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chippy posted:Thing is, why would you tell your doctor about it? Out of interest, does anyone here who has it feel it has a negative impact on their life, or consider it a health problem? Some people will mention it to their doctors when something weird is happening to their head (or chest, or other body parts) even if the symptom isn't unpleasant. It probably isn't worth making an appointment, but if you have to go to the doctor for a prescription refill or whatever you might bring it up.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 20:35 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 20:25 |
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I definitely can identify with this but only with the head/hair/back of neck thing. gently caress I love haircuts and the best was when I would get searched for lice when I was in elementary school. Really enjoying the fact that this is actually a thing. Even though its not sexual at all I distinctly recall feeling guilty for enjoying those lice scans and I never mentioned the ridiculously good feeling I got from it.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 21:26 |
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There are a bunch of people in this thread who feel tingly all over when the creepy pedophile from Family Guy starts hitting on Chris.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 21:33 |
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Apparently this is not completely uncommon. Good to know! My friends thought I was out of my head when I tried explaining it to them.Pleads posted:There are a bunch of people in this thread who feel tingly all over when the creepy pedophile from Family Guy starts hitting on Chris. Actually, yeah. It entrances me a bit. What really gets me, though, is nearly any song by Tor Linlokken. For that song, when the vocals and bass begin. Hearing this song compelled me play through The Longest Journey.
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| # ? Jul 20, 2012 23:55 |
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I thought this was just chills/goosebumps. It happens to me whenever modeling in art class. And also the drawing scene in Titanic. Wait, maybe that's just arousal.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 02:29 |
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Op has a brain tumor.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 02:42 |
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quote:- Watching another person complete a task, often in a diligent, attentive manner – examples would be filling out a form, writing a check, going through a purse or bag, inspecting an item closely, etc. This one is the one I get. It's just the chills, man. Glad it makes you feel good, it makes me feel good too -- but it's not like some super weird thing, I'm pretty sure everybody has these kinds of reactions to certain stimuli.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 03:55 |
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I'm really confused by what triggers people are listening for in these ASMR YouTube videos where people are opening boxes and weighing fountain pens...is it the sharp tapping/scraping sounds? I'm not sure how to describe that sound aside from "Wear a stethoscope and bump/rub the diaphragm against things." I also tried listening to the woman whispering while she folds towels, and it seemed more like laryngitis than whispering. I guess in my case I have the aural equivalent of cilantro = soap. It's so difficult for me to imagine these sounds as soothing, since I find them so grating. I think I know what sensation is being described, but it's always just been something I could do to myself (like wiggling ears) rather than being triggered by anything.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 04:39 |
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I wish I could search this thread for 'synesthesia' - I'm sure I'm the 20th person to suggest it. Some of my seizures also cause a brain tingle, but I can't enjoy it, knowing what it signifies.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 04:52 |
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This is the craziest thing. I thought it was just something everyone felt from time to time. I'd never thought about the triggers before, but it's definitely something to do with practiced, methodical movements. I get it from people preparing food sometimes. 
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 04:57 |
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I must have my poles reversed or something, because I dislike getting haircuts as much as some of you seem to enjoy them. More specifically, I really tense up when someone takes clippers to my neck or the back of my head.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 05:05 |
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I get this when someone is drawing a picture for me but at no other time. Doesn't matter what is in the picture or what style its in. Strange.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 09:30 |
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Was explaining this to a coworker this week and she seemed to know what I was talking about. She called it brain-purring which is as accurate a name as I've heard yet.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 15:06 |
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Berk Berkly posted:
I feel so less weird now that I know this happens to other people too. For me it's always been watching people sketch with fine-point pens or pencils. It mesmerizes me and makes my brain go all fuzzy and nice feeling. This also sometimes works when I'm watching someone put on eyeliner for basically the same reasons I expect. It's a nice feeling. My boyfriend, when I asked him if he ever felt like this, came back and said that he feels that brain tingly feeling every single time he enjoys anything. He got very put out about it and tried to tell me that this "brain tingle" is in no way seperate from regular happiness. Which apparently is true for him but not me. Either he's missing the point or he has the best brain ever and I'm jealous.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 15:24 |
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SamBishop posted:Sorry I missed this response before, and I hope this doesn't come off as arguing, since like you said, bias isn't just possible, it's likely given how much of this can come off as subjective. = I'm not arguing whether it's different, but whether there is any way at all to objectively differentiate it without looking at brain activity. THAT is why a medical description without triggers or testing would be vague to the point of uselessness.
