Braingasms

Scanlas The 2nd

Have you ever had a braingasm?

I get them every so often usually when I'm relaxed thinking about something in a certain way. Don't have the words to explain the way I'm thinking when they occur.

It's like a pulse in your brain which lasts a second or two and is quite pleasurable, the really strong ones are quite scary as I feel like I could lose consciousness.

Israel_Dagg

Poo

MagicMarker

That's called a stroke.

mike65

Have you seen The Fury or Scanners? Mine are even better!

TheBody

Sounds terminal op.

Fromthetrees

Good pills will do this too.

Kxiii

I'm afraid the only known cure is amputation.

homemadecider

Made up word is retarded.

Turtyturd

Brain tumors from wireless devices, can't be anything else.

Scanlas The 2nd

The technical term for it is autonomous sensory meridian response, I've experienced it since I was kid.


http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/autonomous-sensory-meridian-response-asmr

The most frustrating thing about it is it's so hard to describe the sensation and especially the thoughts and stimulus that triggers it.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I only get the willy type of gasm.

Now I feel like Im missing out

kneemos

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Have you ever had a braingasm?

I get them every so often usually when I'm relaxed thinking about something in a certain way. Don't have the words to explain the way I'm thinking when they occur.

It's like a pulse in your brain which lasts a second or two and is quite pleasurable, the really strong ones are quite scary as I feel like I could lose consciousness.

Do you squart out your nose?

Chuck Stone

AIDS.

Talib Fiasco

You mean the thing that happens when you get [it] up too fast?

Mr Benevolent

Chuck Stone wrote: »

AIDS.

To be specific, the OP has Cat Aids.

lachica

And I thought I was the only one!

I know what you are talking bout, I've got it on occasions for as long as I can remember -
years ago in school whenever a teacher had to correct something in my copy, and when someone is calmly describing something they know a lot about.... yeah it's nearly impossible to explain!

9959

I earnestly hope you live to see in the new year.
Please consult a general practitioner or a clinical psychiatrist as soon as is humanly possible.
Godspeed.

Sar_Bear

You should probably get that checked OP...

Ihatecuddles-old

I'm drunk and don't know what's going on

bronte

I get that too OP.
If I can't sleep plugging into some ASMR youtube videos will do the trick.
Some of them are great.
Listening to the sound of wrapping presents is a major trigger so I was in great form the last few days! :pac:

Shryke

bronte wrote: »

I get that too OP.
If I can't sleep plugging into some ASMR youtube videos will do the trick.
Some of them are great.
Listening to the sound of wrapping presents is a major trigger so I was in great form the last few days! :pac:

It's really weird but those videos have helped me when I sometimes get bouts of insomnia. They can be very relaxing/soothing. Can't help thinking how nuts some of the people making them are. For anyone who wants maybe a slightly surreal experience (who are we kidding, you're on the internet), try putting on a good pair of headphones and have someone whisper to you...

A bit mad, but she's pretty hot.

Israel_Dagg

Is it kinda a shivering thing in the head? I think I may get them then.

stoneill

The Brain - that's my second favourite organ.

Gauss

Nope

discus

I've got these since I was small! I never bothered try explain it to anyone, but I mainly get it when I'm bored and sitting hunched over a table!

Wattle

Yep I have them from time to time. It's like a mini Ecstasy rush.

Duckworth_Luas

My favourite Branniganism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFLq7cyHKMg

3ndahalfof6

It is actually a mild form of epilepsy, I suffer from it, I go into a trance like state for anything up to 1 minute, or it could last just 10 seconds,

I think there are a lot of people who have this condition but just do not realize it.

Calibos

Wattle wrote: »

Yep I have them from time to time. It's like a mini Ecstasy rush.

BINGO!! Hit the nail on the head there. Though I suppose one has to be both an ASMR experiencing person and a current/ex E user to make the connection. Its a mild version of the goosebumpy tingly wave that travels from your brain down you spine and your arms when coming up on an E. Haven't done the latter since '97 but a guaranteed ASMR trigger for me the last few years was the window cleaner doing the windows. I'd get intense ASMR hearing the rubber blade squeeking on the window.

