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Sleeping With ASMR

This week some progress on the wearing of the hearing aid. I am resting my ear at intervals and so I wear the hearing aid perhaps three days per week. This lessens the pain in the ear canal but does not stop the itching from wearing it. That’s all distracting detail though. The main thing for our purposes is that despite the slightly metallic sound I get when wearing it the effects on my appreciation of ASMR seem to be non-existent. Perhaps the old brain is able to adapt to the sound changes but whatever it is, I now feel that I shall be able to go on reviewing ASMR material with no appreciable effects on my facility to like or dislike them.

Of late I have not been listening to ASMR material because I have had a segue onto material that I occasionally listen to instead. Historically I was listening to audiobook material on YouTube – I listened to Terry Pratchett, some science fiction and a great deal of Agatha Christie. However, quite by chance recently, I came across Paul Temple, a character who probably means very little to the majority of people under 70. The peak Paul Temple period seems to have been between 1954 and 1968 on the radio. Initially I came across some YouTube material, for example:

However, it turns out that YouTube is not the only source, for example:

https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/podcasts/the-adventures-of-paul-temple-old-time-radio

Definitely not ASMR but possibly a good night-time distraction nonetheless.

The Calm offering today is this one:

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

Daily Jay

Gossip

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

I rather like Jay; I listen to him fairly frequently. I haven’t been able to build the meditation into a daily discipline yet however, even though this is a pay for service. (I do try to get my money’s worth out of pay-for services).

Today’s professional ASMR offering features two participants. I don’t get to feature such videos that often (I think they are comparatively rare).

ASMR Home Doctor Physical Exam with My Sister Alisa, Bilingual Medical RP

The comments lead me to believe that the whole sister thing is a complete red herring and there is one person playing two separate roles. That must have taken some clever video editing. I am in admiration of the sheer time people are prepared to dedicate to their videos.

The channel is Lizi ASMR, I am pretty sure I have not been to that channel before. So, a surprise for us all then. The channel has 780k subscribers, nine hundred and sixty-three videos, eighteen playlists so it is extremely popular. That does not tell me much; I have written a number of disappointed reviews of artists who have innumerate fans of feverish dedication.

The channel has notes:

“Lizi ASMR

Description

Hi there, and welcome to my channel! 🌟

I’m Lizi, and I’m so happy you’re here! I create ASMR videos to help you relax, de-stress, and enjoy those wonderful tingles.

If you love soft whispers, fun soft-spoken role-plays, and binaural sounds that feel right in your ears, you’ll feel right at home here. 🎧 Don’t forget your headphones—they make all the difference!

I post new videos every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, so there’s always something new to help you unwind. If you like what you see, hit Subscribe and tap the 🔔 so you never miss a video. I’d love for you to join our little ASMR community—a cozy and welcoming space!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Let’s relax and hang out together! 💖”

So, this seems to be an artist who focuses on the whispery approach (which is by far the most common approach for ASMR artists).

Today’s video also has notes:

“563,288 views 15 Oct 2021 #LiziASMR #ASMR #ASMRPhysicalExam

Shop Kenzzi here: https://kenzzi.com/products/kenzzi-ip…

Use code Lizi50 for 50$ off

Hello everyone! I wanted to do another ASMR video with Alisa, it’s a Physical exam with Alisa being extremely naughty. I know you guys like 360 sounds so I filmed this video in such a way that the second person off-screen will be moving around the room touching stuff, taking notes and etc. Alisa will give you an eye exam in the middle for a change. There are many unintentional sounds and some language triggers in addition to medical ones. I hope you enjoy it💖

If you enjoy Bilingual RP videos, check my playlist

~ • ASMR Relaxing Medical Examination by Russi…

TimeStamps

00:00 Kenzzi Promo

02:10 Physical Exam

14:17 Alisa Eye Exam

19:42 Physical Exam cont

My Upload Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday

**USE HEADPHONES FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE**

For more ASMR videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiziASMR?su…”

Which, not unexpectedly, are of a reasonable length.

The video is a little over twenty-nine minutes and so of a respectable length in terms of videos that have been reviewed recently.

It starts with my least favourite thing in a YouTube video which is a product endorsement. So, on that basis, I reject this one and let’s move on.

Let’s try this one instead:

ASMR A ~*Completely Normal*~ Medical Exam

A rather unusual ASMR title, let’s hope that it bodes well.

it comes from the channel: Amy Kay ASMR this has 553k subscribers, five hundred and seventy three videos, thirteen playlists none of those are obviously medically themed.

The notes on the channel are:

“Amy Kay ASMR

Description

Brands & Sponsors: amykayasmr@runbyinfluencers.com

Other business matters (I don’t do customs): mkayamy@gmail.com

Instagram: AmyKayASMR (for random selfies and irl Amy Kay stuff)

Twitter: AmyKayASMR (for my unfiltered thoughts)

TikTok: @AmyKayASMR & @AmyKayASMRFast (this is just me goofing off)

Become a Patron to help fund all my props and costumes! 🙂

https://www.patreon.com/amykayasmr

Thank you to all my Patrons!

For those who want to support me but would rather not use Patreon, Throne is like an amazon wishlist but safer 🙂: https://throne.me/u/amykayasmr“

Which also incorporate a fair amount of promotion so crossed fingers it isn’t just a glorified advert.

The notes on the video are:

“153,923 views 5 Oct 2020

Wait a second, does she even know what she’s doing???

Thank you to CrinkleLuvin ASMR for agreeing to cameo in my video!! 🙂

Go say hi to her channel here:

/ channel

Twitter: @AmyKayASMR

Instagram: AmyKayASMR

TikTok: AmyKayASMR

For Patreon:

linktr.ee/amykayasmr

Become a Patron to help fund all my props and costumes! :)”

Comments are permitted and there are a lot of them. Most of them seem a tad off-the-wall which usually isn’t a good sign.

The video is a little over twenty three and a half minutes which is a reasonable length. The video does not start off at the whispery end of presentation so that is something of a result. In fact, I like the tone. There is no background noise but there is a slight border around the individual presenting so I suspect that this was filmed with the modern equivalent of a green screen i.e. that the backdrop does not exist. (I’m guessing you will not be spending a great deal of time watching in any case if you are using this to get some snooze time.

The presentation feels a bit stumbling at intervals which I think is because the video is aimed at demonstrating that the individual is a tad inept. Now the comments begin to make sense.

There are paper noises, sometimes these are a tad loud. There are tapping noises, fingers brushing over a surface, gloves-related noises (not my favourite). There are rustling noises coming from activity off camera (again, a fairly typical technique).

