Category: Middle Age

Sleeping With ASMR

I notice that it has been so hot that we are starting to get advice about sleeping in a heatwave and that a sleep “divorce” is being discussed as a potential solution to some sleep-related issues. One thing that seems to be coming out of recent sleep articles is that people all over the UK (and no doubt elsewhere) are struggling to get enough decent quality sleep. The very high temperatures cannot be helping.

This blog, as regular readers will recognise, is all about sleep but mainly it focuses on sound and how to use sound to distract your mind from all the stresses of the day (and anticipation of the stresses of the day yet to come).

To this end I recommend (and review) a few audio tracks in the hope that you will find them restful. I am also, very gradually, building a playlist of inadvertent ASMR on YouTube which you may find helpful in this respect.

Some time ago I promised that I would find material that was not on YouTube so that those, like me, that loath the state of advertising on YouTube, during the quieter moments of the night could find refuge with another audio facility.

This week I notice that Susan Piver (someone I have mentioned before) has now started a podcast, called “Buddhism Beyond Belief”. It seems to have started in May and is still going strong. I rather like Susan’s voice. I also found that I could click on any of the tracks and they would just play without the need for any kind of logon (unlike some of the Spotify recommendations I have made recently).  There is no obvious mechanism for downloading each track so, sadly, no method for building into your own personal playlist. It may still be worthy of a review however.

The Calm track this week (which is strictly for people who already have a Calm subscription) is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/rUpkBWv51r

Daily Jay

Unlikely Teachers

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

What do unpleasant people teach us about ourselves.

I do not think that there is any free content, so on that basis (given most readers will not have a Calm subscription) I will move swiftly along.

I have, for some months now, been reviewing a professional ASMR artist. I have recently taken refuge in some rather old ASMR in that it is nostalgic for me (I used to listen to these tracks close to the time that they were first posted). This week’s one is this:

Ocean Fabric Affirmations 🕯[ASMR] Whisper

We have featured the channel WhispersRed ASMR before, but for those of you new to the blog, WhispersRed ASMR has 1.12m subscribers, nine hundred and twelve videos, twenty-nine playlists.

Of which this one is dedicated to getting sleepy:

Regular readers will have noticed that I have, yet again, strayed from the core theme of these blog articles which is medical orientated videos. I have been reviewing such videos for a long time and I assure you that I will be returning to them as well. 

The notes on the channel are quite informative including the fact that WhispersRed has been posting videos for thirteen years now (wow):

“WhispersRed ASMR

Description

Welcome home 💜 Make yourself cosy, put your feet up and I’ll pop the kettle on.

ASMR Tingles ✨ Relaxation ✨ Sleep ✨ Sound Therapy ✨ Silence ✨ Peace ✨ Love ✨ Smiles

Emma WhispersRed, Emma Smith, YouTube Mum

London, England

Links

Vlog Channelyoutube.com/@Emma_WhispersRed

Children’s Channelyoutube.com/c/WhispersRedASMRForChildren

Websitewhispersredasmr.com

Dog Rescue Charitywhispaws.org

Instagraminstagram.com/whispersred_asmr

TikToktiktok.com/@whispersredasmr

Facebookfacebook.com/WhispersRedASMR

More info

            http://www.youtube.com/@WhispersRedASMR

            United Kingdom

            Joined 12 Apr 2013

            1.12m subscribers

            912 videos

            433,408,137 views”   

As you can see the notes are pretty comprehensive (read extremely long). The majority of professional ASMR artists seem to double as part-time authors if the length of their notes is anything to go by.

The video is a little over thirty-two minutes and it also has humongous notes; associated with it. This time I think I’ll edit them down (a lot):

“663,439 views 16 Jan 2020 #whispersred #asmr

An ASMR affirmations whisper using ocean fabric hands sound, candle gazing, smudging and fluffy mics for close comforting hair sounds 💜0:01 – Introduction 6:53 – Guided relaxation 14:36 – Affirmations begin 23:39 – Repeated affirmations for sleep 29:09 – Goodnight, Sleep tight, with LOVE from me 🌟

Items in this video:

🌸US Links – Satya Incense collection including Celestial – https://amzn.to/2u4hpAt

Silver grey blanket https://amzn.to/30o6wFG

🌷UK Links – Satya Incense with Celestial https://amzn.to/2teboRK

Silver Grey Blanket https://amzn.to/2uSixaB

📚My ASMR Book – Unwind Your Mind: The Life-changing power of ASMR https://campsite.bio/whispersredasmr – Published by Ebury/PenguinRandomHouse in the UK/Europe and Harper One in the US and Canada. Available in Hardback, Paperback, Audiobook and Ebook.”

The full set of notes are interesting to true ASMR afficionados and no doubt to out-and-out WhispersRed fans.

Comments are permitted. There are a fair number and as per usual some are lauding WhispersRed as the pinnacle of ASMRishness. Some are just peculiar. This seems pretty average for any YouTube video. (Some YouTube videos also attract some rather nasty comments, but not so here, as far as I can tell).

The video starts without music and I suppose the clue was in the name of the channel in that we can hear that we are focused on the whispery; in fact, I would say it is on the whispery side of whispery.

Emma mimics ocean sounds by dragging her hands across fabric (and it is really very believable). If you find ocean sounds restful, I would say you would be hard pressed to tell the difference with your eyes closed. I am mainly here for the voice and whilst I prefer presentations that are not focused on whispery, as whispery presentations go, this is a good one.

There is the crackling of a burning candle, the sound of a cigarette lighter, the clicking of nails and that ongoing fabric sound which could easily be the waves retreating over sand, if you did not know better. I thought it quite a clever effect and I’m not certain who first worked out that you could employ fabric in this way. The blowing of a Joss Stick quite effectively mimics the wind blowing; it really is quite carefully put together. It even includes a few well-placed affirmations; I’m quite in favour of an affirmation so I would say that gives it extra kudos.

I can now remember what it is caused me to listen to it all those years ago. In fact, whether it was the heat or the restfulness of this video I did find myself nodding whilst listening to it. In terms of this blog, therefore, I would deem that a success.

Why not review it yourself and see what you think.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week is from a channel that regular readers will already know. It is from Oxford Medical Education a channel with 164k subscribers, thirty two videos, nine playlists, and I have mined this channel for material repeatedly. Some of the videos have actually been quite good.

The video is this one:

Neck Examination – ENT

It is a little less than four minutes so play close attention or you’ll miss it!

There are notes of course: “338,976 views 17 Feb 2012

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the neck. It also demonstrates the lymph node regions of the neck.

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 http://www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

How lovely and succinct they are, compared to those for the previous video.

The video starts without music but I was somewhat shocked after WhispersRed how loud the narrator initially sounded. This might be one to thumb the volume down a little. It might also be that in the context of the Procrastination Pen playlist it will fit right in. Something goes wrong with the video at about twenty seconds – it makes a very odd sound and the screen goes crazy for about three seconds. That is a great shame the video is otherwise quite calming. One of those where if I owned the video, I would cut that section out altogether. The medical professional has a great voice for our purposes, quite calm and quiet. However, sadly he does not get to talk as frequently as the narrator in this one. The “patient” doesn’t get to talk at all. The narrator has quite a good voice but not quite as great as the medical professional here. It might be that she has been instructed to be louder in order to be clear for the (no doubt students) attending to the video. It was not, after all, recorded for us ASMR fans.

The only problem from my perspective was the rather active advert that kicked in immediately afterwards.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

The Oxford Medical Education 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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

Recently it has been warm. Actually, warm does not even begin to describe it. It has been the kind of warm that must attend a sweating person’s undergarments. It has been hot and humid, and the kind of weather that makes you wonder why winter seems such a terrible idea.

One of the things that I find when it is like this is that lying in a pool of your own sweat is not that conducive to sleep. I also find that a couple of asthmatic tower fans do not really begin to make a dent in it. I am also hearing colleagues discussing the relative merits of this air conditioning system or that one.

England seems a quite different place to what I am used to if air conditioning starts to become as normal as formally a gas boiler would have been.

In these times as far as I can tell, all that is feasible is to rest, trust that your body is going to sleep when it has to, oh, and listen to a nice distracting playlist. It is for the latter that the Procrastination Pen has been reviewing calming material (predominantly from YouTube) for the last mumble-mumble months now. (It’s been a long while).

I am making efforts to live up to my promise of finding Internet-available material which is both free of adverts and also free of cost. (I think I was something of a lummock for promising it in the first place, but the endeavour persists).

This week I remembered that I had heard a meditation from someone called Chris Murchison called “I Am”. I found a copy of it here: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/happiness_break_an_affirmation_practice_for_the_new_year

There is no obvious download button, however, there was also nothing that demanded payment. It is quite brief and there is some music, which is not my preferred thing. However, I found that Chris has a relaxing voice. Why not give it a try for yourself.

Whilst I’m looking at past relaxing material, I found that I had at one time been listening to this week’s professional ASMR artist in the past. The video is not on a medical theme but it is a goody (in my opinion).

The video is this one:

🌙* Sleepy Time🌙* ASMR * Soft Sounds * Massage *

It is from a channel that I have reviewed before

Gentle Whispering ASMR which has 2.43m subscribers, 848 videos, and 14 playlists.

There is even a playlist on a medical theme:

containing thirty-eight videos no less.

