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Autonomous sensory meridional reaction (ASMR) (eng. Autonomous sensory meridian response, ASMR) is a neologism, denoting the phenomenon of perception, characterized by a pleasant sensation of tingling in the back of the head, spreading in the form of goosebumps on the skin of the neck and back to the limbs. Trigger ASMR sensations, sound, visual, tactile, or cognitive stimuli.

The nature of the ASMR phenomenon is still unclear and has no scientific explanation. However, despite the little-known phenomenon in the scientific community, a lot of people every day watching a large number of ASMR content on YouTube and Twitch, where over the past few years has developed and continues to grow large-scale and sustainable community of people producing and consuming ASMR content. According to the audience, from watching these videos they get the effect of ASMR-pleasure, buzz, relaxation. In addition, these videos help them cope with anxiety, panic attacks, relax and fall asleep.

Origin of the term
According to the website KnowYourMeme, the first mention of the term "ASMR" was recorded on February 25, 2010 in the name of the group on Facebook (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Group), which was proposed by the Creator of the group Jennifer Allen (alias — Envelope Nomia) on the basis of the discussion on the forum SteadyHealth, during which many participants discussed previously described feeling.

Discussions on sites such as the Society of Sensationalists group ("sensationalist Society") on Yahoo! founded in 2008, or blog the Unnamed Feeling[1] ("the Unnamed feeling"), created by Andrew Makeroom in 2010, was aimed at creating a community to further explore this sensation by sharing ideas and personal experiences.

Known ASMR stimuli (triggers)
Fromthe stories of ASMR-sensitive and ASMR-videos shows that the range of triggers is very wide. According to the accumulated data, they can be divided into four main groups.

The first, the most common and extensive group of stimuli are sound. The most famous and popular among them:


 * whisper, gentle and quiet voice, slow soft speech; soft rustling, crunching of plastic or paper packaging, cellophane in hands; tapping with nails or objects, lightly scratching with nails or objects on textured surfaces, plastic or wood;  smacking his mouth, clacking his tongue;  the rustle of pages, the sound made by fingers when rubbing with paper, spitting on fingers when turning pages;  breath, blow into the microphone.  listening to music

The second group of visual stimuli:


 * smooth hand movements; concentration of the observed person on some work (drawing, problem solving, programming, etc.).); massage.

The third group of triggers can include situations related to the manifestation of personal attention to a person:


 * examination by a doctor, a conversation during the survey, a conversation with the receptionist; the process of makeup, care, hair styling, combing.

The fourth group includes tactile triggers:


 * soft touch hands, tongue shoulders, neck, body; stroking with a brush pen; vibration in the area of the pelvis, head massage and feet using equipment (gravity therapy Sacrus through the modes of vibration with a frequency of 8-16 Hz).

Video authors for ASMR often try to combine multiple triggers into a single video. To do this, they try to recreate different situations of attention to the viewer in the form of a coherent plot, such videos are called role-playing (roleplay). In them, the viewer takes the place of the camera, and the Asmrtist interacts with the camera as with a person. This creates a special effect of immersion and experience of the situation. Among these situations can be simulated haircuts, doctor visits or cleaning of ears and other things. Most often, ASMR triggers are felt at rest and when the room is a little cool.

Coverage in the media
ASMR videos were one of the topics discussed at the Boring 2012 conference in the UK. In an article in Slate magazine devoted to this conference, the musician and journalist rodry Marsden was mentioned, who made a report on ASMR under the alternative name "auto-sensory Meridian response" (Auto-Sensory Meridian Response) as one of the varieties of video with role-playing games on YouTube.

According to David Hewson, a Professor of music at Ohio state University, THE asmr effect is "closely related to a sense of security and altruistic attention." Huron notes the strong similarities with mutual cleaning in primates.

Issues of various news programs in audio and video format were devoted to the topic of ASMR. This topic has also been covered in print and online publications. One of the podcasts on The McGill Daily website notes the high prevalence of ASMR videos on YouTube and provides statements by various people describing their personal experiences associated with this feeling. One of the issues of the program "This American Life" Chicago radio station WBEZ was dedicated to American writer Andrew Seigel and her impressions of ASMR.

The sacramental news channel News 10/KXTV reported on the distribution on the Internet of videos that cause ASMR and help viewers relax and fall asleep. Several authors ASMR-videos were taken of the interview in which they talked about ASMR community, ASMR videos and the target audience of these videos. Authors ASMR video ASMR is sometimes called tests.

The topic of ASMR is receiving increasing attention and media coverage around the world. The attention of TV channels is attracted by the authors of ASMR-video, who have gained wide popularity on the Internet. Channels of the most popular of them have hundreds of millions of views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers. For example, one of the world stars of ASMR Maria GentleWhispering appeared on the air of the Australian ABC, Yahoo! 7 TV and the Baltimore radio 98 Rock, where she told the audience about ASMR and her passion.

Scientific community response
Steven Novella, senior lecturer in neuroscience at Yale University, in his blog on applied neuroscience notes the lack of scientific research on ASMR, and suggests using functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation for comparative study of the brain of people experiencing and not experiencing ASMR. Novella examines the concept of neurological diversity and points to the complexity of the human brain as a result of evolutionary processes.

In the newspaper "The Independent" is the statement of Tom Stafford, a teacher of psychology and cognitive science at Sheffield University:"Вполне возможно, что это явление действительно существует, однако по своей природе оно трудно поддаётся изучению. Внутренние переживания — предмет множества психологических исследований, но когда мы сталкиваемся с чем-то невидимым и неосязаемым, и не все способны это ощущать, — это становится «белым пятном». Как в случае с синестезией — долгие годы её считали мифом, но затем в 1990-х годах был предложен надёжный способ её измерения."

According to neurologist Edward J. O'connor, as described in the Corsair newspaper, produced by the College of Santa Monica, the obstacle to a detailed study of the phenomenon of ASMR is the lack of such an incentive that would cause ASMR in all people without exception.

See. also

 * Modality (psychology) Synesthesia Trance  Gooseflesh

Links

 * Braingasm: that thing is such - an overview[1]