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Sleeping With ASMR

This week I went for a while with next to no sleep. I just could not get my actual sleep mode to fit with when I needed to be asleep. I was tired when I needed to work. I was awake when I needed to sleep. (I watched quite a lot of television). My partner pointed to the fact that I am making one of the cardinal sins which is that I sit and read in bed before sleeping and a number of articles point out that the bed has to be for sleep only.

The one thing that did come out of it was that when I finally did manage to get a few hours how delicious it all was. So wonderful I could have been tempted to give thanks for every precious second of unconsciousness. My eighteen-year-old self would have looked upon that sentence with incredulity.

I think, of late, that the professional ASMR has been improving and the inadvertent ASMR not quite so much. This is a disappointment. But I always imagined that finding good material might eventually prove difficult. Even that which at first sight appears suitable, often, ultimately, is not quite so much – as we have found. However, the endeavour persists – we’ll see what we can find.

I must admit that I am now tiring of some of the approach (I’ve been doing this three years) and I am thinking that another shake up will be required soon. Possibly to start with moving away from a medical theme for a while might make a nice change. I’m off on holliers soon so I’ll see what happens when I come back with a fresh perspective.

This week’s Calm item is this:

Inspiration

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

Daily Jay

Soul Grow

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Which is about becoming a more extraordinary version of yourself.

Whilst exploring this letter https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kurt-vonnegut-xavier-letter_n_4964532

Bearing in mind that if you want to listen you also have to buy a subscription (which I imagine will put a few people off).

This week let’s look at a very different kind of professional ASMR video which is this one:

ASMR The Reincarnation Station 🔃 Choosing Your Next Life

It is from the channel Cosmo Whispers ASMR which, again, I cannot remember having been to before. It has 172k subscribers, six hundred and fifty one videos, eighteen playlists and it looks bizarre like it is an ASMR version of Sesame Street.

There are notes on the channel:

“Cosmo Whispers ASMR

Description

Hi! I’m Cosmo! Your friendly neighborhood pink fuzzy monster and this is my ASMR channel!

I make ASMR videos with a little purple goober named Jeremy, a video editor named Lennard, and my close friends to help you relax, have a good laugh, and fall asleep!

I hope you can find comfort and maybe even have a few laughs from my silly little channel.

Much love to you all! 🫶💖”

And of course, the video also has notes:

“21 Sept 2026 11 products

Remember to leave a LIKE!

Thanks for watching! 💖

And make sure to subscribe and hit the bell button so you are notified when I release a new video! ☺️

New to the world of ASMR? That’s okay, I was once too! Welcome! ☺️

What is ASMR?

“ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) or TINGLES are a relaxing, often sedative sensation that begins on the scalp and moves down the body that are triggered by placid sights and sounds such as whispers, accents, and crackles.”

I remember my first time experiencing Tingles!

Watching a friend of mine read a book while listening to him flip the pages and lick his finger before doing so.

It made my head feel soooo fuzzy that I fell asleep right in the armchair I was sitting in.

My goal is to help recreate that feeling for some of you!

I also LOVE hearing other people’s first experiences with ASMR so drop me a comment or message!

Much love my friend! 🫶”

Which I have heavily edited because they were comprehensive to say the least.

The video is thirty minutes long. It starts with music and some sci-fi sounding noises. It is reasonably quiet and I had to run the sound up a bit for the review. I am not a fan of music in ASMR videos and I am certainly not keen on videos where the music forms an actual part of the video. Some people seem to find music and ASMR fit well together (a number of the sleep-orientated Calm tracks do this for example). I think it is a very unsound marriage and I think ASMR should be voice only. I very rarely get my wish. When the vocal track starts, a background hiss starts at the same time. That is not too distracting. However, it is comfortably masked by the music in any case.

The voice sounds like it is artificially slowed as if the person would prefer to be talking more quickly. However, after a very short while I soon got used to that. There is a strange background crackling noise as if the track was being played on a badly stored vinyl record. I’m not sure why this was done.

I thought the concept of the video a good one. The idea that you are met by an individual once you have died and are offered a series of choices. That sounds a lot more appealing than disappearing into a box with all consciousness snuffed out. I would say it is more a calming experience than actual ASMR as such and I am not convinced, personally, I would find it that conducive to sleep. I bet there are a large number of people think differently.

After a while I decided I liked the voice, either that or the voice settled down and got comfortable in its role. I hankered after a music free version of the same video – I do not see this option sadly.

Despite my reservations I did find myself nodding to this which must be a good sign. Why not review it for yourself.

I was thinking about blog feedback. I realised that the last (non-spam) feedback comment I had was from Aidan Blunt. A the time I remember thinking it is little moments like this that make the blogging process worthwhile. When someone reaches out from their lives to interact with mine over a small piece of work I completed some months ago.

Given that Hollie Berry was and remains once of my favourite voices since I started reviewing unintentional ASMR videos, it was a high point for me to rival being given permission to use one of Lindisfarne’s album covers back when I restarted blogging.

This appears a long time after I got the comment but I thought I would provide encouragement, to anyone that happens across this little blog, to feed back about what they have read.

The blog has been about ASMR since December 2022 (a bit of a mélange prior to that) and I have (nearly) consistently been focused on unintentional ASMR videos on YouTube. Firstly, because that is still where most of the videos seem to reside. Secondly WordPress offers me the rather nice option of embedding them in the blog post to illustrate a little of what the article is about.

The demand for unintentional ASMR videos seems to continue unabated and I have been keen to try to find as many as I can, assemble them into a great long playlist and then share the playlist so that others with similar tastes can listen to it of a night time. Particularly if they find themselves towards the insomniac side of restfulness.

Today I am back on message with a medical orientated video and one involving an examination so far so back where this all started

It is this one:

02 – Assessment of muscle tone after stroke

At just shy of twelve minutes it is a good length. It starts without startup music (God be praised) and is a lovely muted introduction – shades of delight creeping in already.

The notes state: “841,613 views 6 Sept 2017 STARs – Management of Tone & Spasticity After Stroke: A Role for Everyone

This resource is from the Stroke Training and Awareness Resources (STARs) website – http://www.stroketraining.org

Copyright © Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland and The University of Edinburgh 2017 CC BY-NC-SA

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…”

Comments are permitted but thankfully so far the trolls appear to be on holiday. However, there are no ASMR orientated comments which is a surprise I would think that the ASMR fans would be all over this.

Not only is the medical professional excellent in terms of his voice for our purposes even the patient appears to have a great voice as well.

The medical professional is incredibly gentle – just the sort of approach that we look for in one of these videos and a number of commentators applaud him for this. The patient we find is Alan (possibly misspelled)

Given the title of this video starts 02 we can assume I think there is a 01 and quite possibly a 03 so it is worth determining if they are also worth reviewing.

The channel is Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland and it turns out that our video is one of six contained in this playlist:

STARs – Management of Tone & Spasticity After Stroke: A Role For Everyone

With notes: “these resources are from the stroke training and awareness resources (stars) website – http://www.stroketraining.org

Copyright © Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland and The University of Edinburgh 2017 cc by-nc-sa

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 4.0 International License.

Https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/”

It appears that we might have a gem into terms of video series so let’s take a look at the other 5.

01 – Reflexes After Stroke

This is short it’s only just over one and a half minutes. It is consistent with the first one reviewed in this article – which is a benefit of professionally produced videos.

It is there for moments and then is gone, but it is so relaxing I think it belongs in the Procrastination Pen playlist. In fact, I’d be prepared to guess that all six videos in the Management of Tone & Spasticity After Stroke playlist belong there.

03 – Muscle position and stretch

Just over three minutes so we are definitely at the short end of videos that we’ve included in the Procrastination Pen Playlist.

However, this remains an excellent quality video lacking extraneous noise or distractions which have haunted some of the material that we have reviewed (and consigned some of them to the Procrastination Pen Archive list).

04 – On and off bed

A bit over two and a half minutes so not huge in terms of length either. It remains consistent with the previous videos in this playlist.

05 – On and off chair

This is a little less than there and a quarter minutes and it is beautifully calm and quiet, if I have to be treated for a difficult condition this would be the way I would like it to happen.

06 – Walking and tone

Supportive, calm, relaxed, quiet, not only a medical professional but a tutor and caring person. This set of videos has been a thoroughly good set for us and all of them are going into the Procrastination Pen playlist.

The channel Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland has three hundred and fifty-seven videos and 41.8K subscribers which I’m sure you will agree is a few. There is every incentive therefore to come straying back here in the future in search of more excellent videos at this quality.