Today’s video is dated 2016 which is when I would have been listening to it. The notes, as usual, for a professional ASMR artist are making a run for war and peace in terms of their length:

“1 May 2016 #Gentlewhispering #ASMR #relax

Good evening🌙 ^_^ In this video we will scratch a pillow 00:59, make sleepy sweeping sounds with it 03:15, tuck you in with a soft blanket 06:22, massage your shoulders and your neck to help you relax more while learning why it is so good for you 08:45, then we’ll rub your temples and your forehead to sooth any tension you might have 17:00, help you locate and relax your jaw muscles 21:14 and at the end we’ll use a tissue technique 23:05 to help you close your eyes and fall asleep faster 🙂 I hope you’ll enjoy this simple and light video. Thank you for watching! 🌙 ♥

Disclaimer: ***- This video is created for relaxation, entertainment and ASMR/tingles/chills inducing purposes only. For more information about ASMR phenomenon please click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomo…

-This video cannot replace any medication or professional treatment. If you have sleep/anxiety/psychological troubles please consult your physician. Thank you 🙂

Email: MariaGentlewhispering@gmail.com

#ASMR #Gentlewhispering #relax”

As usual I have truncated those quite a bit. The video is a little over twenty-six and a quarter minutes. There are a shed-ton of comments. As usual there is lots of fawning commentary with the odd strange comment thrown in to remind you this is YouTube.

There is no startup music and the presentation is heavily dependent on whispery, breathy presentation. Pretty standard for a professional ASMR artist then. I do prefer them less on the whispery side personally, probably because such videos are comparatively rare. The voice is so quiet that at intervals what is being said cannot be made out (by me at any rate). However, the tone is so restful and quiet and the pace so marvellously slow. There is a persistent background hiss but it is barely noticeable. (I had turned the volume up a bit as the presentation really is that quiet).

There are non-vocal sounds of course: nails clicking on sequins, fabric-related noises, (some of those do not seem to be that restful), stroking of a cushion (which is uncannily like an ocean noise), stroking of a jumper, rustling noises, fingers tapping on material.

At intervals my mind did start to drift a bit which is perhaps not a good sign. Then again it could be a sign that if I was horizontal, I would have drifted off at that point.

I would say this one was definitely worthy of a review, why not take a look yourself.

The Calm track this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/yS_L-ODr3t

Daily Trip

Awareness for Curious Cats

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

What is awareness? We can never fully know ourselves but we can try.

I know the chances are that relatively few of you will have a Calm subscription and I am not going to sell you one. However, if you do subscribe to Calm, why not give that a try.

For the inadvertent ASMR we are back, once again, with a channel that I have covered many times previously, that is Geeky Medics. This channel has 1.44m subscribers, three hundred and fifty four videos, twenty playlists and occasionally we do find a really rather relaxing video. With the downside that as far as I remember every single video I have reviewed from this channel has music.

Today’s video is this one:

Tinel’s & Phalen’s Test – OSCE Guide | Clip | UKMLA | CPSA | PLAB 2

In common with several recent inadvertent ASMR videos of late it is rather short at a little less than one and a half minutes. The video still has notes though: “2 Oct 2022 Neurological Examination OSCE Guides | CPSA | UKMLA | PLAB | MRCS

This video demonstrates how to screen for sensory loss in the hands in an OSCE station. Sensory assessment of the hands (radial, median, ulnar nerve) is commonly performed as part of a hand and wrist examination.

Tinel’s and Phalen’s test screen specifically for median nerve compression (i.e. carpal tunnel syndrome).

You can read our step-by-step guide to hand and wrist examination here: https://geekymedics.com/hand-examinat…

Always adhere to medical school/local hospital guidelines when performing examinations or clinical procedures. DO NOT perform any examination or procedure on patients based purely on the content of these videos. Geeky Medics accepts no liability for loss of any kind incurred as a result of reliance upon the information provided in this video.

 Achieve success in your medical school OSCEs, UKMLA CPSA, and PLAB 2 exams with our free clinical skills videos. Subscribe to our channel to be informed of our latest releases. 🙂

CPSA OSCE Guides https://geekymedics.com/the-clinical-…

 UKMLA AKT Notes https://geekymedics.com/ukmla/

 PLAB 2 OSCE Stations https://geekymedics.com/plab-2-osce-s…

Revise for the Simulated Consultation Assessment (SCA) with our collection of high-quality SCA cases written by GPs and Training Program Directors. Check out our SCA revision cases and prepare for the MRCGP https://geekymedics.com/sca-cases-ban…”

Again I have edited those down a tad.

Despite how short this video is there is still time, apparently, for startup music (I am not a fan). The examination is not quiet, but the tone is good and the pace is excellent. Without the music it might even have been very good indeed. There is even further music at the tail end of the same video… it’s a great shame, I need a Geeky Medics Senza Musica but no such channel exists.

Still worth a review though I feel.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

The Geeky Medics 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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I have been examining supplements to determine if my mistake of the other week (in which I believe I took too much magnesium) is complicated by the fact that a number of supplements contain magnesium. I found that in fact they do. Three different bottles I read the ingredients list of contain magnesium in one form or another. Taking more than one set of supplements may have a greater impact than would seem at first sight to be the case.

I also read this week that glucosamine (an apparently benign supplement to assist with aching joints) has a rather nasty potential side effect. This all makes me somewhat nervous about supplements and the recommending of them. Todays symptom-free supplement for sleep assistance might be tomorrow’s carcinogen, for example. It also goes to show that articles on the Internet, wherever they derive from and no matter how prestigious and reliable the author purports to be, need to be taken with a container load of salt.

The search for material that is advert free and yet is also no cost continues, and I am getting to trawling some pretty ancient stuff to find it. Some time ago I remember that I heard a meditation by Natalie Bell.

Of course, YouTube resources for Natalie exist, such as this one:

Nonetheless, that does not get us to a free – advert-free resource,

However, I did find a set on SoundCloud which is accessible simply by creating a login:

https://soundcloud.com/natbell77/sets/natalie-bell-meditations.

Of course, whilst I still maintain a subscription, I tend to post something from Calm each week. Maybe there’s the odd Calm subscriber out there who hasn’t had chance to listen to the same meditations that I have. Maybe we could even swap notes about it…

https://www.calm.com/app/player/bCDgJm-Jo4

Daily Trip

Deep Acceptance

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Can you back out of the way things are supposed to be to the way things actually are?

Jeff is the presenter on Calm that I have the greatest sympathy with. I often feel that we are wired in the same way. He does not have the best voice on Calm, I think that might belong to Tamara Levitt. But don’t tell anyone in case it goes to her head.

I have another “Isabel Imagination” this week. I have a feeling I may have spent a while listening to her channel in the past and built up a resource in terms of previously-viewed video material to return to. As a professional ASMR artist, either she is remarkably consistent or I have been lucky and happened across a few videos that happen to be ok to listen to.

This week’s one is this one:

ASMR Nurse Personal Attention Role Play

Of course, I have detailed the channel one or two times previously, but for those who have happened across the blog, and have not read my ASMR reviews before, the channel is Isabel imagination ASMR.

This has 381k subscribers, six hundred and forty three videos, thirty three playlists.

Of which I rather liked this one:

Even though it is completely off-theme for this blog (I have tended to focus on medical-orientated videos).

Today’s video is a little over thirty and a half minutes long and so isn’t huge but seems fairly consistent (in terms of length) for the videos from Isabel that we have featured. It starts with that trademark crackly effect that regular listeners will be familiar with and, as usual, we are onto a whispery presentation (at least there isn’t any startup music).

This one has some background noise, presumably associated with the theme which this time is not just medical but wartime medical. Thankfully that noise does not last long. Things then get a bit breathy. I’m not averse to breathy, just not an excessive amount of it. As usual the voice is a whisper, but unusually for a while anyway, it sounds at a distance as if the person is remote from the microphone. I believe this is part of the effect as well. Things do settle down and the excessive breathiness and strange effects are dispensed with and it’s whispers all the way.

If you like a video with good presentation, you should like this one as the background does look authentic. I always assume anyone reading this blog is flat out with eyes closed when listening to the material and so what it looks like is not that important.

As usual, the tone of the voice is excellent and the pacing really good. One day I will find one that isn’t a whisper and it will be even better (as long as the voice is calm, quiet and the pacing slow, in any case).

I did find that occasionally it would get very quiet and the next time that Isabel spoke I was shaken back to awareness. There is the rustling sound of a pillow and that mouth clicking/clucking sound so beloved of ASMR artists; the sound of clothing moving; paper being handled; moments of out-and-out breathiness.

Occasionally my focus on the video wandering a little which doesn’t sound a good sign but it might be ideal when using it for sleep. I also wondered if any “patient” would truly get this level of attention – thirty minutes of dedicated attention sounds like your average patient’s dream and your average hospital’s unaffordable nightmare. I don’t think anyone is supposed to think about the reality of the situation when watching these videos but I can’t help but consider how realistic it all is.

This week’s inadvertent ASMR video comes from a channel that I have featured before more than once. The channel is Geeky Medics https://www.youtube.com/@geekymedics. This has 1.44m subscribers, three hundred and fifty four videos twenty playlists and unsurprisingly all of that content appears to be medical themed. The channel has notes: “Geeky Medics

Description

Geeky Medics has built a reputation as a leading producer of high-quality educational resources. Achieve success in your medical school OSCEs, UKMLA CPSA, and PLAB 2 exams with our free clinical skills videos. Subscribe to our channel to be informed of our latest releases!