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 16:02 |
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Ok, I know this is really weird, but do you know that happy-go-lucky jingle Clone CD does when it's finished burning a CD? It drives me literally to the verge of tears with fear. Everytime. Even if I prepare myself for it. I can't explain it - I feel my heart beating faster, I feel absolutely terrible, and once I almost fainted. I don't know why that happens - I guess it simply tugs the wrong string in my head
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| # ? Jul 21, 2012 18:03 |
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I think it needs to be emphasized that the sensation in question is pleasurable and relaxing. If you are thinking of a sensation that makes you feel uncomfortable then its probably not "ASMR". sweetmercifulcrap fucked around with this message at Jul 22, 2012 around 03:51 |
| # ? Jul 22, 2012 03:38 |
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skirth posted:Sorry if this is a derail, but I think it follows the 'weird poo poo that you thought only you experienced' theme. Yup. Me too! I still get it as a 36 year old. It started when I was a kid -- coincidently, I was seeing a cardiologist for a heart murmur when it started to happen. So they knew right off the bat I wasn't having a heart attack at 13 and explained what it was. It's incredibly painful. I've found that if I put my arm up over my head and lay on my side (it's almost exclusively on my left) that helps it fade. I swear it is why I have such a high pain tolerance.
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 04:02 |
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Lice checks always gave me a pleasurable sensation in school, but I'm hesitant to assign it the strength and consistency people seem to be describing here. And as far as I can surmise none of the instructional stuff causes a trigger either. I'm feeling a bit of a tingle now, but I'm pretty sure it's a power of suggestion thing. Still, I have had tingling feelings that were "like the chills, but warm and without the tightening/shuddering," so I don't know. I can't seem to unequivocally identify with what others are describing, though, the way most people saying they have it seem to latch on instantly, so for now it seems I am normal in this regard. Or abnormal if it turns out almost everyone feels this and is afraid to talk about it. None of this is to say I disbelieve it's a real thing at all. I think I'm more suggestible than I'd care to admit, personally.
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 09:04 |
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Thank you OP , I can finally make my GF believe me ! I've had those since I was a child , mostly in class and when getting a haircut . Kelly posted:Yup. Me too! I still get it as a 36 year old. It started when I was a kid -- coincidently, I was seeing a cardiologist for a heart murmur when it started to happen. So they knew right off the bat I wasn't having a heart attack at 13 and explained what it was. Also this , I guess I'm a nutcase , I've been to a cardiologist and told me I'm fine , it usually occurs me while trying to sleep . MrKonarski fucked around with this message at Jul 22, 2012 around 09:23 |
| # ? Jul 22, 2012 09:20 |
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So I skimmed through the thread, and didn't see it mentioned, but I was curious if this is in any way related to Misophonia. Many of the videos, and a lot of the sounds described as triggering ASMR trigger my misophonia. The "S" sounds in the towel folding video, and most of that zen garden video from page 1 drove me up the wall. Is this like basically the exact opposite of misophonia, only it includes more than just sound? I'm just really curious because of the overlap, that a single sound could in one person cause this rush of joy, while to others it causes a rush of anger. I know my big misophonia trigger is the sound of people chewing. I can't eat in public because hearing someone chew, even quietly and with manners and such, is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Anxiety medication has helped significantly, but I still get that reaction from very specific noises. Sorry if this is a derail or has already been brought up.