It is unusual to find a set of videos in a playlist where every video is suitable both for ASMR and for restfulness as a precursor to sleep but I think this set may well be they. I think we will be back here in due course to determine if Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland have any more material for us.

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

See you again next week.

The Chest Heart and Stroke 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 would think that on the days I come in from work so tired I’m amazed I made the journey that the night time would be punctuated only by snores. In practice the experience is a lot more staccato than that. Sometimes the effect is exactly as expected and I hit the pillow with eyes closed and rend the night time with loud snorts and squeakings. Not unusually though I can lie there reading into the early hours or just lie there…

For this reason, I started some years ago now looking into restful material to act as a distraction and discovered that I rather liked ASMR videos. I’m still reviewing them all this time later. Sometimes I spend my time listening to the Procrastination Pen playlist, sometimes to other material. But I reason that if I review ASMR material each week then at least the ASMR fans get some feedback. If I compile a playlist then at least the insomniacs have some distracting material. At least if I write something then the disgruntled have something to criticise which might even make them feel better. (I’m not adverse to a bit of criticising myself).

I did say I’d be on the lookout for material that was not on YouTube and that was advert free. In 2026 that is quite a big ask. It would seem that most people have worked out how to monetise and are squeezing that lemon till the pips gasp their last.

Occasionally I find people of a religious affiliation who produce material due to some spiritual conviction. I recognise though that some readers are not keen to hear from a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist.

Some people produce material on the assumption that if people listen to the free stuff, then they might pay handsomely for the other stuff they produce which is not free.

Some people seem morally disposed to share their message with others and are not hounding a pay cheque. I am grateful for all such people (and no doubt others who have reasons I have not listed here).

I have been listening off and on to a podcast over some months now which is produced in order to spread a message of happiness and not just that but backs it up with scientific findings. It is not hugely ASMRy but you might like the material as a different distraction (to the Procrastination Pen) playlist. It is “The Happiness Lab Podcast” with Dr. Laurie Santos. It often has some very surprising findings for example a recent episode that tells us winning the lottery is likely to be very bad for you: https://www.drlauriesantos.com/happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos-podcast/episodes/winning-lottery-ruin-life.

Having finished my non-YouTube material, let’s look at this week’s Calm material.

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

Daily Jay

Gossip

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

I am reviewing whether I will continue with Calm, there are so many alternative offerings out there. It’s not likely to be an immediate change. However, do not be surprised if the Calm recommendations ultimately dry up.

I did find today that it is possible to share free links to Calm but the terms and conditions do seem to indicate it is designed for a Calm subscriber (me) to share with the odd friend. Not for them to take a free link and post it on their blog for everyone to use. It sounds like if I did that it might quickly invalidate my subscription. So, I am not going to try it.

This week for the professional ASMR artist I thought that I would try the medical offering from the channel that I reviewed only recently. You might remember that I tried Italian ASMR because I am trying, and failing, to learn Italian. I found that the video was not in Italian. So I failed to stick to the blog theme and failed in the purpose of the diversion.

The same artist I notice has this one:

ASMR Italian Nurse Checks On You 🇮🇹🩺 Medical Roleplay & Personal Attention

It is a bit of a fudge in that I have been trying to review videos which are older as these seem to fall out of favour on YouTube. Most people, seemingly wanting a proper bang with their bang up to date. This one, however, is very, very recent so I am, yet again, diverting from the target.

The channel of course is AppleWhispers ASMR, this has 5.33k subscribers from only eight videos which seems to me properly exceptional. This ASMR artist must have something to be getting that kind of loyalty already.

We’ve previously detailed the notes on the channel so I wont rehash things, however, as expected, there are notes associated with the video itself:

“42,323 views 28 Aug 2026 #asmr #sleep #relax

Your Italian nurse is here to check on you and make sure you’re doing okay. 🇮🇹🩺🤍

In today’s relaxing ASMR medical roleplay, I’ll gently check your condition, take your vital signs and give you plenty of close-up personal attention while you rest.

Just get comfortable and let me take care of you for a little while.

You’ll experience gentle medical checks, soft whispers, close-up attention, soothing hand movements and relaxing examination sounds, all designed to help you switch off, feel cared for and hopefully fall asleep. 🌙

Triggers include:

🩺 Medical examination

❤️ Vital signs check

👀 Close-up visual examination

🤍 Personal attention

👐 Gentle hand movements

💤 Whispering & relaxing medical sounds

I hope your Italian nurse can make you feel a little more relaxed tonight.

Now just rest… I’ll take care of everything. 🤍

—————————

🍎 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.

If you enjoy my videos, don’t forget to like, subscribe and turn on notifications so you won’t miss future uploads!

🌙 Sweet dreams!

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🇮🇹 Looking for ASMR in Italian?

Visit my Italian channel:

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💌 Business Inquiries

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🎥 Personalized ASMR Videos

If you’d like to request a custom ASMR video, feel free to contact me via email.

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❤️ Support the Channel

If you’d like to support my work, you can leave a donation here:

https://www.paypal.me/AppleTingles

Every contribution helps me create more relaxing content for you. Thank you so much! 🤍

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📱 Follow me

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🎧 For relaxation purposes only.

Please do not listen while driving or operating machinery.

#asmr #relax #sleep”

These are the normal (for a professional ASMR artist) level of ludicrously long. For a start who comes to YouTube to read the video notes. The majority of professional ASMR artists seem to double as ghost writers for a re-write of war and peace. Mostly I set about the notes with a hatchet in my blog or it would all get rather tiresome. (Perhaps it does anyway).

There are comments. Comments seem to be allowed by all the professional ASMR artists and, mostly, they seem to be describing how close to a deity the listeners feel the ASMR artist is. So here. Not the usual level of thousands of comments. However, a brief spin through those that there are indicates that AppleWhispersASMR is up there with JC and he who could move mountains.

The video is very slightly under twenty-seven minutes long and so an appreciable enough length in comparison to some that I have reviewed. It starts without music and we get the immediate impression that breathy is going to feature. The accent is enchanting and the level of the voice more or less perfect. This is not a whispered presentation. The enunciation reminds me of the French video I reviewed a little while ago. The clicks and clucks that professional ASMR artists produce (presumably because they act as a “trigger” for someone) here seem to occur naturally as a result of the way the words are pronounced. For those who like the odd mouth click this must be a very satisfying experience. For me I am about the voice, the normal spoken voice, and this is a great one. It is calm and well-paced. It is not loud and there are various pauses rather than the gabbling-on that some presenters seem to focus on.

There is the odd clothing related noise due to the artist being in motion quite a lot during the video. I did not find it distracting, but if you are using this for sleep there is absolutely no need to be watching it. The sound is good enough I find.

There are sounds which purport to be bed linens being moved (not excessively loud). There is the odd clunk (apparently of equipment being moved). In a similar way there is the odd click, rattling sound, fizzing sound, associated liquid noises, the occasional phrase in Italian thrown in for good measure. (I think I really need to review some of this artist’s Italian Language output – note to self). There are glove-related noises (not my favourite). There are sounds like hands being moved over a surface (these are off camera so who knows).

There is some whispered content (the normal refuge for a professional ASMR artist). There are sounds of gloved fingers being run through hair (I believe some people watch entire videos of that kind of thing but it happens only briefly here).  There are noises like items being removed from a large paper bag (not incredibly loud, but loud enough).

There’s the odd tap from a reflex hammer being employed (quite quiet).

I did find myself nodding to it at intervals so I would imagine that a lot of listeners would find it an effective sleep aid.

Because I was recently reviewing some wood carving videos, of course I receive recommendations of more wood carving videos from the same artist. I am not given to review wood carving videos. I rather think I am supposed to be reviewing medical-themed videos. However, I noticed a playlist. I rather liked what I saw. So this week I am going to segue into wood carving (again) purely because I enjoyed the content I found on this channel previously.

The playlist is this one:

However, I am going to start with the first video rather than do the whole thing. We can come back on a future occasion and take a look at another one.

There are seventeen videos in this playlist and none of them seem to be particularly long, save the ultimate one. So, this will not take long. The playlist is “The Great Wave (making the woodblock print)” and the first video is:

The Great Wave – Part 1

Logically enough I suppose.

The channel, of course is David Bull, I detailed a great deal about this channel in a previous post so I will not go mad this time. Suffice to say that it has 192k subscribers, one hundred and forty-seven videos, seven playlists – not a one is on a medical theme (it may surprise you to understand).

If the quality is like that in my previous review, I can quite imagine that I will be back to review every single video here (if I am spared). The updates seemed to have slowed a little with the last video (to the channel) being posted eight months ago. I can review a lot faster than that, but then I am not slaving over something that takes quite so long to prepare.

