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Sleeping With ASMR

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily Jay

Critical Thinking

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

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

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

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

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

The video is this one:

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

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

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

Please subscribe, stay up to date

/ @feelbetternow

Coffee anyone? ☕Chip in for a cup of coffee and get a personal video from me saying thanks

https://buymeacoffee.com/bobnixon48d

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

Member link: / @feelbetternow-o4t “

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week I happened across this one:

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

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

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

There are notes of course: “by Bluewhisper

Publication date 2020-06-08

Topics ASMR, female, roleplay

Language English

Item Size 647.1M

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

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

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

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Night Walk – Gavin Luke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today’s video is:

Stanford Medicine 25 Lymph Node Exam (Part 1)

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

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

So, very succinct notes indeed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, it is a reasonable one but also a rather brief one this week.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

The Stanford Medicine playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here::

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

If the stress over lack of sleep was not enough to cause you to just lie there, examining the spider’s webs by the bed, now we find that it is not just getting sufficient sleep, it is also about avoiding getting too much.

I suggest that, if you are already suffering for sleep, reading the sleep literature is not going to help much. It just seems to be designed to pile on the pressure.

Whilst I am trying out a number of supplements designed to assist with sleep (including magnesium), I am still finding that distracting any night-time thoughts with sound is a pretty good way of accelerating the snooze time to come your way. Hence the existence of this blog and its regular reviews of tracks for their potentially calming content.

I’ve run into a bit of a dead end with new material which is both free, online, and calming. So, I think that I am going to try for a while checking if the professional ASMR artist of the week also has some material in the Internet Archive. I’ve had a couple of successes with that of late, and no doubt, as I explore some more, free material will present itself.

Of late, I have missed the odd Calm track and so this week I shall reinstate it. Even though I know that a number of you do not have a subscription to Calm and are never going to have such a subscription. This one is from possibly my favourite voice on Calm which is Tamara Levitt:

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

Daily Calm

The Missing Piece

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

This is about how we have been trained to believe we need others to complete us but we can be complete on our own.

Given that will interest only a subset of the audience I’ll move swiftly along.

Of late, I have been delving into the past for my professional ASMR material and again the same this week. Possibly this time it would be nice to return to the medical theme from which I have wandered rather egregiously.

This ASMR artist has been covered a couple of times on the Procrastination Pen and so I am hopeful that this time will be yet another good one. It is, of course, Isabel Imagination ASMR a huge channel with 380K subscribers and six hundred and thirty-nine videos so something must be going right for Isabel. There are thirty-three playlists including a playlist of other people’s ASMR videos:

That is the first time I have seen that kind of thing on a professional ASMR channel. Share the love I suppose.

The video is this one:

ASMR HEARING TEST EAR CLEANING EAR TO EAR BREATHY WHISPER

It’s a channel for a professional ASMR artist and therefore the video is guaranteed to have notes and those notes are going to have a self-promotional aspect to them:

“1,146,191 views 11 Apr 2017

In this ASMR role play video Dr. Clarck will clean and examine your ears! You will get a hearing test!! Triggers are: personal attention, breathy sounds, breathy whisper, whisper, soft spoken, ear to ear.

For a look behind the scenes visit my other YouTube channel “Isabel backstage”!! This is the link to my 2nd channel: / @isabelfineart

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

/ isabel_asmr

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isabelimagin…

Who am I:

My name is Isabel and I’m Dutch. My approach to ASMR video’s is combining entertainment in a form of imagination and fantasy (almost movie like) with relaxation. All wrapped into one video for you. This way you can enjoy my videos either before you go to bed to drift off easier, or you can just take a moment of relaxation during the day to calm down and relieve stress.

I’ve been posting ASMR videos since the 20th of June 2016! This is video #72. I hope you like it!