The gloves-related noises make up rather too much of this video for it to be a good one for my purposes and I was rather glad when they stopped.

The humorous presentation was fun but I was not certain that it added much ASMR-wise which is really my purpose in reviewing these things in the first place.

There are keyboard noises (rather loud and sounding completely random as if no typing was actually taking place (which I suspect that it wasn’t)). There are clicking noises, clunking noises, pencil scribbling noises, nail tapping noises (against all kinds of surfaces including a metal can). There are adhesive noises (a bacon-coloured sticking plaster for some reason).

So it wasn’t my favourite, but it was fun in a humorous kind of fashion, so why not listen for yourself.

This week I am breaking one of my rules simply because I cannot find the original source (If anyone reading can find the video this is from an can fill me in I will review that original video.

So, I have a video that someone has doctored but which seems taken from a genuine medical video. It is this one:

ASMR Loop: Physical Examination – Unintentional ASMR – 1 Hour

It is on a channel dedicated to ASMR so someone has edited this video, and also has looped it to create a video one hour long. I really dislike loop videos so I went in search of the original but did not find it. Instead I found the shorter version of this video put up by another ASMR-dedicated channel, which is this one:

*Real Person* Medical Examination | Best Unintentional ASMR

it is from Touro University Nevada who have a channel dedicated to university promotion (as you would expect) https://www.youtube.com/@TouroNevada there are one hundred and sixty six videos on here but I cannot see the one this footage is extracted from (I get the feeling that universities take down their older videos and then they become preserved only in the hands of ASMR fans).

I think the posting by ASMR fans is somewhat precarious. I have reviewed very good videos hosted on ASMR sites in the past all of which disappeared, sometimes taking the ASMR channel with them. I think some organisations are not keen on their videos being used in this way.

My advice: listen while you may.

There are comments. Some are trying to prove how much they know about ASMR, some trying to prove how clever they are altogether and some seem to be a tad strange. That sounds like YouTube video comments in microcosm.

The video is a little less than fourteen and a quarter minutes and it starts very loud indeed. The person’s voice can even be heard to echo in the room. There are loud rustling noises from the “drape” which I assume was made of some kind of paper. The medical professional’s voice calms down a lot when the examination starts and then just as it did, a loud and energetic advert kicked in.

There are clunking noises from the equipment used, some loud thunks, clicking noises, some rustling noises, noises from the medical professional being (almost constantly) in motion.

The presentation is calm and measured though and that is restful. Just like that though another loud and energetic advert, and the video is not even five minutes in yet.

There are deep breathing noises, clothing related noises and then yet another loud and energetic advert still not even eight minutes into the video. There are palpation noises, metallic noises from the table used to support the patient, noises from chair wheels rotating on a hard floor. Then another loud and energetic advert just over twelve minutes into the video. It ends without music (and thankfully without a further advert). However, this illustrates the issue I have written about for months now. Reasonable, but not excellent, video ruined by loud non-ASMR adverts (and so many of them). I have a suspicion that the vast increase in number of adverts is the result of channel owners trying to maximise their revenue. It spoils the listening experience.

So, I think the video makes for interesting listening (I can’t find the original to review so this is probably the best that you’re going to get.

Sadly, though I can’t recommend it for sleep as roughly every three minutes you will get an energetic advert.

Just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

Today I was dragging in a second-hand sliding patio door unit with a man some tiny fraction of my age. He seemed unfazed by the whole operation whereas I was reflecting, would I even be able to move it?

One of the consistent pieces of feedback I read about sleep is that the greater amount of exercise you can slot into your life, the much better will be the quality of that life and of the sleep that you manage to get.

I have the feeling that there are some bronzed performers who started life as the athletes picked in school and went on to win athletic medals at university and although they have (no doubt startling) careers, still find time to pound the track, lift incredible weights and consume vast quantities of protein shake.

I am not of that ilk. I never found it necessary until this moment, in fact, to do much that was more proactive than to dig the garden or walk in the countryside. However, I feel that a change is going to be needed and if I can find the wherewithal to make a go of it, I will document the relevant effects on sleep and if the claims made for exercise live up to the reality.

Meantime, I am going to resume examining ASMR. I am feeling a little more positive of late as I seem to have unearthed (and reviewed) some very good videos recently. However, some of that has been at the consequence of going a little off-piste in terms of subject matter. Let us see what this week brings.

The Calm track this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/f8udqt_eR8

Daily Trip

Oh, That’s What’s Happening!

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Regular readers will no doubt already be aware that you cannot get to Calm content without first subscribing. No doubt this is the reason that they can get voices at the quality that they do. It is regrettable, but if you do not have a subscription, you will not be able to listen to this. So, moving swiftly on.

This week’s professional ASMR offering I only looked at because of the claims made in the title:

[ASMR] Medically Accurate Cranial Nerve Exam 🩺🔎 (whispering, glove sounds, personal attention, …)

Given the wide variety of cranial nerve exams that I have watched (and listened to) that is a somewhat bold claim. It comes to us from the channel

Lotta’s ASMR 32.1k subscribers, three hundred and ninety three videos, fifteen playlists of which this one is on theme for this blog:

There are notes which are charmingly brief for a professional ASMR artist:

“Lotta’s ASMR

Description

Hi there and welcome! My name is Lotta and I create ASMR videos for your relaxation! I hope you have a great day (or night)! I post new videos every Sunday 🙂

Links goodreadsgoodreads.com/user/show/163221862?ref=nav_profile_l

instagraminstagram.com/lottasmind”

The video itself has notes: “2,054,033 views 25 Jun 2023 #cranialnerveexam #personalattention #asmr

Hi everyone!

Do you want to learn more about what a REAL cranial nerve exam looks like?

As you might know, I am actually a med student. Well, lately we spoke about the cranial nerves and how to test each one of them. Funnily enough, the real ways in which a neurologist would check your cranial nerves is very similar to how ASMRtists often do it.

I know many ASMRtists probably take inspiration from the “real way to do it” but I didn’t expect it to be so SPOT ON.

Anyway, if you’d like to have a medically accurate cranial nerve exam plus some information on what the nerves actually are and do, you’ve come to the right video. This video would also be perfect if you’re an ASMRtist looking to create a cranial nerve exam role-play.

Triggers included are: whispering, personal attention (face touching, …), tapping, glove sounds, some tracing, …

I hope you like it, have a good night!

Enjoy! ❤️

What even is ASMR?

