Sleeping With ASMR

ASMR fans are like Miss Marples. I happen across a video and it seems to me it must be one of the hidden gems that no one could possibly have come across before. I read the comments and I find that a number of people have come across it before I have. I then discover that they comment how relaxing the whole thing is. So it is with today’s video.

The problem with coming at videos from random searches or YouTube recommendations is that you do not get to see them in the order that their creator intended. This one for example is obviously one of a series (and not the first one):

Examination of the Hand – Part 3

The notes are somewhat brief “19 Mar 2018 The Medical Assessment of Impairment”.

It starts with funky music sadly, but Roger Pillemer has a very quiet and relaxing voice, so it is worth enduring that music. The patient is “Chris” (probably misspelled) who has literally nothing to say.

The examination is methodical and gentle, just the sort of thing we are always looking for. There is zero background noise. This is a great little video for the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Roger Pillemer is also the name of the channel.

This channel has twenty-four videos, which is rather too many for us to read about in one lump. There are only two playlists, one of which is seventeen videos in length.

I think the approach here is to select only those videos that are connected with the hand. Including the first one, we have four such videos. But I have no doubt that with a voice this good we will return to Roger in the future.

Taking the Examination of the Hand series in the order which it is supposed to appear, this one would appear to be video one of the series:

Examination of the Hand

At over thirty minutes it is a chunky one. Same funky music to start. There are no notes this time. There are however, yet more ASMR comments. By far the bulk of the video is given over to Roger speaking, but the latter part does include a medical examination. However, it is a quite fascinating presentation.

In the early part of the video the funky music continues to play along behind Roger’s voice. That is just not fantastic in relaxing, get-back-off-to-sleep terms. The impact of this can most deeply felt in the brief periods where the music is not playing, which is just so much better. Sadly, I think this disincludes this video from the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Examination of the Hand – Part 1

I can’t be certain but this simply seems to be a section taken from the half hour version reviewed previously. There is no medical examination in this video and sadly Roger’s voice is backed by constant funky music which makes it less than fully relaxing. This is not great when you’ve woken from a particularly vivid nightmare that you need some soothing background noise to wind down from.

I notice that one of the commentators contributes if the video only included Roger’s voice it would be much enhanced and I have to say I wholeheartedly agree.

I think like the previous one this does not belong in the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Examination of the Hand – Part 2

This seems to be taken from the main “Examination of the Hand” video rather than being an entirely separate recording. Again, it has the background music. It has several fans in the comments, whether ASMR fans or medical students is not clear. However, given it has the same limitations as the previous video I do not think this one is going to be in the Procrastination Pen playlist either.

Examination of the Hand – Part 3

This is where we came in and by happy chance I happened upon the best video in the set. It is sad because Roger has a great voice but the way these have been recorded means that this is the only one lacking a backing track of funky music.

This is also the last video of the set and as it turns out the only one to go into The Procrastination Pen playlist.

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

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Until next time.

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