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Sleeping With ASMR

This week, for the first time in a while, I went to a car show, these mainly consist of a bunch of old blokes (or more often women nowadays) standing in a windswept field chewing the cud over which barely polished patch of rust is preferable to another one. It takes me back to where the blog began where I used to review cars, but discovered, rather early on, that I know nothing about cars and suffered a crisis of conscience in that were there not more well qualified people to write about cars than I. To which the answer had to be yes.

Today I write about sleep, and are there not more people qualified to write about sleep than I am. Absolutely. However, now we are in a world where much of the Internet is written by AI, is consumed by AI and is regurgitated by AI as fact.

In such a world I think that we all, however we struggle to create, can make a difference simply by creating some content for the Internet that is not regurgitated output from an AI. At least that is what I tell myself.

I have been trying to pay attention to an online sleep course. (It’s another pay for thing so I will not bother telling you which one). I am in the early stages but I think I can pass along a few titbits.

For example, catching up on sleep is a fallacy. If you get a bad night’s sleep attempting to sleep in to cover off the loss is not only ineffective, it is damaging to the sleep cycle. (This relies on good sleep habits being repeated night after night).

In addition, if there is sleep loss across the week, sleeping in at the weekend just does not cut it. Additional napping also tends to impact your sleep cycle and so is best avoided.

Watching a distracting video is actually unhelpful (apparently) and may keep you awake for longer. If you already have a sleep problem then saving the bed only for sleep is best.

(I must admit that I find the opposite, which is why this blog exists. Indeed, in emergencies, I have been known to come downstairs and listen to the TV drone on in order to get to sleep.

The old advice regarding blue light keeps being intoned as a great source of wisdom. But I read some time ago that the study on which that information was based used levels of blue light substantially higher than the average person is likely to be subjected to, such that the blue light is unlikely to be the problem. More problematic, by far, is to interact with services (such as social media) that have been designed to keep you engaged. That five minutes to check up on a post can easily become a couple of hours.

The amount of sleep that you need is often higher than you think, with people stating that on average they survive on six hours sleep a night but needing somewhere between seven to nine hours. You will know when you have hit the magic number when you stop feeling tired all day (I certainly have not got there yet).

A number of courses still state that as you age you need less sleep. I have banged on about this for a while so regular readers will know, as you age your sleep is likely to be more disrupted but the average number of hours sleep that you need does not change. The average still remains between seven to nine hours even in old age.

Most people report problems with sleep. In recent surveys; they report tiredness in the daytime (a possible sign of lack of sleep).

Lack of sleep affects you physically, true, but also mentally including memory, judgement and problem-solving.

After all that sleep related info, let’s look at this week’s Calm recommendation:

The Calm item this week is:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/MyrEmf4gT2

Daily Trip

==========

The Battle to Win Ourselves

—————————

### NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

### AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Meditation can help us manage the warring parts of ourselves; it makes it easier to integrate them. The part that notices the battle is not in the battle; we get more freedom by noticing the battle and backing up to watch it.

Bear in mind that this material (on Calm) is not free and so you will need to subscribe if you want to listen to it.

Following on from my promise to locate some material which was not on YouTube and therefore not subject to advertising, I take you back to Greater Good (I have written about this site a few times on this blog previously).

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/happiness_break_a_meditation_to_move_through_anger

Happiness Break: A Meditation to Move Through Anger

“July 09, 2026 | 7:25

Try a practice in accepting difficult feelings like anger or irritation to help keep your cool, feel better overall, and find calm with contemplative social scientist Eve Ekman. “

This material is free; it isn’t obviously downloadable but it does not seem to require an account to listen to it. Looking at the transcript I would say that it is right on message for this blog. Additionally, I rather like Eve’s voice in this.

Recently I have been trying to focus on older ASMR videos because I am perverse and YouTube seems to insist I watch something more up to date.

I came across this one:

ASMR Annual Physical Exam Part 1

It is from a channel I was not previously familiar with which is Fairy Char ASMR 457k subscribers, five hundred and twelve, videos, forty seven playlists

Of which this one would seem to be firmly on theme for this blog:

The notes on the channel are unusually brief for a professional ASMR artist: “Fairy Char ASMR

Description

Relaxation // Sleep // Tingles

Hi everyone, my name is Char! I make ASMR videos. I have an assortment of medical, spa, beauty and many more roleplays to help trigger your ASMR.

Links

Patreon ♥patreon.com/fairychar

Instagraminstagram.com/fairycharasmr

YTMember ♥youtube.com/channel/UCn622AJ6EcQLwpltrYJR8lw/join

👕 T-Shirts & Stickers 👚teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

Tiktoktiktok.com/@fairycharasmr

facebookfacebook.com/fairycharasmr”

The notes on the video equally so: “808,615 views 12 Jul 2016

Hi everyone, thank you for watching and supporting my videos. Please like, comment and subscribe!

Love,

Charlotte

✨My Instagram:   / fairycharasmr 

✨ PATREON (To support my channel): https://bit.ly/3eUuDmh

✨ YouTube Membership (Supports my channel): https://bit.ly/3f1bSxu

✨ My Props: https://amzn.to/2YbABJv

✨ CHARITIES: https://teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

✨MY HANDMADE TINGLE BRACELETS: hellofairychar@gmail.com

✉️ :

For BUSINESS INQUIRIES: hellofairychar@gmail.com

❤️❤️ Thank you for supporting my videos on Patreon ❤️❤️: Fuinlai, Samantha, Kapil, Kamar, Bill, Cody, Blake, Constance, Ray, David R, Lucinda, Stephanie, Patricia, Jordan G, Keith S, Les is more, Holly, Freedam, Tingles, Dr. Bill, Iris H, Jason V, Jake L, Brandon, Daniel B, Caleb, DarthMark, Emmanuel, GhostyGrimy, TnT, lalabeanx”.

Comments are permitted. There are a lot of those, a number of them are borderline surreal which seems more or less normal for YouTube.

The video is twenty-seven and a half minutes. It starts without music (indeed initially the artist is not on screen and the video is silent). When Char appears, we realise that she is very quiet. I pushed the volume up a bit, but straight away we find this is going to major on the whispery – so far so normal. Although I have pointed out my preference before for the non-whispery ones (not least because they are a lot rarer).

There are keyboard sounds, equipment sounds (items being moved off-camera). There are glove-related sounds (not my favourite). Plastic related noises (loud). Blood pressure cuff related noises (quite loud). There is the odd breathy moment (not too extensive). There are various off camera rather loud noises – clunks, squeaks, clicks, scratches, none of those are that appealing. There’s a tuning fork noise (these are habitually loud; in fact, the best video I heard was where they mentioned the tuning fork and then muted the actual sound altogether).

I do like the voice; I do like the pace. The keyboard sounds are none too intrusive. There is no background noise (that I could discern). It would be better without some of those extraneous noises but I still think it worthy of a review. Why not listen for yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR this week comes from a channel that has been covered so many times by this blog I probably should charge advertising fees (if Stanford are reading, that was humour).

Stanford Medicine 25 seems to have a consistent level of delivery much of it not only great (I assume) for medical training but also reasonably good for our purposes as well. 349k subscribers, one hundred and thirty-two videos, seventeen playlists.

Today’s is tiny being only a little over four and a half minutes in length. The notes are:”68,748 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.

The Stanford Medicine 25 program for bedside medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine aims to promote the culture of bedside medicine to make current and future clinicians and other healthcare provides better at the art of physical diagnosis and more confident at the bedside of their patients.

Visit us:

Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/

Blog: http://stanford25blog.stanford.edu/

Facebook:   / stanfordmedic.  .

Twitter:   / stanfordmed25 

Google+: http://goo.gl/UBM7SP

Watch all videos from our dermatology series:

Approach to the Dermatology Exam:    • Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford… 

Approach to Multiple Rashes:    • Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medi… 

Approach to Nevi (Moles):    • Approach to Nevi (Moles) – Stanford Medici… 

Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea:    • Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea (Stanford Medi…  “

So moderately extensive notes. No doubt I will be covering some of those other videos in future blog articles.

Bernice Kwong is the medical professional.

Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medicine 25)

The video starts with music which, as regular readers will know, is not my favourite thing and unfortunately that music seems to go on a bit. When trying to sleep I find music distracting and prefer videos not to have it. I have looked into playlists containing videos that have the play time truncated to remove the start and end music. However, I have not yet been able to make that work. No doubt a technical switch that I failed to include.

When Bernice starts to talk, we find that she has a great voice, nicely quiet, nicely paced. But sadly, there is background music that persists throughout the video. That is just too bad as Bernice could have been a great candidate for an ASMR person but the music really is quite distracting. I wonder at the decision to include it as, surely, it isn’t much of an aid to focus for eager students either. To add insult to injury, there is even more music at the tail end of this video. Definitely one for people who like music with their videos.

I’ll trial this in the Procrastination Pen playlist but I have a feeling this is one that is likely to get the boot to the archive list sooner rather than later. Shame.

So just one this week. I wish you well in your drive to get more sleep.

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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

I recently fessed up to a fondness for affirmations and rather like the moment you buy a different car, suddenly every car on the road seems to be alike to the one that you have purchased, suddenly I started to see affirmations everywhere.

Recently I was sent from Project Happiness “Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.” With the subtext ” Never forget that no matter what’s going on around you, you do have choices. Your external world may be noisy. The idea is to create a quiet place inside of you to return to. When you move intentionally within an unpredictable world, then you can chart your own course.”.

To be honest, I could not have asked for an affirmation more on theme for this blog.

The Calm item this week is:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/nR1aFGbe8B

Daily Trip

Commitment

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Commitment to meditation, what does it feel like, the more we meditate the more commitment towards continuing to meditate.

With the usual caution (for this blog) in that I have a subscription to Calm and you will need a subscription if you want to listen to any of the content – sorry about that.

