Ever heard of ASMR? Autonomous sensory meridian response? You know that feeling when someone whispers in your ear or someone puts their fingers on your scalp to give you a head massage and the hairs ...

Dev Ritchie vividly remembers the first time she experienced ASMR — a feeling of well-being combined with a tingling sensation in the scalp and down the back of the neck, often experienced in response ...

The euphoric-but-relaxing responses to soothing visuals and quirky, textural sounds has spawned an online wellbeing phenomenon. But what is ASMR—and why do only some people feel it? Increasingly, ...