Bernard O'Shea: ASMR and the pathway to regular brain orgasms

There are a mindboggling array of sub-sections and niches to the modern sensory craze, but the binaural ocean waves are definitely my favourite 

"Tapping, touching and whispering isn’t my thing." Photograph Moya Nolan

I first heard about ASMR when I was working on a voice-over job. The people I was working with introduced me to a world full of whispers, folding, squishing and a fair amount of weirdness.

Up until then if someone said ASMR to me I probably would have thought they were talking about a Covid variant. But ASMR has been around for the best part of a decade. Early adopter, I am not.