ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

10 Aug 25 - 10:07 AM (#4226968)
Subject: BS: ASMR
From: Donuel

ASMR

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a relaxing sensation triggered by specific sounds or visuals, often described as a ``tingling' feeling in the head or spine. People watch ASMR videos for stress relief, relaxation, and sleep improvement. People can share certain triggers for ASMR, but triggers are different for most people.
The bad news is that only 20% of people have this phenomenon.
My trigger is the finale of Nessun Dorma.

It is a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck, as experienced by some people in response to a specific gentle stimulus, often a particular sound.
It's not an orgasm, which has its own spectrum of response, but it is a very pleasant sensation that can raise hairs in the back of your neck.

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10 Aug 25 - 02:19 PM (#4226977)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Helen

Yes, Nessun Dorma! And also Max Bruch's Adagio Appassionato for violin & orchestra, Op 57.

I often listen to that and then immediately play the track again. I remember the first time I ever heard it. It was on the radio in my car. I stopped at my destination but couldn't stop the music until it was over. I was crying when I got out of the car and went into the shop. I found the CD set online and bought it very soon after that. It's not just listening to a piece of music for me. It is an experience every time.

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10 Aug 25 - 04:30 PM (#4226978)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Stilly River Sage

Yes! The second movement of Beethoven's Seventh does that for me. And Barber's Adagio for Strings. There are others. It may to tie into the first time I remember hearing these in specific contexts, it all comes flowing back. And since folks on Mudcat are here because of music, there may be high percentage of members who know exactly what this feeling is.

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10 Aug 25 - 04:35 PM (#4226979)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Charmion

The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by Ralph Vaughan-Williams.

I listen to it when I need to de-stress.

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10 Aug 25 - 04:40 PM (#4226980)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Stilly River Sage

That one also. And Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending.

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10 Aug 25 - 04:44 PM (#4226981)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Backwoodsman

Edward Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ for me…

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10 Aug 25 - 05:00 PM (#4226982)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Helen

Was there a cartoon with the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh? I have a vague memory of it.

Pachelbel's Canon

O Holy Night performed here by Celtic Trio and choir

A lot of O'Carolan's harp compositions - too many to name.

Some of Hildegarde von Bingen's compositions.

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10 Aug 25 - 06:32 PM (#4226985)
Subject: RE: BS: ASMR
From: Helen

Here are some of my favourite O'Carolan tunes which stop me in my tracks - I have to stop and listen to them every time I hear them because they speak to my soul:

Bridget Cruise 3rd Air, Luke Dillon, Mrs Judge, Mrs MacDermott Roe (The Princess Royal), Michael O'Connor 2nd Air, Captain O'Kane, Eleanor Plunkett, Carolan's Welcome, Blind Mary, Carolan's Cup, Carolan's Farewell to Music, and The Fairy Queen.

Carolan's Farewell to Music also brings to mind the Welsh song David of the White Rock, which is (supposedly) his song on his deathbed. These are the lyrics I learned at school and the tune in the Ivor Novello publication, Sing Care Away had the most beautiful harmony as well. I know there are different English translations of the lyrics but this is the version I know.

1. Bring me, said David, the harp I adore;
I long, ere death calls me, to play it once more.
Help me to reach my belov’d strings again;
On widow and children, God’s blessing remain.

2. Last night I heard a kind angel thus say,
“David fly home on the wings of thy lay”.
Harp of my youth, and thy music, adieu;
Widow and children, God’s blessing on you.

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10 Aug 25 - 07:18 PM (#4226988)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: keberoxu

Too many to list, in terms of stimulating pieces of music.
When I feel it, I know it.

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10 Aug 25 - 07:44 PM (#4226989)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Helen

I know what you mean, keberoxu.

I remembered a thread I started - OMG, it was nearly 20 years ago, how time flies!

Classical music - what makes you listen?

On reading Donuel's explanation of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) I realise that that is probably what I was trying to explain in the first post on that thread, on which, BTW, the last person to post was - drum roll please!! - keberoxu in 2023! Yay!! :-)

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10 Aug 25 - 10:02 PM (#4226990)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: GerryM

Helen, it might have been "A Ham in a Role". The musical credits at https://intanibase.com/iad_entries/entry?shortID=5574#google_vignette
mention Beethoven's 7th.

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10 Aug 25 - 11:04 PM (#4226991)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Stilly River Sage

The finale of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (the organ symphony). Gets me every time. YouTube.

We're discussing a Mudcat mixtape far different than the Blue Plate specials we produced years ago. Now it can be everyone's YouTube ASMR playlist.

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10 Aug 25 - 11:58 PM (#4226992)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Helen

Thanks GerryM, but that wasn't the one I was vaguely remembering. I think someone at Mudcat mentioned it and I watched it but I can't remember how it related to the discussion it was in or what the music was. I just remember it was classical music. If I'm lucky I'll wake up at 2am and it will suddenly pop into my head.

No wait - thank the gods for internet searches - I just searched for cartoons with classical music and...

Looney Tunes | Bugs the Pianist

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11 Aug 25 - 03:10 AM (#4226994)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: GerryM

Helen, OK, but ... you said, Beethoven's 7th, and I don't think there's any of that in there.

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11 Aug 25 - 04:25 AM (#4226996)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Helen

No there isn't. I just vaguely remembered a clever cartoon with classical music. It might not have been the Bugs Bunny cartoon. It might have been another one, and it might have been a different piece of music. (I'm getting old and senile, you know. :-D ) The Beethoven's 7th just reminded of a clever cartoon.

Still searching.

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11 Aug 25 - 04:31 PM (#4227019)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: GUEST

One segment of Disney's "Fantasia" is backed by a movement from Beethoven's "Pastoral". It's the one with the pegasuses (pegasi?).

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11 Aug 25 - 07:04 PM (#4227021)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Helen

I just listened to Beethoven's 7th and it wasn't the piece I was thinking of for the cartoon. It was one of the piano cartoons so it could have been a Tom & Jerry cartoon.

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11 Aug 25 - 11:47 PM (#4227024)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: GUEST,paperback

Arron Copeland is nice so is Howard Shore but in my heart of heart SCOTLAND THE BRAVE

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11 Aug 25 - 11:54 PM (#4227025)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: GUEST

THE END OF ALL THINGS

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12 Aug 25 - 04:12 AM (#4227030)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: mayomick

I like the one where they do the fingernails on the microphone....

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12 Aug 25 - 04:19 AM (#4227031)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Helen

Fingernails on a blackboard. Now that would be the opposite of Donuel's definition of ASMR in his first post. :-(

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12 Aug 25 - 07:45 AM (#4227039)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Manitas_at_home

There was only one Pegasus in Greek mythology. The plural you're looking for would be flying horses.

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12 Aug 25 - 11:12 AM (#4227049)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Stilly River Sage

I was thinking about that, the opposites. Penderecki comes to mind as one who is not only not soothing, he's quite intentionally jarring.

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26 Aug 25 - 10:27 AM (#4227686)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Stilly River Sage

This morning a favorite piece that always causes this ripple of pleasure reminded me that while I don't remember the initials there is a thread about it here on Mudcat.

Beethoven Romance #1

Both of them have this effect - what sublime little nuggets of music.

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16 Sep 25 - 11:50 AM (#4228647)
Subject: RE: ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
From: Stilly River Sage

On Jessye Norman's birthday yesterday my local station played Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. About the saddest sad song I can think of (next to the Barber mentioned above.)

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