If you're wondering what the hell ASMR is, you're not alone. When ASMR videos started trending on YouTube and Instagram, I was perplexed, too, but I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about.

Over the past few years, YouTube has exploded with videos aimed at making viewers feel relaxed, tingly, and even sleepy — a sensation known as autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). Within the ...

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a spidery sensation felt across the scalp and up and down the spine, triggered by certain sensory experiences. Some people are triggered by the sound of ...

Get to know the feel-good Instagram beauty that everyone is talking about even better. Here's what's going on in the world of ASMR beauty. So why do some feel it, and some don’t? A psychological study ...

The internet can be a weird place. Anyone who's spent too much time on Tumblr or Reddit can tell you that much, but YouTube also has it own section that many people find unsettling. That section is ...

If you came across a video by Maria, known to her more than 430,000 subscribers as GentleWhispering, without real knowledge of what she was doing, you might assume you’d entered a fetishistic YouTube ...

ASMR videos - which claim to induce a tingling feeling in the viewer - have quietly become an internet phenomenon. When I was a child I sometimes experienced a pleasant physical sensation in my scalp ...

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