Reddit mentions of Bodywork: What Type of Massage to Get-And How to Make the Most of It

Pseudoscience fascinates me, not least because of the ASMR, but also the idea that someone could believe this claptrap. I mean, EFT...holy god what boldfaced abominable bullshit that is! But it has still managed to develop a decent following. There are people out there who swear it's helped change their lives. That is amazing to me.

Reading was my first experience of ASMR. Not until youtube did I realize that I could get it by visual stimuli. There's a scene in the Star Trek novel Unification in which Picard gets a haircut. I would read and reread that scene over and over. It got to the point that I knew the scene too well and would anticipate the next sentence, and in my experience, this kills the ASMR. I had to ration my reading.

I also get significant ASMR triggers from reading about massage therapy, which has lead to me building a small library of massage books. This has the added benefit of making me rather knowledgeable in the ways of bodywork. I give pretty awesome massage if I do say so myself. This was the first book that brought the correlation to my attention, and it's a great trigger even today, because it's a first-person description of what it's like to receive certain kinds of massages. I highly recommend it to anyone who triggers from reading.