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

I’ve recorded this video with a Canon EOS 80D camera and an audio recorder Roland R-26 with 2 AKG C214 microphones for stereo sound. Here are the links:

Cam: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-80D-cam…

Recorder: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-R-26-R…

Mic: AKG C214, two microphones to create a nice stereo sound

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

This video is meant for relaxation and can also help relieve anxiety, depression or stress, however I am not a psychiatrist, so if you are dealing with severe anxiety, depression or stress I suggest you go to a professional.”

As usual, the notes are substantial; so far, so professional ASMR artist.

The video itself is somewhat over twenty-three and a half minutes so not the hugest I have seen/heard. The style will be familiar to readers of this blog as I have a soft spot for Isabel as she is one of the artists that I used to listen to when I first came to YouTube for ASMR all those years ago now. It starts with a crackle and a whisper; the crackles stop, the whispering continues. The whispering presentation is a fairly classic ASMR technique and one with which we have become thoroughly familiar. There is some great ASMR out there that does not rely upon whispering but it is not as common as the whispered variety in my experience. Either that or I happen to get recommendations drawn only from the whispering ASMR artists. This one is a little on the breathy side for me. It is not that I dislike a breathy presentation, I just assume no one talks like this and therefore it always feels a little artificial – not to say that a consistent whisper is not equally artificial…

Of course, the voice is not the only thing we hear. There is a sound of a pen on a pad, the clicking of various pieces of equipment, rustling of clothing, that mouth clicking sound that ASMR artists love so much, a loud scraping noise (this seemed to go on for a while), nails clicking, the stroking of a set of headphones. There is a beeping sound designed to mimic a hearing test, not my preferred sound especially since I started losing my hearing.

I rather like this, which was unsurprising as I’ve already said that I have liked other videos by this ASMR artist (and so do a heck of a lot of others). I would give this one a review yourself and see what you think.

The video shows its age in that more recent videos are interrupted every few minutes to fit in yet more adverts – this one just relies upon adverts at the start and the end of the video. To think I used to regard this arrangement as objectionably intrusive. Now you are fortunate to get a few minutes of video time without some useless gismo being promoted at great volume (and pace). (Part of my drive to move, ultimately, onto a different solution). I notice that a number of commentators to this video rate the presentation highly but they rate the adverts poorly. This fits, exactly, with my own perception. I have looked this week at removing the YouTube adverts by signing up to a paid-for YouTube option. I went to my favourite AI chatbot to ask about this and got this answer:

“Current UK prices for YouTube Premium (May 18, 2026):

Individual: £15.99/month

Family (up to 6 people): £23.99/month

Student: £6.99/month

Premium Lite: £6.99/month (if available in your account)

Prices can vary by payment method and may change; check https://www.youtube.com/premium for your account’s exact rate.”

So, the thick end of £16.00 a month or the best part of £200 a year. If I was paying £200, I would really want YouTube to be my main viewing option but I am old school and I still largely use the television for that. I imagine if you are a generation or so younger than me and the Internet is your natural home, then this option can look a lot more appealing. I would certainly love to see the back of those adverts.

The Internet Archive only seems to have a couple of resources for Isabel; one I have covered in a previous article and neither of them are medical in nature. So, there is just one left and it is this one:

Close-Up ASMR Kisses for Anxiety Relief

https://archive.org/details/isabel-imagination-asmr-20240523

I’m a little concerned by the title. There are some other kinds of ASMR videos out there and I am not keen to stray in that direction with this blog. If anything, I want ASMR to be free of any associations with sexual behaviour which seems to have dragged along behind it, probably long before I ever discovered it and certainly ever since then.

The notes, however, allay my fears somewhat: ” Close-Up ASMR Kisses for Anxiety Relief

By Isabel imagination ASMR

Publication date 2024-05-23

Topics ASMR, deleted, YouTube

Language English

Item Size 410.3M

In this calming ASMR show and tell video, you can relax to the sound of my close-up ear to ear whispers and get tingles from the layered sounds in your ears.

Sit back and relax with headphones on, let this video comfort you before bedtime!

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Sound “

No expectations of picking up the content on an OnlyFans website for a start. Usually a strong clue as to which ASMR video you will have happened across, (unless you were looking for exactly that kind of video in which case it seems this one isn’t going to be it).

