For a moment, I felt like a child again. My head rested on a silky pillowcase, fingers gently combing through my hair while a soft voice whispered in my ear. But this wasn’t bedtime — and that ...

As a child, Taylor, aka "ASMR Darling" on YouTube, was watching someone draw her a picture. The hand movements and sounds of the soft scratching of the crayons caused her entire body to tingle. She ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... She whispers to you as she takes a pink cloth to your cheeks. The cloth touches the edges of the camera lens, and the mic picks up the soft brushing sound.

I’m sitting on a futon in a stranger’s apartment with my friend Ashley. In front of us, Melinda Lauw—a slender, wide-eyed Singaporean woman—is crouched in a squat, holding a small flickering candle, ...

Common ASMR triggers include whispering, hair play, and ear brushing. Not all people experience a positive response or any response to these triggers, though. ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian ...

Does listening to a whisper send a tingle through your scalp? Do you find watching the snip of scissors around your ears at the hair salon soothing? How about the sound of nails clicking softy, the ...

The girl on screen runs her manicured nails over a shiny red lai see packet while whispering in hushed Cantonese. Her extra-sensitive microphone picks up every pop, tap and crackle from the paper ...

Most of us have experienced tingling or "goosebumps" at some point, especially when we feel a strong positive emotion such as awe or excitement. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

These videos often fall under the umbrella of 'oddly satisfying' videos, along with, for example, people making and playing with slime. A popular Reddit thread on the topic has been trending on and ...

ASMR, which has become more common in recent years, is an abbreviation for 'autonomous sensory meridian response' and refers to the comfort, tingling pleasure, and relaxed feeling felt by auditory and ...