The Brain Science (and Benefits) of ASMR | Craig Richard | TED
Summary
TLDRこのスクリプトでは、ASMR(自律神経感覚巌応)という現象が紹介されており、その経験を共有しています。ASMRは、個人的注意や優しい声などが引き起こす深いリラックス感や頭のチーンという感覚を指します。研究によると、ASMRはストレス軽減や睡眠改善に役立つと報告されており、YouTubeのASMRアーティストたちはその効果を追求する多くのフォロワーを抱えています。研究者たちは、ASMRが脳内でどのような変化を引き起こすかを調べ、オキシトシンという神経ホルモンが関係している可能性についても触れています。
Takeaways
- 😀 スクリプトはASMR(自律神経感觉水準反応)という現象をテーマにしています。
- 💇♂️ ASMRを経験する場面として、髪を切る時や美容師との交流が挙げられます。
- 👁️ 目の検査の時に経験されるASMRの感覚も説明されています。
- 🎨 テレビ番組「ボブ・ロスの絵を楽しもう」を通じてASMRを経験する人もいます。
- 🧠 ASMRは、特定の脳域が活性化する現象であり、個人的な注意を受ける時に起こることが示されています。
- 📊 ASMRに関する研究は、2013年以前にはほとんど存在せず、その後も研究は限られていましたが、多くの人々がその効果を実感していることがインターネット上で報告されています。
- 🌐 ASMRは世界中で経験されており、リラックス効果やストレス軽減、睡眠改善の効果があると報告されています。
- 🤔 ASMRを経験しない人もおり、その理由はまだ解明されていないとされています。
- 🧬 ASMRのメカニズムについて、オキシトシンという神経ホルモンが関係している可能性が示唆されています。
- 📺 ASMRアーティストが存在し、彼らのビデオは多くのフォロワーを持ち、リラックス効果を目的として作られています。
- 🏥 ASMRの健康効果は、ヨガや瞑想、_meditation_(瞑想)などと比較されるべきものであり、将来的にはストレスや不眠の管理ツールとして推奨されるかもしれないと述べています。
Q & A
ASMRとはどのような現象ですか?
-ASMRは、自己感覚子午線反応(Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response)の略で、個人的な注意や優しい声などに反応して深いリラックス感や頭のチカチカ感を経験する現象です。
ASMRが引き起こされる一般的なシナリオは何ですか?
-ASMRが引き起こされる一般的なシナリオは、ヘアサロンでの髪のケア、目の検査、または親しみやすい個々の注意を受けるときです。
ボブ・ロスはどのようにASMRと関係していますか?
-ボブ・ロスは「絵を楽しむ」というテレビ番組で、彼の優しい声とリラックスした様子が多くの人々にASMRを引き起こすと報告されています。
ASMRアーティストとは誰ですか?
-ASMRアーティストは、視聴者がリラックスしやすくなり眠りに就くためのASMRビデオを作成する人々であり、彼らには多くのフォロワーがいます。
ASMRビデオはどのようにして作られますか?
-ASMRビデオでは、カメラに近い位置に座り、レンズに向かってそっと話したり、ささやいたり、時にはヘアデザイナーや医療従事者などの役を演じることで作られます。
ASMRがもたらす健康上の利点は何ですか?
-ASMRはリラックス効果があり、ストレスの軽減や眠りの改善に役立つと報告されています。また、不安症や不眠症の患者にも効果があるとされています。
ASMRが引き起こす脳の反応はどのようなものですか?
-ASMRが引き起こす脳の反応は、実際の世界で親しみやすい人からポジティブな個人的注意を受けるときに活性化する同じ脳領域に関連しています。
ASMRを経験しない人々はなぜそうなのですか?
-ASMRを経験しない人々は、彼らに適したビデオや実際の遭遇がまだないか、または遺伝子による可能性があるためかもしれません。
ASMRとホルモンオキシトシンの関係は何ですか?