For the non-YouTube material this week, I return to Dr Rick Hanson who has a good voice admittedly but I have always drawn any material by him from YouTube. This week I found that he has a podcast. Not only does he have a podcast but it is available on Apple podcasts. I gave it a try and you can play any of these without an account (although it will nag you about it) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindful-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/id1820216704.

Recently I have been trying to focus on older ASMR videos (in the way that YouTube does not). However, in my recommendations this week, I got one that is way more recent and I thought I would try it. (Damn you, YouTube). No stress, normal service will resume (soonish).

The video is this one:

ASMR Real Person Student Doctor Check | Assessing & Advising

It is just under nineteen minutes long so not huge and was posted only recently.

There are, of course, notes as we would expect with any professional ASMR artist: ” 103,719 views 5 Jul 2026 #bebravebeyouasmr #asmrrealperson #asmrdoctor

Welcome to tonight’s ASMR real person student doctor check. In this realistic medical examination, our student doctor carries out a full medical assessment on a real person whilst the assessor observes the examination, assesses the findings and provides guidance when needed. This ASMR video is perfect for relaxation and sleep.

For The Best Experience Please Use Headphones, Turn Off Stable Audio & Select the Highest Quality Available for Each ASMR Video.

This video is a fictional ASMR roleplay created for relaxation and entertainment only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Upload Schedule:

Every Sunday, Monday & Wednesday at 9pm GMT/BST.

Shorts Of My Main Videos Throughout the Week No Set Day or Times

Business:

bebravebeyou@runbyinfluencers.com

bebravebeyouasmr@outlook.com

Social Media:

Non ASMR TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@40swithnic

ASMR TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bebravebeyouasmr 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bebravebeyouasmr

Facebook: https://facebook.com/bebravebeyouasmr

All My Links: https://linktr.ee/bebravebeyounic

TIME STAMPS

00:00 Intro

00:07 Greeting & Plan

00:47 Student Doctor Exam With Jodie

18:28 Outro

18:38 Goodnight

#asmr #asmrrealperson #asmrstudentdoctor #bebravebeyouasmr #relaxingasmr #asmrmedical #asmrdoctor”

As per usual these are incredibly long and must test the patience of even the most hardened ASMR fan (I bet that no one reads them, in fact).

This is an odd one for me since it is a collaboration piece (I cannot remember reviewing anything like this previously). The two channels listed are:

Be Brave Be You ASMR 242k subscribers,1.4k videos and a dazzling quantity of playlists of which this is on theme for this blog:

and Jodie Marie ASMR 153k subscribers,1.6k videos thirty-seven playlists with this on theme for this blog:

Wow, more than one channel does add quite a lot of material, good luck getting through that lot.

There are a number of comments for the video. Mostly they seem to be positive which is quite usual for a professional ASMR video, so that bodes well then.

The only start-up sound is that of water – so far so good. Straight away we realise that the presentation is going to major on the whispery, so far, so standard professional ASMR artist.

There are gloves noises again sadly (I have commented on those in previous blog articles – I am not a fan). There are also some clicking noises, some writing noises, (I notice in the comments that some people really rate the gloves sounds so at last I have found a person who likes them to be included.) There is a sound from fingers being run through hair (not my kind of thing but someone must love that I would guess). There is that mouth clucking/clicking noise so beloved of professional ASMR artists which is not my thing either – it must please some fans I’m guessing.

There are beep sounds from the ear thermometer and clunking noises from equipment. There are Velcro noises, the sound of fabric for a blood pressure cuff being tightened and a (quite loud) blood pressure cuff noise. (Those who have used an Omron cuff at their GPs will know the sound I mean and it is not at all ASMR-y).

The pace is nice and slow and actually, despite the (mainly) whispery presentation, I liked the vocal parts (less so the blood pressure cuff noises).

The contrast of the two vocal sounds is actually quite interesting and I did not find it distracting. It might be worth following up with each of the ASMR artists independently in the future and see what their videos are like.

The video ends with that water sound (briefly). I would say it is worthy of a review so why not listen for yourself.

This week’s inadvertent ASMR offering comes from a channel which I have not reviewed before but the subject would seem to be highly relevant for this blog:

Why You’re Always Tired (and how to fix it)

It is fourteen and a quarter minutes, so a little longer than a number of videos that I have reviewed of late.

It comes from the channel AsapSCIENCE this has 10.8m subscribers, five hundred and fifty five videos, ten playlists, frankly even if it’s ASMRishness is limited it must be something as a channel to have achieved so very much attention from so few videos.

The notes on the AsapSCIENCE channel are adorably brief:

” Description

Making science make sense.

Created by:

Mitchell Moffit (@mitchellmoffit)

Gregory Brown (@whalewatchmeplz)

CONTACT

asapscience[at]gmail[dot]com

Send us stuff!

ASAPSCIENCE INC.

P.O. Box 93, Toronto P

Toronto, ON, M5S2S6″

The video notes equally so:

“5,097,219 views 15 Jun 2022 #GrowWithGoogle

The Ultimate Guide to Feeling Less Tired

A portion of this video was sponsored by Google Career Certificates

Enrol now at https://bit.ly/3aUSQes #GrowWithGoogle

Join our science mailing list: https://bit.ly/34fWU27

FOLLOW US!

Instagram: https://instagram.com/asapscience​​

Facebook: https://facebook.com/asapscience​​

Twitter: https://twitter.com/asapscience​​

TikTok: @AsapSCIENCE

Written by: Mitchell Moffit

Edited by: Luka Šarlija”

The comments for once, seem to contain many which are helpful. Where has this new spirit of co-operation come from, I wonder. There is the odd person looking for a medical diagnosis though I see. I suppose this is why diagnosis by AI has become just so popular of late.

For me, the video starts a little loud and a little fast. But then I am listening immediately after listening to the ASMR professional so it might be suffering by comparison. It is one of those where it would be more restful if played at half speed.

However, as a sleep guide it is truly excellent and perhaps it should be taken this way. The first thing it indicates is that eight hours a night is truly a minimum (if you’re reading these blog items most likely you are not getting all that).

It also states that working out whether you function best later or earlier and fitting your day to your preferred cycle is important. If you need to be awake late but have a job that means you get up early you are causing yourself problems. (Your preference may change as you age.)

The video features sponsorship info (Google). I am definitely not keen on such things and if it were not on theme for this blog, I would reject it out of hand. (Perhaps you can skip the sponsorship section.)

It advises that you change your alarm to a more melodic (music based) alarm sound – it is less jarring.

Snoozing the alarm is a very bad move.

Other advice includes: increasing activity when you first wake up; exposure to bright light in the morning (preferably sunlight) for at least thirty minutes; drink fluid, moderate caffeine intake and do not drink caffeine after midday; a balanced diet, do not eat close to bedtime; regular exercise (but not too close to bedtime), long term changes in exercise will improve your sleep even if the effects are not felt immediately, if you’re napping do not do this late in the day as it ruins your sleep; do not drink alcohol (it destroys deep sleep); take a warm shower close to bedtime (It mimics the body’s natural cooling as it approaches sleep); sleep in a cool room with no visible clocks, put away gadgets – they can be a distraction; do not just lie in bed – it makes things worse; if you wake up do not check the clock, do not switch on the light; have a sleep schedule – go to bed and wake up at the same time every day you need a constant routine.

The most important are having a sleep schedule; regular exercise and a balanced diet.

So that was very much sleep advice and definitely not ASMR. Valuable in itself but I still owe you an ASMR video review.

Let’s try this one:

Total Body Skin Exam by PA Melissa Alcox

This comes from the channel Pariser Dermatology Specialists 2.51k subscribers, eighty eight videos only two playlists.

A quick scan of the videos on the day I visited seems to indicate that they are mainly concerned with advertising so almost certainly unsuitable for us then.

There are notes with the video “781,706 views 4 Sept 2018

Pariser Dermatology’s Melissa Alcox, PA-C, performs a full-body skin exam and talks about the details involved in this potentially life-saving routine procedure.”

Which are incredibly brief.

There are a ton of comments and a lot of these are from ASMR fans so that bodes well then.

The video is a little less than five and a quarter minutes. It has some fairly strong background noise (air conditioning I would guess) but, fortunately, no start-up music. Melissa Alcox introduces herself and I would say it is quite loud – I thumbed the volume down a bit and started again. Julianna is introduced. A quick Google confirms that she is Julianna Squicciarini, Assistant Laboratory Manager.

I would say that Melissa does not have a natural ASMR voice. However, it does tone down a bit once the examination proper commences. The pace is a little fast for me, but given the comments, a number of people disagree. There are some (quite loud) equipment noises including from the motion of a wheeled chair.

It concludes with a brief piece of advertising, and then it is all over. I will trial it in the Procrastination Pen playlist but despite the positive comments I would say it is a tad marginal.

So just one this week.

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 are 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

I’m making the move to Lumo for the generation of the regular cat image this week. No specific reason. I was getting along well with deep.ai and I will probably return there. However, Lumo does seem to have rendered something suitable.

Recently I came across another article on a site that I have featured several times previously. Greater Good seems to have a number of articles in broadly the areas I am interested in. This one was specifically about managing your energy.

That seemed so much on theme for a blog dedicated to sleep and the pursuit of sleep that I thought it deserved recommending. It reminded me of some of the Calm material from Jay Shetty – some of which I have recommended before.

The Calm item this week follows on from my discussion recently where I reviewed a WhispersRed video on YouTube which featured the odd affirmation and I quipped how much I like a good affirmation. I have been known to print, laminate, and put up on the wall where I come across it regularly, some of the affirmations that speak most truly to me.

https://www.calm.com/app/player/jGs9dhvgC3

Daily Jay

Self-Affirmations

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Do affirmations actually work.

I will caution though that Calm is not free. I have not yet found any free content that I can readily share and so this is only applicable to you if you have a Calm subscription already.

