I seem to be doing better of late with the Paul Temple recordings than I have in terms of the Procrastination Pen playlist. No doubt I will return to the playlist shortly. A long-term habit of reading before sleep seems not to be serving me at the moment. I often go to bed sleepy but by the time I have read a chapter I am awake again and have to repair to the sofa in order not to disturb my partner.
The recommendation is that those who suffer for sleep should do nothing in the bedroom except sleeping, so things like leafing through my favourite novel are forbidden. At the moment though, my entire daily reading is done in the few moments prior to sleep so I am concerned that if I don’t do some reading then, my reading life will come to an end altogether.
I’m not quite ready to give it up yet, but I rather fear that I am going to have to do that. Sleep discipline apparently being the key to kicking the nighttime wakefulness habit.
Incidentally that last link has some videos that give other sleep tips. I’m going to claim it as my non-YouTube resource this week.
The Calm resource this week is this one:
Inspiration
https://www.calm.com/app/player/iViiLizTTt
Daily Jay
Soul Grow
NARRATOR
Jay Shetty
about becoming a more extraordinary version of yourself.
It explores this letter: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kurt-vonnegut-xavier-letter_n_4964532
I am considering ending the Calm subscription as there are so many other resources available (there is only a defined amount of money (and time) available for subscriptions of this type). I’d like to try one of the others. Bear in mind that you can’t get to this resource for free, a subscription being required.
I’ll update you if I carry through on that threat in the near future.
The professional ASMR artist’s offering this week is again an older video. I’m determined to keep this up as YouTube seems to insist I keep consulting up to date videos. Hopefully my contrary attitude will provide an alternative source of information.
The video is this one:
[ASMR] Annual Exam with Dr Calm
The channel is Creative Calm ASMR https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeCalmASMR with three hundred and eighty two thousand subscribers, eight hundred and ninety videos, seventeen playlists of which the following one seems on theme for the way this blog has been going for a while (i.e. medical themed videos)
The channel (of course) has notes:
“Creative Calm ASMR
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The video, of course, also has notes:
“443,473 views 8 Jan 2018
Welcome to your Annual Exam with Dr Calm. Take a seat and relax because you’re in safe hands, and today’s exam is very easy and will be over in no time!
Today we’ll be:
Checking your sight (light and visual checks)
Mouth health
Skin check with face touching (latex gloves)
Checking your breathing
Taking your heart rate with new sensor
Taking your height and weight measurements
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ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, and is a sensation felt when listening to particular sounds or voices. ASMR is designed to people relax and sleep. Role plays should not be taken as real advice where medical or psychological advice is given. My videos are designed purely for relaxation, which I hope you enjoy.”
As usual they are lengthy, to put it mildly.
There are a very large number of comments, and these are mostly positive as far as I can tell. Although at least one refers to some porn-related activity which worries me as that is not the sort of video I am looking for.
The video is a little less than twenty-four- and three-quarter minutes long and starts without music. There is just the spoken word, and it is a nice slow pace. At intervals it seems as if the person is not comfortable at that pace, as if it is a little forced (I’ve noted this from other artists as well). However, I would say that the voice is great and no signs of any nudity so we would seem to be on safe ground.
The voice does not seem affected (I have noted that this can be a problem for some ASMR artists that seem overly reliant on their appearance and that porn comment has made me a tad jittery). I’d say the enunciation is good too. No signs of that affected mouth clicking/clucking effect that a number of professional ASMR artists seem to engage in.
In fact, for my purposes, this is pretty nigh ideal as ASMR videos go. If only I could come across an inadvertent ASMR video of this quality (I can dream).
There are keyboard noises, (not overly loud), glove-related noises (not my favourite); nails clicking on a metal cylinder (a torch body) – louder but not distractingly so. Clicking noises (the torch power switch, I think). The occasional rustle connected with clothing and the ASMR artists moving. Beeping noises (quite loud). In fact, I would say that this video has very few distracting noises of any kind. I was nodding off at intervals which I think in this case is the sign of a relaxing video (rather than boredom). Just to reiterate, the artist remains clothed throughout so that comment may have just been one of the random ones that do crop up on YouTube.
The inadvertent ASMR this week is another playlist but with too many videos in it to be covered in this blog post, so I think I will cover it over the course of several posts one video at a time.
I have segued away from medical themed inadvertent ASMR videos. The quality just did not seem to be there of late and I have stuck on wood block printing (and indeed the same channel) for a little while now. David has a good voice. This is not to say that the videos are always calming, we’ve had the odd one which really wasn’t. But I think the basis is there and the channel will throw up more positive content than not (at least in terms of ASMRishness).
The channel of course is David Bull. We’ve looked at this a few times now and there are a lot of videos on it. The pace of some of them seems to be nigh on ideal, even if sometimes the extraneous noises are less so.
This week’s playlist is this:
I am going to start (boringly perhaps) with video one of this fifteen video playlist and let’s see how we get on.
David’s Choice – Episode #1
It has notes (of course it does):
“202,295 views 9 Mar 2017
This is the first in what is hoped to be an ongoing series of short videos of Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull introducing various things that he finds interesting in the world of traditional Japanese woodblock prints.
Episode #1 looks at a couple of designs by the iconic artist Katsushika Hokusai. Visited by aliens, or just a stunning genius? You decide!
For more information on Dave’s work, please visit one of the websites:
http://mokuhankan.com/parties/
And yes, the three prints featured in the video are in our webshop:
http://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/0293.php
http://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/0012.php
http://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/0078.php
Thanks for watching!”
It has a fair few comments and some of them are from ASMR fans so we are right at home then. Sadly, the preferences of ASMR fans seem as diverse as the number of ASMR fans, so although it bodes well it is not a done deal as they say.
The video is only seven and a quarter minutes so we are going to whistle through this. It starts without music which is a big plus but for me it started loud and I paused it to turn the volume down quite a lot. Having done this I found that there was a background hiss, but it was not pronounced. It helps that the volume is down a fair way.
It is not the reason I am here but the story is also fascinating. Some of the comments do draw up some mistakes in the story but for me it is quite transporting. (Perhaps there is a link here back to the place we came in – where I am fighting for my reading. It seems I am continually fascinated by story and I bet I am not in a particularly tiny group).
As a person of some years, I particularly loved the closing quote which buoyed in me the sense that the race is not yet run. Those kind of remarks I can listen to over and over again.
The David Bull 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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