Do you know what a "braingasm" is? You do. Great.

But do you it's scientific name is Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR?

You do? Well, hooray for you. ASMR is an experience best experienced, however. You might as well go to YouTube view and listen to the hundreds of ASMR videos posted over the years.

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We've all experienced ASMR, but didn't know what to call it. ASMR is that sensation that gives pleasurable and relaxing tingling in the spine, head and scalp. Getting goose bumps is a good description of ASMR.

It gives some people bizarre pleasure when listening to scratchy noises and whispers, touching and folding towels and even smelling things.

ASMR is also known as Attention Induced Head Orgasm (AIHO), Attention Induced Euphoria (AIE), Head Orgasms and Brain Orgasms or Braingasms.

Contrary to what other people think, however, ASMR has nothing to do with anything sexual, despite being called a braingasm.

There's still no single scientific evidence to explain ASMR. On the other hand, brain scientists believe our brain are stimulated by things that satisfy us.

Neuroscientist Steven Novella of Yale University has written about ASMR and said he's "inclined to think it's a real phenomenon," Mail Online reports.

As to whether he experienced it, he said that "I have never experienced this myself. I listened to the whispering in Latin video, which was eerily intimate at first, and then just a bit weird, although I always love listening to Latin."

ASMR researchers are looking for volunteers to work with them on their research, especially those people that have experiencing the phenomenon.

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