Great link Scanlas. Finally I have a name for the sensation. Didn't know the subculture existed. Got ASMR from all the youtube vids in the link. Varying intensities, depending on vid but none quite as intense as window cleaning

It has to be someone else doing the window cleaning though. Doesn't happen when I am cleaning the windows myself. I guess its like tickling that way. ie. one can't tickle oneself.

Another connection I wonder about after watching one of those vids is sensory hypersensitivity. On one of the vids the girl was rubbing a cotton makeup wipe on the lense of the camera beside the mic. I did get ASMR from it but the sound also reminded me of how I crawl the walls in discomfort when my dog pulls/strips the 'hair' off a tennis ball. ie. it was a similar sound to the dog and the tennis ball but there is obviously some threshold in the intensity of the sound or the frequencies generated where below that threshold one experiences ASMR but above the threshold your nervous system gets overloaded and experiences uncomfortable hypersensitivity. Thus I wonder are people who experience ASMR also the same people who shudder at other types of sounds like me with the dog stripping the 'fur' off a tennis ball.

The only time I've ever mentioned the experience online previously but where I didn't have a name for it, was when someone was asking about Reik. on another forum on boards. I was debunking Reiki but the person defended it by saying that when the Reiki quack waved their hands over her she felt intense waves of sensation and thus she believed that she was indeed having her 'lifeforce' manipulated by the Reiki quack. I told her about how my window cleaner was obviously manipulating my 'lifeforce' too..... by cleaning my windows. In other words it was just a weird quirk of the nervous system triggered by some sights or sounds. In my case by the rubber blade of the window cleaner squeeking on the window and in her case by the soothing whispers of the reiki person or the nature sounds cd playing in the background. It was not magic energy transferance from the Reki persons hands hovering over her body.

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

It is actually a mild form of epilepsy, I suffer from it, I go into a trance like state for anything up to 1 minute, or it could last just 10 seconds,

I think there are a lot of people who have this condition but just do not realize it.

Not so sure about that. No mention of trance like state in the link scanlas provided I don't think and I certainly don't go into a trance. Its certainly a pleasurable and relaxing sensation though. Have you any other information about the connection or do you perhaps just feel like we are describing the same thing. Did you get the sensations from watching any of the links in Scanlas' link?

Ahava

Oh, i so know what you're talking about! I get them every time i read Plato - anything by Plato, really. CG Jung does it for me as well. Sometimes i have to put the book down and give myself a few minutes to calm down... my heart pounding, can hardly breathe, tremble all over... it is difficult to describe because the sense of meaningfulness of such experience really is beyond words...

I feel it when i talk to people who are very passionate about some idealistic idea, too. The idea that we have within, all the resources we need, to resolve any challenge life throws at us - is an example. So whenever i talk to someone who's got a lot of life experience to prove the idea, i'm bound to have a braingasm Old, wise people give me braingasms like there is no tomorrow!

Now that i think of it... acoustic resonance makes me feel very similar, but more in my chest (could it be the air vibrating in my lungs?) rather than in my brain...

3ndahalfof6

Calibos wrote: »

BINGO!! Hit the nail on the head there. Though I suppose one has to be both an ASMR experiencing person and a current/ex E user to make the connection. Its a mild version of the goosebumpy tingly wave that travels from your brain down you spine and your arms when coming up on an E. Haven't done the latter since '97 but a guaranteed ASMR trigger for me the last few years was the window cleaner doing the windows. I'd get intense ASMR hearing the rubber blade squeeking on the window.

Great link Scanlas. Finally I have a name for the sensation. Didn't know the subculture existed. Got ASMR from all the youtube vids in the link. Varying intensities, depending on vid but none quite as intense as window cleaning

It has to be someone else doing the window cleaning though. Doesn't happen when I am cleaning the windows myself. I guess its like tickling that way. ie. one can't tickle oneself.

