This week I was fitted with a hearing aid. Apart from the constant pain in my ear canal from the tube in there, I notice everything is now at top volume and sounds like it was recorded inside a vibrating metal can. I am told that I need to persist for six to eight weeks, so it is another “man up” problem. However, one of my concerns is this that this will completely impact my ability to appreciate ASMR.
In life it is not infrequent that the solution to one of the problems simply brings along a suite of new ones to resolve and this would seem to be one of those.
This week I’m going to take some Nurofen and soldier on with the blog post but it might be that my allegiance to ASMR is irrevocably damaged and I will need to start again in someplace new. We will see.
I have in the back of my mind an ongoing duty to find new, non-YouTube-based audio for your enjoyment but I have to be frank, I just have not prepared any this week. However, I have listened to any number of great voices in my time so I will try to fall back on one of those.
This week, someone who came up on Tricycle.org and I notice the talk is still up there and (for me anyway) I could freely listen to it. That person is Dr Larry Ward who has sadly subsequently died. He was someone who I thought had quite a restful voice. See what you think.
This week’s Calm offering is this one:
https://www.calm.com/app/player/zzFunganq5
Daily Trip
The Most Important Practice
NARRATOR
Jeff Warren
AUTHOR
Jeff Warren
Making the decision to look after your health. Given that sleep is one of the key aspects of health, I think that is right on message for this blog.
With the normal proviso that Calm is not free and so if you want to listen to that you are going to need a subscription.
Onto the professional ASMR artist this week, I am sticking with the idea that I am going to be reviewing some of the older ASMR material. Perhaps bringing a goody back from the past. The channel is one I do not think I have reviewed before and the video is this one:
ASMR Cranial Nerve Exam Doctor Role Play
The channel is Cosmic Tingles ASMR with 249k subscribers, one hundred and seventy-four videos, twenty-three playlists,
with the playlist “Doctor Role Plays” apparently on theme for this blog:
That seems to work out to 1400-ish subscribers per video which sounds a reasonable rate of return to me (but then I am not a professional ASMR artist and I am unlikely ever to be one).
The channel has notes associated with it: “Cosmic Tingles ASMR
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The video (of course) has notes associated with it: “5,085,727 views 22 Jul 2016
Join me at Cosmic Tingles Healing Center: cosmictingleshealingcenter.com
This is a new high sound quality edition since my last CNE was made very early in my career with older equipment.
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I am guessing therefore that Cosmic Tingles is AKA Kayla.
The video is twenty-one minutes and so not huge in comparison to some we have heard and cranial nerve is a classic ASMR medical theme. I must have covered a fair number such videos already in this blog.
There are comments. They seem to be specialising in the strange or comedic and very little in the evangelising ASMR, so that is a tad odd.
The video has a pronounced hiss; I had to turn it down a bit but then had to turn it up again when I realised that the presentation was going to major on the whispery. Of course, this could be the hearing aid effect so you may find things a bit different to me.
There are various clunks from equipment being moved whilst off camera; there are paper noises, scratching noises, clicks and thunks. There are pencil noises, scraping noises, glove noises (fortunately not loud). There are those mouth clicking/clucking noises that professional ASMR artists love. Some quite loud crackling noises. It is that hiss that is really distracting though.
The voice is excellent. If only that hiss was not so loud.
Why not evaluate it for yourself and see what you think.
The inadvertent ASMR video this week follows on from an earlier blog article in which we were exploring my theory that adults who deal with children, in general, deal with them using low, gentle voices. In fact, more or less the ideal voices that I am searching for in my video searches.
I came across a playlist called Stanford Medicine 25: Newborn Exam,
It contains six videos and I more or less promised last time that I would continue to review them video by video. Last time we covered video one (as expected it was a calm and quiet video). So this time I’ll examine video two which is this one:
Stanford Doctor’s Physical Examination of a Premature Infant
The channel will be familiar to regular readers of the Procrastination Pen (welcome, I hope you continue to enjoy). It is of course Stanford Medicine 25. The index I hold seems to indicate I have written at least ten previous articles about this channel and so it must either be a fairly consistent resource or I ran out of imagination a long time back. Take your pick.
The video is a little less than nine minutes so is another of the group of brief inadvertent ASMR candidate videos that I have reviewed of late (the issue with short videos in a playlist is the increased incidence of inter-video advert breaks).
There are zero notes with this one – which is kind of odd for a professional video. But there are a ton of comments and most of those are not only sensible but positive as well. Heaven be praised. The video commences without music and the professional is identified as Philip Sunshine, MD, Professor Emeritus Neonatal & Developmental Medicine. Sadly Philip died in April 2025, which is a shame if only that we will not have any more videos that feature him.
Philip has a lovely calm and measured voice which is non-too loud either. The baby responds by being quite chilled. There is the odd beeping noise in the background but that is not loud. He handles the baby very gently but there is the occasional complaint nonetheless. I did not find that too terrible (because they are brief) but you may find it disturbing (just a warning). I will trial it in the Procrastination Pen playlist and will field it into the archive playlist if it proves objectionable in the long term.
Just one, video this time.
That’s it on this occasion, more next time.
See you again next week.
The Stanford Medicine 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.
If you liked this blog article, why not follow this blog.
Until next time.
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