ASMR describes a feeling of pleasant goosebumps (this is also called tingles). You may it know from when someone scratched your scalp or your back. ASMR videos trigger this feeling using various different sounds and visuals.

ASMR can help people fall asleep. It also calms anxiety and can be used for both relaxation and focusing on a task.

#asmr #roleplay #cranialnerveexam #whispering #personalattention #doctorroleplay”

Which, sadly, are anything but brief. In fact I have doctored them a little as the length was way too excessive even for blog articles like this one.

Comments are allowed and there are a phenomenal number. Some of them are calling out the claim in the title. Unsurprisingly, I am not the first to be intrigued by that.

The video is a little less than thirty minutes. Not a bad length in terms of those we have listened to of late. I am a little concerned it lists glove-related noises as triggers, as this is most definitely not my preferred thing. However, let us venture forth and see what we may find.

The video starts with that finger flicking motion that a number of ASMR professionals do and which I’m pretty sure medical professionals do not. It is not my thing but at least the video did not start with music. I am also interested that the presentation starts out whispery. Not that I have anything against a whisper, I am just pretty nigh convinced that a medical professional does not whisper at you during an examination.

The tone is good; the pace is good. It has the odd breathy moment and of course, that finger flicking. Lotta reveals that she is currently still a medical student rather than a fully-fledged doctor so perhaps for that we should grant some latitude around cranial nerve exam claims.

There are nail clicking noises, glove related noises (oh dear), that mouth clicking/clucking noise that ASMR professionals tend to excel at. There are paper stroking noises and noises from manipulation of cardboard. There is a background noise at one point of someone having a conversation outside the room. Fortunately that is quite brief.

As ASMR, I think it stacks up well. I’m not quite so convinced about accuracy. However, for our purposes I would say that this is well worth reviewing yourself.

Those loyal people who keep reading this blog will, at this point no doubt be feeling a tad cheated as I do try to find a resource that is not on YouTube and that does (at least to some extent) deny the constant thirst for advertising revenue that seems to be everywhere on the Internet. This week I came across this in one of my emails:

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

Happiness Break: A Practice in Moving Through Stress

It will nag you to sign up for a newsletter but not painfully. There is no obvious download link but I found I could listen freely without signing up. Jonathan Relucio is the artist and he has a calm voice and I think this is well worth a listen.

The inadvertent video this week is this one:

Calculus explained through a story

It comes from a time when I was trying to explore videos outside of the medical theme that I have been following for greater than three years now and hence this one is not on theme for this blog. Dependent upon your perspective this is either a welcome distraction or a bloomin’ nuisance. Normal service will be resumed soonish.

It comes from the channel Tibees with 1.34m subscribers, three hundred and eighty seven videos, eighteen playlists with literally none of those on theme for this blog. This is going to mean that unless today’s video is marvellous, I am unlikely to pay a return visit.

There is the usual large number of notes on the channel:

“Tibees

Description

Hi, I’m Toby, on my channel you can expect to see videos about physics, math, astronomy and the history of science.

If you like my channel then please help me out by sharing one of my videos with a friend. You can also support me through Patreon or Ko-fi (links below). I really appreciate it 🙂

Please visit my website for FAQs and contact information https://tobyhendy.com/

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a |mathematical| day :)” Which, again. I have edited down a tad.

And a comparatively brief number of notes with the video itself:

“767,249 views 6 Oct 2018 #JoyOfMathematics

Here is a look at the essence of calculus through the story of Bob. We use differentiation to find the slope of a curved line and then use ‘integration’ to find the area of an irregular shape.

Special thanks to the owl and birds in my garden for making so much noise during filming. ” also reduced in size a little.

There are literally thousands of comments with the video and most of them are a tad surreal, or definitely odd. To be honest that does not bode well with ASMR fans generally offering up their firstborn to a preferred ASMR artist in my experience.

The video is a little less than fifteen minutes in length so this is not going to keep us that long.

It starts with music, regrettably and some outside noises as if this was filmed in a parkland or similar. When Toby starts speaking, thankfully, that music stops altogether (the wildlife noises persist however) and we find that Toby has a great voice. Toby appears to be female and that Toby is not whispering. By turns, gratifying, interesting, and gratifying again.

I would have preferred it without the wildlife but I would say that Toby has a good voice for our purposes and it is almost certain I will be back to the site again. Why not take a listen for yourself.

So just one video this week.

I wish you well in your drive to get more sleep.

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

See you again next week.

The 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

Of late I am becoming as good at procrastination as the title of the blog would lead you to suspect. I am not writing and yet, perversely, when I am writing I don’t find the process that unpleasant. So it is rather odd that I am choosing to avoid writing in this fashion.

However, apart from getting you a blog article this has nothing to do with ASMR (well as far as I am aware anyway).

Of late I have been falling asleep to Paul Temple who is a character that I came across quite by accident. There is a whole set of Paul Temple playlists on YouTube like this one:

and this follows on rather nicely I think from the Agatha Christie material that I used to dose off to:

There are even more of those, for example:

and in fact, as part of my material that is not on YouTube, I can choose one of those that is in the Internet Archive such as:

https://archive.org/details/ATTWN_AC_DS

https://archive.org/download/ATTWN_AC_DS/01%20-%20And%20Then%20There%20Were%20None.mp3

https://archive.org/download/ATTWN_AC_DS/02%20-%20Ten%20Little%20Soldier%20Boys.mp3

A bit of a cheat in that it has nothing to do with ASMR but as a mechanism of falling off to sleep, I do find that the occasional audiobook is a great way to ring the changes from ASMR every once in a while.

This week’s Calm offering is this one:

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

Daily Calm

The Place

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

This explores the tendency of grasping.

Calm is not free. I feel a tad guilty about suggesting something that isn’t free in that I am certain it will therefore appeal to very few people, so moving right along.

Today I decided I’d ring the changes in an entirely selfish fashion given that I have been trying to learn Italian for years without success and in my YouTube recommendations I found an Italian teacher who does ASMR. This is not at all medical. It is therefore not on theme for what I have been doing and I apologise for that. Normal service will be resumed soonish.

ASMR Your Italian Teacher Explains Italy Geography Lesson

It is a little less than twenty two minutes so somewhat shorter than some we have been used to. There are comments – a fair few of those and mostly positive too which bodes well. The channel is AppleWhispers ASMR. I am pretty certain I have not been here before; it has 4.15k subscribers, four videos, no playlists and there is even a medical themed video:

So, I may be returning to review that if nothing else. With only four videos over the course of very few blog articles I could review all that there are. Assuming the present one is impressive, at any rate.

