just as bad, like I want to scratch my arms to make it stop, cause it makes them and the back of my shoulders like unable to be comfortable. you can't understand it and it is so quiet, it is in and out, and i just turned my volume up to 11 and still couldn't make it out clearly. maddening. so yeah, not ASMR - possibly the anti-ASMR.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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msbelle - Apr 23, 2013 5:19:05 pm PDT #20295 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2013 5:22:22 pm PDT #20296 of 30001
brillig
Once when I was doing outbound phone calls I called a man who answered the phone in the most lucious Scottish accent, and I actually had to hang up on them because my only response was idiotic noises. Then there was the time I was doing support for a man with a low voice who had an English accent that was just a hair rougher than Standard BBC, and he said my name in this low, delighted tone, and I actually said "glurble." His "What was that, love?" did not help.
I have had the shiver down my spine at wonderful things, but GentleWhisperer made me go "You're up to something, what are you up to? Who do you work for!"
Connie Neil - Apr 23, 2013 5:24:31 pm PDT #20297 of 30001
brillig
And that Irish whispering video gave me tingles. Cool, I have a minority condition that's nifty, for a change.
Sue - Apr 23, 2013 5:32:01 pm PDT #20298 of 30001
hip deep in pie
That one didn't bother me, but it didn't make me tingle either. I think I may be too bothered by sibilance to get tingly at whispers.
aurelia - Apr 23, 2013 5:37:27 pm PDT #20299 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
"Wait, are you telling me you don't have that tingly sensation when someone whispers or speaks quietly in an accent? I thought everyone did."
Nope. In fact, the hissy bits can exacerbate a headache.
Dana - Apr 23, 2013 5:43:50 pm PDT #20300 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Crap, Delta is right and I'm wrong. Now I have to repack all of our bags.
msbelle - Apr 23, 2013 5:53:07 pm PDT #20301 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
BOO!
Zenkitty - Apr 23, 2013 5:57:36 pm PDT #20302 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
whispering
I once kicked a man out of my hotel room for doing that.
bon bon - Apr 23, 2013 6:00:23 pm PDT #20303 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I definitely have ASMR, only realizing it was common from that Slate article a few months back. I was hoping someone would bring it up here! Those whisper videos freak me out but the description at the top of the TAL piece about the friend and the dolls? OH MY GOD. I have a coworker who, for no reason, whispers while he is in my office and I don't tell him he is being excessively cautious because it puts me in a trance.
§ ita § - Apr 23, 2013 6:16:02 pm PDT #20304 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The very premise of that cautious gentle low voice makes me want to go all ultraviolent. Unlike Sue, though, it's not the sibilance, once I get past the "DON'T YOU FUCKING TRY TO GENTLE ME YOU CREEPY MOTHERFUCKER WHO I AM NOW SETTING ON FIRE" reaction, I'm especially grossed out by the wet lippy noises smacking and popping into the mike.
A creepy lady telling me about the colour of my eyes and the softness of my skin is never going to not weird me out if it's not individually targeted. That first one failed on a whole lot of fronts. If you want to treat me like a skittish foal who hasn't accepted the bridle yet, at least try and trick me, or something. Yeah, I need to be tricked.
If you want to lull me, however, go with something deep and reverby--get those vocal cords working in there, not whistling shit.
Is accent supposed to affect ASMR people more strongly?