-ホルモンオキシトシンはASMRを引き起こす可能性のある脳の化学物質の1つであり、「愛のホルモン」と呼ばれています。ポジティブな個人的注意が与えられたときにオキシトシンレベルが増加し、リラックス効果をもたらします。
ASMRの研究は今後どのような方向で進むことが予想されますか?
-ASMRの研究は、ASMRがどのようにストレスや不眠を管理するのに役立つか、または薬物治療と比較してどのような利点があるかを探求する方向で進むことが予想されます。
ASMRが健康に与える影響を測定する研究はありますか?
-シェフィールド大学の研究によると、ASMRビデオを見ると心拍数が有意に低下することが示されています。
Outlines
😌 ASMR体験とその科学
スクリプトの第1段落では、話者が自分の髪を失ったことと、その代わりにASMR(自律神経感觉水準応答)という特別なリラックス効果を体験したエピソードを共有しています。彼は美容師や眼科医、特にボブ・ロス「絵を楽しむ」というTV番組を通じて、ASMRを引き起こす個人的な注意や柔らかい声に魅了されていると語ります。2013年にASMRという現象が研究されるようになり、彼自身も生理学者としてその科学背後にあるものに興味を持ちました。
📺 ASMRアーティストとその影響
第2段落では、ASMRアーティストとその活動が紹介されています。これらのアーティストは、視聴者に対してリラックス効果をもたらすために、カメラに近い位置で静かに話したり、ささやいたりするビデオを作成しています。彼らのビデオは多くのフォロワーを持ち、ASMRがストレス軽減や睡眠改善に役立つという研究結果も報告されています。さらに、ASMRがどのように脳を活性化させるかについての脳スキャンの研究結果も紹介されています。
🤔 ASMRの謎と未来
第3段落では、ASMRについての未解決の質問と、将来の可能性について話されています。ASMRを体験しない人々や、ASMRの健康効果と薬物治療やヨガ、瞑想などの比較について触れられています。また、oxytocinという神経ホルモンがASMR体験に関与している可能性や、ASMRが将来のストレスや不眠の管理ツールとして健康専門家によって推奨されるかもしれないという展望も示されています。最後に、話者はボブ・ロスが彼の天国のような理想像を象徴するというユーモアを交えています。
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Keywords
💡ASMR
💡リラックス
💡ストレス
💡不眠症
💡オキシトシン
💡ヘアドレッサー
💡ボブ・ロス
💡ASMRアーティスト
💡心のチクチク感
💡リサーチ
Highlights
The speaker, a bald man, misses the relaxing experience of going to the hairdresser, including the tactile and auditory sensations.
The speaker finds deep relaxation in the sounds and personal attention during an eye exam.
Watching Bob Ross's 'Joy of Painting' induces a state of deep relaxation and ASMR-like response.
ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, a term coined in 2010.
The speaker is a physiologist and researcher interested in the science behind ASMR.
In 2013, there was a lack of peer-reviewed research on ASMR, but many online forums discussed the sensation.
ASMR is associated with feelings of relaxation, comfort, and a tingling sensation in the brain.
ASMR is triggered by receiving positive personal attention from caring individuals.
ASMR artists create videos to induce relaxation and sleep, with millions of followers on platforms like YouTube.
ASMR videos involve close-up camera work, soft speaking, and gentle actions to mimic personal attention.
A study involving brain scans shows that ASMR activates the same brain regions as real-world personal attention.
Data from over 30,000 participants indicates that ASMR is experienced globally and helps with sleep and stress reduction.
ASMR may have health benefits similar to yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, but more research is needed.
Oxytocin, known as 'the love hormone', is a likely candidate for the brain chemical responsible for ASMR sensations.
Not everyone experiences ASMR, and it may be influenced by genetic factors related to oxytocin or other brain chemicals.
The speaker envisions a blissful heaven with Bob Ross offering haircuts and eye exams, symbolizing the comfort of ASMR.