Links

Create a Geeky Medics accountapp.geekymedics.com

Geeky Medics product bundlesapp.geekymedics.com/purchase/bundles

Download the Geeky Medics appgeekymedics.com/geeky-medics-app

1300+ OSCE Stationsapp.geekymedics.com/osce-stations

OSCE Booksapp.geekymedics.com/purchase/compare-books

Linktreelinktr.ee/geekymedics

Instagraminstagram.com/geekymedics”

Which are quite comprehensive I’m sure you’ll agree. The video is this one:

Sensory Assessment of the Upper Limbs – OSCE Guide (Clip) | UKMLA | CPSA | PLAB 2

It is a mere whisper itself, at three minutes in length. There are notes of course – it’s a professional video: “19 Dec 2023

This clip demonstrates how to perform a sensory examination of the upper limbs, including assessment of light touch, pinprick, vibration and proprioception modalities.

Read our step-by-step guide here: https://geekymedics.com/upper-limb-ne…

Chapters:

Introduction 00:00

Light touch sensation 00:10

Pin-prick sensation 00:51

Vibration sensation 01:39

Joint proprioception 02:02

Always adhere to your medical school/local hospital guidelines when performing examinations or clinical procedures. DO NOT perform any examination or procedure on patients based purely upon the content of these videos. Geeky Medics accepts no liability for loss of any kind incurred as a result of reliance upon the information provided in this video.

Some people have found this video useful for ASMR purposes.

Revise for the Simulated Consultation Assessment (SCA) with our collection of high-quality SCA cases written by GPs and Training Program Directors. Check out our SCA revision cases and prepare for the MRCGP https://geekymedics.com/sca-cases-ban…”

So not so much notes perhaps, as a mini encyclopaedia. I had to edit them down a lot the blog post would have been mainly notes otherwise. There are comments but there are precious few of those and none of them seem to be from ASMR fans. If there are ASMR fans here they seem to be being unusually reticent.

It starts with music which is a shame, but it does not last long. The voice of both the doctor and of the patient are calm and quiet. There is no extraneous noise at all. It isn’t even possible to hear the tuning fork which in some other videos can be rather loud. It ends with music as well and this goes on for quite a bit longer than the startup music. It is also rather too funky to be restful; it would be great to have the same video topped and tailed to eliminate that music. In all it is a rather good video for our purposes just, sadly, way too short.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

The Geeky Medics 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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

This week, the news that none of us (except for a lucky few) can now afford to retire. On the upside though, there is research that appears to establish that retirement is very bad for sleep. Perhaps we are going to live healthier lives, it’s just that we’re going to have to keep working.

No doubt there are other strange sleep dilemmas that will crop up in this blog but I found that one rather unexpected.

For the non-YouTube resource this week, I remember that during lockdown I used to listen to Tovi Scruggs-Hussain. I had a hunt around and it turns out that Tovi publishes meditations on Mindful. It seems I must have spent a while on this website. Here is an example article and meditation: https://www.mindful.org/a-12-minute-meditation-to-set-the-tone-for-your-leadership/

Twelve minutes for you to determine whether you like Tovi’s voice. There are other meditations and articles on that same site so if you do like Tovi then you should have plenty to listen to. I may be back for another listen in the future depending how many other artists I can find out there who do not charge for listening to their MP3 files.

This week for the professional ASMR artist, I go to one that I used to listen to a lot but have fallen out of touch with of late. The channel is Moonlight Cottage ASMR 1.59m subscribers, one hundred and forty-eight videos, sixteen playlists none of the playlists are obviously on a medical theme. The channel, of course has notes: “Moonlight Cottage ASMR

Description

Hello and welcome to Moonlight Cottage!

I’m Diane and here I share my passion for cinematic/historical ASMR & relaxation videos.

If you wish to support my channel (thank you!), you can join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moonlightcottageASMR

Thank you for visiting!

Links

Support me on Patreon ❤patreon.com/moonlightcottageASMR

Follow me on instagraminstagram.com/moonlightcottageasmr

Spotifyopen.spotify.com/artist/7HTOAi6IQXsE54wqgwYdFn”

This channel is a treat for people who actually want to watch rather than just listen to the videos in that the effort that goes into the historical re-enactment material is really second to none. However, most of us are here to get some sleep and so how does the voice stack up when it is not backed up by the visuals:

The video this week is this one:

Steampunk Cranial Nerve Exam | ASMR Roleplay (medical nose, eye, face & ear exam, soft spoken)

Of course it has notes: ” 28 Aug 2022

Welcome back to the Steampunk optometrist (now with many other skills, and still messy hair) for a cranial nerve exam. Music starts at 00:49, if it’s too loud you can skip to 01:40.

Many thanks to my friend Anastasia (‪@ATMOSPHEREa) for lending her voice in the intro & outro!

This video includes a lot of personal attention & unintelligible whispering.

00:00 Intro part I – phone conversation with Ada (feat. Atmosphere’s voice)

00:49 Intro part II (with music, a bit loud)

01:40 Welcome back

03:00 Testing your senses of smell & taste (unintelligible whispers)

06:50 Eye exam (close personal attention)

11:20 Stereoscopic / 3D vision (steampunk sounds, unintelligible whispers)

16:33 Chart reading, lens testing (unintelligible whispers)

20:38 Face exam / testing your sense of sensation (face touching)

23:00 Ear exam / hearing test (otoscope, close whispers, tuning fork)

27:20 Writing your certificate of aptitude (writing / paper sounds)

30:30 Outro – phone conversation with Ada (feat. Atmosphere’s voice)

31:55 A few submersible ambient sounds”

I’ve trimmed these, a lot, because otherwise you’d be spending a lot of time reading notes.

There are comments and a number seemed to be from seasoned ASMR afficionados who really rate this channel, which bodes well for this video.

The video is a little over thirty-three-and-a-quarter minutes long and so a reasonable length in comparison to recent professional videos we have listened to.

The video starts with the clicking from a rotating dial, there must be few readers who recall such a device. It does however start without music. Moonlight Cottage seems to have a French accent which is actually rather delightful. Sadly, the video then goes into quite active music which is not great when you’re looking for something for sleep purposes.

There are clicking noises, rustling noises, clonking noises and scraping noises. There are brushing noises, flicking noises, equipment sounds some of which sound like machinery. There are paper scraping noises.

The voice continues calm and well-paced; it is not whispery (that’s rather a nice find as many of these presentations are). There are breathing noises, clothing related noises, sounds of glass clicking against wood, there are some background whispers (which actually are rather nice). There is the sound of cork against glass, that mouth clucking noise that ASMR artists love so much, nail tapping noises against glass, objects scraping across a wooden surface, the guttering noise from an oil lamp, polishing noises, and metal scraping noises.

It is actually delightfully slow; some we have reviewed seem to be in too much of a hurry or seem to strain to slow the pace so that it all seems artificial. This seems to plod along at a lovely meandering pace.

There are metal latch sounds, wooden box noises. Some are quite loud, I would guess it depends how far you are into dropping off whether that is going to make a lot of difference to you. The slide viewing device makes quite loud scraping noises as the glass slide goes in and comes out. It also makes a relatively loud noise as it is raised and moved around. There are clicking noises, the chinking of glass as lenses are tried, an odd squeaking as they are returned to the box. There are the small thumps of fingers being tapped. There are tuning fork noises, which are surprisingly muted. There are paper noises and those associated with the scraping of a nib across that paper. Post examination there are more equipment noises, and the rotating dial again. The click of a pocket watch and the turning down of a gas lamp. Then the loud noise as if in an air ship or similar, which plays out the final minute or so (this latter is quite loud).

Overall, I rather liked this. Why not give it a review for yourself and see what you think.

Each week I feature a Calm recommendation. For as long as I have a subscription to Calm, I may as well make use of it. The service, however, is not free so I will not linger long over it.

https://www.calm.com/app/player/TQloKAeDwA

Daily Calm

Creativity

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

This indicates that creativity comes not from intellectual effort but from stillness and silence. Tamara has an excellent voice. If you have a subscription (or are considering taking one out) why not give this one a listen.

The inadvertent ASMR this week comes from a channel which regular readers will know well as there have been visits to this channel on more than one occasion previously. It is University of Leicester, this has 90.2k subscribers,1.6k videos, thirty four playlists not surprisingly very few have any material that are likely to be of use to us.

Today’s video is this one:

Abdominal Examination – Explanation

It has notes: “14 Dec 2011

A second video can be found at; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce…

This is a detailed explanation of the abdominal examination illustrating technique and patient interaction.

The film was produced by practising clinicians to aid the teaching of clinical examination skills. It starts at the point when the clinician has finished taking the medical history and begins the clinical examination.

Presented by Mr Adam Scott MS FRCS (Edin) FRCS (Eng) Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon. Produced and Directed by Dr Irene Peat FRCR FRCP, Dr Nicholas Port MBChB BSc and Jon Shears.

More Clinical Examination materials can be found at; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/msce…”

There are comments, there are a fair few of these and most of them seem to be from ASMR fans. So far, so good. It is a little less than eight and a half minutes so it is not going to waylay us for very long at all.

It starts without music and without excessive background noise. We find that Mr Adam Scott has an excellent voice, it is not overly loud and it isn’t too fast either.

There are nice intervals that tell what part of the video comes next, but for our purposes it makes the pacing of the video nicely slow. The patient does not get to say much but she also seems to have a good voice in what little we can hear from her. During the examination, if anything, the pace becomes even more restful and quiet, which makes it quite delightful, a small amount of air conditioning noise notwithstanding.

There are some tapping noises. These are not disturbingly loud (for me at any rate). There are the gurgling gut noises, which didn’t seem particularly disturbing.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

The University of Leicester 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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Sleeping With ASMR

This week, a sleep course. It’s a paid-for thing and so I am not even going to advertise it, but once I get properly underway, I might be able to share some of the learning points, if it turns out that there are any worth having. I’m assuming anyone who is reading this blog has already read most of the interesting sleep-related news and so there is precious little extra to add. By all means feed back if you feel that not to be the case.

