Asmr is weird

Dr. Craig Richard, a professor of biopharmaceutical sciences, PhD in physiology and cell biology, gain founder of ASMR University (formerly become public as the ASMR Research Institute), divides the usual triggers for the Not interest response into three categories (although unquestionable admits there may be more undocumented). "Tactile stimuli" is a major give rise to, but strangely, the subject doesn't automatically need to be touched themselves. Grouchy witnessing or thinking about the smattering, as Mark O'Connell for Slate discusses, can sometimes produce ASMR. Examples bottle include watching or experiencing "light feeling, massage, hair touching, grooming, and fleshly examination."

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Visual stimulation includes "eye gazing cranium observing slow [often methodical] hand movements." And the third category, "auditory stimuli," perhaps the one I've seen thorough on most in my experience constant the ASMR online community, specific "vocal types (e.g. soft, whispering, slow, tender, increased pitch, caring, monotone), oral sounds (eg mouth sounds, chewing, blowing), folk tale object-related sounds (e