I’m finding, again, that sleep experts are stating that their area of fascination is way more important than those that interest the diet and exercise specialists. I do not think anyone who is interested in their health is likely to disagree with this. Hopefully we are seeing an end of the “powering through”, “tiredness is no excuse,” kind of mantra that droned away in the background when I was still young enough to care.
People are now expected to take care of themselves and sleep is expected to be a key component. Excellent, save for one aspect, which are those of us that suffer for sleep. Those, like me, who once upon a time could sleep next to a rail line, on a pile of rocks, or inside a moving car, and now find that their night times are punctuated with wakefulness.
For a very long time now I have been preparing a playlist of relaxing material. The idea is that if you’re tired but the switch in your head which translates “tired” to “asleep” now seems to be broken, you can distract yourself with a relaxing video or three in the hope that eventually you will drift off.
If you have wandered onto the blog starting with this article, a brief summary is that each week I review some material for its restfulness, make recommendations and continue to populate the playlist which is behind it all.
For several months now I have been reviewing material on Calm, for no better reason than I have a Calm subscription and I can do so. It is mainly motivated by the desire to find an alternative to YouTube for relaxing material. Although many of the videos on YouTube can be suitable in this respect, the adverts that appear between them or sometimes whilst they are running are universally unsuitable and you may find your relaxed body lifting off the bed as some loud and funky advertising track pollutes your headphones.
This week, assuming you have a subscription, why not give this one a try:
https://www.calm.com/app/player/tI5knRkEQI
Daily Trip
The Same Fruit
NARRATOR
Jeff Warren
AUTHOR
Jeff Warren
This is about stopping looking for novelty. Because when we stop looking for novelty, we find it is already here in simple, normal things around us.
I have made a promise that I would also find some material outside of YouTube and I have found that just on occasion there is some ASMR material available on the Internet Archive. There is not a huge amount of it, however. I’ve also tended to focus on the area which has been the focus for the rest of the blog article (and back in time for this block for several months) which is medical-themed examinations. I tend to stick with these both from professional ASMR artists and (a little later on) from a medical professional who just happens to have a calm voice.
This week on the Internet Archive we have this.
It’s a little under thirty five minutes in length and it would appear that, if you so choose, you could download the file and assemble it into your own playlist using your media player of choice (VLC for example).
The notes for the entire archive are as follows: ” CrinkleLuvin Archive by CrinkleLuvin
Topics
ASMR, Preservation, Deleted Channels, Deleted Videos, Archive, CrinkleLuvin
Language
English
Item Size
48.6G
A popular creator who did many different types of roleplays. Her Doctor/Nurse and Other Mother being among the most popular. However, she found herself in controversy for leaking the nudes of another creator, lying about it, and framing another as the one at fault. After a less then sincere apology she deleted her channel and all of her Videos.
However, as time passed a new channel by the name of “The Cozy Hospital ASMR” started to appear and doing Doctor ASMR in a similar style as Crinkle with one even including the Other Mother. While Cozy kept her face hidden, many had suspicions and were proven correct when it was revealed to be CrinkleLuvin behind the channel and continued making content despite her crimes. The New Channel continues to produce content as of March 2025.
Link to Former Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjAcleI6O0o_gUx__B0pdQ
Link to the New Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4PeR0MBaR25Oa7xEUUDCg
Added date
2023-09-02 06:11:46 “
Which just might be of interest, perhaps.
There is just the one review: “Reviewer: windonwater –
– June 6, 2024
Subject: The Best ASMR Channel of All Time
At first glance, CrinkleLuvin is a very talented lady who fully grasps the tingly sensation that is required for a fantastic ASMR session. Her ability to make you immersed in the sessions is unparalleled and legendary, with her bright, welcoming, sweet voice that comforts you in the darkest times. While her outside persona, where she has been caught in a scandal of harassing and leaking another internet video personality, is not as graceful as her on-screen chameleon talents, this is not new. She is just one of the many unpleasant people, whose primary career is an artist, entertainer, who are capable of making great art. It’s missing the legendary Kris Jenner ASMR video, but a good start. “
So, this sort of thing does not attract the hundreds of reviews that we see on YouTube. (In any case we often find that professional ASMR artists get sycophantic reviews from barely passable material).
(I’m not certain how much I would read into the purported misbehaviour of the ASMR artist. I find that believing what you find on the Internet is a little like believing what you read in the newspapers. Sometimes you get away with it…). However, I did find an apology video:
The comments more or less speak for themselves. I leave it to you whether you wish to persist with any of this artist’s material.