There are notes with the channel (of course):

“AppleWhispers ASMR

Description

🌙 Welcome to AppleWhispers ASMR! Hi, I’m Elena! 🤍 I’ve been creating ASMR videos for over 6 years, helping people relax, unwind and fall asleep. I also run one of Italy’s largest ASMR channels, AppleTingles ASMR, and I finally decided to create a space for my English-speaking audience. Here you’ll find: ✨ Soft spoken & whispered ASMR 🩺 Medical roleplays 💆 Personal attention 😴 Sleep & relaxation videos 🎧 Tingly sounds and cozy atmospheres Thank you for being here. I hope my videos can bring you a little peace, wherever you are in the world. Whether you’re here to relax after a long day, reduce anxiety or simply fall asleep, I hope you’ll feel safe and welcome. Sweet dreams, Elena 🍎 🇮🇹 My Italian ASMR channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AppleTinglesASMR“

So that is interesting. This is just a sideline channel o the main feast as it were. I may be reviewing that other channel in future then.

The video (of course) also has notes:

“72,761 views 10 Aug 2026 #asmr #sleep #relax

Today we’re taking a relaxing journey across Italy, exploring the geography, history and fascinating facts that make my country so unique.

Many people know Italy for pizza, pasta and beautiful cities, but there’s so much more to discover.

In this ASMR geography lesson we’ll explore:

🇮🇹 Why Italy is actually a surprisingly young country

🏔️ How the Dolomites were once ancient coral reefs

🌋 Italy’s active volcanoes

🏛️ Vatican City and San Marino

🌊 Italy’s incredible geography

🏞️ Mountains, lakes and coastlines

…and many more fascinating facts!

So, sit back, relax, and let me guide you through one of the world’s most beautiful countries.

If you enjoy this video, let me know in the comments! I’d love to continue this series and explore more of Italy together. ❤️

🍎 Welcome to AppleWhispers ASMR!

Hi, I’m Elena! 🤍

I’m so happy you’re here.

My goal is to help you relax, unwind and fall asleep through gentle whispers, personal attention and immersive ASMR roleplays.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

🎧 For relaxation purposes only.

Please do not listen while driving or operating machinery.”

I’ve truncated those a lot.

The warning is amusing, who knew that ASMR could be as powerful as a bottle of Night Nurse.

The video starts without music and surprisingly to me it is in English. OK, English teacher teaching Italian, makes sense.

Even for ASMR it seemed a bit slow to me. Despite that, the voice level is ideal, calm, quiet but not a whisper – quite a rare thing.

However, as far as the teaching Italian goes – no Italian. Some details about Italy but not the language as such. OK, serves me right, I should have stuck to the blog theme and stopped dithering about.

At least there aren’t any gloves-related noises in this one. There is the occasional stoke of the map (fingers on paper). But mainly this is all about the voice which is just the way I like it. After a while I found myself adapting to the slower pace and it became ever more restful as I kept listening.

I rather liked this one (as I am certain you understand from that review). Why not take a listen for yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week comes from a time when I was doing the odd diversion from medical themed ASMR videos and so I had a listen to a woodblock carving video and I rather liked what I heard.

I sent myself a reminder to look it up again (Three years ago now) and so here I am with not one but two videos delivered to you in the form of a playlist:

The channel is David Bull with 192k subscribers, One hundred and forty seven videos, seven playlists of which (unsurprisingly) none at all are on a medical theme. I really am taking a foray to stage left this week.

The channel has notes “

“David Bull

Description

Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull has created a number of video presentations of his work, including a number of videos showing the complete process of making his prints. A highlight of the channel is the series of videos chronicling the production of prints in the Ukiyoe Heroes series – his collaboration with US-based illustrator Jed Henry.

A great deal of the work for producing these videos is recently being assisted by the Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan/   Thank you very much for your support!

Dave streams three times a week from our Twitch account: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking

Links

Mokuhankan workshopmokuhankan.com

Our Patreon pagepatreon.com/mokuhankan

Woodblock.com websitewoodblock.com

Twitch livestreamingtwitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking”

The first video is this one:

Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop – Hakobi

It too has notes:

“50,125 views 27 May 2021 TOKYO

This is the first in a series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking industry and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan.

Today’s video is about the pigment brushes our printers use, known as ‘hakobi’ (運び) or ‘tokibo’ (解き棒). First Suga-san tells us a little bit about what hakobi are for and why she makes her own instead of only using store-bought ones, and then she demonstrates the whole process from start to finish. Finally, we have a slideshow at the end going over the tying steps again for you to follow while making your own.

We have a list of ideas and have started the process of making more of these – but please feel free to leave a comment about what techniques and tools you are interested in learning about so we can consider your ideas for future videos.

Narration and demonstrations: Natsuki Suga

Cinematography: Yasuhiro Aoyama and Cameron Hilker

Editing and Subtitling: Cameron Hilker

Hasegawa Typeface: Markku Mujunen (https://mokuhankan.com/fonts/ and http://markkumujunen.com/)

On Dave’s personal website, there is more information on making these tools:

http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/ent…

http://woodblock.com/manga/hakobi/ind…

The Mokuhankan Twitch channel (where you can watch Dave use the tools shown here):

/ japaneseprintmaking

The Mokuhankan website:

https://mokuhankan.com

Our Patreon campaign:

/ mokuhankan “

There are a large number of comments and a number are positive. Some lead me to suspect that ASMR fans are already well aware of this one.

It is a little over fifteen and a half minutes so not huge but bear in mind this week we have two of them to listen to.

It starts with the weather and the weather is rather blustery. There is the sound of crows, of the wind, and the rain. We find that this video is actually in Japanese and is being subtitled. The person presenting has a good voice and the pace is excellent. I love the intonation of the Japanese language and given the subject matter I have some assurance that no rude words have snuck in (despite the fact I have no comprehension of the language personally and I am relying on the subtitles).

There are some random noises, which we’d expect given the subject matter is about woodblock printing not ASMR. There are water noises, paper-related noises, scissors cutting noises, a background noise which sounds like sanding (by hand). The end is a series of instructions with no voice; there is just some background noise, which sounds like cleaning activity to me. If anything, this section of the video is more restful than the rest.

The credits indicate that the narrator/presenter was Natsuki Suga and it may well be worthwhile keeping an eye open for further videos from this source.