I am trying to keep the supply of non-YouTube audio coming although I do keep finding myself coming back to YouTube because I can’t find much decent material elsewhere.

Recently, however, I found that Tara Brach not only produces a weekly meditation on YouTube she duplicates this with an audio file on her website. For example this one:

Which is located here:

Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:37 min)

These appear to be freely available and are also downloadable such that you can build a playlist of your own off YouTube and indeed off Internet should you so desire.

The professional ASMR artist this week is one that I do not think I have reviewed before. However, it is in keeping with my recent initiative to feature some older ASMR material (largely because YouTube likes to focus on everything being shiny and new and so somebody needs to focus on the opposite).

The video is this one:

Check Up Exam [Role Play] Soft Spoken Medical ASMR

It is just under twenty-nine minutes long so a reasonable one to drop off to. It was posted five years ago so nah nah nah nah YouTube.

There are notes of course (this is a professional ASMR artist after all): “20,877 views 25 May 2021 #MedicalASMR #ASMR #Roleplay

Time for your check up!  Intro- 0:07 Gloves- 1:30 Temp 2:19 Pulse 3:04 Head/Face Check 3:56 Making Faces 6:38 Mouth check- 7:16   Eye Test- 8:01 Nose Check 12:28   Ear Check 12:55 Heart & Lungs 19:40 Arm & leg check 22:37 Reflexes 24:05 Stomach Exam 26:36 Conclusion 27:29

P.S. I am not a real doctor; this video was made for ASMR entertainment purposes.

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#ASMR #MedicalASMR #Roleplay”

As we’ve come to expect these are humongous in their comprehensiveness.

The channel is a new one for me: CalmingEscape ASMR 56.2k subscribers,1.6k videos, twenty playlists

Of which this is on a theme in keeping with this blog theme thus far:

and it has one hundred and thirty four videos in it, no less.

The video starts with music, which is not my preferred way for a video to start but at least the music chosen is unobtrusive. The voice is low but not an actual whisper – so that gets a tick immediately.

There are various clicks and sounds from the person being in motion (clothing related noises). There is the odd clunk – equipment related noises. There are glove related noises which are really not my favourite thing but come up so often in professional ASMR videos that I am guessing that someone loves that sort of noise. The pace is excellent – it is nicely slow. The tone is also extremely good. Absent those glove noises, I’d say this was well above average.

There are pencil-related noises (pencil against paper, off camera by the sounds). There are sounds like something scraping across the microphone which are actually a tad peculiar (but not that unpleasant).

There is whispering content; when there is whispering in each ear. (It’s more of a stage whisper to be honest as it is not that quiet) but at least this is in keeping with the role play and so it could be argued has a purpose.

There are breathing noises (warming of a stethoscope), periods of silence when aspects of the examination are apparently taking place (I found that seemed to work rather well). Tapping noises (apparently connected with a reflex hammer). It ends with a whispered Patreon acknowledgement. This is also not my favourite thing, but at least there isn’t any further music.

I would say that this one is well worthy of a review. Why not have a listen.

And so onto the inadvertent ASMR. Occasionally I find that I have spent a while retrieving what appear to be genuine medical videos but which are contained on sites dedicated to ASMR. As I have mentioned before there is a sense of nervousness about these because what has been done to them to enhance their ASMR effects? Can we really have assurance that the videos are genuine medical videos and were not simply generated by ASMR professionals masquerading as doctors and nurses?

Well today we can take refuge in that the video comes from a genuine University and one that I think is reasonably well known (well, I had heard of it).

Respiratory Examination – KCL KUMEC

At just over five minutes it isn’t going to be around for long. There are no notes, but comments are permitted. From the comments we can conclude that ASMR fans have already been here long before I have.

There is start up music (but it is reasonably muted). The medical professional announces himself as Tristan Fraser. Some of the commentators appear to be having problems with terms used day-to-day in England which for someone familiar with them comes as a surprise. For instance, “Pop” is not a reference to someone’s father but rather to putting something somewhere such as “pop your shirt on”, “pop that over there” or “pop it in the oven”.

The “patient” is Donald, he does say what his surname is but I cannot catch it. We find that he is twenty-nine (Tristan announces this in the video).

The delivery is quiet, calm and measured and in fact pretty well ideal for a video featured in this blog.

The channel is KCL Kumec and it turns out that this is from Kings College London.

Even to my lowly brain I am aware that this is a prestigious educational establishment. The channel has twenty-nine videos and yet has 10.2K subscribers which is quite phenomenal.

Although there are twenty-nine videos (which is a few too many to cover in one blog post), it turns out that Tristan is only in a subset of these and so we can cover those videos in this post (and I suspect return to KCL KUMEC in the future for further blog posts).

Cardiology Examination – KCL KUMEC

At four and a quarter minutes it is even more brief than the last one. Again, no notes again comments again the comments are littered with contributions from ASMR fans. Again, the startup music and again we have Donald as the patient. We find that Donald is born 18/09/1989 (this is the UK format so September).

This is marvellously calm and quiet. In fact, it is very similar to the video that came before. It is a little louder in places but I do not think that to be off-putting (at least in terms of getting off to sleep).

Respiratory Examination – KCL KUMEC

This has the same title as the first video but a different reference. However, it is the same length, features the same two people I suspect it is in fact the self-same video. Comments as before – I think ASMR fans are now following Tristan because, like me, they like his voice.

However, as far as I can tell Tristan does not have a channel of his own so the few videos available on this channel are it in terms of output (which, like Hollie Berry before, is sad for us).

Cardiovascular Exam – KCL KUMEC

at four and a quarter minutes this is very similar if not identical to the Cardiology Examination we saw earlier. Yet again a comment from an ASMR fan referring to Dr James Gill’s famous catchphrase putapitopaper (although I’m pretty certain that is actually putabitopaper).

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

See you again next week.

The KCL Kumec 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 Lumo AI

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I have been trialling L-Tryptophan. After recent blog articles in which I warned about the dangers of supplements and the taking of too much magnesium, I am taking a supplement. This supplement contains magnesium. I’m currently not sure if it is working. It is probably too early days (I read somewhere that any change takes about six weeks to really start making a difference). However, what I can say is that I am getting much more vivid dreams and nightmares since I started taking it. Initially it was all bad dreams, so disturbing that I had just about resolved to stop the supplement altogether. But recently the dreaming has turned onto a more pleasant footing. I do seem to be having more dreams though and remembering more of them. I am not certain if that is a good thing or not a good thing. To be honest, as long as the vicious ones stay in abeyance I do not mind either way.

Finding audio material of a restful nature on the Internet which a) does not require payment and b) is not on YouTube, is proving one of those challenges a Greek hero might have risen to. Leafing through some old meditation tracks I found a couple by Stephen Doetsu Snyder. Not someone I have listened to a lot, but obviously someone I did listen to.

The two I seem to have spent time with were:

and

which fail to qualify, as both (as you will have noticed) are on YouTube.

However, a shufty around the Internet turned up this: a site actually full of dharma talks by Stephen:

https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/261

Plenty there to work out if you like his voice or not, I would have thought.

The Calm resource this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/Lh8XCYkB5O

Daily Jay

Sensations vs. Emotions

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

What your body is trying to tell you and how you can use this information to make better decisions. I am still nervous about including material from here as Calm is not free. You can probably tell as I consistently keep this section brief.

The professional ASMR video this week is from a channel I cannot remember ever having reviewed before, so this one is as much an adventure for me as it is for you. The channel is BehindTheMoons. This has 262k subscribers, two hundred and eighty four videos, but only four playlists, I’m interested to see that one of these makes delivery in French:

I occasionally do cover ASMR in another language taking into account that I have no idea what is being said, and so there is a risk I am reviewing something that is lewd or divisive.

The notes on the channel are the habitual level of comprehensive:

“BehindTheMoons

Description

Hello everyone!

I’m a French ASMRtist who has been making ASMR videos on the Internet since 2013.

You can call me Moons 🔆 and use they/them pronouns to refer to me (ael or elle in French)

You will find on this channel ASMR videos both in French and in English to help you relax, unwind, calm down or even fall asleep. I’m working hard to offer you a safe space where you can go back to when you need it.

I created specific playlists of my videos depending on the language spoken, so you can avoid the videos in French or in English depending on what you want to hear.

I currently use a Nikon Z6II to film my video, a Zoom H5 and two Lewitt LCT 440 Pure microphones to record the audio.

Zoruasmr introduced me to ASMR, without him, I wouldn’t be doing ASMR videos.

Margot Lambin designed the subscription badges and emoji, here is their Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/margotlambin/

Thank you for reading!

Take care 🌻”

I almost hacked about those notes as they feel a bit long.

The video (which is in English) is this one:

ASMR – Futuristic Hearing Test [The Personal Enhancing Hearing Device ◉] English Version

At least if it is in a language I understand, I have some assurance no one is swearing out of the screen at me without my knowing.

The video also has notes, which are equally as lengthy as we have come to expect:

“Premiered on 2 Apr 2023 #HearingTest #CranialNerveExam #ASMR

Please use your headphones to get the best experience from this video 🎧

Disclaimer: This is an ASMR video solely made to help you relax and unwind. I am not a medical professional, please get in touch with one if you need to have your hearing checked. Also, the Personal Enhancing Hearing Device ◉ doesn’t exist yet, unfortunately 😦

Hi everyone,

Today is the day. Let me onboard you and tell you everything about the Personal Enhancing Hearing Device ◉, as you are about to get yours installed and improve your experience of the world around you.

This device enhances your auditory field, as well as creates bridges between your senses. For example, a visual or olfactory stimulus will create an auditory response. Welcome into the Future.

The ASMR triggers you will get mostly ear to ear soft-spoken voice and close-up whispers, follow the light exercise, all senses exercises, instructions to follow, personal attention, hand movements, additional dreamy visuals and sounds.

