9 videos to sleep, against insomnia, with the ASMR technique

Among the comments on the Asmr videos there are those who suggest role-playing games, those who invite the YouTubers to undress, but also those who admit to having actually fallen asleep with headphones on.

Anything other than chemistry, for relaxation and sleep, is fine. Even if, as in these videos, it borders on fetishism. Between sighs, caresses and the clicking of scissors, ASMR spreads on Youtube. There are fees. Non-sexual role-playing games. Close-up shots and Pov (point of view). Words in a low voice, whispered. No background music, not even relaxing. Videos over twenty minutes long. The quality of the audio recording is generally particularly appreciated, considered fundamental by the users of these videos: it must be stereo (binaural), muffled, and exclude external ambient noises. The titles of the videos carefully list the sounds that will be heard: rustling of sheets of paper, clicks of keys, smacking of lips, mortar pestles…

It rattled and whispered that gave me goosebumps

The aim is to give you goosebumps by recalling tickling sounds and settings, persuasively replicating light noises, gestures and titillating situations. They use, with slow and winking gestures, combs and brushes, make-up brushes, sprayers, even the clink of hairdressers’ scissors. We focus almost fetishistically on the details, on the sound of the cap of a bottle unscrewing, on the gurgling of a bottle of Coca Cola in the glass with ice cubes, on the clicking of nails on cosmetic packaging.

Shivers of pleasure

Asmr stands for Autonomous sensory meridian response. It serves to indicate the pleasant sensation of delicate shivering, tingling along the back or shoulders that comes when one is in complete mental relaxation and witnesses or is the object of altruistic attention, feels tactile or, as in these videos, visual and auditory stimuli. A study published by the journal PeerJ has finally probed the science behind these videos. If you want to try, the ideal is with headphones.

1 Invent a role-playing game

The Californian performer Nicole Skye, aka DrPhill Asmr, is certainly attractive. He also whispers while uncorking and tasting beers, he has such a caressing manner and look that he attracts a female audience, in fact in many videos he simulates make-up and beauty salon situations. There was an even more convincing video online in which he addressed the listener with friendly words and hugs, but he took it down. His dog Cali appears in his videos every now and then, a pit bull adopted from a shelter with uncropped ears.

2 head massages, haircuts and brush touches to the face

One of the few male ASMR performers, the Australian MassageASMR. Here he is in a long session in which he replicates cranial and facial massages, haircuts, various brushes.

3 Hotel check-in role play with typing, writing, paper sounds

This video has one and a half million views in which the YouTuber Springbok pretends to be a receptionist and simulates a check-in at a hotel, typing keys on the computer keyboard and talking about local amenities, in a sweet and condescending tone… for 40 minutes.

4 Tick, tick, relax for your ears

Fairy Char (190 thousand subscribers) has equipped herself with a very expensive binaural microphone with silicone ears (3Dio Free Space, 500 dollars) to record the clicking of her fingers and her gentle sighs.

5 Perfect for winter: facial steam baths

GentleWhispering is one of the most professional Asmr Youtubers, and here she records a long video with which she virtually immerses us in fumigations, with several changes of light in the meantime.

6 In herbalist’s shop

YouTuber Asmrrequests has recently taken to nature, with videos of herself making soap, tea and gingerbread cakes, but she has also recorded videos of her making poker chips. Here we pretend to be in a herbalist’s shop: role play with mortar and pestle, rustling of herbal bags, mixing, crumbling.

7 Love of animals, brushes, scratches and massages for my puppy

WhispersUnicorn (108 thousand members) also simulates treatments at a spa, hairdressers and beauticians, records the reading of fairy tales and the coloring of albums, but it goes further. Trying to do Asmr with your dog Riley. The first attempt was unsuccessful, but now he did it, calmly.

8 Coloring a horse: whispers and colored pencils

The young Jellibean (110 thousand subscribers) has just moved to California but has not stopped her video production. The most viewed is actually just one audio (400 thousand views) but the most beautiful is this one, in which he records every creak of a pencil, every sigh, while he colors the silhouette of a horse’s head. It takes an hour.

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