The second video is a little alike the first, it is this one:

Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop – A Printer’s Tools and Workspace

it too has notes: “64,382 views 21 Jul 2021 MOKUHANKAN (JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS AND MORE)

This is the second in our ever-growing series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking style and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan.

Today, Natsuki Suga gives us a tour of her printing bench and surrounding workspace. Watch to learn a bit more about each tool she uses in her daily work as a printmaker. We hope you will enjoy this overview and learn something along the way, as well.

Printmaker and Host: Natsuki Suga

Video and Photos: Cameron Hilker

Hasegawa Typeface: Markku Mujunen (https://mokuhankan.com/fonts/ and http://markkumujunen.com/)

To see Suga-san actually using this space, watch this video:

• Woodblock Printing Process – A Japan Journey

The Mokuhankan Twitch channel (where you can watch Dave use many of the tools shown here):

/ japaneseprintmaking

The Mokuhankan website:

https://mokuhankan.com

Our Patreon campaign:

/ mokuhankan “

It is little less than fourteen- and three-quarter minutes. The comments are still largely positive and again some of the comments lead me to suspect that ASMR fans have come visiting. It starts loud though, with the sound of a train and various city related noises. Again, we have Natsuki Suga as the presenter, same great voice, same peaceful style. If anything, less background noise. This time Natsuki is not on the floor. I did fear for the knees in that position but less fearful when sat at a desk. The subject in itself appears to me fascinating but of course we are here for the sound and I would say we are well served in that respect. I like the intonation; I like the pace. There is the overarching sense of peace about the entire presentation.

So, two whole videos this week and a playlist thrown in for fun.

I wish you well in your drive to get more sleep.

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

See you again next week.

The David Bull playlist on The Procrastination Pen is here:

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

I have not been having a lot of luck with the inadvertent ASMR material of late and I feel a bit of weeding of the playlist coming on in the near future. I am considering stopping the focus on medical themed videos. Although there appear to be thousands of videos to choose from out there, the number incorporating someone with a quiet calm voice and lacking much extraneous noise seem to be rather small. We’ll see how things go.

So, the good news is that, apparently, if you do not get the seven to nine hours sleep a night but you are still getting good quality sleep, then that might be good enough. A good sign being that the sleep is refreshing for you.

Sadly, though, the prevalence of insomnia increases as people get older. Particularly if, as you get older, you develop health conditions that impact sleep.

The things that I habitually do or have done to improve sleep, for instance, napping in the day, sleeping longer at weekends (about the only time I do feel refreshed) tend to make things worse. I have not tried drinking alcohol deliberately in order to get to sleep but that isn’t any help either (if you were about to try it). Alcohol makes it seem that it is easier to get to sleep but then goes on to ruin the quality of any sleep that you actually get.

The priority is to develop a sleep habit. Breaking the habit by additional naps or sleeping longer overall disimproves the situation.

There are more helpful techniques, for example, making use of a progressive muscle relaxation exercise to try to relax. It turns out that there are a large number of these on YouTube and just at random here is an example:

There’s even a non-YouTube option:

(it does require that you create an account to listen and it has no download option).

There is also a downloadable (MP3) which does not seem to require an account to access it:

Muscle Relaxation

Another suggested helpful approach which I struggle with is to make sleep a habit. Habits are the things that we thrive on. If you want to keep doing something, make it into a routine thing that you can repeat without thinking.

There are also habits that can detract from sleeping such as reading in bed, watching TV, keeping the phone near the bed (where it proves distracting).

Of course, if you cannot get comfortable then sleeping is made more difficult. The most comfortable sleep I had was once when abroad. I researched the mattress and found it was only available in the United States. Therefore, you have my sympathies if you also find it difficult finding something comfortable to sleep on.

However, reserving the bed for sleep only is important if you are already having trouble sleeping. It might be that if your partner regularly disturbs you during your sleep that you may have to sleep separately for example which some couples are currently exploring.

It’s also important that any preparation for sleep occurs elsewhere than the bedroom. This associates the bedroom solely with sleep.

You can also prepare in advance. For instance, going upstairs sometime before bedtime and drawing curtains and/or dimming the lights.

The entire sleep habit will probably start sometime before bed say two hours before – any reading will occur outside the bedroom; eating will have stopped and some light stretching (but no heavy exercise). Lowering the temperature down to close to eighteen degrees and ensuring your feet stay warm.

The association of the bed with sleep is an important feature of getting to sleep quickly. There are some habits that can break this association such as pursuing other activities in bed, such as reading

Using alcohol may help a person fall asleep but impacts the ability to get sufficient deep sleep. The clue is the feeling of tiredness when you wake up. In addition, commonly after alcohol, you will need to wake up perhaps more than once to go to the bathroom which further disrupts sleep.

The problem is that if you do not currently associate the bed with sleep you are likely to spend time in bed tossing and turning rather than actually sleeping and this further disrupts the association of the bed with sleep. Therefore, if you do not fall asleep within (say) fifteen minutes it is actually better to get up from bed and only return when you feel tired enough to actually drop off to sleep.

Going to bed early in this context may actually be counterproductive. If you are not tired enough to sleep you are more likely to lie awake rather than to sleep. It is not possible to force yourself to sleep in this way so the activity is more likely to disrupt the association of the bed with sleeping.

Exercise is great for sleep and a regular exercise programme pursued during the day will aid in the eventual sleep process. However, exercising too close to sleep time has the opposite effect as it will tend to energise – boosting both energy levels and body temperature, both things that you do not need when you want to get to sleep.

Eating in the evening will tend to deleteriously affect the ability to drop off. Drinking at night will have the tendency to mean that you’ll need to get up to go to the toilet. This will obviously impact the quality of your sleep.

Anyone who has a poor association of the bed with sleeping is going to make that worse by doing anything else in the bed but sleeping. Reading, texting, watching TV all of these can mean that it takes longer than fifteen minutes to fall asleep when in bed.

Frustration in the sleeping process is a good sign that you have a poor association between the bed and sleeping. You will then need to go through a process of reassociating the bed with sleep. You should start the sleep process about fifteen minutes after getting into bed. If you are just lying there and not sleeping it is better to get up and to only return to bed when you are feeling drowsy. Although initially it seems that you are missing out on sleep because you are spending time out of the bedroom, it will bear dividends in that ultimately when you go to bed you will fall asleep within fifteen minutes.

It is important that on moving room you do not engage in stimulating activities (watching TV, eating, using the phone, answering email and so on). The second space you have moved to also needs to be unstimulating. Reading is good for this, preferably under a light that uses a red spectrum bulb.

You can use white noise to mask background noise to help you to sleep.