The video is a little less than twenty and a half minutes and is on the whispery side of whispery and also somewhat breathier than is my preferred sound for an ASMR artist.

There are in addition those kissing sounds mentioned in the title, which, surprisingly, turns out to be not that special a sound to; listen to, the sound of skin rubbing (hands together); the sound of nails clicking; the rustling of clothing in motion; deep breathing noises; that mouth clicking noise that ASMR professionals seem so fond of.

It’s not my favourite Isabel video. I have reviewed better videos on this site previously but hey, it is advert free and it features a professional ASMR artist whose voice I personally rate, so in my opinion still worthy of a review.

Today’s inadvertent ASMR video comes from a channel that will be familiar to regular readers: MGA Nursing has only fifty-five subscribers and forty-three videos. That is quite sad just barely more than one subscriber per video. We have found a few worthwhile videos on this channel and I have no doubt we will find a few more.

There are two playlists. One is on a medical theme but features a video not actually found on MGA nursing itself:

The other is strangely off topic, both for this blog and for MGA nursing itself:

Today’s video is a whisp of a thing, so brief it is barely there, but comes from someone who features often on the same channel. So, plenty of scope to return and have another delve.

The video is:

Cody Evans- General survey

And unless I have got this wrong, Cody turns up about nine times on the same site so we may (depending upon his voice) return over and again to listen to videos featuring Cody.

The video was posted in 2017 and has no notes and no comments. The setting appears domestic and so outside of this channel, I would guess there is limited to no opportunity of finding much else about Cody, his place of study, his chosen career path or any other markers that in the past I have used to verify this is a genuine medical video and not a fabricated one. I would say it has a feel of a genuine video and given we have seen MGA nursing before, I am pretty happy that this was made for the purposes of medical study and not for any ASMR devotees.

The video is just a little over one and a half minutes long and so hardly exists at all and is on the quiet side. When I say quiet, the volume control for this one is going to need to be way up.

There is a knock at the commencement which is also not loud. Cody is proven to have an excellent voice (which is not clearly heard). The patient could be (but isn’t necessarily) Crystal Klanzilotta. (I could not hear it well and the YouTube captions process mangled it altogether).

Crystal (if that be her name) has a slightly louder voice than Cody but none the worse for that, and as a team they seem to make for the commencement of a good ASMR video.

It continues quiet and just like that it is all over.

So, it is a reasonable one but also a rather brief one this week.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

The MGA Nursing playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I came across an article for the perfect sleep routine. I habitually hate these articles as they just seem to be a large stick to beat yourself with. Quite a lot of it seems to involve habit changes which are not easy to execute in a busy working life. Eat earlier, which seems straightforward until there are two of you and collectively you work a very long day; eat as early as you can would probably be more restrained advice although that still may not be particularly early.

Quit using screens is usually in there, but if the evening is your only time to get bills paid, deal with household admin and respond to a backlog of personal emails, I am not sure when you are supposed to schedule all that in. I’m sure any employer is not going to be chuffed if you try to accomplish those tasks during the working day.

I’m also interested in the idea that mouth breathing can be resolved simply by taping the mouth shut. I tried a gum shield once which expected the mouth would remain closed. I had to give up after a few minutes as I found I could just not get enough air. Something about lying in bed specifically too, as it does not affect me if I lie on a hard floor, for example. I imagine I may not be the only person who finds breathing through the nose whilst lying in bed to be difficult (which is putting it mildly).

I’m also fascinated by the use of earplugs. I’ve seen this advice before and it seems a great idea. Until one day I encountered someone with a serious ear infection and the theory was that simply covering his ears regularly for long hours had encouraged that to develop. How much worse if you bung up your ears every single night I wonder.

I’d take all sleep advice with a pinch of salt. It just seems another mechanism of making a person responsible for events that they cannot control. The environment is getting noisier; you need to use earplugs. The working days are getting longer; you need to eat earlier. Every interaction with a company now involves an app or a website; you need to give up screen use.