The notes associated with the video are: “189,087 views 5 Jan 2015

This set of videos will document the production of the new reproduction of Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ being made by Dave Bull and his Mokuhankan woodblock print workshop in Tokyo, in early 2015.

The print is being made as a ‘reward’ for backers of the Kickstarter project run in the autumn of 2014 by Mokuhankan to gather support for their new shop in Asakusa, Tokyo.

The print will be carved by Dave, proofed by him once the blocks are ready, and then produced by his printing staff.”

How marvellous to have notes that are not the equivalent length of one of my blog articles…

The video is just slightly over nine minutes and so is not going to waylay you for long. I like short videos. I do not like that between every video, YouTube inserts an inane advert of no relevance whatsoever to the quiet unobtrusive material that I was just watching.

I’m not certain if you have ever clicked on one of these things. I can remember I mistakenly clicked on an advert – it was for a revolutionary cooling system just at the time that it was thirty-two degrees outside. I was taken to a website but (fortunately for me) did not order anything. I found out a month later the whole thing was an utter scam and the product was incapable of doing what it purported to do. I am even more lairy of adverts today than I was before then.

Back to the video itself. It starts without music. There is a background hiss, it does not sound like air conditioning. It was a little loud when compared to the professional ASMR video I reviewed just before it. So I thumbed the volume down a little. Once at that level the hiss was muted and the voice sounded much better. The subject (to me) was interesting. The pace was slow; the voice seems calm. However, the video goes outside and it is really very loud. Lots of background voice noises (people chatting). It is not the quietest. At one stage you can hear a child screaming. It’s a shame, the video was well worth reviewing up to this stage.

Just one, video this time.

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

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

This week, for the first time in a while, I went to a car show, these mainly consist of a bunch of old blokes (or more often women nowadays) standing in a windswept field chewing the cud over which barely polished patch of rust is preferable to another one. It takes me back to where the blog began where I used to review cars, but discovered, rather early on, that I know nothing about cars and suffered a crisis of conscience in that were there not more well qualified people to write about cars than I. To which the answer had to be yes.

Today I write about sleep, and are there not more people qualified to write about sleep than I am. Absolutely. However, now we are in a world where much of the Internet is written by AI, is consumed by AI and is regurgitated by AI as fact.

In such a world I think that we all, however we struggle to create, can make a difference simply by creating some content for the Internet that is not regurgitated output from an AI. At least that is what I tell myself.

I have been trying to pay attention to an online sleep course. (It’s another pay for thing so I will not bother telling you which one). I am in the early stages but I think I can pass along a few titbits.

For example, catching up on sleep is a fallacy. If you get a bad night’s sleep attempting to sleep in to cover off the loss is not only ineffective, it is damaging to the sleep cycle. (This relies on good sleep habits being repeated night after night).

In addition, if there is sleep loss across the week, sleeping in at the weekend just does not cut it. Additional napping also tends to impact your sleep cycle and so is best avoided.

Watching a distracting video is actually unhelpful (apparently) and may keep you awake for longer. If you already have a sleep problem then saving the bed only for sleep is best.

(I must admit that I find the opposite, which is why this blog exists. Indeed, in emergencies, I have been known to come downstairs and listen to the TV drone on in order to get to sleep.

The old advice regarding blue light keeps being intoned as a great source of wisdom. But I read some time ago that the study on which that information was based used levels of blue light substantially higher than the average person is likely to be subjected to, such that the blue light is unlikely to be the problem. More problematic, by far, is to interact with services (such as social media) that have been designed to keep you engaged. That five minutes to check up on a post can easily become a couple of hours.

The amount of sleep that you need is often higher than you think, with people stating that on average they survive on six hours sleep a night but needing somewhere between seven to nine hours. You will know when you have hit the magic number when you stop feeling tired all day (I certainly have not got there yet).

A number of courses still state that as you age you need less sleep. I have banged on about this for a while so regular readers will know, as you age your sleep is likely to be more disrupted but the average number of hours sleep that you need does not change. The average still remains between seven to nine hours even in old age.

Most people report problems with sleep. In recent surveys; they report tiredness in the daytime (a possible sign of lack of sleep).

Lack of sleep affects you physically, true, but also mentally including memory, judgement and problem-solving.

After all that sleep related info, let’s look at this week’s Calm recommendation:

The Calm item this week is:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/MyrEmf4gT2

Daily Trip

==========

The Battle to Win Ourselves

—————————

### NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

### AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Meditation can help us manage the warring parts of ourselves; it makes it easier to integrate them. The part that notices the battle is not in the battle; we get more freedom by noticing the battle and backing up to watch it.

Bear in mind that this material (on Calm) is not free and so you will need to subscribe if you want to listen to it.

Following on from my promise to locate some material which was not on YouTube and therefore not subject to advertising, I take you back to Greater Good (I have written about this site a few times on this blog previously).

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

Happiness Break: A Meditation to Move Through Anger

“July 09, 2026 | 7:25

Try a practice in accepting difficult feelings like anger or irritation to help keep your cool, feel better overall, and find calm with contemplative social scientist Eve Ekman. “

This material is free; it isn’t obviously downloadable but it does not seem to require an account to listen to it. Looking at the transcript I would say that it is right on message for this blog. Additionally, I rather like Eve’s voice in this.

Recently I have been trying to focus on older ASMR videos because I am perverse and YouTube seems to insist I watch something more up to date.

I came across this one:

ASMR Annual Physical Exam Part 1

It is from a channel I was not previously familiar with which is Fairy Char ASMR 457k subscribers, five hundred and twelve, videos, forty seven playlists

Of which this one would seem to be firmly on theme for this blog:

The notes on the channel are unusually brief for a professional ASMR artist: “Fairy Char ASMR

Description

Relaxation // Sleep // Tingles

Hi everyone, my name is Char! I make ASMR videos. I have an assortment of medical, spa, beauty and many more roleplays to help trigger your ASMR.

Links

Patreon ♥patreon.com/fairychar

Instagraminstagram.com/fairycharasmr

YTMember ♥youtube.com/channel/UCn622AJ6EcQLwpltrYJR8lw/join

👕 T-Shirts & Stickers 👚teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

Tiktoktiktok.com/@fairycharasmr

facebookfacebook.com/fairycharasmr”

The notes on the video equally so: “808,615 views 12 Jul 2016

Hi everyone, thank you for watching and supporting my videos. Please like, comment and subscribe!

Love,

Charlotte

✨My Instagram:   / fairycharasmr 

✨ PATREON (To support my channel): https://bit.ly/3eUuDmh

✨ YouTube Membership (Supports my channel): https://bit.ly/3f1bSxu

✨ My Props: https://amzn.to/2YbABJv

✨ CHARITIES: https://teespring.com/stores/fairy-char

✨MY HANDMADE TINGLE BRACELETS: hellofairychar@gmail.com

✉️ :

For BUSINESS INQUIRIES: hellofairychar@gmail.com

❤️❤️ Thank you for supporting my videos on Patreon ❤️❤️: Fuinlai, Samantha, Kapil, Kamar, Bill, Cody, Blake, Constance, Ray, David R, Lucinda, Stephanie, Patricia, Jordan G, Keith S, Les is more, Holly, Freedam, Tingles, Dr. Bill, Iris H, Jason V, Jake L, Brandon, Daniel B, Caleb, DarthMark, Emmanuel, GhostyGrimy, TnT, lalabeanx”.

Comments are permitted. There are a lot of those, a number of them are borderline surreal which seems more or less normal for YouTube.

The video is twenty-seven and a half minutes. It starts without music (indeed initially the artist is not on screen and the video is silent). When Char appears, we realise that she is very quiet. I pushed the volume up a bit, but straight away we find this is going to major on the whispery – so far so normal. Although I have pointed out my preference before for the non-whispery ones (not least because they are a lot rarer).

There are keyboard sounds, equipment sounds (items being moved off-camera). There are glove-related sounds (not my favourite). Plastic related noises (loud). Blood pressure cuff related noises (quite loud). There is the odd breathy moment (not too extensive). There are various off camera rather loud noises – clunks, squeaks, clicks, scratches, none of those are that appealing. There’s a tuning fork noise (these are habitually loud; in fact, the best video I heard was where they mentioned the tuning fork and then muted the actual sound altogether).

I do like the voice; I do like the pace. The keyboard sounds are none too intrusive. There is no background noise (that I could discern). It would be better without some of those extraneous noises but I still think it worthy of a review. Why not listen for yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR this week comes from a channel that has been covered so many times by this blog I probably should charge advertising fees (if Stanford are reading, that was humour).