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| # ? Jul 22, 2012 11:52 |
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I get this quite often. Those Whisper Crystal videos sent my mind going nuts, I had a girlfriend once who sounded like that all the time, maybe I understand the dynamic in that relationship a bit better after reading this thread, maybe I should worry about myself? I never knew if she whispered because that was how she spoke, or if she knew it messed with other peoples brains on another level. Also, I get this feeling throughout pretty much the entirety of the Daft Punk album Discovery. Basically its one tingly brain orgasm after the next. Something about the eclectic nature of their sound or perhaps the lead singers high pitched dramatic voice, but songs from The Band, give this effect. King Harvest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxzQChNxQQ8 Across the Great Divide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPbIbHUem0
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PandaPropaganda posted:So I skimmed through the thread, and didn't see it mentioned, but I was curious if this is in any way related to Misophonia. Many of the videos, and a lot of the sounds described as triggering ASMR trigger my misophonia. The "S" sounds in the towel folding video, and most of that zen garden video from page 1 drove me up the wall. Hmm, I didn't know this was a Thing. When I was small I refused to go to other kids' birthday parties because I had a huge phobia of the sound of balloons popping. I still pre-emptively flinch whenever I see anyone playing with a balloon. Also chewing, whistling, sudden yelling, burping, all this poo poo drives me especially nuts. It says it's related to obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety. I've always had major anxiety going on, and had OCD as a kid.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 04:17 |
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vandalism posted:This poo poo makes me tingly. And shows me how to fold towels. Feels good man. I know this is from the first page but holy poo poo, I didn't even know I had this. This weirds me out so badly. On the other end of the spectrum, the squeaky sound of fingers on glass, great way to completly piss me off.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 06:08 |
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Corridor posted:Hmm, I didn't know this was a Thing. When I was small I refused to go to other kids' birthday parties because I had a huge phobia of the sound of balloons popping. I still pre-emptively flinch whenever I see anyone playing with a balloon. Also chewing, whistling, sudden yelling, burping, all this poo poo drives me especially nuts. Much more likely that you have misophonia.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 08:35 |
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Play posted:I definitely can identify with this but only with the head/hair/back of neck thing. gently caress I love haircuts and the best was when I would get searched for lice when I was in elementary school. Really enjoying the fact that this is actually a thing. Yup, I had it from being checked for lice as well. Once I started reading the OP I immediately thought "lice scans". It's a warm, disconnected feeling. Almost out of body. Probably similar to a heroin high.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 08:58 |
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stratdax posted:It's a warm, disconnected feeling. Almost out of body. Probably similar to a heroin high. I can just picture someone losing their house and job after spending all their money on hairdressers. Eventually they would hit rock bottom and be reduced to asking strangers on the street to check their hair for lice and show them how to tie their shoes.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 14:02 |
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Play posted:Even though its not sexual at all I distinctly recall feeling guilty for enjoying those lice scans and I never mentioned the ridiculously good feeling I got from it. Same here. I would always get the tingles when my friends would whisper secrets to me as a kid and I never knew why - I always figured it would make them uncomfortable to know, so I was sure never to say anything or let on that I enjoyed it. I actually always felt kinda weirded out that it happened and wished it would stop (after all NORMAL people don't experience this ohgodimbroken!), but you can't really turn this sort of thing off. As I grew up I just learned to accept it and figured that it had something to do with thoroughly enjoying intimate human closeness (I get the head-touching tingles too, from haircuts etc). Then I saw these videos and realized it can be stimulated without another person around  And other people have it! Awesome.(also yeah I know the term for it is kinda bunk and right now it's sort of in the realm of pseudo-science, but this really is a genuine reaction. I'm an incredibly rational person so I understand being skeptical of this - if I didn't experience it, I'd probably be right on the other side with you folks who think it's fake. But I've had this my entire life, and these videos trigger it perfectly. Interestingly enough, showing my bf these videos, he experienced nothing - up until the towels. Then it clicked a bit) EDIT: PandaPropaganda posted:I was curious if this is in any way related to Misophonia. I wouldn't be surprised...while most of these sounds in the thread make me feel good, there are certainly noises that can make me feel the opposite. The worst noise on earth, that thing that will make me just go crazy, is the sound of paper being rubbed on carpet. It's just the worst, it travels up my spine and enrages me - I am not a violent person, but that noise makes me feel like getting physically violent. It is doubly worse if I am the one rubbing it on the carpet, as then I get the scratchy sensation traveling up my arms to my spine along with the sound. I don't even know how to describe it, it just makes me feel like scrunching things up and then breaking them when I hear it, like I can't shed the frustration of the noise itself without tearing out of something. All of my muscles tense up and I feel like flailing when I hear it. Haha jesus I guess I am weirdly sensitive to sounds. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at Jul 23, 2012 around 14:33 |
