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15 THE RELAXATION AND CALM OF ASMR 127 com/rhys-baker/2015​/03/im-using-my-newly-discovered-asmr-to-fight-depression/.

3. For example, Kirsty Liddle, ‘ASMR News: YouTubers React To ASMR’, Asmryouready, 21 April 2016, http://www​.asmryouready​.com/asmr-news-youtubers-react-asmr.

4. Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), 45.

5. ‘ASMR. Sounds That Feel Good – Reddit’, accessed 20 May 2016, https://www​.reddit.com/r/asmr/.

6. Nicholas Tufnell, ‘ASMR: Orgasms for Your Brain’, Huffington Post, 26 February 2012, http://www​.huffingtonpost​.co.uk/nicholas-tufnell​/asmrorgasms-for-your-brain​_b_1297552.html.

7. Datasource: Google Trends, accessed 20 May 2016, www​.google.com/trends.

8. Emma L. Barratt and Nick J. Davis, ‘Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR): a flow-like mental state’, PeerJ 3 (2015): e851.

9. For a review on synaesthesia, see Jamie Ward, ‘Synesthesia’, Annual Review of Psychology 64, no. 1 (2013): 49–75

10. Ibid.

11. Brandon A. Ally, Erin P. Hussey, and Manus J. Donahue, ‘A Case of Hyperthymesia: Rethinking the Role of the Amygdala in Autobiographical Memory’, Neurocase 19, no. 2 (2013): 166–81.

12. Adam Zeman, Michaela Dewar, and Sergio Della Sala, ‘Lives without Imagery – Congenital Aphantasia’, Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior 73 (December 2015): 378–80.

13. J. A. Cheyne, S. D. Rueffer, and I. R. Newby-Clark, ‘Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis: Neurological and Cultural Construction of the Night-Mare’, Consciousness and Cognition 8, no. 3 (1999): 319–37.

The videos of GentleWhispering, the most popular ASMRtist can be found at: www​.youtube.com/user/GentleWhispering (additionally, a simple search of the term ‘ASMR’ in YouTube will provide thousands of videos).

A website dedicated to reviewing and sharing ASMR-related resources: www​.asmrr.org.

General ASMR news: http:​//asmruniversity.com/blog.

BBC Radio 4 documentary (‘Brain Tingles’) on ASMR: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9rzk.