Sometimes I thought everybody experience this and sometimes I thought I'm alone. So I looked up on the Internet for 'head tingles' and 'head orgasm' and came to know not everyone experience this but I'm also not alone.

There are certain triggers such as:

Listen to specific people talk (usually soft-spoken, well-spoken voices or lispers)
Listen to the radio or podcasts when these people are talking.
Watch certain TV programs, or YouTube videos, like instructional ones, infomercials, adverts, historical or factual programs.
People talking in a foreign or indigenous language. Xhosa and Afrikaans are two of mine.
Get tickled lightly, especially on the back or shoulders.
When someone strokes or plays with your hair softly.
When you listen to certain soft or distant, and usually repetitive, sounds like a bouncing tennis ball, trickling water, or construction noises like tapping hammers.
Listen to types of music.

http://theunnam3df33ling.blogspot.in/20 ... in-my.html

Bob Ross is another trigger as well.

Just two days back, I was talking to a friend in college when he used my notebook to describe something. I experienced it then and also many times before in school.

There is now entire culture of videos and websites dedicated to this phenomenon. Some of them are intentional videos of whispering and nail tapping etc. Many people also get from videos which are not made for inducing ASMR (and we never mention it in comments, it would freak them out).

Some of my personal favourite triggers are below. USE HEADPHONES.

Sites dedicated to ASMR:
http://www.asmr-research.org/forum/
http://theunnam3df33ling.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ASMRGroup/
http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/
http://www.reddit.com/r/UnIntentionalASMR

My favourites (most of the times its the accent):

i think it's human perception

Interesting. I have been linked to an ASMR video before but i didn't understand what it actually was and got a bit creeped out from this person whispering to me. These head tingles though, is it like when you sometimes get goosebumps from watching films or certain scenes you love and stuff like that or is it entirely different?

I get the feeling almost every time someone whispers and it's been like that my whole life - long before I actually knew of the phenomenon.

RabidBEBOP wrote:Interesting. I have been linked to an ASMR video before but i didn't understand what it actually was and got a bit creeped out from this person whispering to me. These head tingles though, is it like when you sometimes get goosebumps from watching films or certain scenes you love and stuff like that or is it entirely different?

Different. I guess you are talking about frisson.

This is a good one.

This is the first I've heard of it. Fascinating.
So it's not sexual at all? just happy and relaxing feelings?

the_red_ninja wrote:This is the first I've heard of it. Fascinating.
So it's not sexual at all? just happy and relaxing feelings?

yeah. I've never done any drugs but many people say the experience is kinda similar.

Hmmmm, never heard of this stuff, but I think I've experienced it before

EDIT: I vote this as one of the best threads ever.

Should I leave this thread in Forum Fun or move it to World Affairs & Philosophy section?