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Coined in 2009, the term autonomous sensory meridian response – ASMR for short – describes a tingling yet calming sensation triggered by audiovisual stimuli. For more than a decade it existed only on ...

Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, is a sensation where visual or auditory triggers fire off synapses in the brain that create a pleasant, calming feeling — colloquially referred to as ...