Autonomous Meridian Sensory Response

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response

"Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a neologism for a perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, back, or peripheral regions of the body in response to visual, auditory, olfactory, and/or cognitive stimuli. "

Oh, so that's what it is. Well, obviously, people do, or it wouldn't have a term: I mean, anyone reading this.

I get this all the time. When listening to music I really love -- Starlight by Muse causes this in me. When reading certain stories and books -- dsudis's stories often cause this reaction in me. When looking at art I adore -- same for kivitaskula's art, especially her hobbit art and the cards she drew for me.

And, most notably, when I please someone I'm fond of. This is a public post so I won't go into detail except to say that this ties into my sexuality. Not that feeling this tingle of joy is always sexual -- it's often not -- but that feeling it in the context of sex causes a multiplier effect.

I should think more about how to describe this frission of delight, and work it into my writing (if I ever manage to write something).

Comments

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. Usually triggered by music, but sometimes by drama.

[tikva.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's how I know I'm going into trance for hypno stuff.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Yes, sometimes :)

[ron_newman]

no, but I wish I did!

[intrastellar.livejournal.com]

Some music makes my thighs tingle, which I assume falls under this!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I do. It is a wriggling sensation that comes in the middle of my back, just below the rib cage.

And almost the only time I experience it is when I get on the phone with someone far away whom I am particularly fond of and miss and am excited to talk to. This can sometimes be my partner (though thankfully that's usually a regular enough transaction that it doesn't provoke the response); but for a long time it happened especially with my mom. Which meant there was also something comforting about it, a kind of meta-delight. Since our relationship has been more strained in the last several years, that response has disappeared almost entirely, and that makes me sadder than almost anything else about that decline.

[ceo]

I think that's the same thing I get sometimes, which I perceive almost as a chill, but it isn't cold.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I do sometimes, when I find a piece of music incredibly beautiful. Also, this ASMR video: http://youtu.be/pjLF_LjE-E4

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

I think "frission of delight" is actually a perfect description. It *does* happen to me from time to time, but I never really *noticed* it till I read this. Thank you. :)

Love you.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I've experienced something of the "sends shivers up my spine" sensation with music that goes sideways, sort of, on rare occasions. Alas, it usually works a limited number of times, or just once for a given piece. It's a thing I try hard to recreate in my own instrumental music, but I think it's like tickling yourself, and it doesn't really work.

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever experienced that, but I'm chuffed to know my work has brought it on! :D

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

Music that hits me right, food that hits me right, haven't had it with visual art yet. I tend to describe it as 'hedonistic bliss', because it really is the most amazing feeling. I mean, I don't get anything I'd describe as 'tingly', but it is very much an incredibly sensual and good feeling.

Also part of why I utterly love well made tacos. Something about the flavour combinations of the meat and salsa, cheese and sour cream and lettuce and shell, and the *crunch*. They crunch *just right*. Tacos are my Happy Food.

[vass]

There was a This American Life interview with a woman who gets that. She played the audio from one of her favourite videos. And I definitely felt a tingle, but it was a bad tingle. Like fingernails on a blackboard.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think I feel something like this!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

nope. i do get the goosebumps accompanied by an overall shiver, though.

Yes, pretty often

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Practically always from music, though love and poetry do it sometimes. It doesn't have to be particularly "good"--there's a phrase in a four-part arrangement of "Sound of Music" that used to do it pretty reliably, and it's banal as hell.
The feeling is like a brief chill, only without the cold.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

I get this sometimes, usually from music. Though it's generally brief, for me, and I can't really predict what will do it and what won't, though it's definitely more likely if there's harmony going on.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

Yes I actually do get that feeling triggered by many various things that make me happy. Funny how I never really though about there being a term for it before. :)