ASMR stands for an autonomous sensory meridian response. The funny thing? Research and science behind ASMR are still so new that there's really no "scientific" definition for the term. It simply ...

If you’ve ever experienced a tingling sensation on your skin in response to a certain visual or sound, you may have had an autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR as it’s more commonly known as.

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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 ...

Although people often casually refer to ASMR content as "whisper porn," and call the tingling, relaxing sensations of ASMR itself a "headgasm," most mainstream ASMR creators, consumers, and ...

What do the sounds of whispered affirmations, page-turning, and tapping fingernails have in common? What about the sight of slow hand movements, soap being gently cut to pieces, and hair being brushed ...