Sleeping With ASMR

I’ve realised that I could stop writing these for a period of many weeks as I have built up a bit of a backlog. Either that, or you will be subjected to them every day for a period of weeks. I have no doubt such an occurrence would cause even the most hardy Procrastination Pen reader to abandon the blog forever and flag any related emails as spam.

I am hopeful that, in fact, this means that I can keep on posting even when life makes it hard to write further articles. (This has happened before and no doubt could happen again).

Meantime, I continue trying to serve you new videos from YouTube which have some relaxing content (and which some people may consider to have ASMR effects).

We all realise that getting sufficient sleep is up there with getting your five a day (perhaps even more important).

I hope, therefore, that these small paragraphs dropping into your inbox every once in a while may provide some service towards easing your night-time passage into restfulness.

As always, if you are too tight on time to do much reading, scroll to the last paragraph where you will find the associated playlists.

My suggestion is to take the playlist URL, hop over to YouTube and watch using the shuffle function which randomises the video that you get to watch.

Today’s video is forty-six and three quarter minutes which is quite long in the recent videos we have covered. Although not the longest ever covered thus far.

A tradition of videos has developed on the Procrastination Pen of late in that a number of student assessment videos posted to YouTube (as the part of some course of study) have featured.

The clues to the student nature of this video are the domestic setting – double bed, bedside tables, soft cushions, accessories hanging on a rack on the wall.

The video is this one:

Head to Toe Assessment

It starts without music, hurray. The medical professional is Nikki Wilkins and she sounds like she can barely be bothered to participate (which might be the case of course).

The “patient” seems to be Luke it could be that the surname is Lucas but that is alliterative and so unlikely. The date of birth is in US format so 10/29/97 translated is 29/10/97 so October.

Nikki has some kind of identity badge which might give away the institution of study but it is tiny and so unlikely much can be made of it.

The presentation does not stray into loud, which is great for our purposes. The absence of huge chunks of hospital equipment allays fears of bangs and clangs resulting from moving them around.

Unusually for a student video this one has notes associated with it:

“29 Nov 2020

head to toe assessment assignment – student nurse health assessment performance”

There are also comments. As expected some of these are ASMR-related. As expected some are unhelpful, so far so usual for videos permitting comments.

Nikki’s tunic seems to indicate that she studies at California State University San Marcos.

Of course they have their own YouTube channel with two hundred and ninety eight videos at the time of looking.

Luke appears less than fully interested, which several commentators have commented upon. Part way through he starts yawning. I’m assuming at no stage is the assessment process of interest to him.

Nikki fortunately seems more engaged the further through the assessment that we go. There are moments of humour and moments of hesitation, so far, so normal student video.

The channel is Nikki Wilkins and has only three videos and yet has two thousand subscribers. I can only imagine that hordes of ASMR fans have located this before me and are camped around eagerly watching.

The first video we covered above, the second is substantially shorter at just over fifteen minutes:

CLABSI Project

CLABSI is central line bloodstream infection – an infection originating from introduction of a catheter and is habitually a serious infection.

This is a presentation – it looks like a presentation that Nikki presented and prepared. it is really not that useful from a ASMR perspective. However, I’m sure it is interesting to any medical professionals who are watching it.

Again, it has notes: “2 Dec 2021

This is a group project upload for my nurse leadership class. It is a quality management project that focuses on Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSI) and their impact on hospitals.

Thanks to my group members!”

The final video seems to be a shorter version of the first video we saw – with the same participants:

Head to Toe Assessment

Again, there are notes: “7 Dec 2020

30-minute head to toe assessment for nursing school – student nurse health assessment

Final submission for my head-to-toe health assessment class!”

The location appears to be the same as for the first video covered in this article. The camera though appears more remote. This is unlikely to impact us as most likely you’ll only be listening, and apart from this one occasion, so will I.

If anything, there seems more background noise than in the first video which could be due to air conditioning, although the recording quality is less flat than some we have heard.

Luke appears more engaged in this one – or perhaps I am just getting used to Luke. Nikki is as hesitant as she was in the first one. I get the impression (as I always do with student videos) that students have to cover a number of specific points. This often leads to the video becoming like a moving checklist of medical terms and testing performed.

It is so similar, in fact, to the first video that there might be limited purpose in both of these videos having a home in the Procrastination Pen playlist.

However, I am in generous mood so I’ll add the two videos on this occasion but it is more than likely a subsequent weeding operation will remove one of them from the playlist.

The Nikki Wilkins playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

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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