Imagine listening to someone speaking slowly, or watching someone gently crinkling cellophane, and suddenly your head starts to tingle and a sensation of total relaxation washes over you -- it's what's sometimes known as
"goose looping," or "attention-induced head orgasm."
It's a sensation that also goes by autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR: a non-clinical term for the relaxing, tingling feeling at the top of the head that proponents say can lead to a number of therapeutic, if scientifically unproven, benefits.
Brittany Connolly, a maker of ASMR videos, told The Huffington Post by email that ASMR clips have helped her through "both anxiety disorders and sleep problems." Likewise,
Rebekah Smith, an ASMR video maker and curator, says she uses the videos to help her sleep at night, and that 75 percent of her followers online do as well.
Nicholas Tufnell, a Wired UK reporter,
started watching the videos on YouTube in 2012, desperate for a solution to his chronic sleeplessness. "Never would I have thought that listening to a young woman offering me a
hand relaxation whisper session, or a
Japanese man making pretend food, or someone
building the Burj Khalifa out of Lego, would be the key to falling asleep every night after years and years of struggle," he wrote on HuffPost UK.
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