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:
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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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.
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Until next time.
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