Handpicked References

Very interesting online references

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The voices of Loren Allred - The Greatest Showman - Never Enough, Morissette Amon - Rise Up, Marcelito Pomoy - The Prayer, Dimash Kudaibergen - S.O.S d'un terrien en détresse.

Ethereum is a cryptocurrency. See this for details.

Added Relaxation sounds.

Added TED speeches.

Skarp's laser razor (not epilator).

AudioMachine is a production house for "epic" music. See Breath and Life and I Create.

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. See this for details.

Handbrake is an open source DVD ripper and video converter.

The music of Celtic Woman (You Raise Me Up, Orinoco Flow, The Voice), the music of Yanni (Nostalgia, Butterfly, The Storm - Violin Samvel Yervinyan and Sayaka Katsuki, Awesome violin solo - Samvel Yervinyan), the music of Secret Garden (Nocturne), the movie Man from Earth about a man who lives for thousands of years (great for those who enjoy stage play).

NasaImages is an archive of all images made by NASA.

Jeff Dunham is a comedian ventriloquist with an incredible talent. Each puppet has its own personality, voiceprint and jokes. Warning: the shows available for purchase contain a significant amount of sexual language and insinuations.

Portal is a game which lets the player go through portals, "skipping" the space between them. This is what fluons are about, so you can experience how it would be to travel through fluons.

Wearable displays will be a big part of out lives in the near future. Though they will be integrated in normal glasses, they will display images even better than today's desk monitors.

Tesla Motors makes the electric cars designed and built so far look clumsy. They are truly changing the common perception in design, performance, efficiency. Hardly a common price tag, but hey, it's here! (Great website too.)

Surface is a fundamental change in the way we interact with computers. Microsoft says they will be selling this from the winter of 2007. (Flash website. Skip the intro.)

Animusic makes very cool computer animations with music. Do you remember that "PipeDream" video-clip from a few years back? Check their downloads section for samples.

TED speeches

Amy Cuddy - Your body language shapes who you are.

Diana Nyad - Never, ever give up. Diana Nyad, age 64, swam 100 miles from Cuba to Florida, the first person to do so.

John Gottman - Making relationships work (3 parts + questions).

Alain de Botton - Why you will marry the wrong person.

Larry Smith - Why you will fail to have a great career.

Relaxation sounds

You can play (relaxation) sounds with NoisetteX or any sound player.

Here are some white noise sound files, each with a 5'000 seconds duration: Air - Smooth, Medium air - Smooth, High air - Smooth, Air - Deep, Air - Stratospheric, Rain - Smooth, Static; right-click a link and choose "Save target / link as" in order to save each file on your computer. When you click on a link, modern browsers start streaming the noise, so that you can see which ones you like.

Here are some white noise videoclips to play during the night: airplane, celestial.

Here are some white noise videoclips to play during the day: B-17 airplane, crickets, fireplace 1, fireplace 2, gas furnace, idle train engine, interstellar, rain, soft rain - flower, soft rain - foggy mountain, train, winter wind.

You can convert the videoclips to audio files using online services, then maybe edit the annoying parts using Audacity, and also fix the volume.

Relaxing talking

Unintentional ASMR

Kirby Allison

Sartorial Talks

Brent Binder - Chiropractor

Rahim Gonstead - Chiropractor

Bob Ross - Painter

David Bull - Woodblock carver

ASMR

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is a tingling sensation under the skin, somewhat like goosebumps under the skin; the intense tingles feel like electricity flowing through the branches of a lightning. The tingling starts from the back of the head and may move down the spine.

The oldest ASMR experiences may be remembered from childhood, when children hear their mothers or fathers whisper loving words and caress them.

Not all people experience ASMR.

ASMR is triggered, for example, by faint noises which occur in a silent environment, like:

Slow whispering (not a low volume voice, but whispering slowly).
Slow breathing.
Soft sounds made by the mouth, like the movements of the lips and tongue.
Hair or skin being slowly brushed.
Slowly handling paper, like turning book pages.
The movement of the clothes of a person who moves slowly, especially of stiffer clothes.
The movement of clothes on a leather armchair.
Dusting.
Intense sounds, like accelerating sport car engines.

Whispering is the most effective factor, triggering ASMR in 75% of people (who experience ASMR).

Below are some videoclips which are relaxing and may even trigger ASMR in you; their effect is unlikely to be as intense as it can be when triggered by physical events in a quiet environment. It may be better to listen rather than watch because the brain can relax more when it doesn't have to concentrate on watching.

Some of the files below need to be heavily edited (to remove annoying sounds from them).

Men

Artists: Orion, Lloyd, Mellow Microphone, Haircut Harry, Shoe Shine Gentle, Ephemeral Rift, Dmitri, Fred's Voice, Phoenician Sailor, Articulate Design, Relaxing ASMR.