Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

Anyone?
I've always gotten this my entire life, but I never knew it was a "thing" that was objectively recognized by the scientific community, with a name and everything! Apparently research is still pretty slim though.

Essentially ASMR is described as a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs.

Common external triggers include -

-Exposure to slow, accented, or unique speech patterns
-Viewing educational or instructive videos or lectures
-Experiencing a high empathetic or sympathetic reaction to an event
-Watching another person complete a task, often in a diligent, attentive manner - examples would be filling out a form, writing a check, going through a purse or bag, inspecting an item -closely, etc.
-Close, personal attention from another person
-Haircuts, or other touch from another on head or back

To go ahead and clear up a common misconception, this is not the same thing as getting the chills, like when something epic/awesome happens or some powerful music is playing. The chills usually last only a few seconds and are localized in the arms, whereas ASMR can go on for a really long time and is in the head and spine. I've also heard that the chills are from dopamine release and ASMR is from serotonin release, but I haven't seen too much about it.

This used to happen to me a lot from watching other people create stuff, whether it be ceramics, drawings, paintings, or watching people write or do math problems in school. The noted physical sensations would wash over me along with a deep feeling of relaxation/contentedness, and a pronounced synthestic categorization of the event as watery or cerulean blue.

Anyways, apparently it doesn't happen to everyone. I guess I started this to see how common it is or how many people here have experienced it. Anyone have any idea what the hell I'm talking about?

 

i dunno. i sometimes get something sort of like a combination of the two, but i don't know which it is. like the chills, it's usually short lived and can be caused by good music or epic occurrences. like asmr it always starts on the scalp and moves down across my body and can also be caused by close personal attention or head/back touching.

 

Yes, it's kinda of a trance-like place to be. I like it.

 

I just stumbled across it on YouTube video of chich whispering into the microphone, figured it was something like binaural beats..
So googled 'AMSR', read-up on Wikipedia, to realize that I've experienced this before--mainly when intensely enveloped in something emotionally moving, sounds can trigger it too. Fascinating.