Transcripts
Transcriber: Leslie Gauthier
I’m a bald man --
(Laughter)
but I don’t miss my hair.
What I do miss is going to the hairdresser.
I found it to be such an enjoyable and relaxing experience.
I loved it when they would rub their fingers through my hair
while they washed my hair in the sink.
I enjoyed it when they walked me over to the chair,
and they would play with my hair more
and talk to me about different hairstyles and haircuts I could get.
And I even enjoyed the gentle sound of the scissors --
snip, snip, snip --
right next to my ears.
I enjoyed it so much and I was so deeply relaxed
that I remember many times I would just sit there
and I’d think, “I’d pay you even if you just pretended to cut my hair.”
(Laughter)
There’s another moment also
that often stimulates this deep relaxation for me.
It’s whenever I get an eye exam.
(Laughing)
And I’m not talking about those puffs of air they blow into your eyeballs.
That just makes my eyelids flutter thinking about it.
But instead it’s when they bring out the wheels of lenses.
(Laughter)
And they click through them all.
And they want to know which lens helps you see better.
“One or two?”
(Laughter)
“One or two?”
(Laughter)
And they say it in this very relaxing voice.
(Laughter)
And there’s something about that moment of personal attention
and that soft voice that just deeply relaxes me.
And it gives me these light, sparkling, pleasurable brain tingles.
I enjoy it so much
that as they click through each option,
I want it to last a little bit longer.
So when they ask me, “One or two?”
I say, “Oh, I’m not sure.”
(Laughter)
Another moment that often stimulates this deep form of relaxation
is when I watch the TV show, Bob Ross’s “Joy of Painting.”
(Laughter and applause)
I would come home from school,
throw some pillows on the floor,
lie down
and let that soft voice just sweep over me.
And he had the nicest personality.
He’d turn to the camera,
he’d look right at me,
and he’d say the kindest things like, “There are no mistakes,
just happy accidents.”
(Laughter)
And then he’d turn back to his canvas
and he’d make these gentle, relaxing sounds with his paintbrush.
Tap, tap ...
tap, tap, tap.
And I found it so relaxing that I often fell asleep
and never saw him finish the painting.
(Laughter)
In 2013, I learned that this special response has a special name.
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response,
or much more simply, ASMR.
That is a complicated word,
so it’s a good thing we’ve got it simplified.
Now, I’m a physiologist.
I’m a researcher.
I’m a data nerd.
I was so excited to read about the science of ASMR.
In 2013, there wasn’t a single peer-reviewed research study.
What I did find were plenty of forums:
thousands and thousands of comments,
all across the internet,
discussing this blissful sensation.
And they all reported the same response that I felt.
They were deeply relaxed,
they felt comforted,
they felt calmed
and they had these light, sparkly brain tingles.
And I also noticed
that every scenario they described
that stimulated their ASMR
had a simple theme to it.
It was always when they were receiving positive personal attention
from a kind and caring individual.
And the examples they gave were very similar to my moments.
It was moments with hairdressers;
it was moments with health care professionals;
it was moments with teachers.
They’d tell stories of the teacher from their childhood with the soft voice
who would kneel down next to them
and help them solve a math problem.
It was moments with parents.
It was moments with their best friends
when they would whisper to each other in childhood.
Or they’d braid each other’s hair.
Or they’d play that game
where you just lightly with your finger draw letters on each other’s backs
and try to guess the letter.
But the moment that stimulated ASMR
that I saw the most often mentioned
was watching the TV show, Bob Ross’s “Joy of Painting.”
(Laughter)
Now we know Bob Ross was not trying to stimulate people’s ASMR
or cause them to relax.
He was trying to teach you how to paint.
But there are individuals today who are creating ASMR videos
just for the purpose of relaxing their viewers
and helping them to fall asleep more easily.
They’re called ASMR artists,
and they have millions of followers.
Some of them have more followers to their YouTube channel
than Kim Kardashian has to her YouTuve channel.
And what are they doing in these videos?
