Face touching is one of those physical triggers that makes sleep ASMR videos so effective. I mean, the person on the video can’t physically reach out of the screen and touch you (yet), but seeing their hands and fingers getting close to you, hearing the subtle changes in sound as hands move past or even brush past the microphone is enough to make people start feeling like they’re drifting off.

It’s a very intimate thing that not enough people can probably experience. That’s why these videos are so widely appreciated and so effective in helping people sleep. Here’s a few examples of these videos below…