Trisha Robertson was 12 years old when she came down with a really nasty case of mono. It’s not an unusual illness for a kid of her age, but hers was especially severe, leaving her bed-ridden for ...

According to the National Library of Medicine, ASMR is a newly coined abbreviation for "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response." Colloquially, ASMR is also known as “brain tingles." It is used to ...

With more of us wanting to take step back from our busy lives, the music industry has been inspired by the relaxing sounds of Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). Gibi, who has more than three ...

Autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, used to be a niche corner of the internet, a place where curious bystanders would pop in and marvel at the clicks, whispers, pops, and other calming ...

From cucumber-crunchers to cranial exams, YouTube is full of ASMRtists provoking the strangely pleasurable autonomous sensory meridian response. Now they’ve got their own euphoric museum show Some ...

Listening to rustling, tapping, and breathing into mics is a huge trend on TikTok (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Have you come across the phenomenon of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, aka ...

Nobody watches the Super Bowl for relaxation. But that’s what William Halligan got. It was February 3, and Halligan, a 72-year-old dentist, was watching the game with his wife, nieces, and nephews at ...

You may not have heard about ASMR but type it into a search engine and you get more than 11 million responses, many of them videos. They are designed for relaxation and for many viewers can cause a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have just spent 38 minutes looking at someone unwrapping three bars of chocolate. Before that, I watched a ...