ASMR videos create pleasurable feelings through sensory triggers, like stroking a microphone. A new sub-genre does the same thing, while being insulting or mean to viewers for comedic effect. Viewers ...
Leanna Alaiwat is an OB-GYN physician assistant with a large social-media following. On TikTok and YouTube, she posts ASMR videos of OB-GYN procedures to show what visits are like. Below, she talks to ...
When it's quiet enough to hear a pin drop, that's Brooke Schueneman's cue to start recording. "Welcome back to my channel," Schueneman whispers into her microphone. She then picks up a beaded necklace ...
"ASMR is a deeply relaxing and comforting feeling, usually accompanied by tingling sensations in the head," says Craig Richard, PhD, an ASMR researcher and founder of ASMR University. The"tingling" ...
If you've ever seen those videos of people whispering, tapping on objects, role-playing as doctors and making hand gestures into the camera lens and questioned what the heck you've stumbled across, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Have you ever heard or saw something that left your body tingling? A gentle ...
The euphoric-but-relaxing responses to soothing visuals and quirky, textural sounds has spawned an online wellbeing phenomenon. But what is ASMR—and why do only some people feel it? Increasingly, ...