I thought I would put a little more leg work into the non-YouTube track this week and I remembered that I came across some meditation by Rashid Hughes a considerable long time ago. I found that Rashid has a website: https://www.rashidhughes.com/ and there are audio files located on there and those files are not based on YouTube! I did notice that they are on SoundCloud, there appears to be no download option. For those who prefer a bit of non-SoundCloud orientated meditation, Rashid also appears on mindful magazine which will give you twelve minutes to decide if you like the voice. https://www.mindful.org/r-e-s-t-a-guided-practice-for-the-tired-and-weary/

As usual, I have listened to some Calm meditation recently. As usual, I rather liked what I heard and hence I am going to recommend one. However, do bear in mind none of the Calm content is actually free, so this is a definite stump up before you listen situation.

https://www.calm.com/app/player/2o__8udpzK

Daily Jay

Check Your Ego

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Humility and Gratitude – the tools to keep your ego in check.

Jay Shetty, not the most calming voice on Calm but someone who challenges me in all the correct places. I find myself returning to his material over and over again. But it isn’t free and so moving on.

For this week’s professional ASMR offering I am again returning to nostalgia. As a result, the video has nothing whatsoever to do with medical examinations, either real or imagined. It is simply a video that I used to listen to around the time it first came out. I thought that it was nicely paced and properly relaxing.

The channel is itsblitzzz with 834k subscribers, three hundred and eighty-four videos, and three playlists. None of those playlists are on a medical theme. A quick scan of the videos also reveals none of them to be medically based either. The video is this one:

ASMR | Night massage with Gua sha, herbs, natural oils (soft spoken)

The publication date should give a clue as to how long ago I used to listen to this. There are notes: “29 Jan 2019 #guasha #massage #ASMR

In tonight’s video, I have brought back one of my favourite humans to experiment with some new techniques and tools (our other video can be found here:   

• ASMR | Head massage and energy healing on …).

This was a spur of the moment session, and I am happy that Elizabeth was free to come over. She is such an easy person to be around, and everything felt very natural and relaxed. I use some Gua sha tools in our session as well as some natural sprays and oils. Gua sha is a skin scraping technique used in traditional East Asian medicine that can also be performed with a spoon or other smooth object. Typically, it leaves marks (petechiae) but tonight I will just be using the tools to aid in massage. I am using light to medium pressure to avoid abrasions. I will demonstrate and discuss other Gua sha techniques in the very near future on my channel.”

These are fantastically brief in comparison to most professional ASMR artists today.

Comments are permitted, and there are literally thousands of these. A lot of them seem strange. Not as many as I would have expected jump out as the level of ASMR sycophancy that we have come to expect from professional ASMR artist video comments.

This is odd, because, if memory serves, this is quite a good video. If it is as good as I remember then we may well, in the future, cover the other video mentioned in those notes.

The video is a little over forty-two minutes long and so quite a lengthy one in comparison to some I have reviewed of late. It starts without music. The ASMR professional is off-camera and background noises can be heard: a rustling, some footfalls, the odd thud.

Elizabeth, it turns out, has a great voice and she is the first to speak. Initially there is a lot of moving about by the ASMR professional together with associated noises. Sadly, Elizabeth does not get much to say during this video.

It is quite breathy – in fact a lot of the sound is breathing, together with hands running through hair and the stroking of skin. There are noises related to movement including the rustling of clothing. When “itsblitzz” starts to speak, it is somewhat louder than the noises up to that point and we cotton onto the fact that the presentation is not going to major on whispery.

It is reasonably slow; in fact, it is like there is an elongated interval between each word. Whilst not actually whispering, the voice is kept low. Rather like one I reviewed a few weeks back I do wonder if the person presenting does not find it easy to talk that quietly. But it might just be my elderly ears that can hear a strain where perhaps there isn’t one.

There are brushing noises; the chinking of glass bottles; the sound of spraying; clicking noises; rubber pipette teat noises; the sound of the Gua sha tool against skin; the sound of oil on skin; a plastic lid being tightened onto a glass bottle; the sound of sage being ignited and subsequently being firmly extinguished; the sound of warm tea being poured into a metal container.

I felt it was almost hypnotic and I found myself drifting off to sleep several times during the video, which for this blog I would say was a great success. I would certainly give it a review yourself. It was certainly great to reacquaint myself with this one and I can remember now what I liked about it. Medical themed or no, I think I will be coming back to this channel in the future.

It will be hard to follow that with anything inadvertent I fear, but still, this is the way that I traditionally round off an ASMR themed blog post.

We are back again at a channel that I have reviewed a few times before MGA Nursing has fifty-five subscribers, forty-three videos and two playlists. Not unsurprisingly one of those playlists is on a medical theme but it contains just one video:

This week’s video is this one:

Head and Neck/ Mouth, Nose, Throat, and Sinuses Video by Megan Morrow

It is a little less than seven minutes long; no comments are permitted such that it is not feasible to determine if any ASMR fans have arrived here before us. There are no notes, simply a posting date of 28 Sept 2017.

It won’t keep us long and other than the name of the medical professional we really know very little about it.

It starts without music but with a fairly advanced background hiss. In fact, Megan sounds like she is recording at some distance from the microphone. The setting is domestic (probably someone’s kitchen). This is one of those videos where you are going to need to thumb the volume up a bit. The captions appear not to be working so I’ll make a guess it sounded like the patient was Adrienne Michelle Thompson with D.O.B: 9-6-1968 so probably 06 September 1968 given it is a US video. However, it was hard to hear and so the name and the D.O.B could be almost anything. The patient has an even quieter voice than Megan’s. That or the microphone is even further removed from the patient than it is from Megan.

There is the normal student fake hand hygiene, which seems to be a requirement in many such videos. Megan’s voice is not at the restful tone we have heard in some student videos but as I have pointed out it is not loud. The background hiss seems to be typical of an air conditioning sound.

The examination appears to be gentle and well-paced. Perhaps Megan raises the tone of her voice a little too often for it to be truly restful. At intervals the conversation is not quite as slow as is fully desirable. However, these are minor quibbles. The main issue is that having thumbed up the volume to listen properly, the subsequent advert is highly likely to bend your eardrums. I think this is worth trialling in the Procrastination Pen playlist and it can be banished subsequently to the archive list if it turns out to be one of the ones that is hard to live with.

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.

If you liked this blog article, why not follow this blog.

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I have a bit of a cautionary tale which indicates that not all supplements are harmless and perhaps careful perusal of the label is required.

I’ve been reading about magnesium and discovered an article indicating that some people are low in magnesium and taking an extra supplement might work well for them in terms of resolving any sleep difficulties.

I decided to start doubling the dose. I was taking one pill per day so I resolved to take two. This worked fantastically well for about five days. I got to sleep quickly; I remained asleep all night, in fact I had trouble getting up on time in the morning. I believed I had cracked the problem, magnesium was the wonder drug and I was going to write an update for this blog about it.

On the fifth day I dragged myself out of bed and my head was swimming like a post-alcohol daze. I have had vertigo before (due to an inner ear infection). It felt exactly like that. About mid-way through the morning, I began to feel thoroughly sick. I had to go and stand in the cold air to stop myself from throwing up.

It took a while to work out what had changed. However, when I asked my favourite AI what an overdose of magnesium would do, dizziness and nausea were two of the key ones. In addition, it was a miracle that I was not suffering with diarrhoea at the same time. I checked the pills and they definitely said one only per day. For five days I had been taking double the recommended dose.

Since then, I have been off the magnesium and it shows; my sleep is broken, short and problematic just as it was before. On the upside I am not waking up feeling nauseous. Magnesium may help but an excess of it does not help more, or at least in my experience not for very long.

Hopefully this will stop someone else needing to learn the lesson the hard way as I did.

Each week I have been listening to Calm because I have a subscription to Calm and it would be rude not to. I post recommendations here on the understanding that one person in a great many may find them of use.

https://www.calm.com/app/player/nkWhJIdOC_

Daily Jay

Critical Thinking

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Do you need to rethink something, do you have to go more deeply and reframe? Do you have to think about your attitude about something and consider alternative points of view?

I often come back to Jay Shetty; he has a lot of fascinating material. But if you are in search of the best voice on Calm, I would think that maybe Tamara Levitt (assuming you have a subscription, of course)

Today’s professional ASMR is something of a bright contrast compared to the material that I am used to dealing with. The gender, the age range, the voice of this ASMR professional is somewhat different to the kind of material I have happened across of late. Let’s hope it is a positive change.

The Channel is Feel Better Now. It has 26.5k subscribers eighty-seven videos, six playlists of which this one would be on theme for the blog to date:

The video is this one:

Grandpa Gives You a Mental Health Assessment #asmr #mentalhealth #roleplayasmr

Of course it has notes; it’s from a professional ASMR artist: “236,258 views 27 Mar 2026 ✪ Members first on 27 March 2026 ASMR #asmr #relaxingasmr #lofiasmr

Grandpa Bob uses his clinical skill to relax you and reduce your anxiety, all while taking your blood pressure and checking for signs of head trauma. Paper scratching, Velcro, whispered and softly spoken words. Flashing lights, pouring water.

Please subscribe, stay up to date

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Be an early member of our special group, Feel Better Now! 😃😃 Sneak peeks at new videos and more

Member link:    / @feelbetternow-o4t “

However, these notes are refreshingly brief compared to some we have seen.

There are a lot of comments; some are strange, some are positive, some wander off into subjects of interest only to the poster. So, normal YouTube comments then.

