I quickly go from nose-wrinkling itchiness to JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR.

Okay, I watched the beginning of the video of the woman TOUCHING THE CAMERA, and I pretty much had this reaction.

Bob Ross is nice, though.

Okay, I watched the beginning of the video of the woman TOUCHING THE CAMERA, and I pretty much had this reaction.

Oh absolutely! She is creepy.

I know you all were on the edge of your seats, but here's what I did with the ripened avocados: I mashed one and mixed it with some pico de gallo from the store and we ate that quick guacamole with our chicken tacos for dinner!

I have more avocado that I think I will eat for breakfast tomorrow with more pico and eggs.Yay!!!!

I love avocados....I wish the squirrels who took them off our trees would either eat the whole thing or at least not leave semi-ripe ones with one bit out at the bottom of our stairs.

We also have kumquats on a tree. I live in a weird house. I think all of the fruit trees are making me sicker.

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR.

The more I read this, the funnier it gets. What do you call that? Does it have a groovy acronym?

I love avocados....

Cause they are amazing and so wonderful.

Once I take Benedryl.

JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION GET IN THE CAR.

The more I read this, the funnier it gets.

Oh, yay, it's not just me.

This also keeps getting funnier the more I read it:

"DON'T YOU FUCKING TRY TO GENTLE ME YOU CREEPY MOTHERFUCKER WHO I AM NOW SETTING ON FIRE"

I don't think the whisper videos are the end-all be-all of ASMR-- like I said, they do nothing for me, among other reasons for the sibilance/popping reasons noted, but here's the Slate article that describes other circumstances: [link]

Bob Bob doesn't really have it but knows he experienced it once during a haircut. Haircuts do it for me too. This whole finding out what ASMR is has been kind of amazing. I know I first identified the experience when I was five and it was naptime during daycare-- kind of a soft murmur. I never put together the common stimuli until finding out about the acronym though. So neat.

And now my evening is full of drama on the CTA. One guy on the platform screaming and ranting, another jumping down onto the tracks multiple times and then a train with failing breaks pulling into the station. Now my coat and hair smell like burning (or welding).

Bob Bob doesn't really have it but knows he experienced it once during a haircut. Haircuts do it for me too. This whole finding out what ASMR is has been kind of amazing. I know I first identified the experience when I was five and it was naptime during daycare-- kind of a soft murmur. I never put together the common stimuli until finding out about the acronym though. So neat.

It's making me think about a lot of different auditory stimuli right now. Like, the people who are so heavily put off by a person's voice - which usually never pings me. But I've never seen a discussion of Renee Zellwegger or Kate Mulgrew where an active pile of people didn't pop up to discuss how much they HATE their voices.

Or the almost universally positive response to Patrick Stewart's voice.

I know that there are passages in music which can trigger the same effect in me. There's this very quiet Coltrane passage that he does on "Nancy With the Laughing Eyes" that hits me that way.

One aspect to me that's interesting is that people tend to treat the auditory aspect of something as the condiment instead of the main course. (Not ND, obviously, or our other audio savants.) But auditory stimuli obviously produce a variety of very different physical responses.

I guess - also like supertasters - it's making me think about Descarte's Demon. We presume there's a common physical reality that we share, but in reality our bodies process it so differently that it's more like a Venn Diagram overlap of consensed upon reality. With a lot of outliers.