Distraction – The Procrastination Pen

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I find the statements that alcohol is rotten for sleep to be sadly ratified by experience. I am not the world’s greatest social animal and so my forays into drinkies are but occasional. I am sure that at my age my body does not thank me when I make such forays as I currently do.

Having been out on one of these forays recently, I returned feeling reasonably content with the world, easily slid into Neptune’s house. Only to find much of the night punctuated with tossing and turning and awakening to a head feeling like two tree trunks colliding in a hurricane.

If you do imbibe as a mechanism of medicating your way into the land of nod, it would seem that in fact you are not doing yourself a great deal of good. I would recommend a dose of the Procrastination Pen playlist as an alternative. You can use this playlist as a distraction to gentle you off to sleep.

Each week I review some content for its restful qualities and some of that content (assuming it is any good), I add into a playlist which is publicly available on YouTube and you might find of use.

Some of the other content (such as Calm) will require a subscription. However, I do try to balance it out with as much free material as I can locate that week.

I hope in this fashion to give you enough material to create your own playlist should you prefer.

For a little while I have tried to locate some material that is not on YouTube, i.e. files that are not supported by advertising and therefore that will not be interposed with adverts at quite a different volume and pace from the video itself. Such adverts can be disturbing to the quiet-seeking ear and, to be honest, I’ve got kind of tired of them myself too.

This week’s is this one:

ASMR Blue-20170308-Peripheral Nerve Examination – ASMR Doctor Medical

It is on the Internet Archive again (I’ve found material on the Internet Archive in previous week’s) and is roughly in line with the medical theme, this blog has been following for many weeks, I’m sure you’ll agree.

This is a little over thirty-seven minutes which is a reasonable length for videos we have seen of late. As we would expect the tone is excellent. There is no startup music and the artist does not, initially, descend into whispering.

The notes that come with it are the usual Internet Archive level of brevity: ” ASMR Blue-20170308-Peripheral Nerve Examination – ASMR Doctor Medical-4mnbR3kmiwI-[99689714].mkv

ASMR Blue-20170308-Peripheral Nerve Examination – ASMR Doctor Medical-4mnbR3kmiwI-[E742A0EA].jpg

Title – Peripheral Nerve Examination – ASMR Doctor Medical

video_url – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mnbR3kmiwI

video_description – Hey guys! This is a twist on the popular Cranial Nerve Exam Role Play. Instead of looking at the cranial nerves though, we’re checking your peripheral nerves, which is an entirely different examination called the Peripheral Nerve Exam or Upper/Lower Limb Neurological Examination.

0:00 Nurse Violet checks your vitals

10:45 Doctor Blue performs peripheral nerve exam

#asmr

💙Bluewhisper

Instagram and twitter username ~ bluewispy

Email ~ bluewhisperasmr at gmail”

There are zero comments but this seems to be a lot less unusual on the Internet archive than it is on YouTube, for example. There are of course noises other than the ASMR artist’s voice. I don’t really like the glove noises or the Velcro sounds. There are also rustling noises, crinkling of plastic noises, the sound of a blood pressure cuff being blown up (which to me is excessively loud), there were paper noises, writing noises.

There is, unsurprisingly, some whispered content. In this case this is less distracting than some of the extraneous noises I’ve mentioned.

I think this is a good one, why not have a review yourself.

The offering from Calm that I’ve listened to this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/D1jDKA6-QE

Daily Calm

The Place

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

Tamara may be my favourite voice on Calm. I often prefer the actual content from Jeff Warren or Jay Shetty but for a calming voice I think staying with Tamara is not a bad plan. This one is about our tendency to grasp pleasant emotions and things. Unpleasant things we push away. However, this track encourages us to accept reality as it is, pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.

The structure I’ve employed for these reviews now expects a review of content from a professional ASMR artist and I am not about to change unless I get some negative feedback about this.

This week let’s look at this one:

1940’s ASMR~ WWII Nurse Role Play {1900-2000 Series}

It is from the channel Angelica which has 627k subscribers, 1K videos (wow) and sixteen playlists of which one would appear to be on theme for the medical related ASMR this blog has focused on for a long time now:

Today’s video is a little over eighteen minutes long and so, in contrast to the advert-free offering above, is quite short by comparison with some that have been reviewed on this blog of late. The notes are refreshingly brief: “2,827,299 views 28 Nov 2016

New ASMR Channel: / @angelicasgrasss

⁂ Instagram: / angelicasgrass ·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙　✩　*̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙”

Comments are not permitted which stops the more esoteric, not to say abusive, contributions of Joe public. However, it also prevents us finding out how many ASMR sycophants have hung around the video in the nearly ten years since it was posted. I am guessing that this video will have been discovered by many thousand individuals and most of those will have loved it (that seems to be how it works with professional ASMR artists).

