From requests made to Ilse Blansert, a Dutch artist, by people who experience ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), a condition characterized by a pleasurable tingling sensation activated by certain sounds or audiovisual phenomena. Blansert posts videos to her YouTube channel to fulfill the requests.

soft humming sounds

whispering in the dark while you push around floating candles in a bowl of water

a caring role-play talk with someone who’s irrationally depressed

reading a book with a plastic cover

cutting construction paper

drawing figures like triangles and coloring them with crayons

regulating an exam, telling students the rules, giving them paper

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