Things are changing to make getting decent quality sleep more difficult and that is something no individual can control.

On the upside I have found that distraction with sound is one thing that can, occasionally, work and it is for this reason that I started this blog a little while ago. Of course, if you do not live alone, it is likely that you will have to employ headphones for this so your ears are going to be covered… (I have seen pillows with speakers in but I am not convinced, personally, that they will not disturb your night-time companion).

For several weeks I have been reviewing a Daily Calm offering from Calm because I have a subscription to Calm and so why not. I find the Daily Calm items on Calm to be the most appealing. I have tried the longer sleep-related items and hit the problem that the sort of things that apparently make other people sleep really do not work for me. There are downsides to this, of course, Calm Dailies average about ten minutes and if you can successfully fall asleep in ten minutes then I am so grateful that you took the time to read this blog article. The biggest disadvantage though is that Calm requires a payment to listen and I know that for many people that is an absolute no-no.

Today’s suggestion is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/NigHxQgiV7

Daily Trip

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Relaxing Tension

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NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

This is about a mechanism for releasing tension, even a quite deep build-up of tension. Which I thought might be highly useful for someone trying to get some sleep.

Recently I started voyaging down a personal memory lane when it came to professional ASMR artists. This does mean that, in the short term I have not been restricting ASMR artists to medical themes. Normal service will be resumed in due course. The aim was to demonstrate what got me started on ASMR many years ago. I’m trying to select quality presentations that I have listened to more than once in the past.

This week I am going back to 2018 to this one:

[ASMR] Fall Asleep in 25 Minutes! (Binaural Sleep Triggers)

Which has the benefit of at least being overtly sleep-related. It has notes (It would be a very unusual professional ASMR video if it did not have notes). “2,521,682 views 14 Jun 2018

https://linktr.ee/tingtingasmr Enjoy this binaural ASMR sleep treatment as I use some of my favourite soft sounding triggers to help you sleep within 25 minutes! Enjoy mic brushing, face touching, ear to ear whispers, book tapping and page turning, fabric sounds, and more!

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Compared to some we have seen these are superb in their succinctness. Regular readers will notice that I have returned to a channel that I have covered before and it must have been a bit of a favourite in 2018 as I notice there was more than one video from here that I used to listen to at the time.

The channel of course is Tingting ASMR, there are 2.57m subscribers, eight-hundred-and-ninety two videos and thirteen playlists and there is even a playlist entirely dedicated to sleep:

This, however, I notice, is for members only (the first time I have come across one of those) and so if you want to listen you will need to cough up. On that basis moving swiftly on…

This week’s video is slightly less than twenty-seven minutes, so not a bad size. It starts without music and immediately we can hear that the presentation is going to be on the whispery side of whispery. Which is fairly typical for an ASMR artist. There is a great deal of nail clicking so if this is one of your preferred “triggers”, this will probably be a good one for you.

This is not the only non-vocal sound on the video. Paper stroking features, which is one of many paper-related sounds; that mouth clicking sound, that ASMR artists seem to use so frequently, also features, there are fabric-stroking sounds; microphone-stroking sounds. The use of dual microphones means that any headphone user will perceive the sounds alternating between sides of the head. Clever stuff but I am not clear it is that effective for sleep. There are beanbag related noises which at least has the benefit of being unusual. Plastic container related noises; noises relating to the application of some kind of lotion and probably the odd sound I failed to note.

The pace is very slow, however, for someone trying to sleep I think that is going to be helpful. In fact, I like this video a great deal, probably why I used to listen to it quite so often. I would think it worthwhile to give it a review yourself if you’re looking for a relaxing video suitable for sleep.

Regular Procrastination Pan afficionados will have recognised that I have not yet covered the non-YouTube source of relaxing material. My searches of late seem to be yielding less and less new material so I suspect that soon I will have to go back and cover some individuals over again.