| # ? Jul 23, 2012 14:23 |
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So none of those videos did anything for me. Watching a dude tickle his buddha on youtube was funny though. Can anyone recommend anything besides those youtube videos that might cause this? Wait wait, I think this might happen when I listen to the band The Antlers. Maybe not. I think I just have a cold. I'm not special. Reason fucked around with this message at Jul 23, 2012 around 15:06 |
| # ? Jul 23, 2012 14:56 |
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Not to copy in this thread, but...holy crap!!! I've never gotten this from any kind of sound, but when someone runs their fingers from the nape of my neck up my scalp (especially behind the ears), or lays a hand flat on my back, it feels like my brain is melting, and I get warm tingles either all over my back or all over my scalp, and just feel happy. It's not inherently sexual, but it can be manipulated pretty easily. Mostly it just makes me extremely calm/happy/relaxed and can settle me down to sleep like nothing else (I have sleeping problems generally). e: Somehow, I also assumed everybody got a "brain-melty" feeling from something or other (and in my case it was just back/scalp), but I brought it up with my boyfriend a while ago and he had no idea what I was talking about
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 16:55 |
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PandaPropaganda posted:So I skimmed through the thread, and didn't see it mentioned, but I was curious if this is in any way related to Misophonia. Many of the videos, and a lot of the sounds described as triggering ASMR trigger my misophonia. The "S" sounds in the towel folding video, and most of that zen garden video from page 1 drove me up the wall. This is an interesting thought. I've been hesitant to listen to any of the videos posted (especially after reading someone complain about the lip smacking in the towel folding video) precisely because I have cripplingly bad misophonia. I've even gone through cognitive behavioural therapy to help with it. The therapy is pretty much just desensitizing yourself to triggers slowly, quite like the therapy for OCD. Oddly enough, my spouse has spent a great deal of time describing the tingling in his head when he hears certain voices or sounds, and now thanks to this thread we've got a name for what he's been describing. So I have this weird brain thing that he can't understand, and he has this other weird brain thing that I can't understand. From listening to him over the years, yes, it does seem to be identical to misophonia, but with a different expression of the symptoms.
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 19:10 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:I can just picture someone losing their house and job after spending all their money on hairdressers. Eventually they would hit rock bottom and be reduced to asking strangers on the street to check their hair for lice and show them how to tie their shoes. The mental image you've given me of some dude all strung-out and begging people to fold the same towel for him over and over while he just lays there is incredible. Thank you for that.
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| # ? Jul 26, 2012 22:51 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM After I heard about ASMR, I hit up a couple forums looking for songs/videos that could trigger the response for me. I didn't really know what to expect, I didn't really know if it took any active concentration on my part. After a lot of others' reported triggers didn't work for me, I found this video and I finally understood the sensation that everyone else had talked about experiencing. This video was the first one that gave me the tingly waves that people mention, but after experiencing it once I found it easier to induce subsequent occurrences. There is a certain degree of concentration you have to maintain, but it's more akin to relaxation than concentration. I'm having a hard time describing it but hopefully this video can serve as a trigger for some of you.
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 00:39 |
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I don't really get these on a daily basis but I remember a handful of times where this sensation overwhelmed me completely - one was my first time smoking pot. I couldn't stop laughing and it was as if a waterfall of head tingling was pouring down my head and wouldn't stop. The other was when I attended a Christian Orthodox service, it's the predominant religion in my homeland but I've led a fairly secular life and never saw a service. It created the same overwhelming feeling starting at the crown of the head and washing over my body overwhelmingly. looking at icons some time after gave me the same feeling. I never understood religion in that way before. No wonder everyone is addicted to pot and Jesus....
