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Do You Experience Brain Tingles or ASMR?

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YouTube channel Life Noggin focuses on educating their audience through fun animations in short episodes that are instantly fascinating. With this video, they’ve focused on ASMR, or “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response,” which has exploded in popularity online.

DiscoverASMR.com describes the physical response to pleasing audible stimuli as “euphoric.” They explain, “It starts at the back of your head, travels down through your spine into your limbs relaxing you, giving you a feeling of well-being. Almost all of us can experience it and it’s just the matter of finding your personal ASMR trigger.”

For many, triggers include listening to someone speak softly or sounds of scratching, brushing or tapping. Once the internet community realized there was a market for creating soothing Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response videos, many new channels on YouTube popped up that are dedicated solely to helping the viewer trigger the ASMR response.

If you don’t experience the sensation, it sounds very bizarre and requires further explanation. Luckily, Life Noggin’s video is here to help those of us who don’t experience ASMR firsthand start to understand what has become a major source of interest to armchair psychologists and scientists as well.