Stanford Medicine 25 seems to have a consistent level of delivery much of it not only great (I assume) for medical training but also reasonably good for our purposes as well. 349k subscribers, one hundred and thirty-two videos, seventeen playlists.

Today’s is tiny being only a little over four and a half minutes in length. The notes are:”68,748 views 22 Jan 2016

From our dermatology series, this video covers all the basics you need to accurately describe complex and multiple skin lesions.

The Stanford Medicine 25 program for bedside medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine aims to promote the culture of bedside medicine to make current and future clinicians and other healthcare provides better at the art of physical diagnosis and more confident at the bedside of their patients.

Visit us:

Website: http://stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/

Blog: http://stanford25blog.stanford.edu/

Facebook:   / stanfordmedic.  .

Twitter:   / stanfordmed25 

Google+: http://goo.gl/UBM7SP

Watch all videos from our dermatology series:

Approach to the Dermatology Exam:    • Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford… 

Approach to Multiple Rashes:    • Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medi… 

Approach to Nevi (Moles):    • Approach to Nevi (Moles) – Stanford Medici… 

Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea:    • Diagnosing Acne vs. Rosacea (Stanford Medi…  “

So moderately extensive notes. No doubt I will be covering some of those other videos in future blog articles.

Bernice Kwong is the medical professional.

Approach to Multiple Rashes (Stanford Medicine 25)

The video starts with music which, as regular readers will know, is not my favourite thing and unfortunately that music seems to go on a bit. When trying to sleep I find music distracting and prefer videos not to have it. I have looked into playlists containing videos that have the play time truncated to remove the start and end music. However, I have not yet been able to make that work. No doubt a technical switch that I failed to include.

When Bernice starts to talk, we find that she has a great voice, nicely quiet, nicely paced. But sadly, there is background music that persists throughout the video. That is just too bad as Bernice could have been a great candidate for an ASMR person but the music really is quite distracting. I wonder at the decision to include it as, surely, it isn’t much of an aid to focus for eager students either. To add insult to injury, there is even more music at the tail end of this video. Definitely one for people who like music with their videos.

I’ll trial this in the Procrastination Pen playlist but I have a feeling this is one that is likely to get the boot to the archive list sooner rather than later. Shame.

So just one 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 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

I recently fessed up to a fondness for affirmations and rather like the moment you buy a different car, suddenly every car on the road seems to be alike to the one that you have purchased, suddenly I started to see affirmations everywhere.

Recently I was sent from Project Happiness “Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.” With the subtext ” Never forget that no matter what’s going on around you, you do have choices. Your external world may be noisy. The idea is to create a quiet place inside of you to return to. When you move intentionally within an unpredictable world, then you can chart your own course.”.

To be honest, I could not have asked for an affirmation more on theme for this blog.

The Calm item this week is:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/nR1aFGbe8B

Daily Trip

Commitment

NARRATOR

Jeff Warren

AUTHOR

Jeff Warren

Commitment to meditation, what does it feel like, the more we meditate the more commitment towards continuing to meditate.

With the usual caution (for this blog) in that I have a subscription to Calm and you will need a subscription if you want to listen to any of the content – sorry about that.

For the non-YouTube material this week, I return to Dr Rick Hanson who has a good voice admittedly but I have always drawn any material by him from YouTube. This week I found that he has a podcast. Not only does he have a podcast but it is available on Apple podcasts. I gave it a try and you can play any of these without an account (although it will nag you about it) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindful-meditations-with-dr-rick-hanson/id1820216704.

Recently I have been trying to focus on older ASMR videos (in the way that YouTube does not). However, in my recommendations this week, I got one that is way more recent and I thought I would try it. (Damn you, YouTube). No stress, normal service will resume (soonish).

The video is this one:

ASMR Real Person Student Doctor Check | Assessing & Advising

It is just under nineteen minutes long so not huge and was posted only recently.

There are, of course, notes as we would expect with any professional ASMR artist: ” 103,719 views 5 Jul 2026 #bebravebeyouasmr #asmrrealperson #asmrdoctor

Welcome to tonight’s ASMR real person student doctor check. In this realistic medical examination, our student doctor carries out a full medical assessment on a real person whilst the assessor observes the examination, assesses the findings and provides guidance when needed. This ASMR video is perfect for relaxation and sleep.

For The Best Experience Please Use Headphones, Turn Off Stable Audio & Select the Highest Quality Available for Each ASMR Video.

This video is a fictional ASMR roleplay created for relaxation and entertainment only. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Upload Schedule:

Every Sunday, Monday & Wednesday at 9pm GMT/BST.

Shorts Of My Main Videos Throughout the Week No Set Day or Times

Business:

bebravebeyou@runbyinfluencers.com

bebravebeyouasmr@outlook.com

Social Media:

Non ASMR TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@40swithnic

ASMR TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bebravebeyouasmr 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bebravebeyouasmr

Facebook: https://facebook.com/bebravebeyouasmr

All My Links: https://linktr.ee/bebravebeyounic

TIME STAMPS

00:00 Intro

00:07 Greeting & Plan

00:47 Student Doctor Exam With Jodie

18:28 Outro

18:38 Goodnight

#asmr #asmrrealperson #asmrstudentdoctor #bebravebeyouasmr #relaxingasmr #asmrmedical #asmrdoctor”

As per usual these are incredibly long and must test the patience of even the most hardened ASMR fan (I bet that no one reads them, in fact).

This is an odd one for me since it is a collaboration piece (I cannot remember reviewing anything like this previously). The two channels listed are:

Be Brave Be You ASMR 242k subscribers,1.4k videos and a dazzling quantity of playlists of which this is on theme for this blog:

and Jodie Marie ASMR 153k subscribers,1.6k videos thirty-seven playlists with this on theme for this blog:

Wow, more than one channel does add quite a lot of material, good luck getting through that lot.

There are a number of comments for the video. Mostly they seem to be positive which is quite usual for a professional ASMR video, so that bodes well then.

The only start-up sound is that of water – so far so good. Straight away we realise that the presentation is going to major on the whispery, so far, so standard professional ASMR artist.

There are gloves noises again sadly (I have commented on those in previous blog articles – I am not a fan). There are also some clicking noises, some writing noises, (I notice in the comments that some people really rate the gloves sounds so at last I have found a person who likes them to be included.) There is a sound from fingers being run through hair (not my kind of thing but someone must love that I would guess). There is that mouth clucking/clicking noise so beloved of professional ASMR artists which is not my thing either – it must please some fans I’m guessing.

There are beep sounds from the ear thermometer and clunking noises from equipment. There are Velcro noises, the sound of fabric for a blood pressure cuff being tightened and a (quite loud) blood pressure cuff noise. (Those who have used an Omron cuff at their GPs will know the sound I mean and it is not at all ASMR-y).

The pace is nice and slow and actually, despite the (mainly) whispery presentation, I liked the vocal parts (less so the blood pressure cuff noises).

The contrast of the two vocal sounds is actually quite interesting and I did not find it distracting. It might be worth following up with each of the ASMR artists independently in the future and see what their videos are like.

The video ends with that water sound (briefly). I would say it is worthy of a review so why not listen for yourself.

This week’s inadvertent ASMR offering comes from a channel which I have not reviewed before but the subject would seem to be highly relevant for this blog:

Why You’re Always Tired (and how to fix it)

It is fourteen and a quarter minutes, so a little longer than a number of videos that I have reviewed of late.

It comes from the channel AsapSCIENCE this has 10.8m subscribers, five hundred and fifty five videos, ten playlists, frankly even if it’s ASMRishness is limited it must be something as a channel to have achieved so very much attention from so few videos.

The notes on the AsapSCIENCE channel are adorably brief:

” Description

Making science make sense.

Created by:

Mitchell Moffit (@mitchellmoffit)

Gregory Brown (@whalewatchmeplz)

CONTACT

asapscience[at]gmail[dot]com

Send us stuff!

ASAPSCIENCE INC.

P.O. Box 93, Toronto P

Toronto, ON, M5S2S6″

The video notes equally so:

“5,097,219 views 15 Jun 2022 #GrowWithGoogle

The Ultimate Guide to Feeling Less Tired

A portion of this video was sponsored by Google Career Certificates

Enrol now at https://bit.ly/3aUSQes #GrowWithGoogle

Join our science mailing list: https://bit.ly/34fWU27

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Written by: Mitchell Moffit

Edited by: Luka Šarlija”

The comments for once, seem to contain many which are helpful. Where has this new spirit of co-operation come from, I wonder. There is the odd person looking for a medical diagnosis though I see. I suppose this is why diagnosis by AI has become just so popular of late.

