Er, the title pretty much explains. My wife listens to podcasts and falls asleep to them but I can’t not listen to a human voice so I listen to (ideally instrumental) music.

Anyone else? If so, what do you put on to drift away to?

  • you_are_dust@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I only listen to something if I’m having trouble turning off my thoughts. In those cases, I listen to the Let’s Read YouTube channel.

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    3 months ago

    Try Brian Enos Music for Airports. Good luck trying to make it through the end without sleeping.

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    3 months ago

    Usually nothing. But if I need to it’s either Dead Can Dance or Ludovico Einundi.

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    3 months ago

    Soma FM - Dronezone It’s pretty much perfect: free, no commercials, rain, ocean, droney. I actually listen to it most of the day, if I can.

    Sometimes there are higher pitched drone tunes that aren’t as dreamy (for me)

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    3 months ago

    I can’t with music. I put a Scholar’s Lore video on youtube and I’m sleeping within 5 minutes even when I’m not trying to fall asleep.

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    3 months ago

    Hammock, psychedelic trance music, or there is a lucid dreaming playlist on YouTube Music I like.

    ETA “Psybient”, there used to be a perfect playlist called psybient, that may work well as a search term to find that downbeat psychedelic trance music.

    No way could I fall asleep to a podcast, but my husband plays Alan Watts explaining meditation, and that I sure can. Maybe it would be a middle ground for y’all - a guided meditation?

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    3 months ago

    Rain or Thunder is very calming to fall asleep to. Though most often it’s with a TV show on. Something I’ve seen a bunch before and can nod off to, without missing anything. Just comfort noise.

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    Nothing in the general case.

    If I’m having issues getting to sleep because of stress, I turn on a Mighty Jingles World of Warships video. I usually don’t make it past the intro and I’m out.

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    3 months ago

    The sound of silence. I don’t mean Simon & Garfunkel, and I definitely don’t mean Disturbed (though, it’s a good cover).

    Honestly though, I can sleep to whatever. My younger brother used to sleep to death metal. I’m not kidding. It was annoying for about a week. We’ve had noisy neighbors and my wife will ask if she should go yell at them or something when I’m about to go to bed (she stays up all night, I wake up early). I say nope, it’s not an issue. And it never has been. I don’t think I can sleep to a baby crying or a shrill alarm though. Anything high pitched. I’m pretty sure I even fell asleep to loud sex one time. As I was drifting off, I could have sworn I heard moaning and thumping. I remember having a bit of a chuckle over that. Hot college girl used to live next door, she’s getting railed TF out of like 2 feet away through a wall, and she’d be embarrassed if I saw her in her underwear (I never tried to look, just saying). But you don’t really think, there’s another room right there, another bed up against the same wall, and somebody who always leaves before the sun comes up is probably in there. So yeah, anyway, I’m a heavy sleeper.

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    3 months ago

    formula 1 onboard sounds. I’m not kidding, it’s SO relaxing
    https://youtu.be/_5Lr6fDIZG8

    edit: I forgot to mention that I also hear the team radios and can hear them say stuff, so sometimes I’ll be dreaming and my brain will just add in lewis Hamilton or some shit lmao