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| # ? Jul 27, 2012 02:39 |
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I think sometimes nice cleavage will give me ASMR. I just uploaded this video of rain drops hitting an umbrella during cherry blossom season, I think it will work for some people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKrDrxuygQ
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| # ? Aug 11, 2012 23:52 |
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Found this article you guys might be interested in on ASMR. It talks a bit about why there haven't been any studies on it as well: 'Maria spends 20 minutes folding towels': Why millions are mesmerised by ASMR videos
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 02:11 |
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Squidtamer DA posted:Found this article you guys might be interested in on ASMR. It talks a bit about why there haven't been any studies on it as well: Thanks for finding (or coming back to) this thread. It was an interesting article, though I found this to be disconcerting: quote:"It might well be a real thing," he says, "but it's inherently difficult to research. The inner experience is the point of a lot of psychological investigation, but when you've got something like this that you can't see or feel, and it doesn't happen for everyone, it falls into a blind spot. It's like synaesthesia – for years it was a myth, then in the 1990s people came up with a reliable way of measuring it." That really upsets me. Either the person interviewing the quoted person doesn't experience it, or they weren't in a position to push it further. Near as I can tell, we've had no chance to actually test this medically, yet it's easily reproducible. I'm not really understanding how this is passed off in the same way as synaesthesia when, as the article states, there are millions that have seen (or, more accurately, re-watched) these videos. I can't think of a phenomenon that's more readily or easily reproduced. There are multiple ghost/UFO shows on TV that have had multiple seasons of showing absolutely nothing, yet this can be triggered -- instantly -- by a wide variety of people. Either way, I'm glad to see the thread isn't entirely dead. I'm one of the super-weirdos; your normal triggers will never work on me, and thus nearly everything out there is for the community. I'm okay with that. I'll take my random train or bus ride conversations as I always have: a random gift that someone doesn't even know they're giving. [edit] I failed to mention how relieved I was to have at least some perspective shed on things. The person is right; it's easier to explain porn than it is this. That innately makes it feel almost shameful because if you can't describe something that "feels good" in a relative way, it automatically becomes different and, especially in the case of a sound that most people can't hear (or at least don't respond to), something fetishized. And gently caress the Internet for apparently doing just that. It's not a fetish. It's not sexual. Someone's going to beat off to towels or something. That makes me sad. SamBishop fucked around with this message at Aug 12, 2012 around 07:02 |
| # ? Aug 12, 2012 06:57 |
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This thread is much more understanding than the time this issue came up in another subforum and it was basically me and one other person against a half-dozen people saying "lol enjoy the bullshit thing you're making up to get attention!!!" I still remember the first time I was 100% cognizant of this happening to me, it was in a 4th grade classroom discussion about some kind of alternate way to do long division. I have no idea if my teacher was working from notes that day instead of making it up as she went along, or vice-versa, but something about the tone and speed of her explanations basically made it so that I wanted to do nothing but sit and listen to her. I stopped taking notes and just kind of sat in awe at the physical sensation. I discovered Bob Ross at some point, and, well, there you go. The idea that this could be sexual is so hilarious to me. It is probably the closest thing I can imagine to understanding nirvana and being beyond any interest in the physical world. That is a pretty opposing feeling from "let's get it on!" Oh, and I will also add my two cents: if you think you only experience this as a brief high during music, that is an entirely different sensation. I get that, too, and they could not possibly be more different. That feeling makes me want to grab a sword and fend off a barbarian army; this sensation on the other hand makes me think maybe sitting immobile in the path of a speeding train might not be so bad as long as I keep feeling like my brain is being sucked out the back of my head in the meantime.
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| # ? Aug 12, 2012 07:47 |
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Considering the widespread popularity of unboxing videos and tutorials for completely random poo poo on youtube, this phenomenon is probably more widespread than we think. It wouldn't surprise me if the presenters are at least to some degree aware of the weird calming effect they can have. One thing that has always produced the tingle for me is eye tests, specifically the one where you have to look through a giant contraption and read out letters while the optometrist switches lenses on it. I noticed that my optometrist adopted a tone of voice completely different from what she otherwise uses during the test. Very slow paced and slightly musical. She knows! 
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| # ? May 24, 2013 20:25 |
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I experience this. I can't trigger it consistently though, and most of the stuff advertised as trigger vids doesn't work for me though. I've always thought everyone experiences this. Triggers usually involve someone explaining something. First one I ever noticed when I was young, was someone pointing out stuff on a map. Reading some specific texts might trigger it for me, one is a little booklet on how to play mah jong, and it's full of colourful, complex language and archaisms, but does a shabby job at actually explaining how to play the game. Another is an instruction manual for Chinese calligraphy, very enthusiastically written but full with spelling and grammatical errors.
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