In this video I mix your usual cranial nerve exam and well as hearing test with science fiction, I hope you will like it.

Here is the link to the French version of this video:      • ASMR – Test auditif futuriste [Le Disposit…  “

I’ve edited these down a fair bit; notes can get a bit yada-yada after a while.

The video is just less than thirty-three minutes in length and so is in keeping (in terms of length) with other professional ASMR videos that we have seen of late.

There is brief music at the start which isn’t terribly distracting. I loved the accent of the presenting person. Immediately the pace is nicely slow and we do not appear to be getting a whispered rendition. That is a pretty rare discovery.

I like the voice; there is no attempt to maximise triggers such as mouth clucking, nail scratching or stroking of cloth (all of which you will have heard if you have stuck with this blog for any period of time.)

In all I would say this is the style of video that I search for – something realistic but still relaxing; calm but without trying to exploit every trigger. I do not often find sound like this in my YouTube exploration.

I notice that the comments seem to share my perspective with the levels of ASMR fan adoration being elevated up to that reserved for rock stars.

It’s unusual (and kind of affirming) to find people sharing my perspective on anything at all (let alone my perspective on videos). I am certain it can’t last.

I think I only rarely find non-English ASMR video presenters. Off the cuff I can remember Japanese, Chinese and one other French person. However, perhaps I need to search more carefully if the videos are of this quality.

There is a period of muted presentation which is part of the theme of the video (it is about hearing). There is a strange click, come buzzing noise, which is the hearing device “calibrating”. I found this a clever idea and not off-putting.

This calibration stage takes a little while and there is occasional music involved. I did not find that distracting (much as I am not a fan of music in ASMR videos).

The video does suggest use of headphones and certainly if you are listening to it from out of a set of old PC speakers, as I am, the directional quality of some parts of the presentation are less pronounced. (Elderly hearing also doesn’t help).

I always imagine that people reading this blog are in any case half way between snooze and alert and so the visuals are unlikely to be of a pronounced benefit. This one is clever, a lot of professional ASMR videos are I find. I do try to focus on the sound though.

As the video progresses, the presentation seems to get quieter and quieter until we are back on the whispered footing with which we are more familiar. I rather like whispering but I hear so much of it in ASMR I do like it when I find material that isn’t whispered.

Shame this video did not stay at the volume we had at the start but I can’t have everything…

There is the odd extraneous noise. I notice clicks, clonks, (mainly items being picked up and placed down again). There is a kind of squirting noise – I think that is supposed to be distribution of a perfume into the air. There are the sounds of the bristles of a brush being riffled through; there are very brief moments of breathiness.

I was quite impressed by this. I would think it worthwhile your giving it a review as well.

The inadvertent ASMR material has been in blog posts from me since I started the blog up again, some multiple months ago now. So, I consider it a mainstay.

This week’s selection is this one:

Head-to-Toe Assessment

This is a bit more substantial than some we have reviewed of late (given it is a little over twenty-two and a half minutes in length).

It comes from the channel Kaylee Peters, which is not doing so badly given it has 1.31k subscribers from only six videos, unsurprisingly there are no playlists (I suppose you don’t need a playlist on your channel if you have only six videos). All the videos were posted twelve years ago and then the channel goes into abeyance. This has all the symptoms of a student assessment video.Any regular readers will know that we have seen many such videos.

The channel is very sparse note wise: “Kaylee Peters

More info

            http://www.youtube.com/@kayleepeters5092

            Joined 11 Sept 2013

            1.31k subscribers

            6 videos

            955,885 views”

The video has no notes at all. Most of the comments are not positive but there is the odd ASMR fan in there, which can be reassuring. We do not all like the same things though I notice so it isn’t a given this will deliver.

The video starts without music; there is no obvious background noise. The presentation is relatively loud (at least for me). The presentation is way too fast, I think. I tend to find this with students who need to cram everything into one of these videos. This tends to be reaffirmed by the fact that the student refers to a checklist which is visible to the camera at frequent intervals. I did not find the voice of the student relaxing but the patient was a little more measured (not that she got a great deal of opportunity to talk).

There is a prominent shoulder patch on the student’s uniform but I think you would need to be in the know to determine where it was from as it is too faint for me to make out. So, limited chance of determining where this was recorded. However undeterred I sent it to a google image search which, even in its smudged state, Google tells me it is Claflin University (I’m not sure I set much store by that answer).

The student says “um” roughly once per minute, after a little while it becomes quite noticeable. Many commentators point this out. There are no extraneous noises. However to get a great ASMR experience I think a good first step would be to get into the video play controls and slow this down to half speed. The pace does slow down gradually as the video progresses, as if the student presenter settles into her stride (potentially calms down a bit in a stressful situation). There are sirens at one stage, an obvious hazard recording in a medical facility I would have thought.

It is quite a thought-provoking experience seeing the kind of motion (and balance) that is accessible to a person at this age (and which I do not have now). No doubt many people my age reflect the same thing.

There are genuine quiet and calm moments where I get the opportunity to hear what might have been (there are ever so many videos that I have reviewed previously that are like that, some of them are in the Procrastination Pen archive list right now). I usually give most of them a trial in the main list (as I will this one) but I give up on them when I either lie awake listening to them, or worse was quietly drifting off and one of the videos wakes me up.

I find when a presentation is at speed, not only is volume and calmness sacrificed but expressions of empathy as well. I wonder if the people who set these kinds of exercises in play take such considerations into account.

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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I was listening to a podcast in which it was mentioned that “no regrets” was a daft philosophy. The phrase “no regrets” chimed for me and then I remembered it was the name of a song:

and so, in the way that one does, I looked up the song and found out far too much about it.

It did leave in me a question about the effects of relationship breakup on sleep. I have noticed that things like relationship failure are not often taken seriously. Presumably the phrase “man up” would be employed here. I certainly never hear of any time off being awarded because one’s beloved decided that Geoffrey (or Gemma) from Accounts was a better fit.

It would seem that my suspicion that it would have a significant impact is supported with studies demonstrating shorter duration sleep, depression (which also impacted sleep) and fragmented sleep when one finally gets any at all.

Sadly, The Procrastination Pen is not going to try to stir the crocodile-infested waters of relationships. I have no great solutions to offer you. My favourite AI tells me that 22.8% of couples are divorced by their 25th anniversary, which means a colossal number of people are suffering relationship breakup in their lives. I would be prepared to guess that those people do not get used to breakup even when they have been through one previously. The effects on sleep must be quite staggering.

The Procrastination Pen is however designed to try to alleviate some of those insomnia symptoms. The sole way that it attempts to do this is via distraction. Whilst the disciplined have trained their brain to switch off moments after the light is extinguished, the remainder of us would like something to keep the mind distracted whilst sleep slowly takes over.

The method I have chosen is to listen to something whilst trying to sleep. Personally, I find a calming, caring, dare I say it, empathetic, voice is quite effective in these circumstances. I therefore try to find resources that demonstrate that (rare) facility and evaluate them. Quite a lot of the time I wind up on YouTube but I do try to mine the alternative resources that I can find.

This week I thought I would stay on the subject of relationships and the stuff that goes wrong with them and pick on a podcast that I have often listened to, and rarely for the quality of the voice I have to admit: Limerence The Psychology of Romantic Obsession   Brandy Wyant, Being Well. The actual site lists the resource as being on YouTube but the podcast is widely available including Apple. I have often thought that Dr Rick Hanson has an excellent voice, Forrest also has a pretty good voice. I’m not quite so convinced by Brandy’s voice here. However, there are any number of episodes with just Forrest and Dr Rick in them, so it should give you an opportunity to determine if you like them.

The Calm track this week is this:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/zOO7Lqwcg_

Daily Jay

When to Quit

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Quitting is not a sign of failure, although it is never wise to make a snap decision. I rather like that. I’m none too keen on the term failure especially as I read often of people who under one metric were terrible failures and by another great successes. Failure sounds to me like one of those rather too convenient labels you can give to others whose lifestyle you dislike.

Calm requires a subscription; I haven’t come across free Calm content yet. If I do, I’ll be sure to let you know. However, if you do have a subscription, why not try that out.

Some months ago now, I decided that some professional ASMR content should appear in the blog by way of contrast to the inadvertent ASMR which is most definitely still the core theme of this blog.

I’m beginning to realise that I actually prefer videos that were posted a little while ago and I see that on YouTube videos posted prior to the pandemic are now being referred to as “old school” videos. Given that is a scant six years ago now, how young are these ASMR artists on YouTube now?

There seems no reliable way to find really older YouTube videos with most searches on the site indicating that the majority of YouTube viewers preferring new, really new, or exceptionally new, videos and all the filters being optimised to take those preferences into account. I take some kind of perverse pride in exploring pre-pandemic videos where I come across them.

Todays for example, states that it was posted nine years ago and is by an artist that my ASMR index tells me I have not reviewed before (let us pray that is not for a fundamentally good reason). The site is Latte ASMR this site has 2.15m subscribers, three hundred and sixteen videos three playlists, I think that is nearly seven thousand subscribers for every video ever posted by this artist which seems a fairly good return to me.

The online translation service tells me that the three playlists are Japanese Videos, All Korean Videos and All English Videos, so no playlist dedicated to medical videos I’m afraid.

The notes against the channel are magnificently sparse: “Latte ASMR

More info

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

            Joined 4 Jan 2016

            2.15m subscribers

            316 videos

            667,479,881 views”

I would guess with that kind of patronage there would be very little need to advertise.

The video is right on theme for us (in that it is a medical examination role play):

Cranial Nerve Exam ASMR

It is a little less than thirty-eight minutes and so moderately substantial. There are notes, of course:”2,570,932 views 10 Nov 2016

Hello! This is Latte 🙂

In this video today, I will do the cranial nerve exam!

Actually, it was a bit challenging to make this video in English.

