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Food ASMR: the best videos to fall asleep quickly

By Kiwilimón - 2020-05-05T16:57:13Z
While some people find it detestable to hear someone eat noisily, others relax with these sounds, and many even make money creating food ASMR videos.Yes, there are several YouTubers who dedicate themselves to eating in front of a microphone and not only have they gained a large audience, but they have also popularized this relaxation technique for people.Although food ASMR is more recent, these sensory experiences cover a range of themes from crumpling paper to the sound of a beer bottle cap on a wooden table and have proven to be truly effective in helping with anxiety and falling asleep.What is ASMR?The meaning of ASMR is “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response”, which means autonomous sensory meridian response.It is a physiological sensation that responds to specific sounds to calm the mind. With ASMR, sounds create a tingling sensation in the head and neck to relax the mind.Thus, a person who makes ASMR videos creates instant audio stimuli to calm your nerves, which slowly makes you fall asleep or calms you during anxiety attacks.People with anxiety and insomnia react to visually pleasing stimuli and crisp sounds faster than others. Therefore, sounds like scratching with fingernails, slowly burning pieces of paper or wood, crumpling plastic, or hearing someone chew trigger their autonomous sensory meridian response.Food ASMR for falling asleep quicklyFood ASMR videos are not cooking videos meant to teach you a new recipe (although, of course, if you want, feel free to check out our recipes here). Instead, they are videos created to provoke pleasant tingling sensations in the brain with intense food sounds like slurping, swallowing, chewing, or crunching.For example, vlogger Taylor, known as ASMR Darling, has gained an audience of over 2 million at just 20 years old, with videos averaging around 1.5 million views.Among her most famous videos, there is one where we can hear her whispering for 21 minutes while sipping a soda.And not only that, there are other types of food ASMR videos, for example: recipe reading, extreme crunching, vegan cooking, and an ASMR twist on the Korean phenomenon known as mukbang, where the vlogger chats silently while eating surprisingly large amounts of food. Others focus on carefully separating food for the camera.So the variety of videos to relax is very broad and there is something for everyone, so we leave you some examples of food ASMR so you can discover if it's the option for you.