For me, the video starts a little loud and a little fast. But then I am listening immediately after listening to the ASMR professional so it might be suffering by comparison. It is one of those where it would be more restful if played at half speed.

However, as a sleep guide it is truly excellent and perhaps it should be taken this way. The first thing it indicates is that eight hours a night is truly a minimum (if you’re reading these blog items most likely you are not getting all that).

It also states that working out whether you function best later or earlier and fitting your day to your preferred cycle is important. If you need to be awake late but have a job that means you get up early you are causing yourself problems. (Your preference may change as you age.)

The video features sponsorship info (Google). I am definitely not keen on such things and if it were not on theme for this blog, I would reject it out of hand. (Perhaps you can skip the sponsorship section.)

It advises that you change your alarm to a more melodic (music based) alarm sound – it is less jarring.

Snoozing the alarm is a very bad move.

Other advice includes: increasing activity when you first wake up; exposure to bright light in the morning (preferably sunlight) for at least thirty minutes; drink fluid, moderate caffeine intake and do not drink caffeine after midday; a balanced diet, do not eat close to bedtime; regular exercise (but not too close to bedtime), long term changes in exercise will improve your sleep even if the effects are not felt immediately, if you’re napping do not do this late in the day as it ruins your sleep; do not drink alcohol (it destroys deep sleep); take a warm shower close to bedtime (It mimics the body’s natural cooling as it approaches sleep); sleep in a cool room with no visible clocks, put away gadgets – they can be a distraction; do not just lie in bed – it makes things worse; if you wake up do not check the clock, do not switch on the light; have a sleep schedule – go to bed and wake up at the same time every day you need a constant routine.

The most important are having a sleep schedule; regular exercise and a balanced diet.

So that was very much sleep advice and definitely not ASMR. Valuable in itself but I still owe you an ASMR video review.

Let’s try this one:

Total Body Skin Exam by PA Melissa Alcox

This comes from the channel Pariser Dermatology Specialists 2.51k subscribers, eighty eight videos only two playlists.

A quick scan of the videos on the day I visited seems to indicate that they are mainly concerned with advertising so almost certainly unsuitable for us then.

There are notes with the video “781,706 views 4 Sept 2018

Pariser Dermatology’s Melissa Alcox, PA-C, performs a full-body skin exam and talks about the details involved in this potentially life-saving routine procedure.”

Which are incredibly brief.

There are a ton of comments and a lot of these are from ASMR fans so that bodes well then.

The video is a little less than five and a quarter minutes. It has some fairly strong background noise (air conditioning I would guess) but, fortunately, no start-up music. Melissa Alcox introduces herself and I would say it is quite loud – I thumbed the volume down a bit and started again. Julianna is introduced. A quick Google confirms that she is Julianna Squicciarini, Assistant Laboratory Manager.

I would say that Melissa does not have a natural ASMR voice. However, it does tone down a bit once the examination proper commences. The pace is a little fast for me, but given the comments, a number of people disagree. There are some (quite loud) equipment noises including from the motion of a wheeled chair.

It concludes with a brief piece of advertising, and then it is all over. I will trial it in the Procrastination Pen playlist but despite the positive comments I would say it is a tad marginal.

So just one this week.

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 are 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’m making the move to Lumo for the generation of the regular cat image this week. No specific reason. I was getting along well with deep.ai and I will probably return there. However, Lumo does seem to have rendered something suitable.

Recently I came across another article on a site that I have featured several times previously. Greater Good seems to have a number of articles in broadly the areas I am interested in. This one was specifically about managing your energy.

That seemed so much on theme for a blog dedicated to sleep and the pursuit of sleep that I thought it deserved recommending. It reminded me of some of the Calm material from Jay Shetty – some of which I have recommended before.

The Calm item this week follows on from my discussion recently where I reviewed a WhispersRed video on YouTube which featured the odd affirmation and I quipped how much I like a good affirmation. I have been known to print, laminate, and put up on the wall where I come across it regularly, some of the affirmations that speak most truly to me.

https://www.calm.com/app/player/jGs9dhvgC3

Daily Jay

Self-Affirmations

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Do affirmations actually work.

I will caution though that Calm is not free. I have not yet found any free content that I can readily share and so this is only applicable to you if you have a Calm subscription already.

I am trying to keep the supply of non-YouTube audio coming although I do keep finding myself coming back to YouTube because I can’t find much decent material elsewhere.

Recently, however, I found that Tara Brach not only produces a weekly meditation on YouTube she duplicates this with an audio file on her website. For example this one:

Which is located here:

Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:37 min)

These appear to be freely available and are also downloadable such that you can build a playlist of your own off YouTube and indeed off Internet should you so desire.

The professional ASMR artist this week is one that I do not think I have reviewed before. However, it is in keeping with my recent initiative to feature some older ASMR material (largely because YouTube likes to focus on everything being shiny and new and so somebody needs to focus on the opposite).

The video is this one:

Check Up Exam [Role Play] Soft Spoken Medical ASMR

It is just under twenty-nine minutes long so a reasonable one to drop off to. It was posted five years ago so nah nah nah nah YouTube.

There are notes of course (this is a professional ASMR artist after all): “20,877 views 25 May 2021 #MedicalASMR #ASMR #Roleplay

Time for your check up!  Intro- 0:07 Gloves- 1:30 Temp 2:19 Pulse 3:04 Head/Face Check 3:56 Making Faces 6:38 Mouth check- 7:16   Eye Test- 8:01 Nose Check 12:28   Ear Check 12:55 Heart & Lungs 19:40 Arm & leg check 22:37 Reflexes 24:05 Stomach Exam 26:36 Conclusion 27:29

P.S. I am not a real doctor; this video was made for ASMR entertainment purposes.

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#ASMR #MedicalASMR #Roleplay”

As we’ve come to expect these are humongous in their comprehensiveness.

The channel is a new one for me: CalmingEscape ASMR 56.2k subscribers,1.6k videos, twenty playlists

Of which this is on a theme in keeping with this blog theme thus far:

and it has one hundred and thirty four videos in it, no less.

The video starts with music, which is not my preferred way for a video to start but at least the music chosen is unobtrusive. The voice is low but not an actual whisper – so that gets a tick immediately.

There are various clicks and sounds from the person being in motion (clothing related noises). There is the odd clunk – equipment related noises. There are glove related noises which are really not my favourite thing but come up so often in professional ASMR videos that I am guessing that someone loves that sort of noise. The pace is excellent – it is nicely slow. The tone is also extremely good. Absent those glove noises, I’d say this was well above average.

There are pencil-related noises (pencil against paper, off camera by the sounds). There are sounds like something scraping across the microphone which are actually a tad peculiar (but not that unpleasant).

There is whispering content; when there is whispering in each ear. (It’s more of a stage whisper to be honest as it is not that quiet) but at least this is in keeping with the role play and so it could be argued has a purpose.

There are breathing noises (warming of a stethoscope), periods of silence when aspects of the examination are apparently taking place (I found that seemed to work rather well). Tapping noises (apparently connected with a reflex hammer). It ends with a whispered Patreon acknowledgement. This is also not my favourite thing, but at least there isn’t any further music.

I would say that this one is well worthy of a review. Why not have a listen.

And so onto the inadvertent ASMR. Occasionally I find that I have spent a while retrieving what appear to be genuine medical videos but which are contained on sites dedicated to ASMR. As I have mentioned before there is a sense of nervousness about these because what has been done to them to enhance their ASMR effects? Can we really have assurance that the videos are genuine medical videos and were not simply generated by ASMR professionals masquerading as doctors and nurses?

Well today we can take refuge in that the video comes from a genuine University and one that I think is reasonably well known (well, I had heard of it).

Respiratory Examination – KCL KUMEC

At just over five minutes it isn’t going to be around for long. There are no notes, but comments are permitted. From the comments we can conclude that ASMR fans have already been here long before I have.

There is start up music (but it is reasonably muted). The medical professional announces himself as Tristan Fraser. Some of the commentators appear to be having problems with terms used day-to-day in England which for someone familiar with them comes as a surprise. For instance, “Pop” is not a reference to someone’s father but rather to putting something somewhere such as “pop your shirt on”, “pop that over there” or “pop it in the oven”.

The “patient” is Donald, he does say what his surname is but I cannot catch it. We find that he is twenty-nine (Tristan announces this in the video).

The delivery is quiet, calm and measured and in fact pretty well ideal for a video featured in this blog.

