ASMR: Does anyone have experience with this phenomenon?

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response.
I heard about it for the first time on "This American Life" and thought "Yep, that's me!"
I seem to get set off at the sound of heavy wind through trees and the sound of ocean waves crashing.
Does anyone else have an experience with this phenomenon or know someone who does?
Is it a real thing?
For the record I'm not affected by the whispering experience, but I'm not judging.....

Yup. I have ASMR. A number of months back I think I even posted a thread about it when I discovered it for myself and researched it.

I searched for the topic and couldn't find any posts..... if you wouldn't mind sharing, what affects you and how?

Here is the one I think Proteus refers; http://www.templeofthejediorder.org/forum/Health-physical-fitness-and-wellbeing/51230-a-tool-for-achieving-a-meditative-state#51230

I'm thinking this is the same set of nerves that allow us to detect barometric pressure changes?

Happens quite often while meditating. kinda cool. It's a sign/stage that I'm meditating well but I don't dwell on it for long as it is a physical phonomenon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotropic_Breathwork
Has anyone tried this?

ASMR happens to me alot, Ive noticed chopped and screwed music also induces this feeling, but only for a second at a time.

Is this the same as the feeling I get when someone is explaining their injuries. It has been happening to me for a few years now, but when people are talking about getting an injury, I begin to get a shiver in the area of my body that they had their injury. It is an uncomfortable feeling but is not painful, although it does not feel good.

I know it is a psychological response I have to their injury, but I feel it so acutely. Weird???

I get this (I guess) when listening to certain pieces of music. I think (in my case) it may have to do with a change in blood pressure/flow in my head (it feels like there's no blood going to my face).

I do have that. Not realised what it was until now. Its usually a voice that triggers it off. The telling of a story and so on.

I get that, but not as strongly as others seem to get it. Tingles are mild and restricted to my head and upper neck. Maternal-type whispers directed to me trigger it most often.

I think I have that too, though I've experienced it most often while meditating. I actually developed a technique that happens to produce that effect.

Streen wrote: I think I have that too, though I've experienced it most often while meditating. I actually developed a technique that happens to produce that effect.

If you induce it without any external stimuli, it is known as "Type A" ASMR. Many of us who have ASMR are can induce it this way. I have at times of meditation as well by just thinking about something that would normally give me ASMR. It's rather neat.