This week I am falling back on material in the Internet Archive and it is for one of the artists that I also used to listen to many years ago. However, I do not think I have encountered this video before this:

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

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

dn710004.ca.archive.org/0/items/isabel-imagination-asmr-2020-06-12-asmr-for-when-you-feel-down-hugs-cuddles-kisses/Isabel imagination ASMR-2020-06-12-ASMR for when you feel down [ hugs, cuddles, kisses & positive affirmation ]-JVu4gmugEPk-497MB-[CD99985A].mp4

Isabel produces great material on YouTube and that seems to be the former home of this video. I will continue searching and see if there are any other non-YouTube resources that can be located. Although I am beginning to realise that whilst the Internet seems to be a home for much that is free, in actual fact it is a giant marketplace for a lot that needs to be paid for as well.

I hope that you’re able to assemble much of this material into a playlist of your own that you can employ to smooth your transition into sleep.

Now for the material that started this whole period of the Procrastination Pen blog which is the inadvertent ASMR video. Although there is less focus in these blog articles on such videos now, I still feel that this is the bread and butter of ASMR night time sleep material for the Procrastination Pen.

This week I am looking at another medical-themed video. In fact, this one:

Examination of the Arthritic Hip

It comes from the channel Raj Rao this has 1.23k subscribers, seventeen videos, and zero playlists. Not a bad achievement getting that number of subscribers from so little material, I feel. Let us hope that this bodes well for the video. It has notes: “67,669 views 26 Mar 2010

Dr. Edward Nelsen-Freund, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin”

We can see the video is sixteen years old, but I cannot tell if ASMR fans have been here before me because comments are not permitted. This is probably to offset some of the more whacky feedback that you regularly find on YouTube. The video is only six-and-a-quarter minutes in length and so isn’t going to waylay us for long. Of late I have covered a few short ones. The upside is it’s going into a playlist and so length should not be an issue; the downside is that YouTube do love to insert adverts between videos when you are playing them.

It starts without music – Heaven be praised. We find immediately that Dr Nelsen has an excellent voice. There is very little background noise (a minor hiss only). The initial part of the video is a monologue but despite the presentation aspect it is not excessively loud – would that other videos were like this. The medical examination proper then starts, and, again, the volume does not increase. The presentation speed is nicely paced – not excessively fast and not overly slow either. It ends rather abruptly just as I was getting into the pace of it, and, in my case shot into a rather active advert. Hopefully that will not also be your experience.

And that’s it. I think worthy of inclusion in the Procrastination Pen playlist. In fact I think I will be back to this channel in future.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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Until next time.

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Sleeping With ASMR

For those of you who have been following the blog the subject matter will not come as any surprise or the purpose of this writing. For everyone else welcome to the blog. It exists purely to review unintentional ASMR videos, to locate the best ones and to create a playlist of those videos.

The aim is to find the most relaxing videos on YouTube (or occasionally from elsewhere) which can be used to help you drift off to sleep, get back to sleep when you wake up in the middle of the night, and to completely fail to disrupt your sleep due to loud music, loud equipment noises or strange contributions from the air conditioning.

This week, a video which seems to fit into the range of student assessment videos, of which, we have seen more than a few already.

The entire Channel contains fifteen videos which is way more than I usually review at one sitting. However, as you can see the longest of these is less than seven minutes, such that I may make an exception in this case.

The video is this one:

Head, Face, and Neck

It is barely longer than three minutes so it isn’t going to take long to listen to. The medical professional is Leah and it is safe to assume that it is she who owns the channel (as we shall see).

The volume track is muted and sounds distant as if being recorded under water. There is the ever-present sound of air conditioning (which we’ve heard often before).

The approach is gentle and methodical. However, there is the noise of people apparently talking in the background. This is heavily muted though and so in this specific case, is none too intrusive.

The video has no comments and it looks like it is unlikely that we will find out where it was filmed. Although posted in 2023, of course, it could have been filmed at any time.

The channel is Leah Barlow and has eighty five subscribers – which isn’t a huge number in comparison to some we have seen.