The channel is KCL Kumec and it turns out that this is from Kings College London.

Even to my lowly brain I am aware that this is a prestigious educational establishment. The channel has twenty-nine videos and yet has 10.2K subscribers which is quite phenomenal.

Although there are twenty-nine videos (which is a few too many to cover in one blog post), it turns out that Tristan is only in a subset of these and so we can cover those videos in this post (and I suspect return to KCL KUMEC in the future for further blog posts).

Cardiology Examination – KCL KUMEC

At four and a quarter minutes it is even more brief than the last one. Again, no notes again comments again the comments are littered with contributions from ASMR fans. Again, the startup music and again we have Donald as the patient. We find that Donald is born 18/09/1989 (this is the UK format so September).

This is marvellously calm and quiet. In fact, it is very similar to the video that came before. It is a little louder in places but I do not think that to be off-putting (at least in terms of getting off to sleep).

Respiratory Examination – KCL KUMEC

This has the same title as the first video but a different reference. However, it is the same length, features the same two people I suspect it is in fact the self-same video. Comments as before – I think ASMR fans are now following Tristan because, like me, they like his voice.

However, as far as I can tell Tristan does not have a channel of his own so the few videos available on this channel are it in terms of output (which, like Hollie Berry before, is sad for us).

Cardiovascular Exam – KCL KUMEC

at four and a quarter minutes this is very similar if not identical to the Cardiology Examination we saw earlier. Yet again a comment from an ASMR fan referring to Dr James Gill’s famous catchphrase putapitopaper (although I’m pretty certain that is actually putabitopaper).

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

See you again next week.

The KCL Kumec playlist on the Procrastination Pen is here:

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

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

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

The playlist of videos requiring age verification is here:

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

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

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

Until next time.

Photo by Lumo AI

Sleeping With ASMR

This week I have been trialling L-Tryptophan. After recent blog articles in which I warned about the dangers of supplements and the taking of too much magnesium, I am taking a supplement. This supplement contains magnesium. I’m currently not sure if it is working. It is probably too early days (I read somewhere that any change takes about six weeks to really start making a difference). However, what I can say is that I am getting much more vivid dreams and nightmares since I started taking it. Initially it was all bad dreams, so disturbing that I had just about resolved to stop the supplement altogether. But recently the dreaming has turned onto a more pleasant footing. I do seem to be having more dreams though and remembering more of them. I am not certain if that is a good thing or not a good thing. To be honest, as long as the vicious ones stay in abeyance I do not mind either way.

Finding audio material of a restful nature on the Internet which a) does not require payment and b) is not on YouTube, is proving one of those challenges a Greek hero might have risen to. Leafing through some old meditation tracks I found a couple by Stephen Doetsu Snyder. Not someone I have listened to a lot, but obviously someone I did listen to.

The two I seem to have spent time with were:

and

which fail to qualify, as both (as you will have noticed) are on YouTube.

However, a shufty around the Internet turned up this: a site actually full of dharma talks by Stephen:

https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/261

Plenty there to work out if you like his voice or not, I would have thought.

The Calm resource this week is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/Lh8XCYkB5O

Daily Jay

Sensations vs. Emotions

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

What your body is trying to tell you and how you can use this information to make better decisions. I am still nervous about including material from here as Calm is not free. You can probably tell as I consistently keep this section brief.

The professional ASMR video this week is from a channel I cannot remember ever having reviewed before, so this one is as much an adventure for me as it is for you. The channel is BehindTheMoons. This has 262k subscribers, two hundred and eighty four videos, but only four playlists, I’m interested to see that one of these makes delivery in French:

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 lewd or divisive.

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

“BehindTheMoons

Description

Hello everyone!

I’m a French ASMRtist who has been making ASMR videos on the Internet since 2013.

You can call me Moons 🔆 and use they/them pronouns to refer to me (ael or elle in French)

You will find on this channel ASMR videos both in French and in English to help you relax, unwind, calm down or even fall asleep. I’m working hard to offer you a safe space where you can go back to when you need it.

I created specific playlists of my videos depending on the language spoken, so you can avoid the videos in French or in English depending on what you want to hear.

I currently use a Nikon Z6II to film my video, a Zoom H5 and two Lewitt LCT 440 Pure microphones to record the audio.

Zoruasmr introduced me to ASMR, without him, I wouldn’t be doing ASMR videos.

Margot Lambin designed the subscription badges and emoji, here is their Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/margotlambin/

Thank you for reading!

Take care 🌻”

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

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

ASMR – Futuristic Hearing Test [The Personal Enhancing Hearing Device ◉] English Version

At least if it is in a language I understand, I have some assurance no one is swearing out of the screen at me without my knowing.

The video also has notes, which are equally as lengthy as we have come to expect:

“Premiered on 2 Apr 2023 #HearingTest #CranialNerveExam #ASMR

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.

Here is the link to the French version of this video:      • ASMR – Test auditif futuriste [Le Disposit…  “

I’ve edited these down a fair bit; notes can get a bit yada-yada after a while.

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

There is brief music at the start which isn’t terribly distracting. I loved the accent of the presenting person. Immediately the pace is nicely slow and we do not appear to be getting a whispered rendition. That is a pretty rare discovery.

I like the voice; there is no attempt to maximise triggers such as mouth clucking, nail scratching or stroking of cloth (all of which you will have heard if you have stuck with this blog for any period of time.)

In all I would say this is the style of video that I search for – something realistic but still relaxing; calm but without trying to exploit every trigger. I do not often find sound like this in my YouTube exploration.

I notice that the comments seem to share my perspective with the levels of ASMR fan adoration being elevated up to that reserved for rock stars.

It’s unusual (and kind of affirming) to find people sharing my perspective on anything at all (let alone my perspective on videos). I am certain it can’t last.

I think I only rarely find non-English ASMR video presenters. Off the cuff I can remember Japanese, Chinese and one other French person. However, perhaps I need to search more carefully if the videos are of this quality.

There is a period of muted presentation which is part of the theme of the video (it is about hearing). There is a strange click, come buzzing noise, which is the hearing device “calibrating”. I found this a clever idea and not off-putting.

This calibration stage takes a little while and there is occasional music involved. I did not find that distracting (much as I am not a fan of music in ASMR videos).

The video does suggest use of headphones and certainly if you are listening to it from out of a set of old PC speakers, as I am, the directional quality of some parts of the presentation are less pronounced. (Elderly hearing also doesn’t help).

I always imagine that people reading this blog are in any case half way between snooze and alert and so the visuals are unlikely to be of a pronounced benefit. This one is clever, a lot of professional ASMR videos are I find. I do try to focus on the sound though.

As the video progresses, the presentation seems to get quieter and quieter until we are back on the whispered footing with which we are more familiar. I rather like whispering but I hear so much of it in ASMR I do like it when I find material that isn’t whispered.

Shame this video did not stay at the volume we had at the start but I can’t have everything…

There is the odd extraneous noise. I notice clicks, clonks, (mainly items being picked up and placed down again). There is a kind of squirting noise – I think that is supposed to be distribution of a perfume into the air. There are the sounds of the bristles of a brush being riffled through; there are very brief moments of breathiness.

I was quite impressed by this. I would think it worthwhile your giving it a review as well.

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

This week’s selection is this one:

Head-to-Toe Assessment

This is a bit more substantial than some we have reviewed of late (given it is a little over twenty-two and a half minutes in length).

It comes from the channel Kaylee Peters, which is not doing so badly given it has 1.31k subscribers from only six videos, unsurprisingly there are no playlists (I suppose you don’t need a playlist on your channel if you have only six videos). All the videos were posted twelve years ago and then the channel goes into abeyance. This has all the symptoms of a student assessment video.Any regular readers will know that we have seen many such videos.

The channel is very sparse note wise: “Kaylee Peters

More info

            http://www.youtube.com/@kayleepeters5092

            Joined 11 Sept 2013

            1.31k subscribers

            6 videos

            955,885 views”

The video has no notes at all. Most of the comments are not positive but there is the odd ASMR fan in there, which can be reassuring. We do not all like the same things though I notice so it isn’t a given this will deliver.

The video starts without music; there is no obvious background noise. The presentation is relatively loud (at least for me). The presentation is way too fast, I think. I tend to find this with students who need to cram everything into one of these videos. This tends to be reaffirmed by the fact that the student refers to a checklist which is visible to the camera at frequent intervals. I did not find the voice of the student relaxing but the patient was a little more measured (not that she got a great deal of opportunity to talk).

