0:03  
It's just really common sometimes when I would try to fall asleep I would, I, like have too many thoughts in my head. I just like keep picking up things. And like before how I would counteract that was that I would like write whatever I was thinking. I just think I just do most of my thinking at night. And I'm like a student also, so just like school deadlines. And I'm like, since I'm an art, I'm, like, always need to be like brainstorming of like, thinking of things. I'm like, oh, I could do this for like, my assignment. Or like, what if it looked like this? I need to, I mean, just like standard stuff of like, things that I need to do and haven't been done are just like, things that happened in my day. Like, why did I do that? You know? My name is Amanda Khan. I'm a student at OCAD University for sculpture and installation. I'm 22 years old. I am an anxious person, I don't have an anxiety, but I do get anxious about certain things for sure. So I do I do it all. I like it all I like when I first started, I would like, listen to them as like audio files. When I would go to sleep, I would like put my headphones in and I usually like the whispered ones like with like, whispering right up, like on each side of here. That's how I would go to sleep, I would say smart does help me when I'm anxious or just just feeling really stressed out, I'll put ASMR on.

1:49  
So ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It's described as an experience characterized by a static like or tingling sensation on the skin. However, among the ASMR community, it's also just described as a sense of wellbeing an overwhelming calm, a sense of relaxation, it doesn't necessarily have to be the tingling feeling. But just you feel better, you just feel lighter, you feel happier. So if you've ever had somebody, play with your hair, do your makeup, if you ever had a lice check at school, had the window open when it's raining, and you can hear like the raindrops on the tin roof or on the road, and you just feel good, you just feel nice and relaxed. That's ASMR.

2:44  
Hello, this is Ashley ASMR and I'm an ASMR artist. I got into ASMR because I originally was in developmental service work and early childhood education. However, I got really, really sick during my pregnancy and ended up developing cyclic vomiting syndrome. And I had to kind of change my life and adapt to be able to help support my family. I was really depressed and really anxious and like, I had really known what I wanted to do. Originally with my life, I really wanted to help people and then being confined by a disease where I can't just go and do what I want to do, I can't go to school the way a normal person would. I can't, I can't even go to my mailbox sometimes. So I had to figure out how, how to live with this condition, while also being happy and supporting my family. And ASMR it helped me get out of my head. It helped me focus. And then it also helped me redirect my energy into more positive things. So I have recently spoke with some of my subscribers about why they use ASMR. Or what about ASMR that they like, and it was crazy. The response I got was really different from almost everybody that I spoke to. So some people in my my community, they watch it because they have severe pain, and it helps them focus on something else. Other people watch it for anxiety. The one the one guy who watches my stuff, he watches it, or listens to it, I guess while he's driving, to help with like road rage and his anxiety and stuff while he's driving, which is crazy. And it's so neat, just how many individuals and the diverse group of people that get to come together over something that's really positive. When you're sick and you have a chronic illness, people get sick of it. And so people stop coming around or they stop talking to you and they go on with their lives. And with ASMR and with the awesome strong supportive community a lot of the people within the community come upon ASMR because they had anxiety or depression or insomnia or a combination. So that's why they're so supportive of one another because it's like, man, I know what it's like to be miserable and I don't know what your shoes are like, but I definitely know what it was like when I felt that way and I don't want you to feel that way. So everyone really helps one another and that's definitely been a huge benefit for me.

5:25  
So another one that I watch is these interviews that w ma does with celebrities. And my favorite one like the best one and all the comments are like for cardi B is amazing her ASMR because she's she watches ASMR.

5:42  
I love ASMR. My husband thinks it's very strange and weird that I watch ASMR every single day to go to bed. But it gives me a very sinking, sinking, sinking sensation. 

6:09  
That's really powerful to know that you're not just, you know, you're not just making this dude laugh. You are actually helping them sleep you are changing their anxiety and those things are really life changing for people.