It begins without startup music and straight away I would say this artist has an excellent voice, somewhat better than some I have heard of late. The video has some background noise (louder than I would have expected for a professional ASMR artist). I like the vocal tone, I like the pace, I like the intonation, I even like the accent. I can see why this artist is so popular. Indeed, if this quality is consistent, I may return to check out at least one other of the videos associated with this artist. There are of course extraneous noises, paper noises, writing noises, sounds from the artist moving about, the odd clunk, sounds of hands being rubbed together. It must be a testimony to the quality of the voice that I did not find any of it distracting.

I’m not convinced some of the equipment in use would have been around in the 1940s however we’re here for the sound rather than the quality of any video presentation.

I think this one well worthy of a listen.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week is this one:

Advanced Health Assessment (NP) Neck/Respiratory/Cardiac

it comes from the channel Eli Metts with 480 subscribers twenty-five videos zero playlists. The videos are on a wide-ranging set of themes. I could only find four that seemed to be on a medical subject. Two of these posted six years ago and the remaining two seven years ago. It would seem that all video posting ceased six years ago for some reason. It looks like this is another video you should view quickly before the channel gets removed altogether.

The video is just less than twenty minutes so not huge in length. It starts without startup music and with no background noise. This is unusual for something filmed in a hospital which usually is dogged by very loud air conditioning noises.

There are notes, which are thankfully, brief: “64,727 views 10 Feb 2019

Advanced Health Assessment (NP) neck, respiratory and cardiac systems assessments”.

Comments are permitted and are the usual level of variability. However, ASMR fans have been here before me (which is usually good news).

There are occasional traffic noises, which sound like they are close by. There are sporadic equipment noises, which sound like they might be in an adjacent room. There are noises from furniture moving.

The medical professional (Eli Metts) has a good voice. One advantage of this video being designed for a medical purpose is that the professional is not whispering. The patient (Gabrielle Burch) also has a good voice but we, sadly, do not get to hear a lot of it.

The examination is nicely paced and most importantly not too loud. It does seem to end rather abruptly but all in all enjoyable in the listening.

I think this one was well worthy of a review.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

I came across a course by Tara Brach ” Mindfulness for Anxiety and Sleep: Learning Practices that Help Reduce Stress and Calm Fears”. I’ve subscribed (sadly it is not free) and as it is on theme for the material that we have been covering I thought I’d let you know about it as well. You’ll find it at the Radical Compassion Institute and it is $19.99. Of course, if that sort of sum is a long way from the amount that you wish to spend at the moment, that is completely understandable. However, I know that there are some people desperate for sleep out there and I rather like Tara Brach’s voice…

Of late, I have been trying to seek out material that is both free and not on YouTube, in the hope that I can direct people away from energetic adverts when they are trying to sleep.

This week I thought we’d go back to the Internet Archive again with this one:

PE: Shoulder Pain – OSCE Prep (Pulm, Cardiac, Pulses, Screening OSE, UE Neuro, MSK, Special Tests)

https://archive.org/details/youtube-EglDKnv5mLw

This has the look-feel of a YouTube video that was reviewed on the Procrastination Pen many months ago. It is eight minutes long. It has quite extensive notes:

“This particular video is intended as a demonstration of a physical exam that may be useful in evaluating a patient with shoulder pain.

It is not intended as a complete instructional video and should not be considered a source of complete physical examination instruction. It is also intended not as a perfect example of a physical exam that would be performed for a patient in clinical practice, but is designed to optimize function and efficiency for a OSCE testing setting.

Instead, it should be treated as a supplement to independent learning using primary Osteopathic Physical Examination instructional resources. Clinical skills are best learned and developed with support from faculty in the context of a complete Osteopathic Medical School Curriculum.

Osteopathic Clinical Skills is a channel dedicated to discussing and exploring Osteopathic Clinical Skills concepts for medical students, residents, and clinicians and presenting them in an easy-to-understand manner.

Attributions:

Many thanks to the University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNTHSC – TCOM) for permitting use of the Medical Education Training (MET) facilities and equipment during the production of this video.

Additional thanks to the UNTHSC-TCOM learner and faculty volunteers who participated in this production and provided permission for the use of their image in this video.

Addeddate

2023-08-09 12:29:33

Channel

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

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youtube-EglDKnv5mLw

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Year

2023 “

There are no comments, but then that isn’t really exceptional for a video that we find on the Internet Archive rather than YouTube.

The video starts without startup music and actually has no discernible background noise. The medical professional does not have your classical ASMR voice and is definitely not someone given to whispering. However, his style is gentle and measured, even slow perhaps. Occasionally he speaks a little more loudly which might be distracting if you have just dozed off. There are none of the grinding, popping, clicking, noises that attend many YouTube osteopathy videos and which caused me to reject the entire category for this blog some time ago.

The patient does not have much to say but she also has quite a calming voice. That is not common with YouTube videos – at least one participant habitually sounding like they’re employed to engender wakefulness.