Another connection I wonder about after watching one of those vids is sensory hypersensitivity. On one of the vids the girl was rubbing a cotton makeup wipe on the lense of the camera beside the mic. I did get ASMR from it but the sound also reminded me of how I crawl the walls in discomfort when my dog pulls/strips the 'hair' off a tennis ball. ie. it was a similar sound to the dog and the tennis ball but there is obviously some threshold in the intensity of the sound or the frequencies generated where below that threshold one experiences ASMR but above the threshold your nervous system gets overloaded and experiences uncomfortable hypersensitivity. Thus I wonder are people who experience ASMR also the same people who shudder at other types of sounds like me with the dog stripping the 'fur' off a tennis ball.

The only time I've ever mentioned the experience online previously but where I didn't have a name for it, was when someone was asking about Reik. on another forum on boards. I was debunking Reiki but the person defended it by saying that when the Reiki quack waved their hands over her she felt intense waves of sensation and thus she believed that she was indeed having her 'lifeforce' manipulated by the Reiki quack. I told her about how my window cleaner was obviously manipulating my 'lifeforce' too..... by cleaning my windows. In other words it was just a weird quirk of the nervous system triggered by some sights or sounds. In my case by the rubber blade of the window cleaner squeeking on the window and in her case by the soothing whispers of the reiki person or the nature sounds cd playing in the background. It was not magic energy transferance from the Reki persons hands hovering over her body.






Not so sure about that. No mention of trance like state in the link scanlas provided I don't think and I certainly don't go into a trance. Its certainly a pleasurable and relaxing sensation though. Have you any other information about the connection or do you perhaps just feel like we are describing the same thing. Did you get the sensations from watching any of the links in Scanlas' link?

A feeling of empathy, I know what is going on around me and I can hear everything that is being said but I am in a very nice place, it pisss me off sometimes when people try to snap me out of it,

but many people have mentioned it to me, asking me, what the fook happened you there.

Calibos

Shryke wrote: »

It's really weird but those videos have helped me when I sometimes get bouts of insomnia. They can be very relaxing/soothing. Can't help thinking how nuts some of the people making them are. For anyone who wants maybe a slightly surreal experience (who are we kidding, you're on the internet), try putting on a good pair of headphones and have someone whisper to you...

A bit mad, but she's pretty hot.

Woah!!:D Thats killing two birds with one stone. ASMR above and an erection below

Just to note for others. ASMR is not an erotic sensation or response but as the linked vid there proves, some things can provoke an ASMR and an erotic response in the body at the same time ie. While a rubber window cleaning blade squeeking on a window triggers intense ASMR in me, only a pretty face whispering into the camera and mic can trigger both ASMR .......and.........a boner

Calibos

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

A feeling of empathy, I know what is going on around me and I can hear everything that is being said but I am in a very nice place, it pisss me off sometimes when people try to snap me out of it,

but many people have mentioned it to me, asking me, what the fook happened you there.

Just had a chat with my brothers and mother about ASMR. Turns out one of the brothers gets it from the window cleaning too, another brother recognised what we were talking about and said he first got it watching the film Ronin. When he said that I knew what scene he was about to describe. The fat french ex CIA buddy in the safehouse whispering the story of the Samurai and Ronin to Robert deNiro's character. Whispering is a major trigger for most people who get ASMR aparently. My mother quickly understood what I was talking about and it turns out it was the sooth voice of my fathers aunt that triggered it in her the first time she visited my dads family home when they were going out. Most recently she gets it sometimes watching the antiques roadshow when an expert is carefully manipulating some antique in their hands and talking about the history of the artifact in soothing bookish tones, and.....................it pisses her off sometimes when one of us snaps her out of it.

The one non blood related member of the household tonight, my brothers girlfriend doesn't experience ASMR but funnily enough had read a lot about it on reddit a few weeks ago.

So while it looks like a minority in the general populace experience ASMR, all the blood related people I talked to about it here tonight do experience ASMR. Looks like there might be a gene that pre-disposes one to it.

