{"id":2857,"date":"2022-06-17T02:17:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2022-06-17T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T08:17:10","slug":"i-love-that-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"I love that for you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

woke up to an email the other morning from HSN (home shopping network), thanking me for my order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I watched HSN and bought a pair of Birkenstocks? #ambienbuys<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m kind of excited though. I haven’t had a pair of birks in a long time. they were my favorite shoe and I wore them year round, which was easy enough to do in Arizona. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

a friend suggested I try ASMR for sleep. I’m not a fan. Most videos are intolerable to me. I hate them in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I did anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

then she sent me a link to this video and something flipped inside me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/nu6AUl3UlF0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The appeal is a combination of her whispering voice, the sound of the unwrapping paper, the unexpected clinks of the glass. She also does this subtle but constant clicking noise that I found soothing, not annoying. When I listened to it, I immediately started feeling sleepy. My head tingled. My body got heavy. My ears felt like I was underwater. The whole thing made me feel slightly uncomfortable, but in such a weirdly pleasant way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think everyone is probably susceptible to one kind of ASMR video or another, it’s just a matter of finding the right one. There seems to be a wide range. I cannot stand the sound of eating or cooking, or office sounds, especially typing. Others love it. A friend did not like the whispering voice of my tea video lady, she doesn’t like whispering at all, she needs full voices and talking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if these videos\/sounds tap into some primal memory inside us, like when we were infants. Or even deeper, like from the womb. Or maybe even before that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m on a quest to find more videos like this tea one, I have yet to find something that causes a similar reaction. But I’m sure it exists! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These videos seem safer and better for me when I can’t sleep. certainly less embarrassing than ambien-watching the home shopping network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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