I don’t know the words that used in medical situation and it was difficult but many of you guys asked me to make more English videos and I took courage from your comments and made this video. So, I had to speak very slowly not to lose my mind. I don’t like the outcome of this video that much but I just did my best!

I know most of you guys are very open-minded and sweet-heart so I believe that you can understand me 🙂 I will not give up anyway. I will make lots of English videos again and again to make better videos!

Thank you for taking your time to watch this video and love you all! ♥

☆If you want to support me ♥:

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4170402

★My second channel!

   / @latte5017 

★Instagram

  / latte_asmr “

Which regular readers will recognise are startlingly short for a professional ASMR artist (who habitually can write biblical notes with every video).

Comments are permitted. There are a lot of them, and most seem to be of the off-the-wall variety. That does not bode well. ASMR afficionados tend to wax-lyrical about the videos that they really like, sometimes to quite a nauseating degree. However, that is usually a fair sign that the video is a good one for us.

The video starts without music but there is a kind of background noise. (A hiss, but quite unlike the air conditioning noise that I am used to. It is more probably some kind of artifact from the recording mechanism used). The voice is quite high pitched but it is not whispery so that is quite rare. It sounds to me like the voice I would expect from a child, but the person starring in the video does not look that young. The pace is excellent, very measured. There are additional noises: nails clicking, the rustling of clothing, the odd clunk, paper rustling, the sound of pen scratching against paper, glove-related noises (I’m not a fan of these), the sound of the chinking of a glass vessel, clicking of pen light, what sounds like a small wooden drawer being opened and closed (it is off screen).

There is an amount of whispering during the examination, so that is fairly typical for a professional ASMR artist. There is that mouth clucking/clicking sound so beloved of ASMR professionals. The enunciation of some of the words is properly excellent and not that common in ASMR videos I have found.

There is the occasional oddity; “the liquid of taste” was one that stood out for me. But I thought that added to its charm rather than took away from it. You can probably tell that I very much liked this one. Why not give it a review yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week is, in fact, drawn from a time when I was speculating about the treatment of youngsters and did this mean that people employed a gentler voice, a calmer demeanour, a more measured approach. In fact, did the very fact that a medical professional is dealing with a child mean that they are more likely to produce ASMR material.

I came across not a video but a playlist. It contains six videos however the blog post is already of a reasonable size so I think that I will evaluate the first video and file the other five for a return visit. The playlist is this:

It comes from a channel that I have visited again and again, primarily because it seems to have many suitable videos. It is, of course, Stanford Medicine 25, the playlist on the Procrastination Pen has a fair number of videos drawn from this channel in it.

The first video in this playlist is this one:

Abdominal Examination of the Newborn – Stanford Medicine

It is a little less than four and a half minutes so is another in a long line of brief videos that I have reviewed of late (the content is often great but short videos do maximise the inter video advert breaks).

The notes are sparse in the extreme: “411,093 views 5 Apr 2022

Dr. Bill Benitz demonstrates the abdominal examination of a newborn including identification of the liver edge and palpation of the spleen, kidneys, and a distended bladder.”

Dr Bill appears to be a very prestigious guy so we’re probably honoured to have him (if I did but know enough about medicine to understand it).

The video starts without music, but, in comparison to the professional ASMR artist I just reviewed, Dr. Bill is quite a lot louder. Another situation where the volume button needs to be thumbed down a bit. The speed is nicely slow, however. There is no background noise. The other good thing is that this, in common with all medical professional videos I have reviewed thus far, does not involve any whispering whatsoever. The baby involved is remarkably calm. It does not object in any way, quite surprising. For our purposes it makes for a more restful video though.

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.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

I’m finding, again, that sleep experts are stating that their area of fascination is way more important than those that interest the diet and exercise specialists. I do not think anyone who is interested in their health is likely to disagree with this. Hopefully we are seeing an end of the “powering through”, “tiredness is no excuse,” kind of mantra that droned away in the background when I was still young enough to care.

People are now expected to take care of themselves and sleep is expected to be a key component. Excellent, save for one aspect, which are those of us that suffer for sleep. Those, like me, who once upon a time could sleep next to a rail line, on a pile of rocks, or inside a moving car, and now find that their night times are punctuated with wakefulness.

For a very long time now I have been preparing a playlist of relaxing material. The idea is that if you’re tired but the switch in your head which translates “tired” to “asleep” now seems to be broken, you can distract yourself with a relaxing video or three in the hope that eventually you will drift off.

If you have wandered onto the blog starting with this article, a brief summary is that each week I review some material for its restfulness, make recommendations and continue to populate the playlist which is behind it all.

For several months now I have been reviewing material on Calm, for no better reason than I have a Calm subscription and I can do so. It is mainly motivated by the desire to find an alternative to YouTube for relaxing material. Although many of the videos on YouTube can be suitable in this respect, the adverts that appear between them or sometimes whilst they are running are universally unsuitable and you may find your relaxed body lifting off the bed as some loud and funky advertising track pollutes your headphones.

This week, assuming you have a subscription, why not give this one a try:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/tI5knRkEQI

Daily Trip

The Same Fruit

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

This is about stopping looking for novelty. Because when we stop looking for novelty, we find it is already here in simple, normal things around us.

I have made a promise that I would also find some material outside of YouTube and I have found that just on occasion there is some ASMR material available on the Internet Archive. There is not a huge amount of it, however. I’ve also tended to focus on the area which has been the focus for the rest of the blog article (and back in time for this block for several months) which is medical-themed examinations. I tend to stick with these both from professional ASMR artists and (a little later on) from a medical professional who just happens to have a calm voice.

This week on the Internet Archive we have this.

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/A+_Super+Normal_+Skin+Exam+at+the+Dermatologist’s+Office+_+CrinkleLuvin+ASMR+Archive.mp4.

It’s a little under thirty five minutes in length and it would appear that, if you so choose, you could download the file and assemble it into your own playlist using your media player of choice (VLC for example).

The notes for the entire archive are as follows: ” CrinkleLuvin Archive by CrinkleLuvin

Topics

    ASMR, Preservation, Deleted Channels, Deleted Videos, Archive, CrinkleLuvin

Language

    English

Item Size

    48.6G

A popular creator who did many different types of roleplays. Her Doctor/Nurse and Other Mother being among the most popular. However, she found herself in controversy for leaking the nudes of another creator, lying about it, and framing another as the one at fault. After a less then sincere apology she deleted her channel and all of her Videos.

However, as time passed a new channel by the name of “The Cozy Hospital ASMR” started to appear and doing Doctor ASMR in a similar style as Crinkle with one even including the Other Mother. While Cozy kept her face hidden, many had suspicions and were proven correct when it was revealed to be CrinkleLuvin behind the channel and continued making content despite her crimes. The New Channel continues to produce content as of March 2025.

Link to Former Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjAcleI6O0o_gUx__B0pdQ

Link to the New Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4PeR0MBaR25Oa7xEUUDCg

Added date

    2023-09-02 06:11:46 “

Which just might be of interest, perhaps.

There is just the one review: “Reviewer: windonwater –

– June 6, 2024

Subject: The Best ASMR Channel of All Time

At first glance, CrinkleLuvin is a very talented lady who fully grasps the tingly sensation that is required for a fantastic ASMR session. Her ability to make you immersed in the sessions is unparalleled and legendary, with her bright, welcoming, sweet voice that comforts you in the darkest times. While her outside persona, where she has been caught in a scandal of harassing and leaking another internet video personality, is not as graceful as her on-screen chameleon talents, this is not new. She is just one of the many unpleasant people, whose primary career is an artist, entertainer, who are capable of making great art. It’s missing the legendary Kris Jenner ASMR video, but a good start. “

So, this sort of thing does not attract the hundreds of reviews that we see on YouTube. (In any case we often find that professional ASMR artists get sycophantic reviews from barely passable material).

(I’m not certain how much I would read into the purported misbehaviour of the ASMR artist. I find that believing what you find on the Internet is a little like believing what you read in the newspapers. Sometimes you get away with it…). However, I did find an apology video:

The comments more or less speak for themselves. I leave it to you whether you wish to persist with any of this artist’s material.

The video starts without music – hurrah. The tone of the ASMR professional is a good one. The enunciation is excellent (something which is often missing, I find). There are extra noises of course, mostly the rustling of clothing. There is the flicking of paper, the clicking of a pen, writing noises, the squirting of gel and the sound of it being rubbed into the hands, there are glove related noises (which I found distracting), plastic crackling noises (packaging) which is a bit loud, scraping noises, occasional taps, equipment noises, tape-related noises (which are also loud).

The video quality is not top notch – not that you’ll be watching. One side effect of which is that the medical professional appears to have the tiniest pupils I’ve seen on a video as if she is completely bored (but is no doubt an artefact of the loss of quality in re-recording it from an online source).

I like the slow and deliberate pace of this video. For me it was quite restful and that does seem to be a rare quality amongst ASMR videos that I find to review. Probably worth giving a review, see what you think.

There are other medical-related videos here including:

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/ASMR+Examining+You%2C+Test+Subject+A182B+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4.

and

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/ASMR+Horror+Story_+Medical+Kidnapping+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4 .

and

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/ASMR+I’m+Giving+You+Botox!+(SUPER+Tingly+Esthetician)+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4.

and

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/ASMR+Medical+Post-Op+Role+Play+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4 .

and

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/ASMR+Patching+You+Up!+(Medical+Wound+Care)+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4 .

and

https://archive.org/details/crinkle-luvin-asmrs-thanksgiving-livestream-2019/Fizzy+Ear+Cleaning+(Medical+ASMR)+_+CrinkleLuvin+Archive.mp4 .

Plenty for you to get some material for your sleep playlist. However, I do not think I’ll be reviewing CrinkleLuvin any further given the revelations about her behaviour (see above).

