My name is Laura and I have been making ASMR videos on YouTube now for just over 5 years.
ASMR stands for "Autonomous sensory meridian response". It is a very technical term, for a very untechnical, simple feeling.
Have you ever felt a rush of tingles in your neck from your back being tickled? A warm sensation in your head from your hair being brushed? Or perhaps a warm wave of comfort from soft touches and sounds? That is ASMR.
Many people who experience ASMR report that their oldest memories of the induced feeling date back to childhood. Examples of this are through bedtime readings, having their hair brushed, storytime at school, whispers from loved ones.
My first experience of ASMR was when I was a little child in school. There were about thirty students cooped up in a small room, listening intently to the soft voice of our teacher as she read to us. As she read, flipped the pages, and addressed the students, my scalp and arms began to tingle. It was the equivalent of warm sand being poured on my skin. This was my first (and one of only a few) unintentional ASMR experience.
However, the experience of ASMR has only been officially recognized as of 2010, with the term first being coined by the founder of ASMR Research & Support, Jennifer Allen.
A few years later in 2011, I discovered this feeling in an intentional format on YouTube, as I flipped through my recommended feed, desperately trying to find anything to help me fall asleep. I discovered a small group of people whispering into their microphones. I was admittedly confused at first, but very soon succumbed to a very joyful sensation that was intentionally giving me tingles and bringing me back to my childhood days of tingly bedtime readings.
Whilst ASMR's inherent purpose is to help soothe you and create tingles, I found it to be the cure to my insomnia, and late night anxiety trips. I happened to enjoy a lovely video of a lady playing with everyday desktop items like papers, clips, pencils and her keyboard.
This, followed by many others ASMR videos, helped cure my insomnia and give me better sleep for the rest of my ASMR watching days! (Even now).
With this community of creative expanding, I felt like it would make for a brilliant outlet for myself to create content. So in 2012, I started my own channel under the name 'Laura Lemurex ASMR'. Particularly because I felt like I could be a peacemaker for somebody else in the world, like so many were for me. Several hundred videos later, I can gladly say I adore making ASMR videos.
There are now thousands of 'ASMR Artists' creating content on YouTube to help those with sleeping problems get a good nights sleep!
More info: youtube.com
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