Brain Tingles: ASMR
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
ASMR is a mysterious sensation... It stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. People who feel it describe it as a tingling, sparkly feeling in the brain, triggered by soft sounds, watching slow, repetitive movements or moments of positive personal attention.
In this episode of Mysteries of Science, Dan and Ciaran investigate ASMR, and ask how it works and why doesn't everyone experience it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very quiet episode of Mysteries of Science. |
| 0:07.0 | My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science in Nature, a monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'm Curin, the Features Editor. |
| 0:19.0 | In each issue of Science in nature, we explore the universe through |
| 0:23.8 | in-depth features, news stories, or inspiring images, interviews with top experts, and much more. |
| 0:33.2 | Dan, why are we whispering? |
| 0:36.0 | Karen, all will become clear, but I don't think I can keep this up for the whole episode. |
| 0:43.3 | Should we stop? |
| 0:44.4 | Me neither. |
| 0:45.1 | Okay. |
| 0:45.8 | I think we should stop. |
| 0:47.0 | I think we should stop. |
| 0:47.8 | Okay, let's stop them. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, moving back to a normal voice. |
| 0:53.4 | If you're new to the podcast, welcome. Each week we dive deep into one of my very favorite parts of the magazine, and that is Mysteries of Science. We look at all the stories that have left scientists scratching their heads for decades, and despite their best efforts, remain well and truly unsolved. So what are we talking or |
| 1:13.5 | possibly whispering about today, Dan? Well, seeing as this is a podcast that you listen to, |
| 1:18.8 | not something you watch or read, it felt like the perfect time to talk about a mystery of sound, |
| 1:25.1 | specifically a strange phenomena called ASMR. |
| 1:29.9 | ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response. |
| 1:35.7 | And we'll get into what each of these words means a little later. |
| 1:39.2 | But essentially it's a funny, tingling, shivery feeling that some people get when they hear certain sounds. |
| 1:47.2 | The thing is, nobody knows why people experience it. |
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