After the archive material I usually look at a professional ASMR artist

I’ve spent a while on the archive material this time so I’ve opted for a short one from an ASMR professional:

KayKay ASMR~ Eye Exam Roleplay

There is no description. Comments are not permitted. All of this is very unusual for a professional ASMR artist and does not bode well, to be honest.

The Channel is Up to Atom https://www.youtube.com/@uptoatom4433, there are only three videos but 4.53K subscribers. That sounds nigh impossible. I’ll assume that the presentation is something else then.

The video is a little less than twelve and a half minutes, the setting is domestic and the person is either a child or has a very childlike voice. Perhaps a little childlike for me, but there maybe ASMR fans who like a voice that sounds like this. There is no startup music. There is the odd extraneous noise of course: gloves-related noises, equipment-related noises, rubbing noises, the odd clunk, scribbling/writing noises, tapping noises, clicking noises, scraping sounds, in this one the extraneous noises are a tad on the distracting side. I think it is another of the ASMR professional videos where the participant knows there are triggers and attempts to insert a smorgasbord of every trigger they possibly can. For my purposes I would like one focused on a calm voice with minimal to no additional noises.

The ASMR artist makes that mouth-clucking noise so beloved of professional ASMR artists but which does not work for me. (I have to assume it is a “trigger” for someone). There is the odd error made during the presentation which I assume means it was not scripted in any way. The presentation occasionally descends into a whisper but otherwise is quite a good tone. The pace is quite good too. This would probably have made quite a good longer video.

I wish KayKay well. If she is as young as the voice would have me believe then she has a very long ASMR career ahead of her. It would be nice if, sometime during that time, there was a medical-themed video based entirely on just a calming, empathetic voice but they are sufficiently rare that I’m assuming there is little demand.

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

Medical Training Videos

It has thirty-two videos (discounting the introductory one). Last time we managed to review just four of these, so there is a fair few left to look at…

The next one in the series is this:

Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA) Insertion

Just under one and a quarter minutes so barely there at all really. The notes are: “97,655 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to size and insert a Nasopharyngeal Airway. It is part of a series of videos on the Initial Assessment of a Trauma Patient and is linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

There is no narration this time, the voice is that of the medical professional. He is not overly loud and there is no background noise. It is at a decently slow pace (despite the short length of the video overall).

Trauma Assessment – Teaching Scenario

I would assume that this belongs with the Trauma videos that we covered earlier. However, it appears at this position on the page so it is a bit marooned. Just less than fourteen and three quarter minutes the notes are: “413,276 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This scenario is of an uninjured patient.

All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

It is not overly loud, and despite the fact it is about trauma it is not disturbing. It is measured in approach.

Trauma Assessment – Multiple Injuries (Part 1)

Just under eleven and three quarter minutes the notes are: “326,410 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This video is part 1 of a muti-system injury scenario (airway compromise, tension pneumothorax, bleeding and head injury).

All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

The announcement is slightly loud at the beginning. However, the medical professional is reasonably quiet and is methodical in approach. A reasonable amount of the process involves minimal sound so that is great for us.

Trauma Assessment – Multiple Injuries (Part 2)

Five minutes long the notes are: “132,979 views 17 Feb 2012 Trauma Surgery

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the initial assessment of a patient with suspected traumatic injury. This video is part 2 of a muti-system injury scenario (airway compromise, tension pneumothorax, bleeding and head injury).

All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

It looks to be the continuation of the earlier trauma video and so the findings there relate; the medical professional is methodical, quiet and has a relatively good voice for us.

I think that I will conclude the blog post at this one and continue in another post. Failing that this blog post would become really large indeed, to the point of boredom, I imagine.

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

The Oxford Medical Education Hospitals playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

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

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

I am so happy that even professional journalistic accounts are now documenting distraction as a valid approach towards dealing with insomnia. Regular readers of the Procrastination Pen know that I have been banging this particular drum for over a year now. The distraction that I choose is sound.

I find that a particular kind of sound is restful. A low calm voice in an empathetic tone is absolutely ideal. It does not even matter to me, particularly, if the adopted tone is a whisper.

Regular listeners to ASMR artists will notice that the whisper is the go-to level in many of these videos and it does all get a bit samey. You will have noticed that I refer to videos and this is because I have been using YouTube as my source of ASMR material, for sleep, for much of the period in which I write about ASMR on this blog.

However, I have made the promise that I will also explore alternatives. This promise is also self-serving since YouTube is financed by advertising and much of that advertising is so noisy it undoes the good work done by the video itself. I lose count of the times I’ve spent forty-five minutes dozing to a relaxing track only to be shocked awake by an advertisement for some undesirable tat.

Unfortunately, money maketh the world go around, so this kind of thing is unavoidable where the website in use depends upon advertising for its revenue. I have therefore been looking at other sites. Of late I have had some success finding material in the Internet Archive. This week I am listening to this one:

https://archive.org/details/asmr-nurse-takes-care-of-you-roleplay/Lasmren/Asmr+nurse+takes+care+of+you+roleplay.mp4

It is from Lasmren ASMR Archive by Lasmren ASMR and straight away I can tell this video is extremely quiet. I had the volume up to eleven and it was still hard to hear it. (Advanced age and encroaching deafness notwithstanding.).

The video is a little over sixteen minutes and is dedicated to someone by the name of “Randy” – if you find the idea of a video dedicated to someone else distracting, I would avoid this one. On the upside there is no startup music. The tone does not involve whispering but on the downside, this is not what I would call my favourite voice.

There are some loud noises that occur in the background (neighbours, I think). There are other noises of course (apart from the loud ones). There are nail clicking noises, rattling noises, movement of a blanket, pill dispensing noises, plastic tapping noises, liquid noises, glove noises, objects being slammed down onto the desk surface, noises from the ASMR artist moving around. Some of these are unwelcome. There are various sounds where devices appear to be knocked against the microphone which, given the rest of the video is quiet, are quite disturbing to any relaxation. I would say that given this the recording level is probably off, and a bit more amplification to the voice was probably required.

Lasmren sounds quite bored; borderline fed up in this, perhaps it is just something in the vocal tone. The presentation seems a bit random, definitely not scripted. I am not certain that it hangs together that well. However, as I have mentioned before, there are as many ASMR preferences as there are ASMR fans, so I am guessing that someone out there will love this.

For a long time now, I have been recommending a track on Calm. I have a Calm subscription and the requirement to subscribe also ensures that you do not need to listen to noisy adverts. The requirement to subscribe also means, of course, that this is not for everyone. Today’s recommendation is this one:

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

Daily Jay

When Fear Takes Over

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Which is about making decisions on the basis of fear and when this is not the correct approach. He suggests that the best approach is that will always enable us to grow. He points out that you need to be clear about why you are making decisions; could it be that the decisions you are making are because of fear.

If that doesn’t sound very sleep orientated, this is because I frequently find the Calm dailies more restful than the Calm material that is actually supposed to gentle me off to sleep. A lot of that material involves music or other noises that I do not find restful.

At this stage, and for a while now in this blog, I tend to review a professional ASMR artist. I have tried various techniques to avoid choosing just the latest video that pops up in the YouTube recommendations. Sometimes this has even been successful.

Today it is this one:

the ent exam you didn’t know you needed 🥼 (asmr doctor role play)

There are not many comments on the day I am looking at it but those that there are seem to be predominantly positive. The channel is ASMR Viella with 27.8k subscribers, three hundred and five videos and three playlists. The roleplay playlist has a number of medical videos in it but is not predominantly medical themed:

There are, of course, notes, and in this case, these are, thankfully, brief:

“9 Feb 2026 ✪ Members first on 6 February 2026 #asmrsounds #sleepaid #asmrroleplay

This ASMR role play includes medical personal attention, questions and note-taking, physical exam, tympanometry (yes that one), a hearing test, and ear massage / care. hope you enjoy~!

new upload every Sunday at 8PM ET~! ✨ thank you so much for liking and subscribing. ʚ♡ɞ

become a channel member here ❤️:

   / @asmrviella 

#asmrsounds #sleepaid #asmrroleplay”

Today’s video is a little over thirty-four minutes in length and so is reasonable compared to some we have looked at recently, but it should not over face you if you simply want to listen to just the one video whilst you drift off. There is no startup music (Heaven be praised) and straight away we are back to the predominantly whispering style of presentation. This means we are on familiar ground (a lot of professional ASMR artists seem to do this). The voice is not unpleasant, but I do like it when ASMR artists ring the changes, i.e. do not opt for a whispering style of presentation.

As we have heard before there are occasional mouth click/cluck noises (I suspect because they are an ASMR “trigger” for someone). Of course, the voice is not the only noise. We have pen clicking, scribbling/writing noises, fingernails clicking against a surface, there are noises which seem to be something dragged across the microphone (these are quite loud), plastic clicking noises, equipment noise including items being placed (quite loudly) on a desk surface, beeping noises, rattling noises, mobile phone alerts, liquid sloshing noises, even the distant sound of aircraft/traffic.

I get the sense, as I have before, that a number of professional ASMR artists try to cram every type of known ASMR trigger into the one video. I think this might not be the best approach. I, for example, like a calm voice, so I find nail clicking and liquid sloshing distracting. If you are the type of person that rather likes liquid sloshing, it might be that you’re not so keen on the whispering, for example.

This one certainly has quite an amount of nail clicking and so if this is not the trigger for you, I’m not sure I’d review it. If it is your thing though, this video should be a good fit (the occasional loud sound notwithstanding). It was not, I have to say, my favourite video to date so I do not think this will be a channel I’ll spend a great deal of extra time reviewing for alternative videos. Your mileage may vary.

Now the ultimate section of the blog article of late. At one time the only section in the article but things have expanded a little over the past few months. This is where I seek out a (normally medical) video and review it to determine if it is suitably relaxing. Given the video is designed for a purpose other than relaxation, these are inadvertent ASMR videos. Some of them turn out to be better than others.