It turns out that there is (surprise, surprise) white noise on YouTube as well:

(It seems rather loud to me).

There are some freely playable ones here:

https://white-noises.com/#sounds

and some downloadable versions here:

https://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_whitenoise.php

The Calm track this week is this one:

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

Daily Jay

Yes, and…

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

The rules we choose to live by, choosing acceptance and the flow of life. Always say yes. Accept what is offered and work with it. Do not resist. Yes and means you take what is offered and you take action; it is not merely acceptance. We get to decide our next step.

As I may have mentioned Calm is not free. So only check this out if you already have a subscription (or you really want one).

The professional ASMR video this week is from a channel I reviewed recently, BehindTheMoons (I noted) produces videos in both English and in French. Last time I reviewed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEK1fSO-gUI i.e. the English language version.

However, a link in the notes from the same video tells me that there is a French version of the same thing. i.e. this video:

[subtitled] ASMR in French – Futuristic Hearing Test [The Personal Enhancing Hearing Device ◉]

I want a chance to run a fully independent review of the French version and see if I reach a different conclusion. Same person, same premiss, simply a different language. Does that affect my impression of it.

As I mentioned before BehindTheMoons has 262k subscribers, two hundred and eighty four videos, but only four playlists some of which (obviously) are in French.I covered the channel notes last time (there are a lot of them) so I will not go over them again.

Today’s video also has notes, which are lengthy. Most professional ASMR artists go in for extensive notes:

“1,012,209 views Premiered on 5 Mar 2023 #ASMRfr #ASMR #ASMRFrance

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

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

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

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

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

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

The English version is available here: • ASMR – Futuristic Hearing Test [The Person…

Thank you for watching the video and for reading the description. Take care,”

As before I have truncated these. None of us have the time for extensive reading of notes I am certain.

You will have noticed that for some reason the notes are not in French. I have no idea why that is.

The video is a little shorter. The English version was close to thirty minutes and this is a little over twenty-five and a half minutes. There are comments and some of these are not in French. They appear general praising which is all to the good.

There is brief music at the start as there was with the English language version, I therefore presume this is some kind of branding. I am not a fan of music in ASMR videos, it distracts from the ASMR-ish-ness of them. However, at least this music is brief and therefore not overly distracting.

If anything, I would say that the voice of the presenting person is even better in their native language (no surprises, I suppose). It isn’t whispered but it is low and calm and quiet.

I had not realised that French has some of the noises that ASMR artists recreate artificially (presumably because they are triggers for a group of ASMR fans). I can hear an occasional mouth clicking sound, for example.

I have the sense that I prefer this in French. I can sense that perhaps foreign language presentations may start to form a larger part of those videos I review from this point onwards. It has been comparatively rare so far. Although, to be honest, I rarely find them.

This time I tried listening with the headphones on (as recommended in the video notes). I would say that it does make a positive difference, not least when directional affects are implemented. It also helps to filter out some of the household noises. Having a new hearing aid has its downsides.

The muted part of the video and the hearing device calibration is clever but strange. It is not overly distracting. However, I am going to try listening to it when trying to get to sleep and see if that situation remains.

Even with the presentation enunciated in French, the on-screen prompts are still in English which feels a little odd as well. However, if you’re as tired as I am when listening to these videos, I doubt you’ll be doing much in the way of watching, mostly it is just a sleep aid.

As for the previous videos there are clicks, clonks, keyboard sounds, nail clicking sounds, the odd musical tone. Some of these seem to go on for a bit (or I’m more tired than when I reviewed the last one).

I still think that this has the slight edge on the English Language version. Why not take a listen and see what you think.

I realised recently that I have been reviewing ASMR tracks since 2023. You’d think I’d find something grown up to do with my life.

In all that time I focused on inadvertent ASMR videos. Sometimes there have been real gems and sometimes not so much. I have had a fallow period of late I recognise. Let’s see what todays brings.

Today’s video is this one:

Golfer’s & Tennis Elbow Assessment – OSCE Guide | Clip | UKMLA | CPSA | PLAB 2

Here I feel on more solid ground, but mostly it is because it is from a channel where we have reviewed it so often, I must be getting to the stage of nearly having reviewed every video it has.

This is Geeky Medics https://www.youtube.com/@geekymedics, with 1.46m subscribers, three hundred and fifty-four videos, twenty playlists. Well, I’m wrong in that case there is no way I have had the time to individually document three hundred and fifty-four videos. OK, well plenty of scope for the future we can say then.

The problem with all the geeky medics videos I have reviewed thus far is the inclusion of some pretty peppy music which, frankly, is the last thing that you need around snooze time.

This one is scarcely over one and a quarter minutes and you guessed it despite the short length still finds time to cram in some music at the start of it.

There are notes: “82,306 views 26 Sept 2022 Musculoskeletal Examination OSCE Guides | CPSA | UKMLA | PLAB | MRCS

This video demonstrates how to screen for Golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis) and Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) in an OSCE station.

You can read our guide to elbow examination here: https://geekymedics.com/elbow-examina…”

Which I am deliberately keeping brief. There are comments, but precious few of these and none from ASMR fans that I can see. Oh dear.

The video though is excellent with the medical professional having an excellent voice and the patient equally so. It is a shame that it is not a longer video to be honest. Of course it has to conclude with yet more music…

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

The Geeky Medics 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 was thinking about voice resources that are not on YouTube and realised that I am receiving updates about writing which include an entry which is recorded rather than written. For example, this one:

I thought this was a great occasion for you to try something that was neither specifically meditation (which tends to be a subject I often write about), nor is it on YouTube (although this writer is on YouTube, for example):

I have not done a great deal more sleep course study of late. However I did have a summary from my last session which was:

It is not possible to replace sleep that you have missed.
The quality of sleep is more important than the quantity.
A well-rested person learns more easily.
Our brains are busy during sleep.
Tiredness in the daytime does not necessarily mean that you need more sleep.
Adults need 7 – 9 hours sleep.
Many people struggle with sleep.

Which more or less reinforces the purpose of this blog, in fact.

The Calm resource this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/fC0ND-4Ldm

Daily Calm

Volume

NARRATOR

Tamara Levitt

AUTHOR

Tamara Levitt

How to lower the volume on distracting thoughts. I am still nervous about including material from this site as Calm is not free. You can probably tell, as I tend to keep this section short.

