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Recently I am finding that my clock is swinging about all over the place, with some days feeling like I could sleep for the gods at 15:00 but as awake as a lark at 22:00. In such times I find it best to just relax with what is. The normal clock will eventually reassert itself I am confident.
I continue with a selection from Calm and yet again, it features the voice that I have grown to like which is Jeff Warren.
https://www.calm.com/app/player/7KADquOnx1
The Momentum of Thinking, Jeff Warren
As before, it is not designed for encouraging sleep, but I am finding these short presentations to be somewhat more effective than those dedicated to sleep.
I will spend some time listening to other material/by other people. However, I repeat my warning of a few blog items now. Calm content is not free. I am not sponsored by Calm (or by anybody), so I am not trying to sell you a Calm subscription. However, if you already have such a subscription, the above might be interesting.
Repeating the theme that I have followed for a few weeks now. Let’s take a look at some content by a professional ASMR artist (if only to determine how it stands up against any inadvertent ASMR content that I have located).
Today’s video in this vein is this one:
ASMR School Nurse Lice Check (Scalp Inspection, Soft Spoken) ✨Intense Tingles✨
it is from a channel called Sister Sister ASMR this has forty-six videos and 52.4K subscribers. That is a whopping success rate of subscriber per video ratio, and so it bodes well for the quality of the above video. There are four playlists, but none of these are obviously on a medical theme. We have rather fallen into the rut of medical themed ASMR videos and, at the moment I am not trying to fix something that wasn’t broken to start with.
As expected Sister Sister ASMR appears on the ASMR index.
There are notes with the video which are not that interesting, other than the fact that the participants in this video each have separate channels in addition to this one:
“Emily’s channel: @emvyASMR
Katie’s channel: @xokatieASMR
Email: Emily.katieasmr@gmail.com”
Comments are permitted (which seems to be a theme with professional ASMR artists), and as is usual for such artists, the predominant comments seem to be positive. There must be a halo effect for such videos, in that they seem to avoid some of the more bizarre or downright derogatory comments which we have otherwise seen.
The video is thirty-three and a half minutes and so is moderately substantial. As I have commented before, the participants in professional ASMR videos are attractive and this seems more or less a pre requisite. I’m assuming that some ASMR afficionados are not ASMR afficionados as such, given they are more motivated by appearance rather than sound.
The tone seems to avoid whispering, which makes it slightly more believable than the more whispery videos that I have reviewed. I don’t remember a school nurse whispering at me but then it was a very – very long time ago.
That is not to say that the tone is not magnificent because (in common with other ASMR professionals) it is spot on.
There is background noise and this might well be air conditioning, and again, I am surprised it was decided to include this. I can only assume that realism is an important feature but I am continually searching for videos which do not have background noise. The occasional such gem is habitually peaceful, and reaffirms my belief that eliminating background noise is a worthwhile endeavour.
I suppose, given the length, I should have concluded in advance that this is one heck of a nit scan. I do not remember any school nurse taking thirty-three minutes on anyone’s head. I don’t remember the use of a set of size zero knitting needles either. I have a strong feeling that some ASMR devotees get their tingles from the sound of hair. Quite possibly, that sound is amplified by the needles being passed through it.
I am more interested in the voice.
So, in the end this turns into more of a personal attention video with an extensive section given over to hair brushing. It is doubtful a nit nurse would perform that service either. But I can kinda see why it was done. The last minute is dedicated to errors in the video making process, which for me distracts from the rest of it. Overall, I think the quality of presentation means that this one is deserving of recommendation. I do not really have a playlist for professional ASMR artists but I will add this one into the Sweetie Jar playlist in case you’re interested in listening for yourself.
So, tearing ourselves away from that, we move onto the purpose of the blog which is to review videos established for some medical purpose but which, nonetheless, turn out to be restful.
Today’s video is this one:
Primary Care Provider Physical Examination: Foot and Ankle
A little less than twenty-two minutes so it will not keep us for long.
There are notes, such as they are: “55,239 views 7 May 2021
David S. Levine, MD, demonstrates a foot and ankle examination.
David S. Levine, MD Profile│https://www.hss.edu/physicians_levine…
For CME credit and other courses visit│https://www.eacademy.hss.edu/”
Comments are (wisely in my view) not permitted. Although that does mean we have no idea if ASMR fans are watching this one.
It comes from the channel Orthopaedic Surgical Videos this has an amazing three hundred and seventeen videos and 48.1K subscribers. There are fourteen playlists, the largest of which has one hundred and four videos in it – I don’t think we’ll be reviewing all of those today.
The video starts without music and it has negligible background noise (air conditioning), so an excellent start. David it turns out has a calm voice, although I couldn’t say it was quiet. Nonetheless, one is placed at ease feeling that vocally we are in capable hands, as it were.
So, given the large number of videos on this channel, how to limit the subject of further review to a workable level. I thought in this case I would search for videos that feature David Levine.
There aren’t many, in fact only one further video featuring David occurs on this channel.
Obesity TKA
It is age restricted – regular readers will know my thoughts on age-restricted videos – I do not bother watching them.
I’ve only included the link in case you are interested.
In this case, it is not clear why the search retrieved this video, as I cannot see that David features in it at all. The notes are: “2,290 views 28 Jul 2023
Fred D. Cushner, MD, performs an obesity TKA.
Fred D. Cushner, MD Profile│https://www.hss.edu/physicians_cushne…
For CME credit and other courses visit│https://www.eacademy.hss.edu/
Chapter Points: coming soon…”
It is fifteen and a quarter minutes in length, Fred it turns out has a very loud voice, initially he starts out in an apparent hurry. There is no startup music and the background noise (air conditioning) is moderately loud.
It features some fairly upsetting (to many people) operation procedures. These have loud associated noises. There are jarring equipment noises and loud suction noises as well. Narration during the procedure is also loud. Background noises also seem to be, if anything, even louder.
There are loud drilling noises which could probably wake the dead.
This is just not a suitable video from our perspective.
So just one video this week.
Perhaps time for a bit of pre-sleep relaxation instead.
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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