....if I am actually associating the word with the right thing, then I am experiencing something more akin to everyone announcing that they've discovered something called fnurgle, writing articles about it, etc, and then realizing they mean "the ability to see and be emotionally affected by colour."
Oh! Okay, I think... so I haven't dug too deeply into ASMR meta, but from what I have read (which tbf was 101 level and at least some of it was written by someone who was lowkey actually addicted, so I might have a biased view) it's more like if they'd discovered that (for them) they could reliably produce a feeling of intense awe/connection/wellbeing when looking at certain shades of the colour green in certain lighting. And had gone into considerable detail about the specific physical sensations with which those emotions manifested. But weren't talking as much about generalising that further to "other colour/lighting combos might produce other sensations" or "maybe this is already a studied phenomenon" or "is this a thing people work on in art school?"
And were explicitly not interested in exploring "what if we made that feeling the focal point of a whole complex and balanced emotional/aesthetic meal of other feelings and sensations instead of slamming back that same flavour over and over again?"
So I think you're probably not misunderstanding so much as focusing on the forest and also not as interested in the specific trees they're interested in.
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Date: 2019-05-06 01:32 pm (UTC)Oh! Okay, I think... so I haven't dug too deeply into ASMR meta, but from what I have read (which tbf was 101 level and at least some of it was written by someone who was lowkey actually addicted, so I might have a biased view) it's more like if they'd discovered that (for them) they could reliably produce a feeling of intense awe/connection/wellbeing when looking at certain shades of the colour green in certain lighting. And had gone into considerable detail about the specific physical sensations with which those emotions manifested. But weren't talking as much about generalising that further to "other colour/lighting combos might produce other sensations" or "maybe this is already a studied phenomenon" or "is this a thing people work on in art school?"
And were explicitly not interested in exploring "what if we made that feeling the focal point of a whole complex and balanced emotional/aesthetic meal of other feelings and sensations instead of slamming back that same flavour over and over again?"
So I think you're probably not misunderstanding so much as focusing on the forest and also not as interested in the specific trees they're interested in.