When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ASMR videos are known for causing "brain tingles" or just helping people relax. But how do they ...

Eight years ago, 39-year-old Emma Smith suffered a car accident that would change her life — not so much the accident itself, but what happened afterward. Temporarily confined to a wheelchair, Smith ...

Not to be overly presumptuous, but if you’re a person who’s alive in the world at 2018, there’s a good chance that sometimes, you need help calming down. But barring a total geo-political overhaul—or ...

Nails scraping on rough fabric. Stories told in breathy whispers. Lips smacking and teeth crunching. For some, these sounds do little more than make the listener feel unsettled or disturbed, but for a ...

Does listening to a whisper send a tingle through your scalp? Do you find watching the snip of scissors around your ears at the hair salon soothing? How about the sound of nails clicking softy, the ...

Dev Ritchie vividly remembers the first time she experienced ASMR — a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck, often experienced in response ...

We all have our favorite ways to wind down after a long day at work—taking a bath, for example, or escaping the day through a good book. One way to unwind that is becoming increasingly popular is ...

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"ASMR is a deeply relaxing and comforting feeling, usually accompanied by tingling sensations in the head," says Craig Richard, PhD, an ASMR researcher and founder of ASMR University. The"tingling" ...