I must have noise to go along with going to sleep. Usually thats an audio book or long-form video essay type YouTube videos. I wear one earbud to bed if I’m sleeping at night with my girlfriend or just blare it from the TV if I’m sleeping alone during the day (rotating shift). I feel like when I don’t have engaging audio and I’m trying to sleep I can’t quiet my mind enough to sleep. A fan or random ambient noise isn’t enough for me.
Sleep music . changed my life . i used to lay awake for an hour . i created a world in my head and would continue the story every night . now with sleep music I’m out in minutes , the people of my world prolly miss me.
I honestly would prefer library silence or less. Earplugs cause other issues for me so they are not an option, I have tried. I also prefer almost complete darkness.
I’m honestly looking to build a float tank to use for times when I am really struggling to sleep. When I scuba dive the only reason why I don’t try to take a nap is the risk of losing my regulator or running out of air.
Podcast recommendations:
- The Drowsy Historian
- History of English Podcast (Kevin Stroud)
Both have no ads at all, and uniform volume.
Gooooood stuff right there bud
I use a fan. Without it it’s too quiet and hot.
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Yeah, tinnitus.
He’s 100% right. I laughed at the imaginary pain, until it happened to me.
“Trust me, you do not want tinnitus.” – Sterling Archer
Used to. Had to have the radio going on low or a fan running during the summer. Not anymore. Any chance you’re adhd? Sometimes The noise in the head is hard to shut off so you can sleep.
Whatever it takes to quiet the thoughts. Plus, adding a base layer of familiar sound helps drown out the odd sounds that makes your brain assess the danger. I don’t often use sound, but for a while I did key myself into playing a particular Deadmau5 album to knock me out for a lunch nap.
The thoughts can be a problem. You can’t stop thinking about how to fix something from earlier. My favorite mental game is picking a category and going through the alphabet, naming an item for each letter. It’s OK to skip a letter, come back later. You’re still thinking creatively, but the speed is much slower. The “problem” is no longer something threatening you (bills, arguments, chores), it’s just finding a one-word response at a time. Cities, towns but not real cities, desserts, bodies of water, car models, zoo animals, construction materials, colors…
Yes, either the fan, or gentle psybient music, something. Because it’s never silent, and earplugs make me cough, I need sleepy sounds.
ETA I also love when a neighbor has a party, sleeping to the distant sounds of a party, music and all, relaxes my mind so much. I think my subconscious must figure things are ok if people are partying. I have had sometimes the opportunity to sleep above a dance club and that also was so nice.
I do not. AI prefer quiet for sleep.
The sound of rain is nice though to go to sleep.
Nope, the quieter, the better
Yes.
There’s a retirement village nearby, and EVERY MORNING around 4 o’clock, some motherfucker with a huge rubbish truck goes in.
The driver parks.
The driver walks over to the large industrial bin.
The driver opens the lid to see if it’s worth putting the contents in the truck. If it is, he lets the lid SLAM down, then pushes the rusty metal bin over the bitumen road towards his truck GRRRRNNNNNNNTTTT (because the wheels on those things never work).
He then gets back in his truck, does the little garbo magic with the mechanical arm thing, the truck lifts the bin, and he bangs it against the top of the truck receptacle a few times for shiggles BANG BANG BANGGGG, then moves the mechanical arms to place it back down on the bitumen with a gentle kiss BANG!
He then gets out of his truck, and pushes the now empty industrial bin over to where it was GGNNNNNNKKKKTTTTTT and positions it gently against the brick wall there BANG!
He then gets back in his truck, and reverses out the driveway DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT, and finally fucks off.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of people live there. If I can hear that truck as a neighbour, how much worse must it be for the oldies trying to sleep there?
Hearing loss can be a blessing…
“If I’m awake everyone else should be awake to witness it.” ~ asshole on a motorbike, overrevving on a 30mph road at 5 am
I live in a city, of course there’s noise, mostly road noise from cars going past tbh
As a teenager in the '70s I used to fall asleep to albums and the radio on headphones. These days, I need silence!
These days no, because my spouse doesn’t like it. Prior I used to sleep to instrumental music on repeat. My go to for a long time was the sound track to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. To this day if I hear any part of it on shuffle, I immediately feel sleepy.