Dolbert

I get this too, for me it's almost always triggered by someone talking in a soft, pleasant voice or explaining something (or both). I like to think of it as the human equivalent of purring It happens involuntarily for me, a radio presenter's voice or a lecturer could do it. For me it's a state of bliss/perfect calm that I'd imagine you could come close to with meditation etc.

newmug

I get it from massages, and when herself tickles my back. I get it in my forearms and calves aswell. I call it the "barely there" tickely feeling. Sometimes it happens without touch at all, just the anticipation of touch brings it on! Also, I used to get it with the intro to Donal Dineens Wee Small Hours radio program. Loved that show.

lostpas5235

Shryke wrote: »

It's really weird but those videos have helped me when I sometimes get bouts of insomnia. They can be very relaxing/soothing. Can't help thinking how nuts some of the people making them are. For anyone who wants maybe a slightly surreal experience (who are we kidding, you're on the internet), try putting on a good pair of headphones and have someone whisper to you...

A bit mad, but she's pretty hot.

This is my go-to video at the moment. 15:20 is my trigger, the close-up ear whispering. Oh My.

I also had one of those "I thought it was just me" moments when I came across the thread about this in Expand Your Horizons.

newmug

Shryke wrote: »

A bit mad, but she's pretty hot.

Do you remember?......... I promised........... I would show you......... my.........

I almost feel guilty for watching that!!!

imitation

I kind of know the ASMR sensation but the OPs post doesn't seem to describe it. I kind of get that tingly feeling when I get a haircut sometimes, its nothing amazing though, wouldn't be in the barbers every second day racking up a huge bill !

On the other hand, sneezing, man I love that ! I only suppress it (press your tongue to the top of your mouth, try it, it works !) when I'm blatantly going to blast somebody in the face with what ever cold virus I have at the time.

Gauss

newmug wrote: »

I get it from massages, and when herself tickles my back. I get it in my forearms and calves aswell. I call it the "barely there" tickely feeling. Sometimes it happens without touch at all, just the anticipation of touch brings it on! Also, I used to get it with the intro to Donal Dineens Wee Small Hours radio program. Loved that show.

It's a feeling in your head/brain. Not your body.

Calibos

Gauss wrote: »

It's a feeling in your head/brain. Not your body.

Scalp spine back arms for me.

Scanlas The 2nd

Calibos wrote: »

Scalp spine back arms for me.

I think that's something different.

Sulla Felix

Getting my haircut, or when the girlfriend insists on cutting my fingernails or shaving me. Just a.... langour. I think that's the word. ****ing fantastic.

Israel_Dagg

No one has said if it's like getting shivers in the head?

The guy above saying he gets it when he gets the hair cut, like using the electric trimmers?

Sulla Felix

No, not at all, I have long hair and they only ever use the clips for tidying my neck and cheeks.

Idjit

I get this feeling when someone strokes my hair or if someone else is washing my hair (like at the hairdressers). It's a really relaxing feeling, I understand completely why you used 'braingasm' to describe it, that's the only word that seems to fit !

seven_eleven

Is this when you become really dizzy and your vision goes blurry? It happens to a lot of people when they stand up, or go from a dark area to a bright area, or even when you havent eaten food all day.

It's quite normal.

Sulla Felix

No, it's a pleasurable thing.

seven_eleven

Sulla Felix wrote: »

No, it's a pleasurable thing.

Yes it can be pleasurable.

confuseddotcom

This has kinda reminded me of that funny strange yet soothing cold pain you get in your nose when you eat ALL teh ice-cream too fast!
:eek::o:D

Dolbert

seven_eleven wrote: »

Is this when you become really dizzy and your vision goes blurry? It happens to a lot of people when they stand up, or go from a dark area to a bright area, or even when you havent eaten food all day.

It's quite normal.

It's not the same thing. It's not 'goosebumps' either. It's difficult to explain, an almost trance-like state of bliss that has certain triggers.

Calibos

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I think that's something different.

I think you will find, it is you who are mistaken........about a great....many...things....!!

Ironically it is you who described an experience and triggers in your OP that are not typical of ASMR but linked to ASMR literature on the web which describes perfectly my experience and triggers. So thanks for pointing me in the right direction but I think you need to keep investigating

ie. I agree with Imitations post.

....based on the description in your OP.

If however after reviewing the videos on the ASMR link you provided you were triggered by them well then we may indeed be describing the same thing but there is just some natural variation in the areas of the body or intensities that people experience it or just we have different ways of describing the same thing.