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it gibes me le tism tingles.

t. 69 yr old khv

>>10847749
asmr is very sexual for me for whatever reason. if i try to listen to the sounds more it just ends up turning me on

>>10847784
If you're never experienced ASMR before discovering the YouTube videos, then you don't really have ASMR. If you get turned on by watching your uncle eat dinner, then you're a freak. Which is it?

>>10847749
okay so?

it’s a fact that children develop weird psychological attachments to sounds they associate with their mother. the sound of, say, a mother’s breathing or habitual tapping of fingernails can become something a baby creates a strong association to the soothing presence of their mother. like a deeply personal lullaby from their infancy or a smell that conjures up memories from being a toddler. babies obviously have strong reactions to their mother’s presence or “placebo” things mothers do to soothe their infants that can cause an almost instant cessation of the baby’s distress or cause them to feel extremely euphoric.

basically the people who experience ASMR are conjuring up some neoteny that helps them experience that “so nice mom is here, i’m blissful now” feeling. the fact this is a thing on the internet now basically demonstrates how so many adults now suffer from neoteny thanks to the ever-increasing failure of society to create fully developed adults and the constant increase in maladjusted people with emotional problems going back to childhood

>>10847858
This is a theory backed by virtually 0 evidence and from my own personal experience is wrong.

>>10847749
I subscribe to good-looking Korean ASMR artists on YouTube because I like Korean women.

>>10847749
>True ASMR does not make your scalp "tingle"
except it does, because those tingles are literally what the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response was defined as.

>>10847773
are they a sign of autism?

>>10848893
Hurr durr i represed the stench of my mothers taint hence you are wrong.

>>10847749
The only serious study i've seen about ASMR shows that there is a correlation between feeling ASMR and depression

>>10847749
I think the first time I experienced this feeling was when I was 5 years old, I asked a girl in my class to help tye my shoelaces for me because I was incapable.

I also on rare occasions get this feeling when I help people in need.

My personal theory is that it is some fagment of a social bonding mechanism that our ancestors made use of through social activities like grooming and was later replaced by speech. It would explain why not everyone can experience it and why the 'triggers' vary so much.

everything OP says can also be triggered by the YouTube video's. It's just that most of these youtube content creators have no idea what the fuck they are doing.

for me, it's certain lectures and lawns being mowed on certain sunny days. but i think the first experience of the feeling was getting backrubs from my mother at the age of 5ish while she read to me. opiates feel exactly the same as this.

>>10849150
>My personal theory is that it is some fagment of a social bonding mechanism that our ancestors made use of through social activities like grooming and was later replaced by speech.
Interesting. If that is the case, maybe it should partially alleviate the emotional distress from loneliness and social exclusion.

>>10849150
>I think the first time I experienced this feeling was when I was 5 years old, I asked a girl in my class to help tye my shoelaces for me because I was incapable.
I always get it when someone cuts my hair.

I think I've experienced this, when listening to a lecture in class while leaning on a cool desk while the ac hums in the background. It's tingly and relaxing. Most of the asmr videos online involve whispering/tapping/crinkling paper, which is probably a more common trigger.