Lice Checks, Crafts, and Being Touched by Strangers: Inside a Role-Playing ASMR Spa

Tinglesbar incorporates ASMR into elementary school and doctor’s visits simulations, offering a social haven for introverts.

At Toronto’s new ASMR spa, sensory stimulation slips out of the internet and into real life

At Toronto’s most unusual new spa — of sorts — you can enjoy an hour of having your hair, face and back touched gently with ...
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The last few years have left many of us touch starved. For some, face-touching ASMR videos are helping fill that void.

The pandemic has left many people isolated and craving physical intimacy. Touch-based ASMR videos are helping some touch-deprived people better deal with being alone. Fans of the genre say they find ...
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YouTube star gives head massages to spark ASMR's tingly sensation

“It’s a physical sensation that begins in the scalp and extends through the body,” says the creator of popular ASMR videos. No time to get a stress-relieving massage in real life? For some people, ...
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Hong Kong ASMR show triggers ‘weird sensation’ of internet trend with things you can touch

Since ASMR took the internet by storm during the pandemic it has been a private, virtual experience. Weird Sensation Feels Good changes that Coined in 2009, the term autonomous sensory meridian ...
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Vicarious touch is common than previously thought, with implications for empathy, ASMR and mental health

If you have ever watched a frightening movie which seemed so real, you felt a physical sensation in your own body if the characters on screen were hurt, you could be experiencing a phenomenon known as ...