There are fifteen videos which is a large number for any single blog post. However, in overview it appears that Leah appears with a different “patient” in several of these videos. Therefore, if we stick with Leah and the patient featured in this video, we have a much more restrictive list (we can return to Leah in a future blog post).

Musculoskeletal Exam Practice

This is slightly longer at five- and three-quarter minutes but still not particularly taxing in terms of attention. It is almost identical in terms of sound with the last one. I think the patient states her name as Mackenzie and d.o.b. 2/15/01 which for those of us in the UK is 15/02/2001. However, I had a hard time making that out and the spelling is probably incorrect in any case.

Again, the presentation is muted in comparison to the background noise which includes a healthy amount of chatter coming through from adjacent rooms.

There are loud noises as footwear drops to the floor, which may cause this one to ultimately be dropped from the Procrastination Pen playlist. (Off-putting noises are the commonest reason for dropping videos into the archive list). It is not the first time I have wished that I could alter a video in order to eliminate such noises, given that a number of videos are excellent in part, and dire in another part.

At intervals there are raised (even excited) voices from an adjacent room and this proves to be quite distracting.

There are also noises from the equipment as the “patient” moves around.

Neuro Exam Practice

Just over six and a half minutes and if anything, the background noise is trying for a starring role. The video proceeds as for the two we have already reviewed. It is gentle, methodical and, background noise allowing, relatively quiet. If there was a God of air conditioning then a few sacrifices need to be made to appease him or her. There are loud equipment noises and some hilarity about the loud equipment noises. (This will probably see it dropped into the archive list). Mackenzie seems to have developed a cold as there is much snivelling and coughing.

This one is really too loud, including some quite energised chatter from an adjacent room.

There is also entertainment due to the fact that Mackenzie proves to be ticklish.

Cardiac Exam

A bit over four and a quarter minutes. There is loud knocking to start with. Mackenzie seems to say that her surname is Delavaso, but it probably isn’t that at all. The air conditioning has started playing drums for Motorhead but thankfully the background chatter has settled to the level of irritating that can be safely ignored (I think).

Thorax and Lungs Exam

Four minutes long. Loud knocking to start, as before. More loud equipment noises more air conditioning noises, but the conversationalists have decided all the loud discussions of previous videos were dreadfully rude and so a background murmur is all that can be heard.

It would be truly quite a good video if the clunks and clangs of the equipment didn’t attend every movement of Mackenzie. Not the first time equipment noises have proved to be a deal breaker for this blog though.

Cardiac Practice

A little under five minutes and the microphone is now officially inside the air conditioning outlet. The voices in this are heavily masked by the sound of forced air.

This really isn’t suitable for the Procrastination Pen playlist.

Ear exam

Less than two and a half minutes, in other respects similar to previous videos. Leah has a good voice but the extraneous noises are at intervals off-putting or irritating.

I’m inclined to include this one, if only because it is so short.

Nose, mouth, throat exam

A bit more than four and a quarter minutes. The knocking at the start seems a little more muted but the background conversation has reasserted itself, somewhat irritatingly.

Mackenzie has an identity badge which could have told us where this is being filmed but sadly it is out of focus so I can’t make it out.

Leah seems much more hesitant in this one than the others we have seen here. There seems to be much hilarity again, so presumably both participants are uncomfortable with the process.

That’s it for this item, but I think we will be revisiting Leah in the future.

The Leah Barlow playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

The Procrastination Pen playlist (which is no-doubt what you have all been reading this in order to locate) is found here:

I have been working through that playlist repeatedly and some of the videos that were members have now fallen from favour. If any of your favourites are in there you can find them here in the archive list:

Quite often the videos getting removed have no faults other than excessive background noise.

The playlist of items that are great for ASMR (but contain an age verification function), usually a great way to interrupt your listening in the middle of the night, is here:

I hope that you find the playlists restful and that you get a good night’s sleep.

Hope to see you again back here for the next blog article.

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Until next time.

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