ASMR
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response

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Hello steemians!

My name is Odysseas Tsouvalas and it is known that I am a Street Art Photographer. My research for new installations, art pieces and meaning of them, stacked up to this new craziness called ASMR.

What is ASMR and how can it be part of an art piece, installation, or how can an artist use it to make the visitors be the subject.

• First of all, let's ask the professors what is ASMR.
  " Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a term used for an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia. ASMR signifies the subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin". It is most commonly triggered by specific acoustic or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control. "

My thoughts when I first saw this was simple. "Interesting...". I started to study it so I will be in a good condition of knowledge to use it in my next installations.

• Some words from me.
  Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a war of sensations. Low volume sounds tingling your sensations and your subconscious starts the dance. A dance with a partner your body and for music your senses. This is for me the tool which with I will be able to reveal my thoughts and feelings through my art to you. And this, is not the end, because you will be able to interact with me through the objects, and this, this is fantasy, this is magic, this is art.

The universe of internet is a big space, where you can find anything you want. Anyone can upload anything, and anyone can watch almost anything. We had IRC from the first steps of the internet... Napster, Limewire... Till a new world came under the domain "Youtube".
Why I wrote this? It is simple. Youtube controls the most of internet video broadcasting, and has almost ANY video is published on the internet. But... this is not our object right now. How can youtube help us? It's simple. With the videos.

Problem with your sleep? Have sleepless experiences? Wondered how ASMR helps your neurological system to calm down? This video reveals the tactic and helps you to calm down your body and your mind.

• How does this help video artists to reveal their thoughts?
  With ASMR tactic, artists can "use" the viewer's mind and pass him to paths unknown to him till then. You can say that a video artist can control your mind, and make you walk wherever he wants.

" Many questions are asked of you, including some about certain sounds. This is not a test. "

This is not a test. This in fact, is a test. It is a test that you can make for your self.
Why not make a try? At the end of it, you will understand more effective your senses, and may reveal some inactive from your body. This is the meaning of installations in art. Many artists make an art piece with reactions and moves, sounds and colours just to trigger your neurological system.

Time to trigger another group of your body. Let's leave the sleepy system continue it's sleep and let's weak up our senses with the MONQ sensations.

This video shows how you can use other therapies with ASMR to claim the therapy more effective.

• My opinion, is that aromatherapy is more effective than others. And that's because with the smells your brain accepts the pictures and sounds better than without.

ASMR triggers our life, our daily life and we do not know it. How?
You can find ASMR triggers in your daily life. Whispers, bites, sounds, voices, ring bells and many many more.
The mainly experience with ASMR is a whisper. I don't think that there is a person who does not have a whisper experience. Or a food biting, crushing or loudly chewing. Those sounds are very softy, and you sometimes can't understand them. Right? Wrong.
You always hear those sounds, but because they are in our daily life, we (our brain) decide not to hear them. It's something like a filter blocking those sounds.

ASMR Trigers

Some proffesional informations about ASMR.
"ASMR triggers, which are most commonly acoustic and visual, may be encountered through the interpersonal interactions of daily life."

• Whispering triggers
  A group of psychologists made an experience with the nature of ASMR. They tested 475 subjects with whispering and it was an effective trigger for 75%.

• Acoustic triggers
  At ASMR experience we can find many ambient noises and sounds, including those produced by some daily objects or even from our body too. Like our fingers scratching or clapping, the crash of a biscuit or the sound of a flexible material like paper.

• Personal attention role play triggers
  In addition to the effectiveness of specific acoustic stimuli, many subjects report that ASMR is triggered by the receipt of tender personal attention, often comprising combined physical touch and vocal expression, such as when having their hair cut, nails painted, ears cleaned, or back massaged, whilst the service provider speaks quietly to the recipient.

• Clinical role play triggers
  Here I must say that I would not write anything from my heart, soul or mind, because there are some clinical speech and I would like NOT to change the write. Sorry about that.

"Among the category of intentional ASMR videos that simulate the provision of personal attention is a subcategory of those specifically depicting the 'ASMRtist' providing clinical or medical services, including routine general medical examinations. The creators of these videos make no claims to the reality of what is depicted, and the viewer is intended to be aware that they are watching and listening to a simulation, performed by an actor. Nonetheless, many subjects attribute therapeutic outcomes to these and other categories of intentional ASMR videos, and there are voluminous anecdotal reports of their effectiveness in inducing sleep for those susceptible to insomnia, and assuaging a range of symptoms including those associated with depression, anxiety, and panic attacks.

In the first peer-reviewed article on ASMR, published in Perspectives in Biology during the summer of 2013, Nitin Ahuja, who was at the time of publication a medical student at the University of Virginia, invited conjecture on whether the receipt of simulated medical attention might have some tangible therapeutic value for the recipient, comparing the purported positive outcome of clinical role play ASMR videos with the themes of the novel Love in the Ruins by author and physician Walker Percy, published in 1971.

The story follows Tom More, a psychiatrist living in a dystopian future who develops a device called the Ontological Lapsometer that, when traced across the scalp of a patient, detects the neurochemical correlation to a range of disturbances. In the course of the novel, More admits that the 'mere application of his device' to a patient's body 'results in the partial relief of his symptoms'.

Ahuja alleges that through the character of Tom More, as depicted in Love in the Ruins, Percy 'displays an intuitive understanding of the diagnostic act as a form of therapy unto itself'. Ahuja asks whether similarly, the receipt of simulated personal clinical attention by an actor in an ASMR video might afford the listener and viewer some relief."

Enjoy those sounds and next time you will hear something, try to find what sense of your body reacts...

Source
Wikipedia - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Theverge - Testing your sensitivity
ASMR University

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