The professional ASMR video this week is from a channel I cannot remember ever having reviewed before, so this one is as new to me as no doubt it is to you. The channel is ASMRmania. This has 276k subscribers, three hundred and fifty-six videos, but only six playlists. A number of these videos seem to be in Russian, for example:

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

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

“ASMRmania

Description ASMR relaxation, ASMR role play, personal attention, ASMR triggers, ASMR sounds ear to ear, ASMR whisper, soft spoken and relaxing voice for sleep. My name is Olesya. A Russian girl from St. Petersburg. I love to create calming ASMR videos which can help people with insomnia or feeling stress, for relaxation and to trigger ASMR tingles. ASMRmania”

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

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

ASMR. Doctor Roleplay. Medical exam. Test. Neurologist. Relaxing for Sleep. Whisper. Russian Accent.

I feel safer listening in English; given the state of YouTube, the person could be saying anything at all if I can’t understand the language.

The video also has notes, which are surprisingly brief for a professional ASMR artist:

” 508,422 views 20 Jun 2014

ASMR. Doctor Roleplay. ASMR Medical exam. ASMR Test. Neurologist. Relaxing for Sleep. ASMR Whisper. Russian Accent. Medicine video ASMR. Amazing Sound 3D. ASMR Role Play.

ASMR Video: A Russian girl in English. Russian accent. ASMR soft spoken. ASMR relaxing female voice for a relaxation and good sleep.

Sorry for my English :))

АСМР Видео на английском: Ролевая игра. Я буду в роли доктора невролога.

What is ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomo…

ASMRmania – ASMR, relax, role play, whisper…”

Nice to have video notes that I do not have to lay about with a scythe.

Comments are permitted and a large number of the commentators seem impressed; this bodes well for us.

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

There is music at the start which seems to go on a bit and I would prefer wasn’t there at all. There are some paper-related noises and then Olesya starts to talk and Heaven be praised she is not whispering. I like the Russian accent. Some of the enunciation is a little strange but I thought this to be part of its charm (and it is substantially more advanced than my Russian – which is non-existent). The pace is nicely slow. The voice is very good.

There are pencil noises and the rustling associated with clothing moving. However, there are no background noises at all, not even those we would normally associate with air conditioning use.

There is that mouth clucking/clicking sound so beloved of professional ASMR artists. Some parts of the presentation veer towards breathiness. I love the care in moving equipment; habitually a video is accompanied with clunking from offscreen equipment being moved around. There are very few noises of any sort here that do not seem deliberately placed to form part of the video experience.

The setting seems to be a desk in a corridor with the very wide wooden rubbing strips I associate with trolley use. It might be that some hospitals have this detail as part of the office décor possibly. There is then a brief outro which is a bit louder but fortunately does not last long.

It’s a warm day but I found myself nodding to this one. I take that as a very good sign. Why not review it for yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR material has been in blog posts from me since I started the blog up again in 2023. So, I consider it a mainstay.

This week’s selection is this one:

Focused Respiratory Physical Assessment Head-to-Toe

It is from the channel Nursing School Explained this has 48.5k subscribers, six hundred and sixty eight videos, forty five playlists so this is a very hard-working channel.

The channel has notes: ” Description

This channel helps nursing students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to understand a variety of healthcare-related topics. These include disease processes, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, risk factors, treatment options, related laboratory and diagnostic findings as well as nursing care. It aims to clarify these topics by breaking them down into simple terms and concepts so students can gain a better understanding of the topic.

Clinical skills are demonstrated in an easy-to-follow format and rationales for nursing actions are being provided.

It further delivers resources for clinical rotations, commonly used mediations, and test success.”

Which are encyclopaedic.

The video’s are even more so: ” 92,566 views 7 Mar 2022 #nursingschool #nursingskills #nursing

Physical assessment is the baseline of everything we do in nursing and is the first step in the nursing process. This video includes a focused respiratory assessment in a head-to-toe fashion. It details the examination and hones in on inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation of the patients’ chest. It further includes a demonstration of chest excursion. You may also find these other videos in my the PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT PLAYLIST of my channel Nursing School explained helpful: Head-to-toe vs. Focused Assessment: • Head-To-Toe vs. Focused Physical Assessment Focused Cardiovascular Assessment: • Focused Cardiovascular Physical Assessment… Focused Abdominal Assessment: • Focused Abdominal Physical Assessment Head… Tactile Fremitus, Egophony, Bronchophony & Whispered Pectoriloquy: • Tactile Fremitus, Bronchophony, Egophony, … Focused Neurologic Assessment: • Focused Neurologic Physical Assessment Hea… Cranial Nerve Assessment: • Cranial Nerve Assessment Demonstration #cr… Peripheral Neurologic Assessment: • Peripheral Neurologic Assessment Focused Musculoskeletal Assessment: • Focused Musculoskeletal Assessment Head-to… CLINICAL SKILLS playlist: • CLINICAL SKILLS Donning Sterile Gloves: • Donning Sterile Gloves Catheterization of a male patient: • Catheterization of a Male Patient Catheterization of a female patient: • Catheterization of a Female Patient Sterile Dressing Change: • Sterile Dressing Change Removal of an Indwelling Urinary Catheter: • Removal of Indwelling Catheter | Foley Cat… Nasogastric (NG) Tube Insertion: • Nasogastric NG Tube Insertion Application of Steri Strips: • How to Apply Steri-Strips | Post-Op Wound … How to correctly measure Blood Pressure: • How to correctly measure Blood Pressure #nursing #nursingstudent #nursingschool #nursingexam #anatomyandphysiology #nursingskills“

There are relatively few comments all of which are complimentary. None from ASMR fans though, which may not be a good thing.

The video is a little longer than twelve and a half minutes so not an immense one by any means. It starts without music but it does have a pronounced background hiss. The presenter starts loud – one to thumb the volume down a bit. There is a bit of stutter early on, this appears to be an error as the presenter laughs about it. During the actual assessment the presenter still starts loud. It is possible to tell how loud by the fact that the patient is substantially quieter.

The medical professional introduces herself as Petra. The patient could be Steve Jones but it is so hard to hear that the captions do not capture it at all.

As the assessment progresses the presenter starts to quieten and I can hear the point of this one for our purposes. This is the usual problem, recording equipment is quite sensitive, it is not necessary to come at it like an opera singer. Talking normally, even quietly, is all captured without effort. I notice many people when they are in presenter mode seem to feel they need to talk loudly as if to an auditorium.

This one never seems to get very quiet, I seem to have come across a few of these of late. Must try harder.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Deep.ai

Sleeping With ASMR

Of late it has seemed to me that a change of approach might be indicated. A weekly approach to inadvertent ASMR videos located only on YouTube might eventually get to be boring for some. Those who happen upon the blog might be asking yes well, but what next.