The channel this time is Joy McLaughlin which has only seven videos and yet has 13.8K subscribers. Blimey. There are zero playlists so no point trying to evaluate any to see if they’re suitable for us.

The video is:

Pulmonary Exam

It is only a little over seven minutes so blink and it’ll be gone. Comments are permitted and a number are from ASMR fans, that is frequently a good sign (but sadly not always). The notes are: “598,514 views 6 Dec 2017

Lauren Daley is simply “breathtaking” in her latest short film, “The Pulmonary Exam”– audiences everywhere will be gasping to see how it all turns out.”

Checking the channel, all of the material on it is eight years old so watch this one while ye may before someone takes the whole thing down.

The video starts in silence and then is a little loud, including the voice of the medical professional. I would say that the “patient” here has a better voice. The medical professional introduces herself as “Lauren Daley” who states that she is a first-year medical student at “FAU”, at least that is how I heard it. Assuming I have heard it correctly it is conceivable that this is “Florida Atlantic University” this institution seems to have a nursing programme and it is possible this is where Lauren is attending in 2017.

There is reasonably strong air-conditioning noise, which might be why Lauren feels that she has to speak up here. There is occasional humour, which I did not find distracting. The examination is nicely calm, although never truly quiet. There is an interruption from a person off-camera, potentially the person doing the filming. However, it is not excessively loud.

I think I’ll try this in the Procrastination Pen playlist for a while but it may eventually get booted out. I am doing a great deal of weeding from the playlist into the archive list of late as I would swear, I am getting pickier. (Hopefully that will turn out to be a good thing in terms of the eventual overall quality of the playlist).

On that basis, just one video on this occasion.

That’s it for this review, 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.

Photo by DeepAI

Sleeping With ASMR

I recently read some recommendations around the use of magnesium to aid sleep. Personally, I was sceptical. I consider my diet has quite enough healthy attributes. So why would I need a supplement. I decided to go with cheap and minimal to give it a try. I located some 375mg magnesium and vitamin B6 from Tesco. I figured if the bargain basement variety was effective, then there was something in this magnesium supplement solution.

I also wanted the lowest mg I could find as I had been warned that strong supplements of magnesium can act as a laxative, and I was not too keen on that.

In any case, I now find it slightly easier initially to fall asleep. I have found that it has zero effect on the nights when I am already stressed – so far nothing available off prescription does. It also seems to have no, to negligible, effect on waking up during the night. Taking it, I find I still wake up around 4AM and it is still a struggle to get back off to sleep again.

Of course, this is anecdotal. A sample size of one could hardly be called a scientific sample size. There is also a strong possibility it is all placebo effect. However, if so, I’m all for the placebo effect. It might be worth giving magnesium a try if you haven’t already.

So, again, welcome to the Procrastination Pen, the home of restful material to aid in distraction of the sleepless and, on a good night, towards gentling them off to sleep.

Of late I have been trying to find material that is not on YouTube to give you the option of avoiding some pretty sleep-disturbing adverts. One of the people who is more famous than most is Jack Kornfield. Who, unsurprisingly, has a truly excellent voice and one, which, in the past, I listened to very frequently.

Surely meditation royalty like this would not have material out there in internet land that is free of charge?

Well in fact there is a whole site of it here, including, completely at random, this one: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/85881/20240902-Jack_Kornfield-SR-a_labor_of_love-85881.mp3

We also find the odd content in the Internet Archive including this one:

I’m beginning to understand that, with all this information available, one really does not have to put up with YouTube at all.

Following the structure that was established a few months ago, at this point I tend to recommend something from Calm. I have a Calm subscription and so I am in the fortunate position that I can listen to the content there. I recognise that only a subset of the people reading this will be in that position, so I will keep this section brief:

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

Daily Jay

Soul Grow

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

This is about becoming a more extraordinary version of yourself. In it Jay explores this letter. I often find that Jay has some of the more interesting content on Calm, although not usually the most restful. I assume most people want to become the best possible version of themselves and so this may appeal.

Following on from the Calm recommendation, regular readers will know that at this point I now turn to YouTube and look for a professional ASMR artist. I am now not clear whether this is to recommend them. Many of my articles have found problems with content from professional ASMR artists. However, at the same time I have found the same artists with positive legion fans leaving sycophantic comments. I have to conclude therefore, that there are many different ears in the world and they all like to hear something different. For this reason, I persist, in the hope that at least one person who happens across this blog will like the content.

This one is unusual in that it has no notes and very few comments. That does not usually bode well, so my expectations are not high from commencement.

ASMR | Nurses Station 1: Nurse on Cranial Nerve Exam 🩺

It is from ALBERTSVOICE ASMR, which is a channel that has 16.8K subscribers, 3.4K videos, eleven playlists with some playlists quite obviously on theme for our medical – related ASMR reviews, such as:

and

and

and

This is such a huge number of videos I can only assume that the person is doing this as a full-time job. In which case all power to him.

Today’s video is a little over twenty-three minutes. It starts very loud for an ASMR video including a ringing tone, loud speech, and loud keyboard sounds. The phone gets a good clattering and the video continues in the same loud manner. This is certainly not your classical ASMR video. Although we have heard videos with excessively loud keyboards before, this is quite possibly the loudest yet.

There seem to be very loud equipment-related sounds every time a piece of equipment is selected. On the upside, there is no sign of whispering or breathy presentations. There are no mouth clucking sounds or any of those other sounds we have associated with a number of professional ASMR artists. In fact, it is so loud, I do wonder if it is in fact a parody of ASMR videos rather than an ASMR video as such. Although we have encountered videos with loud noises in them, I have rather assumed that this was a mistake rather than by conscious choice. Here it would appear that it is by design. I suspect that unless you give the volume control a healthy downwards turn you are not going to get much rest whilst listening to this one.

It is odd, when I started to review professional ASMR artists I was convinced that the content would be so good that very soon all the inadvertent material I had initially focused on would be shown to be excessively lacking. Actually, the more reviews I do, the more I find that much of this inadvertent material stands up rather well.

Perhaps I made the correct choice, quite by accident, when I started writing this review series of blog articles all those months ago.

As to that, this week’s inadvertent ASMR video is this one:

Neurological assessment video

It has no notes and comments are denied – so reassuringly quite unlike a professional ASMR artist then. It comes from the channel Lila Kalman, which has 1.08K subscribers. This is quite an achievement given there are only sixteen videos and no playlists.

The posts to this channel start three years ago, conclude two years ago and have all the appearance of student assessment videos. Today’s video is not going to break the bank timewise given it is less than eight minutes long. Other parts of the channel look worthy of investigation however, so I will most likely be returning for a further look in the future.

It starts with the typical student video pantomime knock. Usually this precedes attempts at privacy using thin air, which fortunately does not happen here. The medical professional introduces herself as Lila, so I am guessing the owner of this channel. The “patient” seems to be Lauren Hager (assuming I heard that correctly). There is no excessive background noise (somewhat of a miracle for videos of this nature). Lila seems to have an excellent voice. Lauren’s is almost as good. If I happen across Lauren’s channel in my travels I may give it a review. (Assuming that she was a nurse in the same year as Lila, which is by no means a given).

The video continues quiet, and the approach is methodical. Would that we had seen many more such videos. There are occasional equipment noises, none of which seem to me to be excessive. If anything, the recording seems a little on the muted side. One of the rare occasions in which you will be rolling over and turning the volume control up. (Whereas more usually you’ll be turning it down, often quite a long way down). There is occasional noise, which sounds like it might be traffic noise, outside of the building. In which case the building could probably do with some more insulation as it sounds unusually noisy.

There’s the odd pregnant pause, I assume while Lila attempts to recall what it is should come next in the process. So far, so typical student assessment video. There is occasional speech from an adjacent room, which is also the kind of thing that we have heard before.

All told I think a rather good video for us and it is going into the Procrastination Pen playlist.

On that basis, just one video on this occasion.

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.

Photo by DeepAI

Sleeping With ASMR

YouTube has intermittently started to require me to log on. This only seems to happen on the tablet; it does not seem to happen on the laptop. The upshot is that whilst I am reviewing the videos (on the laptop), I can play what I like and I can write these articles. However, when I go to bed, I try to play the playlist and I get stopped and asked to log on. My password is a lengthy one; I am not at all interested in raising myself from a partially sleepy state to start typing in passwords. I’m sure it is possible, I just don’t value the change in requirements, and I have alternatives that do not dictate to me in this fashion. (Not least a number of videos I have found on the Internet Archive – some of which I have featured of late).

For example, this week I found this one:

Sadly, it is in a language I do not understand. The person is listed as “Emma Smith” but the content sounds Russian to me. I only worry in case I recommend something which contains language that I wouldn’t recommend if I did understand it. If anyone understands this content and finds it to be filled with undesirable language, let me know and I’ll delete the recommendation. It references a channel, I tried that for further details but found it did not exist. So not a lot of help.

The voice is not what I would call tip-top, but the video does lack background noise, startup (and tail end) music. It is an odd one in that I have seen a few head-to-tail videos (usually by medical students), and this content does not look like any I have seen so far. It is possible that it was extracted from a much longer video. Have a listen and see what you think.

For this week’s Calm recommendation, I am back with Jeff:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/DDw6S3ZLMF

Daily Trip

Can You Live with This the Rest of Your Life?

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

As Calm dailies go this is quite a long one. It is close on 11 minutes, possibly even enough to drop off to. However, the thing I love about Jeff is how often he comes up with something which reflects some of the things I have either dealt with or am dealing with. Even where he doesn’t do that, I find the subjects that he brings up to be fascinating in any case. This one is about being able to welcome anything that happens to you in your life. This, to me, sounds like a rather daunting expectation. Even where what has happened will last for the rest of your life. As I get older, I begin to understand there are a number of changes that are just not going to go away. In which case, I think practices like this may increase in relevance.

