If you’re struggling for some rest and night time just brings nightmares, this is the place to stumble upon in your internet browsing. Each blog post brings you a new restful video usually drawn from YouTube. The aim is to create a great long playlist of restful videos so you can lie there being lulled off to sleep.
The playlist is regularly reviewed and the less-great videos in it archived off so that it remains a useful resource for the sleep deprived. A number of the people appearing have voices that are so good you may find proper ASMR effects from the videos (but as these seem to differ between people, only you will know if you get them).
I always put the playlist at the end of each blog entry so you can just scroll to there and pick it up if you’re short of time.
For regular readers you might remember the article from which the term “sandwich breath” originates. This is a term exchanged between ASMR devotees to check if you are suitably in the know about ASMR material. There are a few such terms and, thus far, I have only got to the bottom of very few.
In that article we encountered Dr James Kelly and the blog item focused on his voice. However, the “patient” was Pat LaFontaine, who I had never heard of up to that point in time. Readers of that item (or more especially those who watched the video) may have noticed that Pat too had a very good voice for our purposes, in that it is measured in delivery and not excessively loud.
And so, we come to today’s video:
NHL Hall of Famer Pat LaFontaine Shares His Story
This is another professionally produced video and hence comes with notes:
“3 Feb 2012
Hear hockey great Pat LaFontaine recount the steps he took during his recovery after several brain injuries forced him into retirement
Watch more clips of Pat LaFontaine – • Pat LaFontaine & … .
For more information about brain injury and PTSD, please visit us at https://www.brainline.org.”
The previous blog item was also from this channel and so it is turning out to be quite the resource.
Today’s video is just less than half an hour so reasonably substantial in terms of the videos we look at habitually. It is lovely to be reacquainted with Pat’s voice. It is like meeting an old friend.
I decided that we would not just follow the brainline channel again. I have mined it heavily and there are no further Pat La Fontaine videos in there to be had. Plus the video is such a good one that it would be a hard act to follow.
However, to show how famous the Dr James Kelly Pat La Fontaine video is, I discovered that parodies of it are now being made. This one is just a piece of fun and is in no sense going into the playlist.
The Pat LaFontaine Cranial Nerve Test Except It’s Jeremy and Hannah [ASMR Parody]
It shows how established the ASMR category of videos is that there are so many people dedicated to watching such videos. In some cases it looks like they spend a considerable amount of time in this activity, otherwise how would so many new ASMR videos continue to be made.
The Brainline 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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