The video starts without music – hurrah. The tone of the ASMR professional is a good one. The enunciation is excellent (something which is often missing, I find). There are extra noises of course, mostly the rustling of clothing. There is the flicking of paper, the clicking of a pen, writing noises, the squirting of gel and the sound of it being rubbed into the hands, there are glove related noises (which I found distracting), plastic crackling noises (packaging) which is a bit loud, scraping noises, occasional taps, equipment noises, tape-related noises (which are also loud).
The video quality is not top notch – not that you’ll be watching. One side effect of which is that the medical professional appears to have the tiniest pupils I’ve seen on a video as if she is completely bored (but is no doubt an artefact of the loss of quality in re-recording it from an online source).
I like the slow and deliberate pace of this video. For me it was quite restful and that does seem to be a rare quality amongst ASMR videos that I find to review. Probably worth giving a review, see what you think.
There are other medical-related videos here including:
and and and and andPlenty for you to get some material for your sleep playlist. However, I do not think I’ll be reviewing CrinkleLuvin any further given the revelations about her behaviour (see above).
After the archive material I usually look at a professional ASMR artist
I’ve spent a while on the archive material this time so I’ve opted for a short one from an ASMR professional:
KayKay ASMR~ Eye Exam Roleplay
There is no description. Comments are not permitted. All of this is very unusual for a professional ASMR artist and does not bode well, to be honest.
The Channel is Up to Atom https://www.youtube.com/@uptoatom4433, there are only three videos but 4.53K subscribers. That sounds nigh impossible. I’ll assume that the presentation is something else then.
The video is a little less than twelve and a half minutes, the setting is domestic and the person is either a child or has a very childlike voice. Perhaps a little childlike for me, but there maybe ASMR fans who like a voice that sounds like this. There is no startup music. There is the odd extraneous noise of course: gloves-related noises, equipment-related noises, rubbing noises, the odd clunk, scribbling/writing noises, tapping noises, clicking noises, scraping sounds, in this one the extraneous noises are a tad on the distracting side. I think it is another of the ASMR professional videos where the participant knows there are triggers and attempts to insert a smorgasbord of every trigger they possibly can. For my purposes I would like one focused on a calm voice with minimal to no additional noises.
The ASMR artist makes that mouth-clucking noise so beloved of professional ASMR artists but which does not work for me. (I have to assume it is a “trigger” for someone). There is the odd error made during the presentation which I assume means it was not scripted in any way. The presentation occasionally descends into a whisper but otherwise is quite a good tone. The pace is quite good too. This would probably have made quite a good longer video.
I wish KayKay well. If she is as young as the voice would have me believe then she has a very long ASMR career ahead of her. It would be nice if, sometime during that time, there was a medical-themed video based entirely on just a calming, empathetic voice but they are sufficiently rare that I’m assuming there is little demand.
You may recall a previous post in which I mentioned a URL which linked to thirty two videos. The URL is this one:
It has thirty-two videos (discounting the introductory one). Last time we managed to review just four of these, so there is a fair few left to look at…
The next one in the series is this:
Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA) Insertion
Just under one and a quarter minutes so barely there at all really. The notes are: “97,655 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery
This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to size and insert a Nasopharyngeal Airway. It is part of a series of videos on the Initial Assessment of a Trauma Patient and is linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)
This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”
There is no narration this time, the voice is that of the medical professional. He is not overly loud and there is no background noise. It is at a decently slow pace (despite the short length of the video overall).
Trauma Assessment – Teaching Scenario
I would assume that this belongs with the Trauma videos that we covered earlier. However, it appears at this position on the page so it is a bit marooned. Just less than fourteen and three quarter minutes the notes are: “413,276 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery
This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This scenario is of an uninjured patient.
All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)
This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”
It is not overly loud, and despite the fact it is about trauma it is not disturbing. It is measured in approach.
Trauma Assessment – Multiple Injuries (Part 1)
Just under eleven and three quarter minutes the notes are: “326,410 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery
This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This video is part 1 of a muti-system injury scenario (airway compromise, tension pneumothorax, bleeding and head injury).
All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)
This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”
The announcement is slightly loud at the beginning. However, the medical professional is reasonably quiet and is methodical in approach. A reasonable amount of the process involves minimal sound so that is great for us.
Trauma Assessment – Multiple Injuries (Part 2)
Five minutes long the notes are: “132,979 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery
This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This video is part 2 of a muti-system injury scenario (airway compromise, tension pneumothorax, bleeding and head injury).
All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)
This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”
It looks to be the continuation of the earlier trauma video and so the findings there relate; the medical professional is methodical, quiet and has a relatively good voice for us.
I think that I will conclude the blog post at this one and continue in another post. Failing that this blog post would become really large indeed, to the point of boredom, I imagine.
That’s it on this occasion, more next time.
The Oxford Medical Education Hospitals 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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