Of course, each week now I refer to something from Calm because I have a Calm subscription, but I am not in any way trying to rub that in. Merely indicating that other material is available outside of YouTube. This week we have:

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

Daily Jay

Context Switching

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

which is about how changing rapidly between tasks is taxing on the mind and inefficient. A sentiment which I wholeheartedly endorse, given that I have a very single-tasking kind of mind which becomes progressively more insistent about that limitation the older that I become.

This week’s professional ASMR offering comes to us from Cap Bailey ASMR. The channel has 375K subscribers six hundred and thirty seven videos and nine playlists of which this one would seem to be on theme for the medical examination subject we have pursued for this blog for some time now:

The video is this one:

Medical ASMR Friendly Field Exam (Whispered Sleep Roleplay)

The video has comments (of course it does) and, as usual, people are wetting themselves with joy over a new ASMR video. There are notes, which are refreshingly brief: ” 10,275 views 15 Feb 2026

(World War 2 Roleplay) Your friendly ASMR Medic treats your injuries to make you feel better (relaxed and sleep well) I hope ya love this video. I really enjoy doing these type of videos so if you enjoy this, leave a like and let me know in the comments. Much love and enjoy 🙂

Patreon – / capbaileyasmr

PayPal – @CapBaileyASMR

Instagram – / cap_bailey

Cap Bailey ASMR

375k subscribers”

It is a little over twenty-two and a half minutes in length, so not exceptionally long. It starts without music, but does have a kind of background noise as if the person presenting is standing in a storm. I think this is deliberate given the context of the video. It is definitely a whispery presentation but not your classical ASMR voice, I think. It is a bit esoteric for our normal fare in that it is not in a hospital, GP surgery, or even a nursing student’s bedroom.

The WWII aspect is unusual. However, we’re here to listen to how good the voice is. I’d say it is acceptable but I am not raving as much as the comments would have had me do.

The voice has an edge to it which makes it less than the calming I was expecting. I think it is that the person presenting is fighting to be quiet or, perhaps is trying both to be quiet and to project at the same time and it is an oddly jarring effect. That is not to say it isn’t well worth a review, of course.

There are, as usual for such things, other noises; tapping noises, stroking noises, slurping noises, some clicks, the odd thump, clunk and scraping noise. The person also makes that odd mouth clucking/clicking noise so beloved of ASMR artists but which does not do anything for me.

This may well be an example of something I have noticed before which is that some ASMR artists seem to try to get every ASMR trigger they can into each of their videos. I have said before that this is a mistake, as it does feel a bit like hammering at a trigger rather than it gently coming out of the presentation. In addition, if your trigger is mouth clucking, it probably isn’t whispering and vice versa. On that basis any ASMR fan is going to find part of the video unfulfilling, presumably.

Occasionally these extraneous noises get to be quite loud. I did find some of the noises to be distracting and personally I would not be using this one to try to fall asleep to, your mileage may vary. If you’re watching, the recreation of military artefacts and costume seems well done, but I think most people reading this blog will be using any of the videos to doze off to and hence will only be listening. I guarantee that there will be many-many people who absolutely lap this up, so why not have a review for yourself.

Today’s inadvertent ASMR video comes from the most minimal of channels. The channel is Lauren King and there is just one video on that channel. The subject of this week’s review.

HEENT Health Assessment Video 2_King

There are no notes and no comments. The channel has just two hundred and forty-nine subscribers but I notice the video has 123,950 views at the time I am looking at it (let’s hope that bodes well for us). It is a little less than twenty and a half minutes which is definitely not huge. It starts without music but with a reasonable level of background noise almost certainly air conditioning. Lauren seems to have a good voice and, indeed, the “patient” has a voice that is pretty good too. So far, so good.

There are equipment noises, noises from adjacent cubicles, some of which are quite loud (laughter even). The “patient” seems to be called “Tanner Wallace”, although there is every possibility of that being incorrect. Also, the date of birth verbally whisks by (possibly August 10 1993, not that the information is of very much use to us).

The bed motors (Lauren raises the bed) make a fearsome noise which is genuinely distracting. Fortunately, that particular noise does not last that long. The examination is well paced even gentle in places. Lauren occasionally seems to work hard on enunciation (there are a few technical terms).

In common with some presentations we have seen, Lauren sometimes spends moments struggling to work out what comes next. This is very standard student assessment video. By now, you and I have seen so many such videos we can almost work out what we expect to happen next. This one seems a small cut above, in that the style has the appearance of including some genuine empathy which is a fundamentally rare skill demonstrated in student assessment videos.

Part way through, the shoulder badge becomes visible and we see that it is Walla Walla University School of Nursing.

This has a channel but we have long established that university channels are there to promote the university rather than generate any ASMR-related content. (No doubt rightly so).

Sadly, my listening to the video was repeatedly interrupted by loud adverts (which more or less reiterates the point where we came in).

I rather liked this one, extraneous noises notwithstanding. Certainly, it is of reasonable quality for a student assessment video and I’m going to put it in the Procrastination Pen Playlist.

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

That’s it today, 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’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

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

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