-dont gossip about it just do it stoically kinda like LURCH Adams 3-immediately leave without stealing anything 4 don’t live where I do. (Not a prayer in hell.)
Well before this had a name, we called it 'pissy shivers'. It's like that shiver you can get when you finally get to pee after holding it for a while. LOL
I find it interesting that some ASMR gets to me but some does not. Selective ASMR?
And, I had thought the A stood for Auditory. Always learning new stuff with Dr. Grande.
Oh, that's interesting. I have an extremely strong ability to focus on the task I am working on to the exclusion of all else. It means that all my life people have enjoyed or been taken aback – watching me squeak and jump when they startle the ever loving heck out of me. Not always because they are particularly quiet or sneaky, but because I am focusing on something so deeply I dont notice anything else. (Though this does encourage some people to do it on purpose.) I've also always had moments of experiencing the "tingles" for as long as I can remember, even as a kid. It was super neat to find out that there was a term for it. Though, also weird to realize some people didn't experience it.
I guess it's like cilantro – those of us that find it tasty are baffled by the ones that think it tastes like soap – and I'm sure the ones that find it tastes like soap are baffled we find it pleasant! XD And while we can describe our experiences to each other, we won't ever really know exactly how the other side feels.
I've discovered asmr in 2016 and enjoyed it a lot while having target oriented job in a Tesco warehouse. I felt relaxed and relieved however for some reason it gave me a lot of sleep paralysys a lot.
hi doctor grande
can you do mental health and personality on Jack from the movie "the house that Jack built"
I think you may have missed a trick here, Doctor. You should have delivered this video whispering into a close mic and running your fingers over some raffiawork.
I only recently heard the term ASMR. But when I was a child I LOVED having my grandmother brush my long hair, what I now identify as an ASMR experience. I thought EVERYONE reacted this way!
What is it when a person experiences this from meditation or some other internal thought process? Because that's me.
I was exploring this phenomena long before 2007.
Happy to see a vid on this, even though info is limited.
It's nice to have found a name and to know there are people that experience it as well. I was experience it but didn't know what it was or what was happening.
I think it has to do with emphatic response of some sort. Personally, I experience it when playing an instrument or singing along with music and I am getting it right. On time and correct notes and instrument in tune. Like frequency sync. Also when observing a person writing or drawing or (especially) sweeping. Any focused task with a person's devoted concentration. O believe the feeling comes when the ASMR experiencer is (*speculation*) reaching the same brain frequencies. I feel eeg monitoring and other brain scanning methods would reveal the ASMR person's brain activating in ways similar to the person completing the task.
I also experience the feeling when explaining or educating a person on a topic and they really get it. Its hard to describe. But its like the idea goes through, they reflect understanding of the subject then the felling hits. The "warm and fuzzies" people would describe.
All of which leads me to think it is a residual biological evolutionary function from a time when large groups of people had to work and act in unison to accomplish tasks. Like natives singing tribal songs to keep the rhythm of threshing crops or the stroke of a boat paddle.
There was a group of South Pacific natives that navigated the open ocean by songs, the timing of which, informed them of different currents. If they sang the song wrong they would get lost. Just an example of how asmr may have worked to keep one alive.
What is freesoun?? I know I didn't spell it right.
i've had asmr and i've had frisson, they're pretty different to me. i usually got frisson from decent music. asmr came from… random stuff. the strongest asmr response i ever got was from staring at an old lady's collection of cut crystal elephants. don't ask me.
Asmr and deep voices make me anxious . Is there something wrong with this
It's basically all sexual.
Yes it’s real saved ya time
I did not know that ASMR was a psychological condition. I've only watched the videos because many of them are entertaining and relaxing. People who crumple leather jackets and kittens that purr are mildly amusing.
what is dr grande is saying – free sun? like croissant? sant?
🙏🙏❤️❤️
The only kind of ASMR I don't find creepy and unpleasant is animals munching on various types of food 😋🥰
Ever since I was a little girl there were certain sounds I gravitated towards. Like if somebody was flipping pages I would get myself close to them and have a weird feeling in my body. Some people say it’s like head tingling and I don’t quite get that, it’s more like involuntary comforting muscle spasms? Can’t really describe it. It was only recently that I found out there were videos dedicated to this so I believe it.
If I heard humming I would get a relaxing, fuzzy brain feeling or if my Client with a Russian accent talk in a whispering sort of voice I’d get the same fuzzy brain feeling. so one day I googled something close to those words and I found ASMR. I wouldn’t say they are tingles or shivers just a relaxing almost mesmerizing feeling in my brain. I now watch a lot of ASMR videos before sleeping. I love them.
ASMR is like hypnosis… I noticed it in the 2nd grade when my teacher would pass out papers one desk at a time… I felt more and more relaxed. It was like a massage of the senses .
A few yrs back a friend told me about Asmr for my chronic insomnia. Never heard of it so I thought hey!, need to try something. I watched a video, gave it sometime not to just get irritated or jump to conclusions, keep an open mind etc. I thought well maybe I need some sort of special headphones at first because I felt nothing but annoyed which kept be awake and actually mentally over simulated. I'd close my eye's, lay in bed in the dark with headphones on and stay relaxed to then want to open my eyes to see what's going on in the video lol, intense colors with different sounds gave me a sensation alright,…..kept me up all night watching things like bubbles in water to cutting orange puddy in slices to even having loud crackling in my ears. I thought for sure I must be broken because I got no tingles, shivers etc. Just over stimulus that kept me up. Everyone is different and I can see how to some it maybe relaxing or help in therapeutic ways because it's visually different as well all those enhanced sounds. But for the way my brain is wired it just did the opposite. I even tried no video and just audio,….turns out playing the guessing game of "what's that sound?" in my head made for a added bonus for evening's event's.
How common is it in the neurodiverse community? I’m autistic and I’ve been experiencing it very strongly as long as I remember. It’s a kind of a trance. Makes my brain stop spinning. There’s only this sound and it feels so relaxing… When I’m standing I have to focus to not fall or not drop stuff I’m holding in my hands.