The video is a little under twenty-seven-and-a-quarter minutes and starts without music.

The voice of course is an elderly one but I would still say it is whispery (and not just as a result of a few decades alive). Whispery is fine, but I do prefer non-whispery videos if I can find them (they are comparatively rare). This video has a fair amount of silence in it which makes the pace actually quite lovely.

There are some non-vocal sounds, the odd click, some mouth clucking noises (ASMR artists love these). There’s the odd clunk, scribbling on paper noises, some whirring noises (from a blood pressure machine), Velcro noises from the cuff of that machine (those are a tad loud). Hissing from a fizzy water being opened and subsequently poured, fingers tapping, hands clapping together, nails clicking, paper flicking,

At intervals I did feel that I could be doing something else, which is not a great sign. That said, if you’re lying there awaiting sleep, this might be just the sort of thing. I would certainly say it was worthy of review.

Grandpa does not seem to appear in the Internet Archive (well, that I could find) and so it is on to try and find a more general ASMR video which is available outside of YouTube.

This week I happened across this one:

Bluewhisper 2020 06 08 ASMR ♥ Wellness Checkup Doctor Roleplay Gum Chewing Mxhb YtesWQ 396 MB [55ED29D7]

https://archive.org/details/bluewhisper-2020-06-08-asmr-wellness-checkup-doctor-roleplay-gum-chewing-mxhb-yteswq

https://dn721803.ca.archive.org/0/items/bluewhisper-2020-06-08-asmr-wellness-checkup-doctor-roleplay-gum-chewing-mxhb-yteswq/Bluewhisper-2020-06-08-ASMR%20%E2%99%A5%20Wellness%20Checkup%20Doctor%20Roleplay%20_%20Gum%20Chewing-mxhb_YtesWQ-396MB-%5B55ED29D7%5D.mp4

There are notes of course: “by    Bluewhisper

Publication date    2020-06-08

Topics    ASMR, female, roleplay

Language    English

Item Size    647.1M

channel_url – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7wT_mqUvCHEIWm1cuw_T1Q

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A gum chewing physical exam for you 🙂 Thanks for watching.

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This is just shy of forty-two minutes and starts with music which fortunately isn’t too energetic. The video is very quiet indeed, one of those you will probably have to elevate the volume to hear well. The quality is a bit on the hazy side (I assume it was recorded from a source online perhaps YouTube).

The voice is excellent with a spot on intonation. It does spend quite a while on the whispery side of whispery, however. There is the occasional mouth clucking sound which, as we know, are a favourite go to of the professional ASMR artist.  Perhaps due to limitations of the recording there is a persistent background hiss but this is not excessively loud. However, I did not really get the point of the gum chewing – possibly it is of great appeal to someone, just not to me. The pace is lovely and slow; it is possible to feel internal systems slowing to keep pace with it.

There are clothing rustling noises, the scratching of pen on paper, the moving of equipment, the occasional tap, some glove noises (I’m not a great fan of these), there are Velcro noises, clicking noises, a blood pressure bulb sound (that is not too restful), an escaping air sound (which reminded me of a slow puncture), plastic crinkling noises, and, of course the occasional chewing noise.

Fortunately, it does not end with music. In all I would say rather a good video, and well worth a review and without the need for loud or energetic adverts.

Onto the bread and butter of this series of blog articles, the inadvertent ASMR video from YouTube. This has been the sort of video that I have consistently reviewed since this series of articles began, rather a long time ago now.

We return to a channel that has had quite a lot of attention from this blog, mainly because of the quality of the video content. However, there has been, and no doubt will be, quite a lot of music associated with such videos which is the main downside of them.

The channel is Stanford Medicine 25. This has 345k subscribers, one-hundred-and-thirty-two videos, seventeen playlists which, unsurprisingly, are all on theme for this blog (they’re all medical, it’s a medical channel).

Today’s video is:

Stanford Medicine 25 Lymph Node Exam (Part 1)

It is just under eleven minutes long, and so not very long at all, in fact. It has notes (professional YouTube videos often have notes). “281,041 views 6 Jan 2016

A video recorded many years ago showing Stanford pioneer and hematologist, Saul Rosenberg demonstrating the lymph node exam. “

So, very succinct notes indeed.

UK English persons may note the spelling of haematologist. Apologies, that is definitely what it says and I assume is the accurate United States spelling.

Comments are permitted. There is not a huge number and those that have commented are not universally complementary, which might be a bad sign for us.

As a pleasant surprise there is no introductory music with this at all. The presenter, though, is a little loud and this is one where the volume is going to need to be turned down, I think. The presenter is not introduced either by himself or as a line of text in the video. Fortunately, there are the notes with the video and a comment which states: ” Saul Rosenberg, MD, Maureen Lyles D’Ambrogio Professor Emeritus, who pioneered highly successful treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes, died Sept. 5 2022 at 95.”.

Despite the volume I think the voice is a good one. There is definitely no whispery presentation here.

The camera sweeps about in a most disconcerting manner. The best advice is not to watch but just to listen to it. The pacing is reasonable, not too rapid which is a mistake made by many video presenters. There is a monologue presentation to start with and for the first four-and-a-half minutes which seems to drag a little (some commentators have noted the “real” start which seems to indicate they are prompting people to jump forwards past this section).

The presentation quietens a tad during the examination proper. This is in keeping with the majority of such videos that I have reviewed thus far. It is still not what you would call truly quiet. The voice, though, remains calm and well-paced.

The camera still seems, at intervals, to have a life of its own, sweeping about when there appears little need for it to do so.

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 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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Sleeping With ASMR

I was watching in amazement this week as a colleague edited together a video for use on Instagram using only his phone. I was recognising why the age of the blog has truly sailed. Although it was obvious that the video editing took skill, and it took time, the output was so easy to consume. I could recognise, instantly, why thousands of followers migrate towards channels which produce video content.

It is quite easy to understand why people who, at one time,

 would have read a manual or would have looked at a diagram, are now watching a YouTube video to try and get the same information. However, I cannot see myself producing YouTube material reviewing material which is also on YouTube.

Luddite I maybe, but I am not yet ready to give up on the idea that there is value in writing things down. Even if by so doing I am missing out on the more skilful operation of my mobile phone.

I hope, if you are reading this, you agree.

I have not changed the format of these posts for a while now (perhaps it is overdue for a change). This week, again, I recommend something from Calm for no better reason than I have a subscription to Calm and I listen with reasonable frequency.

(You should be aware that relatively limited free material exists on Calm and the following isn’t part of that).

https://www.calm.com/app/player/ns0e03Lo4U

Daily Calm

Recreating the Past

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

The tendency to want to re-live perfect memories, attempts to recreate the experience never quite measure up. Comparison of the new experience with the previous one tends to make it less enjoyable. Resisting the urge to compare can improve the involvement in the present by leaving the past behind.

For some time, I have been on the lookout for material outside of YouTube because I would rather like the ability to leave adverts far behind. In practice I have found the results a bit variable. In some ways paying up for a service to get an advert-free experience may be the better approach. But, assuming for whatever reason you do not wish to do that, I remembered that during lockdown I came across a track by Rhonda Magee who I recall had a good voice. However, of course, I could not remember where I had come across Rhonda.

It turns out that Rhonda has a website and that there is a part of the site dedicated to meditations. But sadly, this just redirects to YouTube: https://rhondavmagee.com/meditations/

However, I did find a podcast page with a recording which is quite open to a listen for free:

https://dharmapodcast.libsyn.com/dp-1953_rhonda-magee_metta-in-a-time-of-warmp3

There is a small amount of hiss on the track but I think there is enough material here to get an idea of the quality of the voice.

Recently when I have been reviewing professional YouTube ASMR artists, I have been going back into the past to re-listen to some tracks that I used to listen to years ago. At the time I was not sticking to a medical theme. The idea of reviewing ASMR videos had not even occurred, so the odd one has cropped up which is not even distantly medical. Today’s is like that:

ASMR Back Tracing w/ Scratch, Brushing, Buds & Oil Massage

So not even remotely medical then. Normal service will resume fairly soon.

It is from the channel WhispersRed ASMR. This has 1.12m subscribers, nine hundred and one videos, twenty nine playlists of which none at all seem to be on a medical theme. This could be the reason that WhispersRed has not appeared previously on this blog.

The video has notes (of course it does) and as usual (for a professional ASMR artist) these are extensive:

“10,592,056 views 3 Jun 2018 #whispersred #asmr

An ASMR Back treatment with nail tracing, a back scratch, brushing and oil massage.

Uploaded with love, Emma

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#asmr #whispersred”

So, we have now discovered that WhispersRed is called Emma. Later on (whilst watching the video) we find that her subject is called Stephanie. Comments are permitted, and there are literally thousands of these. One that stands out for me is one that asks for YouTube to ensure that ASMR videos are not accompanied by loud adverts. A drum which I have been banging for a considerable time now.

The video is in excess of forty three minutes which is long for one we have reviewed of late.

It starts in full-on whisper mode accompanied by that strange mouth clicking sound that ASMR artists love so much. It is not off-putting though.  At intervals it does get a little breathy for me.

There are of course noises not associated with the voice – nail clicking (these seem to go on a bit), hand rubbing, liquid noises, the sound of skin being brushed, squelching noises (I am not a great fan of these in ASMR videos, but I read comments that indicate some ASMR fans come to YouTube for just such content). This comes back to my theory that artists are hammering in every ASMR “trigger” that they have managed to think of in the hope of gathering more fans. I still feel that a video focusing on the gentle voice tone only would be more appealing but 1.12m subscribers seems to indicate that I am in a group of one…

The voice (as we might expect) is properly relaxing and I can hear why it was that I used to listen to this all those years ago. The pace is lovely, even slow in places; the volume is spot on. It is quite old-school now, in that there are not artificial breaks in the video to permit an (objectionably loud) advert to butt-in part way through. For me this makes the experience far more calming.