Of course I can do more. Already I am looking at Calm and at professional ASMR artists but does this really result in any better-quality outcomes? The key, as I’m sure we agree, is a better night’s sleep and a dropping off to sleep that happens reliably and rapidly.

Sadly, I am not sure that I have achieved all that myself. I’ve tried a number of legal pills, some work, some do not. (Frankly, I would not know where to get the illegal variety even should I be so inclined.) I’m using Calm to try to build up some kind of meditation discipline, just in case a surfeit of mental self-control also results in a metaphorical off switch. It seems to me, if that is the route, then it’s going to take a long time in getting there. Of late, the most effective route has been lying on the sofa with some awful early morning TV programme burbling away. Despite what you might be told about the influence of light from the television or the impact of noise on restfulness, more often than not that is an effective action.

YouTube has historically been great (hence this blog), but the increasing intensity of adverts and the lack of filtering for quieter overnight adverts can undo the good work of the playlist in drifting off in the first place.

Admittedly, in the early hours, some TV channels change over from awful programmes to even more awful teleshopping presentations, with presenters of a personality which seems to indicate they do take something of a stimulating variety simply in order to keep it up…

There is nothing that is a perfect solution. Perhaps the Procrastination Pen playlist is one of those things that may prove to be helpful. (I’m always ready to receive feedback regarding improvements).

In the interest of changes (however small), this week’s Calm recommendation has nothing whatever to do with sleep:

Anger Management, Jeff Warren

https://www.calm.com/app/player/HzvkP4OlNV

However, I do find Jeff Warren’s voice to be restful and the material is interesting. It also is gratifyingly short, so is not going to be waking you again once you have drifted off.

This week, the YouTube recommendation from a presenter who set themselves up as a ASMR video professional is this one:

ASMR the BEST Full Body Exam | “Unintentional” Real Person ASMR | Abdomen, Lung & Back Inspection

It has notes: “2,633,344 views 21 Nov 2022

The most precise and professional ASMR on a real person you will see in a while with layered real sounds of lung listening (respiratory auscultation) and abdomen sounds (abdomen ausculation). Well-prepared unintentional ASMR examination with lung inspection, abdomen inspection, skin inspection, eye examination, hearing examination, cranial nerve examination, and hair inspection.

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So, the normal level of self-promotion. Comments are permitted and for a change are predominantly positive. As we have come to expect both participants in the video are attractive, I wonder if it is even feasible to make your way as an ASMR artist with a more average appearance. If I find such a video I will feature it.

The video is slightly less than fifty minutes in length so substantial compared to material we have seen recently.

Sadly, it starts with music and, worse, quite loud music which seems to be key to yet more brand promotion, but I would have thought militates against instant restfulness.

There is a strong background noise (air conditioning, I suspect) And initially at least, the voices are not that quiet. However, it settles into the more whispered approach that we are by now familiar with.

The channel is Kewas ASMR and of course it appears on the ASMR index. The channel has three hundred and sixty one videos, four playlists and 333K subscribers. A very busy channel.

The video has equipment noises and there is a kind of bassy sound as if the microphone was slightly being overwhelmed, or it is an echo effect from the room in which it was filmed. Turning the volume down did not appear to remove this on the equipment I was using.

There are parts of the video where internal noises are played quite loudly, for example, heart beats and intestinal gurgles.

Despite these limitations and in common with many of the commentators, I did find the video restful. However, given that this is not an inadvertent ASMR video all these sound factors are within the control of the person filming, and so I do wonder at the choices that include them. I have concluded thus far that it is a drive for authenticity in the material, but I think the video would better promote relaxation if the extraneous noise were to be removed. Again, if I come across such a video (i.e. without these unnecessary noises) I will feature it.

I did find at intervals that I wanted the video to be shorter (which is probably not a great sign). However, I do think it worthy of review if you want to take a look/listen.

Today’s more bread-and-butter offering (at least as far as this blog goes) is the following:

March 28, 2017

Shari Rice is the channel. This has three hundred and seventy-six subscribers, one video, one playlist. The single video is just over fifty minutes in length and this time it is the only video on the site so come-what-may it is going to be the only inadvertent ASMR video I review this week.

There are notes: “148,625 views 30 Mar 2017

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Comments are permitted and include a number of ASMR-related responses and a number of unhelpful comments – so normal for YouTube comments then. At least it proves that I am not the first person looking for an inadvertent ASMR video who located this one.

The video appears to be one drawn from that rich seam of videos which I often feature, the medical student assessment video. It starts with some aggravating noises, presumably originating with the recording device being manipulated to show the whole room. Straight away we discover that background noise is going to be (a quite intrusive) thing. There is a sound like a motor running constantly in the background (presumably an older air conditioning system). The voices are not classically ASMR-y. There is certainly no whispering here.

We find that the medical practitioner is Sharon Rambo. I notice the channel is Shari Rice so I’m speculating Sharon Rambo got married to a Mr (or Miss) Rice at some stage after the video was filmed. Sharon tells us that this is a “Head to Toe” assessment. A type of assessment which has been featured here many times before. The identity card that appears in the video does not appear to give away where the assessment is taking place. The card is issued in 2016 and the film is dated 28/03/2017 (UK date order, so, March) but there is no obvious clue which course this relates to. However, straight away Sharon introduces herself as a Nurse Practitioner at UT Arlington – hence the “A” symbol on the identity card. A look at the UT Arlington website indicates that the horses head icon (as seen on the identity card) also prominently features.

So that is where we are and when we are.

The ”patient” is introduced as Savannah Martin (which may or may not be misspelled). Who is apparently twenty in this video so nearer twenty-eight now I would guess. Savannah has the look of someone who is not completely entertained by the process and indeed it does seem to go on a bit. Presumably this is so that all the material required by the course is covered.

At intervals Sharon seems to refer to notes which makes the presentation a little staccato. However, it settles down and Sharon’s voice likewise. In fact her voice is much quieter when performing the hands-on parts of the examination and hence these seem to be the best sections.

As we have seen before with student videos, the presentation at intervals is halting, presumably as memory fails… There is of course the occasional equipment noise, including the odd quite loud bang. There is humour – Savannah turns out to be ticklish…

After a while I found myself settling into the listening and it actually was restful (just as many of the commentators had reflected). It’s not the greatest ASMR experience ever, but I certainly think it is good enough for the playlist.

Have a review for yourself and see what you think.

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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