After learning about a New York City pop-up gallery focused on autonomous sensory meridian response, more commonly known as ASMR, from Time Out, the team at the “Something Offbeat” podcast wanted to find out what exactly ASMR is. Dr. Craig Harris Richard, the founder of ASMR University and host of the Sleep Whispers podcast and Joy Bhattacharya, a professor at Goldsmith University in London, the lead researcher of a study on ASMR published in the Cortex Journal on ASMR, joined the show to explain.