For this week’s professional ASMR video I have been looking at this one:

Removing a foreign object from your Arm | ASMR Medical role play

It is odd for a professional ASMR video, in that it does not have a description. There are comments but they are decidedly on the surreal side – very normal YouTube then. It comes from the channel sillystarASMR. This channel has six hundred and fifty-seven videos and 7.63K subscribers. There are seven playlists none of which obviously fit with the medical theme which we have been following for a while now.

The video is just less than seventeen minutes in length; it starts without music and straight away we hear that this is not classical ASMR. For a start there is no whispering involved and definitely no breathy moments. There is some mouth clucking noises and some background keyboarding happening. There are, of course, other noises: equipment noises, hand sanitiser noises, plastic sheet noises, beeping noises, Velcro noises, rustling noises, clicking noises, even the occasional clunk.

I would say that the voice isn’t high on empathy (this is in common with a number of student videos we have seen). Which shows how valuable a person who has some empathy in their voice actually is. At one stage there is even some sighing going on, as if the person is tired of the whole thing.

For the inadvertent ASMR this week I’m looking at this one:

Health Assessment

It is from the channel Dylan McCollough. This has four videos, 1.54K subscribers and no playlists. That seems a fair few subscribers for so few videos. Hopefully this bodes well for us.

Today’s video has no notes (usually a sign that it is not a professional ASMR video). Comments are permitted. There are a number of these and quite a few are uncomplimentary. That does not sound good for us.

The video is just less than twenty-two minutes. It starts without music but does have some strong background noise – almost certainly air conditioning. Unlike some of the commentators I rather like the voice. Some parts of the presentation are a mite hesitant so it strikes me as one of the student assessment videos which we are so familiar with. The voice then gets very quiet indeed and personally I was straining to make out much. The auto subtitles seem quite good for that if you really want to watch (I assume you’ll just be listening). Fortunately, it becomes a lot more listenable quite swiftly.

There are noises from other people (presumably in adjacent rooms in the medical establishment). These are unwelcome and quite loud. There’s the occasional clunk from equipment and slamming of doors sufficiently nearby to be quite loud. There is the sound of water running at one point in an adjacent room. There are noises from the patient moving around when requested. I would say that the patient does not have such a great voice and he is a bit louder than the medical professional here as well. However, he is very respectful in his responses so I was quite taken with that. Whoever is operating the recording equipment occasional thumbs the microphone, fortunately that isn’t too loud. The examination is methodical, even gentle, shame about that air conditioning and those extraneous noises, but it is often thus with student assessment videos. I can see why people take videos and edit them to retain only the quiet bits, but how they get over the copyright issues I have no idea.

On that basis, just one, video on this occasion.

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.

Photo by DeepAI

Sleeping With ASMR

I occasionally listen to a podcast by “Getting Things Done” guru and productivity expert David Allen. I always aspire to be a productivity God but find myself more in the “rushing around trying to get a lot of things done at once” category. Still, I do find his material inspirational in a “if only I was that organised…” kind of way.

I was surprised to find an episode that was focused on sleep. Indeed, an entire discussion with a sleep expert, which I felt certain you would rather like to listen to. You can listen to it here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/gettingthingsdone/Episode_342_David_Allen_and_Dan_Pardi.mp3.

It also reinforces to me how important the subject of focus for the Procrastination Pen blog is, and has been. Given that the drive of these articles is to get more and better-quality sleep using distraction as a technique.   

Distraction mainly by making use of restful, calming sounds, that soothe a racing mind and make it ready for some rest (where it might not have been before listening).

I have found that there are as many calming sounds as there are people prepared to listen to them. Personally, I like a quiet, peaceful sounding voice. If I can find one that sounds even a little empathetic so much the better. For this reason, for a very long time, I have been focused on YouTube videos with some medical content. (I found that medical professionals often have the better voices, but sadly, not always).

However, the longer I stayed with YouTube, the louder and more frenetic the adverts have become. Also, the more often I seem to have problems with it like a recent iterative logon prompt which went away by itself after twenty-four hours, indicating, to my mind, that the problem wasn’t mine.

On that basis I have started to cast around for material that does not rely upon YouTube, and I have found that some of the video content seems to have been archived onto the Internet Archive.

For example, this one, it is only eight minutes but the voice is excellent. It is also available as a physical file

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This seems to be the advantage of this site. Ostensibly you could download the files and assemble them into a playlist offline, without needing to listen to those adverts. Sadly, there do not appear to be a huge number of these in the Internet Archive so it isn’t any YouTube replacement. However, it maybe sufficient to assemble a few videos from various sources and that maybe enough to drop off to.

For some time now I have been reviewing Calm material. I’m making the assumption that at least some of the people that happen across this blog one way or another can access Calm. (Calm requires a subscription). I like it because I have a subscription and more importantly it does not have adverts. I will readily admit that the content is a bit on the variable side and the ones I feature here are just the ones I have got on with the best (so far anyway).

This week, I recommend this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/4xcp92NKYa

Silence

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

I’ve often reflected that I like most of the artists that record the Calm dailies on Calm (well their voices anyway) but perhaps Tamara has my favourite voice.

This is ten minutes on the value of silence. Including doing everything that you can to preserve silence when you find it.

I have reflected that it is a fortunate person who can find much silence in the modern world. I also recognise that some people with conditions such as tinnitus might find absolute silence to be too distracting. Where you both have and want silence what a privilege it is, and in some cases an asset to sleep as well.

For this week’s ASMR professional I came across a video from an artist who I first discovered by visiting a forum where someone was saying that this person was their favourite ASMR artist. The forum entry seems to be lost now and in my brief reviews of the videos (at that time) I did not find this to be my favourite artist.

I also discovered that all the original YouTube material for this channel was removed some time ago. It is therefore only where someone has reposted a video that you will even get the chance to listen:

ASMRaurette – Cranial Nerve Examination

The channel is Sapper MacDonald so not ASMRaurette.

A search reveals no ASMRaurette channel.

It seems that some personal information was leaked and ASMRaurette left YouTube for keeps.

However, there is some content on the Internet Archive.

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So, plenty of opportunity to try out the odd video and see if you like the sound.

Today’s video is a little less than seventeen minutes long. The notes are incredibly brief: “712,958 views 23 Jul 2014

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Comments are denied (perhaps wisely). There is no startup music but there is some background noise. The voice is very muted and almost childlike in fact (perhaps ASMRaurette was very young when she recorded this). The background noise seems to rise and fall which makes me wonder if it is the fan on the computer this was recorded on or similar. The visual quality is poor which may reflect the fact that this has probably been recorded from somewhere and not that well… (such as a piece of software used to stream and record a YouTube video, for example). Although not my favourite voice, this is still a very good voice and if someone caused this artist to leave YouTube then it was a sad day for ASMR fans, I fear. Perhaps a good opportunity to celebrate the videos that we still have.

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

It has thirty-two videos (discounting the introductory one). Last time we managed to review just four of these, so there is a fair few left to look at…

The next one in the series is this:

Airway Adjuncts – NPA, Guedel, BVM

Just less than eight minutes. The notes are: “272,764 views 13 May 2012

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates the safe and correct use of airway adjuncts in maintaining an open airway.

It is part of a series of videos covering Respiratory Medicine skills and is linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

The narrator has a reasonable voice; there is a small amount of hiss on the track, however. As before there is no music (hurray) and the approach is nicely measured.

The actual examination is silent, and so rather useful for us.

Oxygen Therapy and Delivery – How to Prescribe Oxygen

it is seven and a quarter minutes and the notes are: “695,126 views 13 May 2012 Nursing Skills

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to deliver oxygen therapy through various devices, as well as the prescribing of oxygen. It is part of a series of videos covering Respiratory Medicine skills and is linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

Please see the BTS guidelines for more information:

http://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/guide…

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

The narrator has a good voice and the background noise consists merely of a muted hiss whenever the narrator speaks. The actual medical procedure is conducted in silence – which is quite useful in this context as we only have the narrator’s voice to attend to.

Inhaler and Nebuliser Explanation – Asthma

Just over five minutes and the notes are: “183,310 views 13 May 2012 Nursing Skills

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to use a nebuliser and explain correct inhaler technique to a patient. It is part of a series of videos covering Respiratory Medicine skills and is linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

Please see the BTS guidelines for more information:

http://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/guide…

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

The narrator is not as good as the last video but still reasonably quiet. Background noise is absent as is startup music. The lack of startup music really distinguishes this set of videos from a number of others that we have reviewed.

The medical process is initially silent and so we only have to attend to the narrator which is rather good. However subsequently we realise that the narrator and the medical professional have either the same or similar voices (i.e. it is more than likely it is the same person) which makes for great continuity.

Peak Flow and Spirometry – Lung Function Tests

A little less than seven and a half minutes, the notes are: “464,178 views 13 May 2012 Nursing Skills

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the faculty – demonstrates how to perform the basic lung function tests of spirometry and peak flow.

It is part of a series of videos covering Respiratory Medicine skills.”

The narrator has a reasonable voice (not the best we’ve heard in this blog article) but it is adequate for us. The actual medical procedure is actually better than the narration in this one. However, the breathing exercises are too loud for this to belong in the Procrastination Pen playlist.

I think that I will conclude the blog post at this one and continue in another post. Failing that this blog post would become really large indeed, to the point of boredom, I imagine.

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

The Oxford Medical Education Hospitals playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The overall playlist of videos covered so far on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The videos weeded out because over time they are just not as good as the others is in this archive list:

I keep this in case subscribers to the Procrastination Pen have personal favourites that they want to hear.

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

I can’t be bothered to stop my listening to log on, this interrupts the experience. You may not mind this in which case this list is for you.

I hope that you find the playlists restful and I hope you get plenty of sleep.

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Until next time.

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