I'm pretty sure I've triggered ASMR with my knitting -- not the finished knit pieces, but the act of knitting itself. In group situations where a bunch of people are talking, and I'm knitting along, I've found someone falling silent, somewhat hypnotized as they stare at my working.

FWIW, I'm considered quite fast for a knitter, hold my needles loosely and maintain a very even tension in the yarn. I use English-style, so I feed the yarn from the left and do not have to take my hands off the needles until I reach the end of the row.

I listened to that ASMR podcast, too -- it was really cool and not something I'd heard of before. Will bookmark the Slate article for later. When I first learned about synesthesia, I wished there were a way to dial in to someone's brain to experience it. Now I feel that way about ASMR.

The knitting sounds more like a visual "hypnosis" (probably you're not actually hypnotizing them?) than the ASMR.

I'm getting confused now, between what's a physical sensation, and what's "just" getting pleasurably caught up in something and losing track of what else is happening. I'd think the latter is fairly randomly applicable, but actual tingling as a response to auditory or visual stimulation is the specific that makes ASMR a useful term. I mean, if it is a definite thing.

Oh, I thought ASMR was just auditory. That's what I get for not doing the reading!

Those ASMR audio things ... I kept wanting someone to yell "SPEAK UP DAMMIT".

Sequestration has cancelled fleet week.

THE HELL!!?! Come ON! Let's stop coffee supply to the Congressional Offices.

Sequestration has cancelled fleet week.

There's going to be hell to pay when Samantha Jones finds out.

Aw, that sucks. Poor sailors.