Around the half hour mark I did feel that I was ready to listen to something else, but then I was reviewing the video rather than trying to fall asleep to it. I’m sure if you’re reviewing it as a sleep aid you will find it is absolutely ideal.

Following the theme of recent blog posts, I will now turn to inadvertent ASMR (which has been the theme of this blog for some while now).

It probably should not be unexpected, but to me is still surprising, when people post medical videos some of the comments are from people who are really looking for a medical diagnosis. Perhaps this points to an area that people could home in on. A whole audience of people whose needs are not being satisfied and I doubt that they can be satisfied by those persons who are posting videos.

As you can probably tell from the above, we are back in the professional medical video category i.e. videos created with a purpose which is unrelated to ASMR. Historically some of these are quite good for ASMR purposes, some are barely adequate, and some are just awful.

But that is the reason this blog exists, to try and identify the odd diamond in all that refuse. Regular readers will have seen videos reviewed, videos trialled in the main Procrastination Pen playlist and videos retired into the Procrastination Pen archive list.

At the same time the video content is itself dynamic. We have seen videos, lauded by ASMR fans, removed on copyright grounds. Channels, apparently with thousands of fans, which disappear and some videos so popular that they disappear (often with their respective channel) only to appear again on another channel sometime later.

This blog will attempt to navigate these changes by maintaining a list of videos that can be played prior to sleep with the intention of allowing you to relax and minimising, as much as is feasible, jarring noises that might disturb that restful state.

Today’s video is listed in the order found, however, it is obvious from the title that it is the third in the series:

Neurology – Topic 3 – Sensory aspects of gait including Romberg’s test

This is a short video at less than four minutes. We seem to have arrived at the point in this review process where short videos have become the norm  but I never know what I will find next, so you may find an hour-long video in the next review.

In common with the majority of professional videos we have seen recently this one has some notes: “20 Dec 2012

Sensory aspects of gait including Romberg’s test”

Not the most comprehensive notes but notes, nonetheless.

The comments, as usual, are a bit variable; I have previously concluded that permitting comments with a video is a brave move indeed.

The video is from University College Dublin and, as we expect, they have a YouTube channel eight hundred and twenty eight videos as at the time of review which is rather too many to examine in one sitting. Habitually such channels are university promotional vehicles which is exactly what we would expect.

The presenter is flagged at the start as Professor Niall Tubridy, Consultant Neurologist

Sadly, the video has startup music. Startup music is the bane of any ASMR video research. In this case it is not as offensive as some. I have, in the past, weeded out videos purely on startup music. I am hoping that in the future YouTube will introduce a function which allows me to add parts of videos to the playlist; in which case a great many will be subjected to top and tail behaviour. i.e., removing any funky music inclusions from these videos.

Professor Niall has a great voice; there is minimal background noise, not your classic ASMR but it should be calm enough to be relaxing (funky startup music allowing). Sadly, there are periods where it gets louder as if Professor Niall is presenting to a lecture theatre. It is quite fascinating, which is not the reason we are here, but causes me to stick with it.

Thankfully there is no tail end music to this particular video. Good enough for the Procrastination Pen playlist I think, although I aways reserve the right to weed it out if after a few reviews it doesn’t stand the test of time. There’s a couple in there right now that I am mulling over with a view to foisting them out.

The channel is UCD Medicine which has one hundred and sixty-three videos. That is a few I’m sure you will agree. Small wonder then that the channel has 52.7K subscribers.

There are five playlists and none of those seem to be connected with Professor Niall or with Neurology.

However, scanning the list of videos there are at least thirty-one videos on this subject and probably a great many more than that. I’m not sure I would feature thirty-one videos at one time in a single blog post even if they were all to feature Hollie Berry. On that basis therefore I’ll select the first five (including number three, which we just reviewed) and the later videos can form the basis of subsequent blog posts.

Neurology – Topic 1 – Brief neuro anatomical background

We are now into classic cranial nerve examination – which has been the subject of several blog posts previously

This is less than three minutes and yet again with the startup music – grr.

This time Professor Niall seems a bit on the loud side. I have the sense that this video captures a presentation to a class.

The location does not seem to assist in this respect I suspect a large room with a slight echo via the microphone. I always wonder why lapel mics are not more frequently in use. But I imagine additional microphones=additional cost.

Neurology – Topic 2 – Brief neuro anatomical background with notes

This is really a re-run of the above with some notes as well – no doubt great for students but it makes no odds for us, I think.

Neurology – Topic 4 – Cerebellar Syndrome Examination

A much more substantial video in that it is nearly nine minutes but still short in terms of some of the videos reviewed previously.

I think we can now take it that all of these will share the irritating startup music. Here again we encounter Professor Niall at his best in terms of his voice. We discover that the patient is “Peter”.

Unfortunately, Professor Niall gets louder. It’s a shame because at the start the video is lovely and quiet. If only I felt empowered to take the video and edit it down but I have no doubt a number of solicitors would be delighted if I tried that and the Procrastination Pen would be added to the channels on YouTube that disappear without trace.

However, there are long periods where Professor Niall settles into what must be his default which is a lovely voice to listen to. Perhaps in the future I will look for other material by Professor Niall as there might be the odd one which is properly quiet throughout.

Now, the assurance that we would cover up to video five was made without understanding how the videos progress on this channel, whilst videos one to four were individual videos there is now video 5a to 5j with some of the videos appearing both with and without notes.

I feel it is fair therefore to split the approach to video 5 I think your attention muscles probably will have had enough if I push too far so I think as far as 5c in this blog item and then pick up a future blog item at 5d.

Neurology – Topic 05a Cranial Nerve 1

Here Professor Niall is obviously presenting to a class, it is loud. Again, there are moments where the voice is excellent. Each one of these videos is tantalising in that it is not quite excellent for ASMR but has the potential to be so.

Neurology – Topic 5a Cranial Nerve 1 with notes

A duplicate of the above video – with notes included.

Neurology – Topic 5b – Cranial Nerve 2

A truly substantial video in excess of eighteen minutes. It starts loud and continues loud. Fair doos, the guy at the back of the class needs to hear what you are saying but it makes it less than gorgeous from an ASMR perspective.

Here the patient, in fact has a better intonation for the purposes of ASMR (well he is quieter). I think his name might be Donnacha (with apologies to Irish readers if I messed that name up).

It is even possible that Donnacha may have a channel all of his own but that is for a future blog item if so.

Neurology – Topic 05b – Cranial Nerve 2 with notes

As before a duplicate video to allow for the addition of notes.

Neurology – Topic 5c – Cranial Nerve 3,4,6

A little over seven minutes in length but sadly no quieter. Shame about that classroom setting. I suppose we can take succour from the fact that there are no infernal air conditioning noises.

Neurology – Topic 5c – Cranial Nerve 3,4,6 with notes

With notes

And that’s it this time, I think I’ll come back and give it another try Professor Niall probably has a few gems to offer.

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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Sleeping With ASMR

I discovered this week that supplementing magnesium may not just help with sleep but may also assist with attention during the waking moments of the day. From the same source I discovered that supplementing zinc intake could assist in the same way. I have not yet put this to the test (to be honest in search of a benign sleep cure I am getting to the stage of taking so many supplements that I rattle). However, I am going to try this next and will report back as to whether it makes any noticeable difference.

This week a Calm selection which illustrates the reason that I so frequently listen to Jay Shetty, even though he very probably does not have my favourite voice on Calm. This one I found inspirational:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/iViiLizTTt

Daily Jay

Soul Grow

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

It is about becoming a more extraordinary version of yourself. As part of which Jay explores this letter: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kurt-vonnegut-xavier-letter_n_4964532.

Today’s professional ASMR offering comes from an artist that I used to listen to all the time. Indeed, the video itself is an oldie but goodie.

The channel is Isabel imagination ASMR this has six hundred and thirty four videos, 379K subscribers thirty three playlists of which the following seems to be on theme for this blog so far:

The video is this one:

ASMR Doctor’s Visit Memory test (soft spoken/whisper/personal attention)

It has notes, and oh, what notes: “428,480 views 28 Sept 2016

Hello! My name is Isabel and I’m Dutch. I’ve been crazy about ASMR for about 4 years now and I am finally posting my very own ASMR videos since the 20th of June 2016! This is video #28. I hope you like it!

I’ve recorded this video with a JVC camera and an audio recorder. Here are the links:

Cam: http://www.videocamerashop.nl/product…

And it’s recorded on to an audio recorder called: Roland R26 portable recorder

Editing program: http://www.magix.com (I used Magix video deluxe 2016)

In this ASMR video Dr. Clarck will examine you because you are forgetting lots of things lately. You will answer some questions, and Dr. Clarck will perform a few memory tests on you and you will have a smelling test and a listen and memorise test. So, lots of personal attention and soft spoken and whispers included! Sleep tight and enjoy the tingles!!!

Instagram (to stay updated on new ASMR projects of mine):

  / isabel_asmr 

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. “

It would not be a professional ASMR artist if they did not feel the need to write a novel with each and every video. Comments are permitted and seem to major in the “odd” feedback rather than sycophantic, which is not unusual for YouTube, but is unusual for a professional ASMR artist. This usually does not bode well, to be honest.