There is a prominent shoulder patch on the student’s uniform but I think you would need to be in the know to determine where it was from as it is too faint for me to make out. So, limited chance of determining where this was recorded. However undeterred I sent it to a google image search which, even in its smudged state, Google tells me it is Claflin University (I’m not sure I set much store by that answer).

The student says “um” roughly once per minute, after a little while it becomes quite noticeable. Many commentators point this out. There are no extraneous noises. However to get a great ASMR experience I think a good first step would be to get into the video play controls and slow this down to half speed. The pace does slow down gradually as the video progresses, as if the student presenter settles into her stride (potentially calms down a bit in a stressful situation). There are sirens at one stage, an obvious hazard recording in a medical facility I would have thought.

It is quite a thought-provoking experience seeing the kind of motion (and balance) that is accessible to a person at this age (and which I do not have now). No doubt many people my age reflect the same thing.

There are genuine quiet and calm moments where I get the opportunity to hear what might have been (there are ever so many videos that I have reviewed previously that are like that, some of them are in the Procrastination Pen archive list right now). I usually give most of them a trial in the main list (as I will this one) but I give up on them when I either lie awake listening to them, or worse was quietly drifting off and one of the videos wakes me up.

I find when a presentation is at speed, not only is volume and calmness sacrificed but expressions of empathy as well. I wonder if the people who set these kinds of exercises in play take such considerations into account.

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

This week I was listening to a podcast in which it was mentioned that “no regrets” was a daft philosophy. The phrase “no regrets” chimed for me and then I remembered it was the name of a song:

and so, in the way that one does, I looked up the song and found out far too much about it.

It did leave in me a question about the effects of relationship breakup on sleep. I have noticed that things like relationship failure are not often taken seriously. Presumably the phrase “man up” would be employed here. I certainly never hear of any time off being awarded because one’s beloved decided that Geoffrey (or Gemma) from Accounts was a better fit.

It would seem that my suspicion that it would have a significant impact is supported with studies demonstrating shorter duration sleep, depression (which also impacted sleep) and fragmented sleep when one finally gets any at all.

Sadly, The Procrastination Pen is not going to try to stir the crocodile-infested waters of relationships. I have no great solutions to offer you. My favourite AI tells me that 22.8% of couples are divorced by their 25th anniversary, which means a colossal number of people are suffering relationship breakup in their lives. I would be prepared to guess that those people do not get used to breakup even when they have been through one previously. The effects on sleep must be quite staggering.

The Procrastination Pen is however designed to try to alleviate some of those insomnia symptoms. The sole way that it attempts to do this is via distraction. Whilst the disciplined have trained their brain to switch off moments after the light is extinguished, the remainder of us would like something to keep the mind distracted whilst sleep slowly takes over.

The method I have chosen is to listen to something whilst trying to sleep. Personally, I find a calming, caring, dare I say it, empathetic, voice is quite effective in these circumstances. I therefore try to find resources that demonstrate that (rare) facility and evaluate them. Quite a lot of the time I wind up on YouTube but I do try to mine the alternative resources that I can find.

This week I thought I would stay on the subject of relationships and the stuff that goes wrong with them and pick on a podcast that I have often listened to, and rarely for the quality of the voice I have to admit: Limerence The Psychology of Romantic Obsession   Brandy Wyant, Being Well. The actual site lists the resource as being on YouTube but the podcast is widely available including Apple. I have often thought that Dr Rick Hanson has an excellent voice, Forrest also has a pretty good voice. I’m not quite so convinced by Brandy’s voice here. However, there are any number of episodes with just Forrest and Dr Rick in them, so it should give you an opportunity to determine if you like them.

The Calm track this week is this:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/zOO7Lqwcg_

Daily Jay

When to Quit

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

Quitting is not a sign of failure, although it is never wise to make a snap decision. I rather like that. I’m none too keen on the term failure especially as I read often of people who under one metric were terrible failures and by another great successes. Failure sounds to me like one of those rather too convenient labels you can give to others whose lifestyle you dislike.

Calm requires a subscription; I haven’t come across free Calm content yet. If I do, I’ll be sure to let you know. However, if you do have a subscription, why not try that out.

Some months ago now, I decided that some professional ASMR content should appear in the blog by way of contrast to the inadvertent ASMR which is most definitely still the core theme of this blog.

I’m beginning to realise that I actually prefer videos that were posted a little while ago and I see that on YouTube videos posted prior to the pandemic are now being referred to as “old school” videos. Given that is a scant six years ago now, how young are these ASMR artists on YouTube now?

There seems no reliable way to find really older YouTube videos with most searches on the site indicating that the majority of YouTube viewers preferring new, really new, or exceptionally new, videos and all the filters being optimised to take those preferences into account. I take some kind of perverse pride in exploring pre-pandemic videos where I come across them.

Todays for example, states that it was posted nine years ago and is by an artist that my ASMR index tells me I have not reviewed before (let us pray that is not for a fundamentally good reason). The site is Latte ASMR this site has 2.15m subscribers, three hundred and sixteen videos three playlists, I think that is nearly seven thousand subscribers for every video ever posted by this artist which seems a fairly good return to me.

The online translation service tells me that the three playlists are Japanese Videos, All Korean Videos and All English Videos, so no playlist dedicated to medical videos I’m afraid.

The notes against the channel are magnificently sparse: “Latte ASMR

More info

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

            Joined 4 Jan 2016

            2.15m subscribers

            316 videos

            667,479,881 views”

I would guess with that kind of patronage there would be very little need to advertise.

The video is right on theme for us (in that it is a medical examination role play):

Cranial Nerve Exam ASMR

It is a little less than thirty-eight minutes and so moderately substantial. There are notes, of course:”2,570,932 views 10 Nov 2016

Hello! This is Latte 🙂

In this video today, I will do the cranial nerve exam!

Actually, it was a bit challenging to make this video in English.

I don’t know the words that used in medical situation and it was difficult but many of you guys asked me to make more English videos and I took courage from your comments and made this video. So, I had to speak very slowly not to lose my mind. I don’t like the outcome of this video that much but I just did my best!

I know most of you guys are very open-minded and sweet-heart so I believe that you can understand me 🙂 I will not give up anyway. I will make lots of English videos again and again to make better videos!

Thank you for taking your time to watch this video and love you all! ♥

☆If you want to support me ♥:

https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4170402

★My second channel!

   / @latte5017 

★Instagram

  / latte_asmr “

Which regular readers will recognise are startlingly short for a professional ASMR artist (who habitually can write biblical notes with every video).

Comments are permitted. There are a lot of them, and most seem to be of the off-the-wall variety. That does not bode well. ASMR afficionados tend to wax-lyrical about the videos that they really like, sometimes to quite a nauseating degree. However, that is usually a fair sign that the video is a good one for us.

The video starts without music but there is a kind of background noise. (A hiss, but quite unlike the air conditioning noise that I am used to. It is more probably some kind of artifact from the recording mechanism used). The voice is quite high pitched but it is not whispery so that is quite rare. It sounds to me like the voice I would expect from a child, but the person starring in the video does not look that young. The pace is excellent, very measured. There are additional noises: nails clicking, the rustling of clothing, the odd clunk, paper rustling, the sound of pen scratching against paper, glove-related noises (I’m not a fan of these), the sound of the chinking of a glass vessel, clicking of pen light, what sounds like a small wooden drawer being opened and closed (it is off screen).

There is an amount of whispering during the examination, so that is fairly typical for a professional ASMR artist. There is that mouth clucking/clicking sound so beloved of ASMR professionals. The enunciation of some of the words is properly excellent and not that common in ASMR videos I have found.

There is the occasional oddity; “the liquid of taste” was one that stood out for me. But I thought that added to its charm rather than took away from it. You can probably tell that I very much liked this one. Why not give it a review yourself.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week is, in fact, drawn from a time when I was speculating about the treatment of youngsters and did this mean that people employed a gentler voice, a calmer demeanour, a more measured approach. In fact, did the very fact that a medical professional is dealing with a child mean that they are more likely to produce ASMR material.

I came across not a video but a playlist. It contains six videos however the blog post is already of a reasonable size so I think that I will evaluate the first video and file the other five for a return visit. The playlist is this:

It comes from a channel that I have visited again and again, primarily because it seems to have many suitable videos. It is, of course, Stanford Medicine 25, the playlist on the Procrastination Pen has a fair number of videos drawn from this channel in it.

The first video in this playlist is this one:

Abdominal Examination of the Newborn – Stanford Medicine

It is a little less than four and a half minutes so is another in a long line of brief videos that I have reviewed of late (the content is often great but short videos do maximise the inter video advert breaks).

