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.

The descriptions in the Slate article remind me of the deadly video in Infinite Jest.

The only comparable experience I can think of was seeing EAR's speak-and-spell based performance - it started and I got all swept away by the sound and when there was a pause in the music I looked at my watch thinking it had been maybe ten minutes and it was more like 45 and intermission. Is that what y'all mean by a trance?

Are there still states where insurance isn't required? I remember when my aunt got hit by an uninsured driver and got totally screwed, but I didn't think you could do that any more.

I'd have to check with DH but I'm pretty sure it's required by law in every state. At least collision insurance. But loads of people still drive without it.

My niece was hit by a driver who paid her premiums but whose insurance company had gone bankrupt and my niece got screwed over after the accident.

All states have an insurance commission (the industry is very well regulated) to try to insure that all companies stay solvent and they even have a fund you can apply to if your company goes belly up and you have an accident. But the funds are usually depleted pretty quickly and the payouts are very small.

DH is pretty soured on marketing for insurance companies. After working in that department, he still didn't get why so much money is spent on it because, as he says, "we are selling something that you are required, by law, to have!" The rest is just smoke and mirrors.

forgien languages seem to do it for me. I did not like the woman petting the camera

But I have used the bob the painter guy to relax.

not tingley , but trance is a good word