The video is thirty and a half minutes and so is reasonably substantial for videos that we have reviewed of late. It starts with a strange crackling background noise as if it was played on a badly stored vinyl record and straight away it gets into whispering. We’re on fairly well-established ground then. The voice is excellent and indeed the setting of the video itself looks rather professional (not that I expect any readers of this blog will be doing much in the way of watching given that you’re using this material to fall asleep to).

It occasionally gets a bit on the breathy side. It also seems to be falling prey to the “how many triggers can I get into this video” approach to sound recording. There is the stroking of paper, that mouth clicking sound that ASMR artists seem to love so much, nails clicking on a glass jar, but that said we have heard videos where the artist tries to feed in every squelch, tap, and scratching noise that they have heard some ASMR afficionado would rather like. By comparison I’d say that this was a much more measured approach to inserting spurious ASMR triggers and I did not find it obtrusive. However, as I have related before, I am only interested in the quality of the voice personally and additional noises are, for me anyway, merely a distraction.

That said the enunciation is spot on. Quite amazing that a Dutch person speaks English much better than a number of English ASMR artists that I have heard. As some commentators relate, it is interesting that a person from the Netherlands speaks American rather than English but it does mean that Isabel has an interesting accent to listen to in this video. I think I will be coming back to Isabel in the future for any further medical-orientated ASMR videos that come up.

For the ASMR offering which does not involve YouTube, I thought I would try the Internet Archive and see if they had anything for today’s professional ASMR artist. And they do:

Isabel Imagination ASMR 2020 06 12 ASMR For When You Feel Down [ Hugs, Cuddles, Kisses & Positive Affirmation ] JVu4gmugEPk 497MB [CD99985A]

https://archive.org/details/isabel-imagination-asmr-2020-06-12-asmr-for-when-you-feel-down-hugs-cuddles-kisses

Just like professional ASMR videos on YouTube, the person has gone mad with the notes in connection with this one:

“Publication date

    2020-06-12

Topics

    ASMR, female, hugs, kisses, positiveaffirmation, personalattention

Language

    English

Item Size

    618.3M

video_url – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu4gmugEPk

channel_url – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGfbWCJjPwcAlBNkHT3gQ6w

In this triggering ASMR video, you can sit back and relax with headphones on!

In this relaxing ASMR cuddle & positive affirmation video, you can relax to the sound of my close-up ear to ear breathy whispers and get tingles from the warm hugs. Hopefully this calming video will comfort you for sleep!!

Triggers are: scratching, tracing, brushing, wet mouth sounds, whispering, ramble, mouth sounds, hair sounds, visual triggers, hand movements, tapping, shiny objects, crinkle, deep ear whispers, soft spoken, mouth sounds, tapping, finger flutter, whispering ear to ear, breathy whispers, binaural sounds, personal attention, close up tingles.

What is ASMR? Check out this short explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-SCxXdI0Y

All my info:

Webshop: https://www.isabelimagination.com/nl/

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/isabel_imagination

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabel.imagination/

My email address for questions or business deals: info@isabelimagination.com

Patreon (if you’d like to support me, get early access and see patreon exclusive videos) : https://www.patreon.com/Isabelimaginationasmr

Tingles (to avoid advertisement and support me at the same time): https://www.gettingles.com/

The Tingles app is available on IOS and Android!!

For a look behind the scenes visit my other youtube channel “isabel backstage”!! This is the link to my 2nd channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_R9MQkCOSew6FswsZtHOEw

I’m always trying to improve the quality of my video’s, if you’d like to contribute to this purpose, than that’s possible via donations on PayPal. My email is: isabelimaginationasmr@gmail.com

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 video’s since the 20th of June 2016! I hope you like it!”

I’ve edited them a bit as they are really long.

Sadly, it is not on theme for the medical series I have been pursuing, so I’ll leave you to try it out if you so wish.

For the inadvertent ASMR video which really is what this blog has been about since the ASMR reviews began, I am looking this week at this one:

The Dermatology Exam

I have reviewed a number of videos from this channel previously it is Top Hat Tutorials with 67k subscribers, one hundred forty one videos and all three of the playlists are on theme for the material that I have been covering in this blog:

and

and

the notes on the channel convey what it is all about:

“Top Hat Tutorials

Description

Clinical skills videos for medical professionals and students

More info

            http://www.youtube.com/@tophattutorials9113

            Joined 3 Sept 2015

            67k subscribers

            141 videos

            10,408,946 views “

There are also notes with the video although, thankfully, they are not excessively long: “296,857 views 22 Jan 2016

A video of the main points of the Dermatology Exam.

The video was created as part of the Top Hat Tutorials app, a new doctor and student designed guide to the clinical examinations in medicine and surgery.

‘TOP HAT TUTORIALS’ is available in the Apple, Google and Windows app stores today.

Reached number 1 medical app in its first week of launch!

A must have for medical students no matter where they are studying.

Download using the following links:

Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/top-h…

Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de…

Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store… “

The video permits comments and as with the previous video I find that the comments are more strange than sycophantic. This may not be a great omen of what is to come.

It is another brief video at just over four and a half minutes so it isn’t going to keep us long. It begins with my personal bugbear: startup music which seems even more sacrilege given we have such scant video real estate to begin with. However, once Dr Tom Branigan introduces himself, we realise we have a safe pair of hands. Tom has a great voice. The patient is Dermot (or assuming this examination is located in Ireland more probably Diarmuid). There is some background noise, probably air conditioning. It is very calm and measured, just the kind of thing I like to hear (music excepting). Sadly, we get the music once again at the close of the video.

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 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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Sleeping With ASMR

I notice that to add to the pressure one might otherwise feel about getting a good night’s sleep, there is now direct scientific evidence that digestion is also impacted. With that impact comes the potential for obesity, diabetes and some of the longer-term effects that you might expect. If ever there was a need to fight tooth and nail for every spare minute in the bedroom it would sound like that is where we have arrived at.

In which case I think we can be unapologetic about being revolutionary about things and suggesting that other things in life should be allowed to wane in order to get the level of sleep that your body needs.

To that end, for a very long time, the Procrastination Pen has been reviewing material for its helpfulness in gentling you off to sleep. Sadly, frequently finding it as much assistance as bright light and a brass band backing track but just occasionally there is a gem that makes it all worthwhile. I’m not certain that there are any gems of that quality this week. However, I will continue the reviewing in the hopes of turning up the odd one.

As I promised some weeks ago, some relaxing material that does not involve annoying adverts. I’ve been listening to Susan Piver for a while now and besides being a highly famous meditation guru, I also think that she has a very good voice. A great deal of her material is also educational which is an added bonus.

Of course there is a wealth of material on YouTube, for example:

Indeed, Susan has her own YouTube channel. But given I am trying to avoid adverts that is hardly a good start.

I did find that Susan now has a podcast which is available on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buddhism-beyond-belief-with-susan-piver/id1798818779 

At the time I am looking at it there are fifty-two episodes available which should give you enough of a taster to determine if this is going to be a voice that you like.

Turning to the Calm recommendation this week, I have:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/wicRCqVcjB

Daily Jay

Gossip

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Jay is perhaps not my favourite voice on Calm; I think that might be Tamara Levitt, but I find his Calm Daily to be one I drift back to again and again because of the importance of the material that he covers.

This one is about the prevalence of gossip and how harmful it can be. How you should avoid gossip, how gossip spreads, and how it is impossible to take back.

Moving onto the professional ASMR artist, I notice that there is quite a lot of criticism of older ASMR videos, as if everything completed some time ago is necessarily worse than anything completed today. No doubt persons of a certain age believe this to be the case. Going with that trend I am covering this week a video posted only recently. However, I can feel my stubbornness tendency coming on and I suspect I’m going to try to feature some older videos more frequently in future.

ASMR Doctor Physician Complete Medical Exam – Whispering RolePlay

It is from the channel Tingles Maker ASMR. This has 13.1k subscribers, one hundred and thirty six videos, eight playlists. One of these playlists seems relevant to the medical theme I have been covering:

The channel has notes: “Tingles Maker ASMR

Description

Hello and Welcome to Role-Play ASMR Channel – Tingles Maker

My name is Renat (or just Tingles “Maker) and I do ASMR, probably with some accent)

I am learning English and this Channel is my homework.  Welcome aboard! 

Links

Donatedonationalerts.com/r/asmrclub

More info

            Sign in to see email address

            http://www.youtube.com/@TinglesMaker

            Kazakhstan

            Joined 9 Mar 2022

            13.1k subscribers

            136 videos

            1,369,709 views”

The video also has notes: “5 Apr 2026 #ASMRROLEPLAY #ASMR

ASMR Doctor Physician Complete Gentle and sleepy Medical Exam – Whispering Role Play for tingles and sleep

Welcome to Tingles Maker ASMR.

   • Role-Plays ASMR 

   • ASMR Whispering 

   • ASMR Medical Exams 

   • ASMR no talking 

#ASMR #ASMRROLEPLAY”

By now we are used to a healthy number of notes whenever we are looking at a professional ASMR artist. My guess would be in the cut and thrust world of ASMR; some self-promotion can only help.

Comments are permitted. There are not a huge number but those that there are – are the normal level of ASMR sycophancy that we know and love. This bodes well for this video.

The video is a little over eighteen minutes long it starts at the level of a whisper and straight away we are on familiar territory ASMR wise. The voice is excellent. The presentation occasionally becomes breathy and there is the odd mouth-clicking sound that some ASMR fans seem to be positively transported by. There are, though, as expected, extraneous noises; clicking noises, rustling noises, the odd clatter from equipment being moved, the sound of a tuning fork is actually quite loud, the odd tapping noise, hands rubbing together, paper-related noises. None of which did I find excessively distracting.

