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?
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Nothing. No music. No white noise (I absolutely hate white noise). Just silence
It’s true, no music is indeed music and this is a perfect answer.
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.
Same. I listen to the Sleep With Me Podcast. Something so soothing about that man’s droning voice.
Try Brian Enos Music for Airports. Good luck trying to make it through the end without sleeping.
Usually nothing. But if I need to it’s either Dead Can Dance or Ludovico Einundi.
Saint-Saëns “Carnival of the Animals”.
Melodic death metal 🫣
i had a phase where any type of death metal would make me sleepy. not sure why
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.
Great Couses are awesome too, Tools of Thinking dude has a ridiculously hypnotic voice. I honestly orobably havent ever made it thru the entire first lecture and i definitely didnt retain anything
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?
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)
formula 1 onboard sounds. I’m not kidding, it’s SO relaxing
https://youtu.be/_5Lr6fDIZG8You wouldn’t have been able to do that during the V10 years.
sometimes I’ll be dreaming and my brain will just add in lewis Hamilton or some shit lmao
Let me guess,he’s complaining about his tyres?
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.
My go-to is streaming playlists by Northernlion. Something about his voice is incredibly soothing. I think I’ve probably gone through his Rimworld playlists (both of them) at least 10 times over the years.
Rainfall, thunderstorms, rivers. That kind of thing!
Some kind of ambient instrumental. Or nature sounds. Nothing with lyrics or I won’t be able to concentrate on sleeping lol.
