"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Sit back, relax, close your eyes, and listen to my soft voice. Let your mind wander as I ...

Craig Richard could not stop watching Bob Ross paint. It was 1983, and Ross's television show, The Joy of Painting, had ­recently premiered on PBS. Richard, then in his early teens, would come home ...

ASMR, a.k.a. “autonomous sensory meridian response,” a.k.a. (in some quarters, at least) whisper porn, is a subject of much fascination but little concrete understanding. As Jessica Roy explained last ...

The YouTube video opens on a smiling young woman facing the camera. She makes soft fluttering noises with her fingers, moving them from side to side as she slowly and delicately whispers into a highly ...

Don’t hate on AI-generated ASMR. It itches all the right spots in the brain, with no waste and endless variations of soothing ...

When you listen to someone whispering, or get your hair cut or hear tapping or crinkling sounds, do you feel deeply relaxed, with tingles in your head and neck that run down your back and limbs? If so ...

I’m sitting on a futon in a stranger’s apartment with my friend Ashley. In front of us, Melinda Lauw—a slender, wide-eyed Singaporean woman—is crouched in a squat, holding a small flickering candle, ...