I found this quite restful. It seemed very well done actually and, even with the extraneous noises I think this is well worth reviewing.

You may recall a previous post in which I mentioned a URL which linked to thirty two videos. The URL is this one:

Medical Training Videos

Last time we managed to review just four of these videos, so there is a fair few left to look at…

The next one in the series is this:

Nose Examination (Inspection) – ENT

This is less than a minute long so perhaps we are on the home straight and picking up speed now

The notes are: “83,932 views 17 Feb 2012 Clinical Examinations

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the nose. This part covers inspection only.

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 a continuation of the nasoendoscope one and the same people participate. The comments made for that video still apply, including the initially quiet and subsequently slightly louder presentation.

Neck Examination – ENT

This is just less than four minutes so a little more substantial (but that just goes to prove how short some of the other videos have been). The notes are: “248,747 views 17 Feb 2012 Clinical Examinations

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the neck. It also demonstrates the lymph node regions of the neck.

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”

We go back to the format in which there is a narrator for the video. The narrator has a reasonable voice for us. However, the video has some nasty interference which affects the sound as well and will be off-putting to anyone listening. This one does not belong in the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Mouth Examination – ENT

Just under one- and three-quarter minutes so not overstaying its welcome. The notes are “242,014 views 17 Feb 2012 Clinical Examinations

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the mouth.

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”

This is also narrated. The person narrating has an ok voice but not amazing; the medical professional participating in the video itself has a better voice for us.

Hearing Test (Rinne and Weber Examinations) – ENT

Less than one and a half minutes, the notes are: “1,233,808 views 17 Feb 2012 Clinical Examinations

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform tuning fork examinations for hearing loss.

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”

This is narrated again and the narrator has a good voice, if a little loud here. The tuning fork nises are non-too off-putting – your mileage may vary. It might be one that is weeded on subsequent review.

The medical professional in the video, meantime, has a great voice.

And last, but by no means least:

Otoscopy (Ear Examination) – ENT

Less than three and a quarter-minutes, the notes are: “1,603,425 views 17 Feb 2012 Clinical Examinations

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the ear using an otoscope. It also demonstrates the anatomy of the tympanic membrane.

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”

Again, this is narrated, and here the narration seems to be quieter. The medical professional in the video itself has a good voice for us.

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.

If you liked this blog article, why not follow this blog.

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

Urged on by my recent account about attempting to using magnesium supplements to assist with sleep, a friend recommended that I took ashwagandha. Not two minutes after that recommendation, I got a recommendation for the same supplement from an alternate person. It sounds like it is a supplement which I should give some attention to.

I do not know of ashwagandha, and I still don’t really know how to pronounce it, but it was available at Holland and Barrett and so I have been taking it. I’m about fifteen capsules into a thirty-capsule container and it purports to be five hundred milligrams (by the label).

There are several claims for the benefits of ashwagandha however, I notice that slipping off into nod-nod land is not one of them. So it has proven. I had variable results with the magnesium and I have had variable results with the ashwagandha.

It seems to have a small effect on wake-time calmness. Either that, or some recent training I am attending is having the desired effects.

However, it does not seem to have affected my annoyance at different aspects of life, nor the fact that I occasionally need the television to still my mind enough for sleep.

I continue with it and I welcome other recommendations for sleep, preferably those I can share on the blog. Any substances which are “controlled”, presumably, I am not going to be able to find and far less write about if I could.

(Although I’m sure some of the drug-related relaxants probably do work).

This week I saw mentioned a former monk by the name of Scott Tusa. I wondered if it would be possible to find any relaxing material outside of YouTube that I could direct you to. It appears some are available for download (if you also wish to sign up for a newsletter) on his website, here: https://scotttusa.com/.

I did find some resources in the Internet Archive though which are more readily accessible

https://archive.org/details/ggbc-2020-04-24-scott-tusa-mindfulness

https://archive.org/download/ggbc-2020-04-24-scott-tusa-mindfulness/GGBC 2020-04-24 Scott Tusa Mindfulness.mp3

https://archive.org/details/GGBC20180915ScottTusaMakingLifeMeaningful

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20180915ScottTusaMakingLifeMeaningful/GGBC 2018-09-15 Scott Tusa Making Life Meaningful 1-of-3.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20180915ScottTusaMakingLifeMeaningful/GGBC 2018-09-15 Scott Tusa Making Life Meaningful 2-of-3.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20180915ScottTusaMakingLifeMeaningful/GGBC 2018-09-15 Scott Tusa Making Life Meaningful 3-of-3.mp3

https://archive.org/details/GGBC20180914ScottTusaResilienceAndHappiness

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20180914ScottTusaResilienceAndHappiness/GGBC 2018-09-14 Scott Tusa Resilience and Happiness.mp3

https://archive.org/details/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind/GGBC 2019-04-12 Scott Tusa Calm Body Clear Mind.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind/GGBC 2019-04-13 Scott Tusa Calm Body Clear Mind 1 of 4.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind/GGBC 2019-04-13 Scott Tusa Calm Body Clear Mind 2 of 4.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind/GGBC 2019-04-13 Scott Tusa Calm Body Clear Mind 3 of 4.mp3

https://archive.org/download/GGBC20190412ScottTusaCalmBodyClearMind/GGBC 2019-04-13 Scott Tusa Calm Body Clear Mind 4 of 4.mp3

It looks like these are freely available to download, such that you can use them to build up a night-time listening playlist of your own, quite independent of YouTube adverts, and indeed this blog come to think of it (although I hope you will return for the next instalment).

This week’s Calm recommendation is from Jay Shetty, who often has something fascinating to say:

This one is about self confidence

https://www.calm.com/app/player/v-BzceA7Vs

Daily Jay

Sing Your Own Praises

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

or how bigging yourself up can have some positive effects.

I try not to dwell on the Calm recommendation. It does take a Calm subscription and I recognise a number of those reading are never going to be interested in taking out such a subscription, no matter the cost.

So, moving swiftly on…

I tend at this stage of the article to look at a professional ASMR artist in the hope that I can find one that actually beats the inadvertent ASMR material into a cocked hat. Thus far it’s been something of a curate’s egg.

This week I am drawing on a memory in which I remember an ASMR artist I saw a single video of many years ago and I think I have located the same artist (although almost certainly not the same video).

It is this:

Arctic Secret Base ASMR Physical Therapy |#42

A video that comes from the channel ATMOSPHERE this has 768k subscribers, two hundred and sixty videos, a quick scan of which seems to indicate a heavy Sci-Fi theme to a number of them. I’ve been focused on medical style ASMR for a while, although there are fourteen playlists none of these are on a medical theme as such.

The video is just shy of twenty six minutes in length so not huge. It has notes which are the standard ASMR professional length, i.e. verbose in the extreme: “Arctic Secret Base ASMR Physical Therapy |#42

ATMOSPHERE

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740,803 views 22 Dec 2021 #asmr #relax

#asmr

#relax

ATMOSPHERE summary by TemplePhoenix: https://templephoenix.weebly.com

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Arctic Base. Room #14

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I’ve edited the notes down a bit, I do tend to find that ASMR professionals produce encyclopaedic notes.

Comments are permitted; there are a great number and the habitual fan worship of professional ASMR artists is well represented here. So far – so good.

The video starts with extensive background noise which, given the content of the video seems by design. The voice is great but so muted I could not really make out every word. One of those videos where you either need to relax and hear some of what is going on or turn the volume up. However, if you do the latter you are going to get a number of extraneous noises turned up to eleven.

This is a video aimed at creating an effect and there are glove noises, rustling noises, whirring noises, clothing-related noises, noises related to the weather (which appears snowy), there is the odd clunk, water dripping, scrunching noises, a robotic sounding voice making announcements, glass stirring noises, strange technical noises – various whirrs, boings, plinking and digital-style feedback noises, noises like a metal can being oscillated, a noise which sounded like a transformer hum, a sound like two plastic surfaces grating against one another, equipment noises including a kind of motorised hum, a sound like plastic beads being rolled over a surface, and plenty more besides.

All of this fits with Sci-Fi style of presentation but perhaps not the best for dozing off.

The presentation is on the whispery side of whispery. That is fine but I do prefer a non-whispery presentation personally. The noises are probably way more than I could tolerate when trying to get to sleep but I am betting that some ASMR fans love this one. Worth a review I would have thought.

The inadvertent ASMR this week is this one:

Quick neurological examination

it comes from the channel Khaled Farrah three hundred and fourteen subscribers, thirteen videos, twenty two playlists of which this one seems firmly on the medical theme:

The notes are fantastically brief: “69,678 views 26 Jul 2020

rapid neurological examination to be used in the setting of GP in under 3 minutes”

There are comments. Some are quite strange, and I notice some ASMR fans are here way before me, which hopefully is a good sign.

Despite the notes indicating three minutes the video is a little over eight minutes in fact. There is loud startup music which is thankfully brief. The medical professional is apparently Giles Elrington Consultant Neurologist Barts Health NHS Trust

His is not the quietest of voices, but on the upside, he isn’t whispering. The tone is good and is also level. No nasty surprises here (well, excepting that music anyway). There are silent intervals where text is displayed (after all this is supposed to be a teaching video). If anything, I felt this made the video more calming. As the video proceeds it seems to get more measured and quieter. I also notice that Dr Elrington is quieter during the examination proper (which I have noticed others do as well, there must be something about medical examinations).

One great thing is that it does not end with music.

I think this one was is worthy of a review.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

That’s it on this occasion, more next time.

See you again next week.

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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