Well very simply,
they’re sitting close to the camera,
they’re gazing into the lens,
and they’re speaking softly
or they're whispering gently.
They may even be pretending to be a hairdresser
or pretending to be a health care professional
or just speaking softly the way a close friend would to you.
And right now ...
I’d like to introduce you
to some very popular ASMR artists on YouTube.
So lean back,
stretch out your legs.
(Laughter)
And enjoy.
(Video) ASMR Glow: Good.
Good.
One last time.
Great.
(Video) WhispersRed ASMR: So there are lots of different things we need.
Some we would have in our regular spa kit.
Some of them are quite obvious.
(Breathing)
Things like ...
cotton buds ...
and ...
cotton pads.
(Video) Paris ASMR: I’ve brought some tasty tea from Paris.
For you, yeah.
It is called, “Weekend à Paris.”
“Weekend in Paris.”
I think it takes like, um ...
um, rose.
(Video) Gentle Whispering ASMR: Alright.
A bit to the front here.
(Scissors cut)
(Scissors cut)
OK.
Stay still.
(Scissors cut)
(Scissors cut)
Stay to make sure ...
(Scissors cut)
It’s nice and even.
Mhm.
Craig Richard: Now, if you felt deeply relaxed
or maybe you felt those special brain tingles,
you might have been wondering, “What is going on inside my brain?”
Well, we wondered the same thing.
I recently published a brain scan study with Bryson Lochte
and other researchers from Dartmouth College.
And we saw that the brain regions that are activated
while people are watching ASMR videos like these
are the same brain regions that are activated
when people are receiving positive personal attention
from a kind and caring person in the real world.
I’ve also collected data from over 30,000 participants
as part of a research study with Karissa Burnett and Jennifer Allen.
And Jennifer Allen is the woman who coined the term
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response in 2010.
And what we see is that ASMR is experienced
in over 130 different countries.
And the people are reporting the same experience.
They feel deeply relaxed.
They have these special, light brain tingles.
And it’s helping them to fall asleep more easily,
and it’s helping them to reduce their stress.
Even individuals who are diagnosed with anxiety and insomnia
are reporting benefits from watching these ASMR videos
and experiencing ASMR.
Other institutions are also publishing data about ASMR
and they’re reporting similar health benefits.
One study in particular,
from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom,
showed that when people watch ASMR videos,
their heart rates significantly and effectively are reduced.
Now there’s plenty of unanswered questions still.
Like, what might be the brain chemicals that are causing this amazing sensation?
One likely candidate is the neural hormone oxytocin,
and you might have heard of this as “the love hormone.”
It’s already well known
that your oxytocin levels in your brain increase
when anyone gives you positive personal attention
in a kind and caring way.
It's also already known that your oxytocin levels, when they increase,
you’ll feel relaxed,
you’ll feel calmed,
you’ll feel comforted.
Another big question is why doesn’t everyone experience ASMR?
You might have been watching those video clips and been like,
“I didn’t feel any of those amazing brain tingles.
Grrr!”
(Laughter)
Well, it could be that those clips aren’t the ones that work for you.
If you've never felt this experience,
maybe you just haven’t had the right real-world encounter yet.
Or maybe it's determined at birth.
It could be determined by the sequence of your genes related to oxytocin
or other brain chemicals.
Another big question is how do these health benefits of ASMR compare
to the widely reported health benefits of yoga,
of mindfulness,
of meditation?
And how do these health benefits of ASMR compare to the therapeutic pros and cons
of medications used to treat anxiety and insomnia?
And lastly,
will health professionals someday advocate ASMR
as another tool in the toolbox
to help people manage their stress and their sleeplessness?
I don’t have the answer to those questions ...
but I do know one thing.
I know that my vision of a blissful heaven
is Bob Ross greeting me at the pearly gates
and asking me, “Craig, would you like a haircut and an eye exam?”
(Laughter)
(Applause)
(Applause and cheers)
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