What is your ASMR trigger?

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I have never experienced ASMR. The closest I can think of is I had a weird, pleasant feeling when hearing a high quality sound of a cat purring loudly. Maybe it means I'm a closet furry, I hope not. If so, I demand one of you execute me by firing squad immediately.
 
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What kind of triggers, bad or good? Bad triggers for me are I cannot stand whispers that sound like the whisper is deep-throating the microphone (though even normal talking from certain voices also do this), nor can I stand the scratching of metallic surfaces. Chills my teeth down to the gums.

Good triggers, though? I dunno. But I do like the sound of running your finger along a corner of the book pages. It's a nostalgic sound.
 
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Idk if ASMR works for me. When I hear women whispering into microphones it just makes me want to break things.

Xenomorph said:
Autism and farts.
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Is your pfp Tomie? If so I don't know if you can be trusted.
Junji Ito only has like 3 faces across all his female characters though so it's always tough to tell.
 
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Thunderstorms.
I'm also fond of ocean waves. I'm fond of combining them.

Also liminal spaces and ambience related to them. There's one playlist in particular I've had on repeat lately. I fuck with this.

I can't stand talking or roleplay style videos. That's a little too much. But watching unintentional stuff is okay, it doesn't trigger any ASMR though. I enjoy watching along. Cleaning videos make me want to deep clean my entire house even if my house is spotless so I tend to steer clear of those.
 
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David Brown said:
I have never experienced ASMR. The closest I can think of is I had a weird, pleasant feeling when hearing a high quality sound of a cat purring loudly.
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Uberpenguin said:
Idk if ASMR works for me. When I hear women whispering into microphones it just makes me want to break things.
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Try listening to songs that you like. That is the only thing that has worked consistently for me. Maybe because music targets more or different parts of the brain, or because you memorize the song, anticipate the parts you like, and then it delivers.

Neuroscience of music - Wikipedia

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Music is able to create an intensely pleasurable experience that can be described as "chills". Blood and Zatorre (2001) used PET to measure changes in cerebral blood flow while participants listened to music that they knew to give them the "chills" or any sort of intensely pleasant emotional response. They found that as these chills increase, many changes in cerebral blood flow are seen in brain regions such as the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, midbrain, and the ventral medial prefrontal cortex. Many of these areas appear to be linked to reward, motivation, emotion, and arousal, and are also activated in other pleasurable situations. The resulting pleasure responses enable the release dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. Nucleus accumbens (a part of striatum) is involved in both music related emotions, as well as rhythmic timing.
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Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music - Nature Neuroscience

Combining positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging, the authors investigate the effects of emotionally arousing music on the dopamine system. They find that the anticipation of this abstract reward can result in dopamine release in an anatomical pathway that is...
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