ASMR: You should consider this when buying a microphone

A young woman holds a wooden heart in her hand and romps around it for about a minute. The noise is reminiscent of rain rain. When she talks, she whispers. She spells the inscription of the heart “Sweet on You”. It is the 30-minute YouTube video “ASMR Valentine’s Day Triggers” by Influencer ASMR Darling, also known as Taylor Darling. She whispers into the microphone over and over again, grabs objects, creating noises. What initially sounds bizarre is a real trend on social media. But why?

ASMR stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response” – translated: autonomous sensory meridian reaction. Exactly, nobody still understands that! That is why translations such as “head tingling” or “head orgasm” circulate in the German-speaking area. The terms refer to a phenomenon in which a pleasant tingling or tingling is triggered on the skin and in the head. This can be caused by certain audiovisual stimuli such as voices, noises or touches. Influencers have been celebrating success with this phenomenon for years.

ASMR videos are usually available on YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram & Co. and show a person who executes certain trigger to trigger the reaction among the audience. And that is obviously pretty good for youtuber ASMR Darling. With over 2.5 million subscribers, it is one of the best-known ASMR artists. She started producing ASMR videos in 2014 and has built up a large followers since then. Hamburg psychologist Christine Geschke is also convinced.

“I didn’t know the phenomenon and came across it on Instagram. I noticed that I liked the videos incredibly,” says Geschke in an interview with that star. “I recorded this as a completely new experience and thought it was really great.”

Gift is a consultant and therapist in Hamburg. She studied psychology and neurology. Its focus is on clinical psychology and cognitive neurosciences. The therapist with her own practice in Hamburg-Eppendorf knows how people perceive and process signals from the environment.

“The ASMR videos are only about two sensory modalities, on the one hand the visual and the auditory on the other. “For many, there is a tingling sensation in the rear scalp area and this then transmits over the neck and back on the whole body,” says the psychologist. ASMR videos can be compared to meditation-the concentration is limited to one or two senses as with meditation. In the case of ASMR: see and hear. If you want to record ASMR videos yourself, you should pay particular attention to one.

The most important gadget for the absorption of ASMR videos is one . The quality depends on several factors, which relate to sensitivity, the directional characteristics, the frequency response, the noise balance, the poverty and construction. A good microphone should offer high performance in all of these areas to ensure high -quality recording.

These criteria make an ASMR video particularly pleasant:

In 2022, a study on ASMR was published in the “Journal of Research in Personality”. British researchers found that people who are receptive to ASMR can also better perceive the inner and outer signals from their body. The results show that nobody perceives all five senses – hear, see, smell, taste and feel. Some react more sensitive to smells, others to touch, still others to visual stimuli and, and, and. According to Hamburg psychologist Christine Geschke, the reactions to ASMR trigger perceived as pleasantly perceived.

“ASMR can help to fall asleep better, reduce sleep disorders, to relieve depression. Some also help some with panic attacks. In any case, it lowers the heart rate,” says Geschke. Previous experiences have shown that ASMR could be helpful in mental illnesses. However, the method is still very unexplored. Due to her many years of experience in cognitive psychology, Gesture has a sobering presumption of long -term effects from ASMR: “There is a risk of a so -called habitual, i.e. a getting used to.

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