When I ask you to name one popular sleep ASMR trigger, what comes to mind? whispering? brushing? Maybe. I’d say one of the most common triggers is tapping. But not just any tapping: nail tapping. That is, using your fingernails to tap. What do you tap exactly? Here’s where it’s down to the creativity of the individual ASMR video creator. As you can see from Tena ASMR’s video up top, she’s tapping the cover of what looks like a make up box. A lot of people will defer to tapping the microphone. Some people will just tap whatever they can get their long-nailed hands onto. Here are a few more different ones below: