If the stress over lack of sleep was not enough to cause you to just lie there, examining the spider’s webs by the bed, now we find that it is not just getting sufficient sleep, it is also about avoiding getting too much.
I suggest that, if you are already suffering for sleep, reading the sleep literature is not going to help much. It just seems to be designed to pile on the pressure.
Whilst I am trying out a number of supplements designed to assist with sleep (including magnesium), I am still finding that distracting any night-time thoughts with sound is a pretty good way of accelerating the snooze time to come your way. Hence the existence of this blog and its regular reviews of tracks for their potentially calming content.
I’ve run into a bit of a dead end with new material which is both free, online, and calming. So, I think that I am going to try for a while checking if the professional ASMR artist of the week also has some material in the Internet Archive. I’ve had a couple of successes with that of late, and no doubt, as I explore some more, free material will present itself.
Of late, I have missed the odd Calm track and so this week I shall reinstate it. Even though I know that a number of you do not have a subscription to Calm and are never going to have such a subscription. This one is from possibly my favourite voice on Calm which is Tamara Levitt:
https://www.calm.com/app/player/XOgJIEpSyT
Daily Calm
The Missing Piece
NARRATOR
Tamara Levitt
AUTHOR
Tamara Levitt
This is about how we have been trained to believe we need others to complete us but we can be complete on our own.
Given that will interest only a subset of the audience I’ll move swiftly along.
Of late, I have been delving into the past for my professional ASMR material and again the same this week. Possibly this time it would be nice to return to the medical theme from which I have wandered rather egregiously.
This ASMR artist has been covered a couple of times on the Procrastination Pen and so I am hopeful that this time will be yet another good one. It is, of course, Isabel Imagination ASMR a huge channel with 380K subscribers and six hundred and thirty-nine videos so something must be going right for Isabel. There are thirty-three playlists including a playlist of other people’s ASMR videos:
That is the first time I have seen that kind of thing on a professional ASMR channel. Share the love I suppose.
The video is this one:
ASMR HEARING TEST EAR CLEANING EAR TO EAR BREATHY WHISPER
It’s a channel for a professional ASMR artist and therefore the video is guaranteed to have notes and those notes are going to have a self-promotional aspect to them:
“1,146,191 views 11 Apr 2017
In this ASMR role play video Dr. Clarck will clean and examine your ears! You will get a hearing test!! Triggers are: personal attention, breathy sounds, breathy whisper, whisper, soft spoken, ear to ear.
For a look behind the scenes visit my other YouTube channel “Isabel backstage”!! This is the link to my 2nd channel: / @isabelfineart
Instagram (to stay updated on new ASMR projects of mine):
/ isabel_asmr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isabelimagin…
Who am I:
My name is Isabel and I’m Dutch. My approach to ASMR video’s is combining entertainment in a form of imagination and fantasy (almost movie like) with relaxation. All wrapped into one video for you. This way you can enjoy my videos either before you go to bed to drift off easier, or you can just take a moment of relaxation during the day to calm down and relieve stress.
I’ve been posting ASMR videos since the 20th of June 2016! This is video #72. I hope you like it!
I’m always trying to improve the quality of my video’s, if you’d like to contribute to this purpose, then that’s possible via donations on PayPal. My email is: isabelimaginationasmr@gmail.com
I’ve recorded this video with a Canon EOS 80D camera and an audio recorder Roland R-26 with 2 AKG C214 microphones for stereo sound. Here are the links:
Cam: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-80D-cam…
Recorder: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-R-26-R…
Mic: AKG C214, two microphones to create a nice stereo sound
Editing program: http://www.magix.com (I used Magix video deluxe 2016)
This video is meant for relaxation and can also help relieve anxiety, depression or stress, however I am not a psychiatrist, so if you are dealing with severe anxiety, depression or stress I suggest you go to a professional.”
As usual, the notes are substantial; so far, so professional ASMR artist.
The video itself is somewhat over twenty-three and a half minutes so not the hugest I have seen/heard. The style will be familiar to readers of this blog as I have a soft spot for Isabel as she is one of the artists that I used to listen to when I first came to YouTube for ASMR all those years ago now. It starts with a crackle and a whisper; the crackles stop, the whispering continues. The whispering presentation is a fairly classic ASMR technique and one with which we have become thoroughly familiar. There is some great ASMR out there that does not rely upon whispering but it is not as common as the whispered variety in my experience. Either that or I happen to get recommendations drawn only from the whispering ASMR artists. This one is a little on the breathy side for me. It is not that I dislike a breathy presentation, I just assume no one talks like this and therefore it always feels a little artificial – not to say that a consistent whisper is not equally artificial…
Of course, the voice is not the only thing we hear. There is a sound of a pen on a pad, the clicking of various pieces of equipment, rustling of clothing, that mouth clicking sound that ASMR artists love so much, a loud scraping noise (this seemed to go on for a while), nails clicking, the stroking of a set of headphones. There is a beeping sound designed to mimic a hearing test, not my preferred sound especially since I started losing my hearing.
I rather like this, which was unsurprising as I’ve already said that I have liked other videos by this ASMR artist (and so do a heck of a lot of others). I would give this one a review yourself and see what you think.
The video shows its age in that more recent videos are interrupted every few minutes to fit in yet more adverts – this one just relies upon adverts at the start and the end of the video. To think I used to regard this arrangement as objectionably intrusive. Now you are fortunate to get a few minutes of video time without some useless gismo being promoted at great volume (and pace). (Part of my drive to move, ultimately, onto a different solution). I notice that a number of commentators to this video rate the presentation highly but they rate the adverts poorly. This fits, exactly, with my own perception. I have looked this week at removing the YouTube adverts by signing up to a paid-for YouTube option. I went to my favourite AI chatbot to ask about this and got this answer:
“Current UK prices for YouTube Premium (May 18, 2026):
Individual: £15.99/month
Family (up to 6 people): £23.99/month
Student: £6.99/month
Premium Lite: £6.99/month (if available in your account)
Prices can vary by payment method and may change; check https://www.youtube.com/premium for your account’s exact rate.”
So, the thick end of £16.00 a month or the best part of £200 a year. If I was paying £200, I would really want YouTube to be my main viewing option but I am old school and I still largely use the television for that. I imagine if you are a generation or so younger than me and the Internet is your natural home, then this option can look a lot more appealing. I would certainly love to see the back of those adverts.
The Internet Archive only seems to have a couple of resources for Isabel; one I have covered in a previous article and neither of them are medical in nature. So, there is just one left and it is this one:
Close-Up ASMR Kisses for Anxiety Relief
https://archive.org/details/isabel-imagination-asmr-20240523
I’m a little concerned by the title. There are some other kinds of ASMR videos out there and I am not keen to stray in that direction with this blog. If anything, I want ASMR to be free of any associations with sexual behaviour which seems to have dragged along behind it, probably long before I ever discovered it and certainly ever since then.
The notes, however, allay my fears somewhat: ” Close-Up ASMR Kisses for Anxiety Relief
By Isabel imagination ASMR
Publication date 2024-05-23
Topics ASMR, deleted, YouTube
Language English
Item Size 410.3M
In this calming ASMR show and tell video, you can relax to the sound of my close-up ear to ear whispers and get tingles from the layered sounds in your ears.
Sit back and relax with headphones on, let this video comfort you before bedtime!
Added date 2024-06-12 14:06:10
Collection added additional collections social-media-video additional collections video
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Identifier isabel-imagination-asmr-20240523
Original URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd-hi8zIVW0
Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0
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No expectations of picking up the content on an OnlyFans website for a start. Usually a strong clue as to which ASMR video you will have happened across, (unless you were looking for exactly that kind of video in which case it seems this one isn’t going to be it).
The video is a little less than twenty and a half minutes and is on the whispery side of whispery and also somewhat breathier than is my preferred sound for an ASMR artist.
There are in addition those kissing sounds mentioned in the title, which, surprisingly, turns out to be not that special a sound to; listen to, the sound of skin rubbing (hands together); the sound of nails clicking; the rustling of clothing in motion; deep breathing noises; that mouth clicking noise that ASMR professionals seem so fond of.
It’s not my favourite Isabel video. I have reviewed better videos on this site previously but hey, it is advert free and it features a professional ASMR artist whose voice I personally rate, so in my opinion still worthy of a review.
Today’s inadvertent ASMR video comes from a channel that will be familiar to regular readers: MGA Nursing has only fifty-five subscribers and forty-three videos. That is quite sad just barely more than one subscriber per video. We have found a few worthwhile videos on this channel and I have no doubt we will find a few more.
There are two playlists. One is on a medical theme but features a video not actually found on MGA nursing itself:
The other is strangely off topic, both for this blog and for MGA nursing itself:
Today’s video is a whisp of a thing, so brief it is barely there, but comes from someone who features often on the same channel. So, plenty of scope to return and have another delve.
The video is:
Cody Evans- General survey
And unless I have got this wrong, Cody turns up about nine times on the same site so we may (depending upon his voice) return over and again to listen to videos featuring Cody.
The video was posted in 2017 and has no notes and no comments. The setting appears domestic and so outside of this channel, I would guess there is limited to no opportunity of finding much else about Cody, his place of study, his chosen career path or any other markers that in the past I have used to verify this is a genuine medical video and not a fabricated one. I would say it has a feel of a genuine video and given we have seen MGA nursing before, I am pretty happy that this was made for the purposes of medical study and not for any ASMR devotees.
The video is just a little over one and a half minutes long and so hardly exists at all and is on the quiet side. When I say quiet, the volume control for this one is going to need to be way up.
There is a knock at the commencement which is also not loud. Cody is proven to have an excellent voice (which is not clearly heard). The patient could be (but isn’t necessarily) Crystal Klanzilotta. (I could not hear it well and the YouTube captions process mangled it altogether).
Crystal (if that be her name) has a slightly louder voice than Cody but none the worse for that, and as a team they seem to make for the commencement of a good ASMR video.
It continues quiet and just like that it is all over.
So, it is a reasonable one but also a rather brief one this week.
On that basis, just one, video this time.
That’s it on this occasion, more next time.
See you again next week.
The MGA Nursing 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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