A Place To Sleep

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Have you ever wanted to place an order at a really fancy restaurant?  Perhaps you are interested in getting your suit measured?  What about learning the Cyrillic alphabet?  Do you like checking out books from the library?  Might you be a fan of getting your makeup done?  Is having a throwback to your elementary school days something you’d consider?  Do you think that Bob Ross (rest his soul) was a boss of bosses?

Or is there a chance that you enjoy sleeping?

If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, then you should watch ASMR.

Let me make something absolutely clear.  ASMR is not porn.  One does not get off on it.  The fact of the matter is, a fair number of popular ASMR artists are beautiful young women.  If you are watching for the eye candy however, you are wasting your time.  Porn is porn.  ASMR is ASMR.  To be honest, most times my eyes are closed after about sixty seconds of watching anyway.  If you are trying to excite yourself, you are looking in the wrong place.  ASMR is for relaxation.  As one ASMR artist so eloquently put it, ASMR is about as erotic as peeling an orange.

Understand that not everybody gets the tingles.  That’s ok, I only get them some of the time.  Regardless, ASMR does relax me every single time.  It also helps me get to sleep when I’m struggling with that.  Just put on headphones, queue up a nice playlist, and bingo!  I’m out like a light.

Leaving that topic for a second, I want to let you know that I spend a ton of time on the computer.  Online games are something I really enjoy, and sometimes I’m good at them.  But, the internet is a scary place.  People are quick to rush to judgment, use foul language, and be generally hurtful.  That is frankly depressing.  The internet is a wonderful tool for communication, and it rubs me the wrong way when people abuse the anonymity of the web to be jerks.

That’s why ASMR is the cat’s pajamas.  It’s a community of people going out of their way to be supportive and helpful to other folks that they have never met.  Basically, it is everything that the internet should be.  Nothing mean, nothing hurtful, nothing insulting, just people helping people.  Now that’s quite a thought.

-Harry