According to the National Library of Medicine, ASMR is a newly coined abbreviation for "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response." Colloquially, ASMR is also known as “brain tingles." It is used to ...

The perpetuating social media universe of people tapping surfaces, crinkling paper and whispering into microphones might seem bizarre to newbies. But many people experience what is called autonomous ...

Only some people experience ASMR, a trait where people may feel a tingling sensation on their scalp and back of the neck in response to auditory and/or visual stimuli. There is a wide range of sensory ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Have you ever heard or saw something that left your body ...

Sleep is one of the most important foundations of health, yet millions of people struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep. If you are reading this, you may be one of them… Over the last decade, one ...

If you’ve ever experienced a tingling sensation on your skin in response to a certain visual or sound, you may have had an autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR as it’s more commonly known as.

I'm getting a brain massage — and it's sublime. I'm lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as ...

There's an old saying: The best way to get someone's attention is to whisper. Enter Zoe Kravitz's ASMR ad for Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold. It's all whispers and taps, and it has my full attention. Not ...

For a moment, I felt like a child again. My head rested on a silky pillowcase, fingers gently combing through my hair while a soft voice whispered in my ear. But this wasn’t bedtime — and that ...

Does listening to a whisper send a tingle through your scalp? Do you find watching the snip of scissors around your ears at the hair salon soothing? How about the sound of nails clicking softy, the ...