The notes are sparse in the extreme: “411,093 views 5 Apr 2022

Dr. Bill Benitz demonstrates the abdominal examination of a newborn including identification of the liver edge and palpation of the spleen, kidneys, and a distended bladder.”

Dr Bill appears to be a very prestigious guy so we’re probably honoured to have him (if I did but know enough about medicine to understand it).

The video starts without music, but, in comparison to the professional ASMR artist I just reviewed, Dr. Bill is quite a lot louder. Another situation where the volume button needs to be thumbed down a bit. The speed is nicely slow, however. There is no background noise. The other good thing is that this, in common with all medical professional videos I have reviewed thus far, does not involve any whispering whatsoever. The baby involved is remarkably calm. It does not object in any way, quite surprising. For our purposes it makes for a more restful video though.

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

I notice that it has been so hot that we are starting to get advice about sleeping in a heatwave and that a sleep “divorce” is being discussed as a potential solution to some sleep-related issues. One thing that seems to be coming out of recent sleep articles is that people all over the UK (and no doubt elsewhere) are struggling to get enough decent quality sleep. The very high temperatures cannot be helping.

This blog, as regular readers will recognise, is all about sleep but mainly it focuses on sound and how to use sound to distract your mind from all the stresses of the day (and anticipation of the stresses of the day yet to come).

To this end I recommend (and review) a few audio tracks in the hope that you will find them restful. I am also, very gradually, building a playlist of inadvertent ASMR on YouTube which you may find helpful in this respect.

Some time ago I promised that I would find material that was not on YouTube so that those, like me, that loath the state of advertising on YouTube, during the quieter moments of the night could find refuge with another audio facility.

This week I notice that Susan Piver (someone I have mentioned before) has now started a podcast, called “Buddhism Beyond Belief”. It seems to have started in May and is still going strong. I rather like Susan’s voice. I also found that I could click on any of the tracks and they would just play without the need for any kind of logon (unlike some of the Spotify recommendations I have made recently).  There is no obvious mechanism for downloading each track so, sadly, no method for building into your own personal playlist. It may still be worthy of a review however.

The Calm track this week (which is strictly for people who already have a Calm subscription) is this one:

https://www.calm.com/app/player/rUpkBWv51r

Daily Jay

Unlikely Teachers

NARRATOR

Jay Shetty

What do unpleasant people teach us about ourselves.

I do not think that there is any free content, so on that basis (given most readers will not have a Calm subscription) I will move swiftly along.

I have, for some months now, been reviewing a professional ASMR artist. I have recently taken refuge in some rather old ASMR in that it is nostalgic for me (I used to listen to these tracks close to the time that they were first posted). This week’s one is this:

Ocean Fabric Affirmations 🕯[ASMR] Whisper

We have featured the channel WhispersRed ASMR before, but for those of you new to the blog, WhispersRed ASMR has 1.12m subscribers, nine hundred and twelve videos, twenty-nine playlists.

Of which this one is dedicated to getting sleepy:

Regular readers will have noticed that I have, yet again, strayed from the core theme of these blog articles which is medical orientated videos. I have been reviewing such videos for a long time and I assure you that I will be returning to them as well. 

The notes on the channel are quite informative including the fact that WhispersRed has been posting videos for thirteen years now (wow):

“WhispersRed ASMR

Description

Welcome home 💜 Make yourself cosy, put your feet up and I’ll pop the kettle on.

ASMR Tingles ✨ Relaxation ✨ Sleep ✨ Sound Therapy ✨ Silence ✨ Peace ✨ Love ✨ Smiles

Emma WhispersRed, Emma Smith, YouTube Mum

London, England

Links

Vlog Channelyoutube.com/@Emma_WhispersRed

Children’s Channelyoutube.com/c/WhispersRedASMRForChildren

Websitewhispersredasmr.com

Dog Rescue Charitywhispaws.org

Instagraminstagram.com/whispersred_asmr

TikToktiktok.com/@whispersredasmr

Facebookfacebook.com/WhispersRedASMR

More info

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

            United Kingdom

            Joined 12 Apr 2013

            1.12m subscribers

            912 videos

            433,408,137 views”   

As you can see the notes are pretty comprehensive (read extremely long). The majority of professional ASMR artists seem to double as part-time authors if the length of their notes is anything to go by.

The video is a little over thirty-two minutes and it also has humongous notes; associated with it. This time I think I’ll edit them down (a lot):

“663,439 views 16 Jan 2020 #whispersred #asmr

An ASMR affirmations whisper using ocean fabric hands sound, candle gazing, smudging and fluffy mics for close comforting hair sounds 💜0:01 – Introduction 6:53 – Guided relaxation 14:36 – Affirmations begin 23:39 – Repeated affirmations for sleep 29:09 – Goodnight, Sleep tight, with LOVE from me 🌟

Items in this video:

🌸US Links – Satya Incense collection including Celestial – https://amzn.to/2u4hpAt

Silver grey blanket https://amzn.to/30o6wFG

🌷UK Links – Satya Incense with Celestial https://amzn.to/2teboRK

Silver Grey Blanket https://amzn.to/2uSixaB

📚My ASMR Book – Unwind Your Mind: The Life-changing power of ASMR https://campsite.bio/whispersredasmr – Published by Ebury/PenguinRandomHouse in the UK/Europe and Harper One in the US and Canada. Available in Hardback, Paperback, Audiobook and Ebook.”

The full set of notes are interesting to true ASMR afficionados and no doubt to out-and-out WhispersRed fans.

Comments are permitted. There are a fair number and as per usual some are lauding WhispersRed as the pinnacle of ASMRishness. Some are just peculiar. This seems pretty average for any YouTube video. (Some YouTube videos also attract some rather nasty comments, but not so here, as far as I can tell).

The video starts without music and I suppose the clue was in the name of the channel in that we can hear that we are focused on the whispery; in fact, I would say it is on the whispery side of whispery.

Emma mimics ocean sounds by dragging her hands across fabric (and it is really very believable). If you find ocean sounds restful, I would say you would be hard pressed to tell the difference with your eyes closed. I am mainly here for the voice and whilst I prefer presentations that are not focused on whispery, as whispery presentations go, this is a good one.

There is the crackling of a burning candle, the sound of a cigarette lighter, the clicking of nails and that ongoing fabric sound which could easily be the waves retreating over sand, if you did not know better. I thought it quite a clever effect and I’m not certain who first worked out that you could employ fabric in this way. The blowing of a Joss Stick quite effectively mimics the wind blowing; it really is quite carefully put together. It even includes a few well-placed affirmations; I’m quite in favour of an affirmation so I would say that gives it extra kudos.

I can now remember what it is caused me to listen to it all those years ago. In fact, whether it was the heat or the restfulness of this video I did find myself nodding whilst listening to it. In terms of this blog, therefore, I would deem that a success.

Why not review it yourself and see what you think.

The inadvertent ASMR video this week is from a channel that regular readers will already know. It is from Oxford Medical Education a channel with 164k subscribers, thirty two videos, nine playlists, and I have mined this channel for material repeatedly. Some of the videos have actually been quite good.

The video is this one:

Neck Examination – ENT

It is a little less than four minutes so play close attention or you’ll miss it!

There are notes of course: “338,976 views 17 Feb 2012

This video – produced by students at Oxford University Medical School in conjunction with the ENT faculty – demonstrates how to perform an examination of the neck. It also demonstrates the lymph node regions of the neck.

All videos on this channel are linked to Oxford Medical Education (www.oxfordmedicaleducation.com)

This video was produced in collaboration with Oxford Medical Illustration – a department of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. For more information, please visit http://www.oxfordmi.nhs.uk”

How lovely and succinct they are, compared to those for the previous video.

The video starts without music but I was somewhat shocked after WhispersRed how loud the narrator initially sounded. This might be one to thumb the volume down a little. It might also be that in the context of the Procrastination Pen playlist it will fit right in. Something goes wrong with the video at about twenty seconds – it makes a very odd sound and the screen goes crazy for about three seconds. That is a great shame the video is otherwise quite calming. One of those where if I owned the video, I would cut that section out altogether. The medical professional has a great voice for our purposes, quite calm and quiet. However, sadly he does not get to talk as frequently as the narrator in this one. The “patient” doesn’t get to talk at all. The narrator has quite a good voice but not quite as great as the medical professional here. It might be that she has been instructed to be louder in order to be clear for the (no doubt students) attending to the video. It was not, after all, recorded for us ASMR fans.

The only problem from my perspective was the rather active advert that kicked in immediately afterwards.

On that basis, just one, video this time.

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

See you again next week.

The Oxford Medical Education 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