Recently, an unremarkable video appeared on one of the YouTube channels where a woman speaking in a low monotone voice teaches viewers to fold towels. There are only towels, her hands and a black table in the frame. The video has already accumulated over 600 thousand views. For what reason? Such interest in the video is caused by the autonomous sensory meridional reaction arising during viewing. To put it simply, the video causes pleasant sensations and slight tingling sensations in the neck and head.
Light tingling in the neck, head, back
Autonomous sensory meridional response (ASMR) does not occur in everyone, but in many people, due to monotonous, quiet and soft voices. In general, ASMR is a subjective neurological experience. It can manifest itself when watching boring courses, video tutorials. A person begins to have slight tingling sensations in the neck and head. They can spread to the whole body. A huge number of people often watch boring videos in order to experience ASMR again.
Steve Novella
Official science is still not very sure that ASMR exists, although there is a lot of evidence from people who survived it. But Steve Novella, director of the department of neurology at Yale Medical School, believes that ASMR has not yet simply been classified, but this does not exclude its existence.
According to Steve, people with ASMR experience mild seizures triggered by beeps. This suggests that not all seizures make a person feel bad.
