Somewhatrelevant confession time: Reading birth chart analyses on astrology forums is apretty reliable ASMR trigger for me
Iknow waaay more about ascendants, conjunctions, and houses than any respectableyoung skeptic/former “Anything not of God is of Satan!” Christian should
(Myverdict: astrology is much more than sun signs and horoscopes in Cosmo, butit’d need to take advantage of the Barnum effect more before any of it started sounding even sort of accurate)
btw, do any of my followers experience ASMR regularly/reliably? I have this effort post in my drafts about a theory of mine where ‘ASMR’ can actually be divided into at least two, possibly more, discrete sensations, and how the English language really lacks the vocabulary to distinguish between them
but I need at least a couple of people who get it regularly so that I can get feedback from the ‘community’, as it were, to ensure that I’m not just seriously typical-minding here
I experience ASMR from videos designed to induce them, but I’m put off by the roleplay stuff.
Also maybe one of the two sensations is frisson?
Someone else who gets ASMR from reading a really random category of stuff! My most reliable ASMR triggers are this blog and anything on Yahoo Answers, though astrology also sounds like the sort of thing that could work. (Also people with Chinese accents talking about boring things, for some reason. The videos I’ve seen didn’t do much for me.)
(I wouldn’t divide what I refer to as ASMR into two sensations, it seems like one well-defined thing to me. I’d be interested to hear what you think the sensations are.)