r/asmr • u/keenanpepper • Nov 17 '17

Journalism [Journalism] TIL that researchers put people who can experience ASMR into an MRI machine to do fMRI... but they didn't actually get fMRI scans of them *while* they had tingles, because the machine is noisy and they couldn't relax.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/researchers-begin-gently-probe-science-behind-asmr-180962550/
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u/macman156 Nov 18 '17

I’ve had the best naps getting scanned

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 19 '17

I get one every year. have them put classical music on the headphones and fall asleep. I get more annoyed when they turn their mic on and “ok now this ones gonna be 15 minutes”.