If there is any discernible pattern to noise it keeps me awake (talking, music FUCKING STUPID MOTHER-FUCKING NIGHT BIRD). I use a noise machine with white noise or fan sounds running. Creates a lovely sound blanket from that mother-fucking night bird.
Usually just a fan, but a few nights ago I left The Twilight Zone on in the background and it was very cozy to sleep to.
I shared a bedroom with my twin, so no audio. I prefer the sound of the AC on over off though, lovely background sound of nothingness.
Almost like white noise, right?
As a kid in Australia a fan.
As an adult, a fan plus tinnitusI heard there was a website called only fans, you might be eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenterested
Always down for a good blow
Assuming there are no power issues, sleeping with fans is much cooler than not sleeping with fans.
Vin Scully(Dodgers), Dick Engberg(Angels, Rams), Chick Hearn (Lakers) and Jiggs McDonald(Kings) on my 9 volt transistor radio well hidden under the covers. So well hidden that it ended up switched off and in the drawer by morning.
Breeze, rustle of leaves, sounds from birds and insects. Fan if no breeze.
I was nearly always grounded from all electronics from 6-13 (autdhd, and authoritarian parents, bad mix), and had a bedroom with no exterior windows. My window went to a modified 3-season porch thing, in 2 of the 3 places (the third was an apartment for like 6mths, I barely remember it), and that’s where my mom slept, so… really quiet dead silence, mostly, else I was in trouble. Again. Or whatever garbage my mom had on tv, muffled through the wall.
Now I have tinnitus, so silence is really loud. I have aquariums tho and the hum and bubble of the air pump helps a lot (plus really loud circulation fans).
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Gotta check that out. I really like the South Park Christmas album
I listened to piano music from the Suzuki method. The Suzuki thing is to treat music like a language, so immerse young kids in it when their brains are young and mushy.
Now I fall asleep to nothing most often, sometimes to a podcast or to an episode of a show I don’t really care about; something old and formulaic like Columbo.
as a kid, current favorite music or radio
as an adult, science podcasts, movie directors commentaries (ridley scott, francis coppola highly recommend), select rain sounds and currently the watergate senate hearings
Silence, it was usually my pose rather than the background noise that affected sleep. When I sleep, I often look like I was carried out of the chamber of secrets.
Hundreds of bullfrogs croaking the night away around a nearby pond. Now if I hear a bunch of frogs I get nostalgic.
Reeeeee! Haha
If you’re looking for bed time stories for adults (non-sexual haha) then I highly recommend the podcast “nothing much happens” by Kathryn Nicolai. She has an amazingly soothing voice perfect for bedtime and she writes her own stories! I normally knock out in less than 10 mins when I pop her on my podcasts now.
Is there a way I can haz specific episodes of whatever like in a portable file I can retain? I wanna do freaky audio stuff to it lol
As a kid, CD documentaries about constellations and astronomy
Modern day, video essays about the lore of soulslikes and random media I’ve gotten sucked into
That sounds like such a neat childhood! I wish I had those documentaries growing up.
I was lucky and my parents were able to get me one of those ceiling projection globes that makes the shadows in your room look like a night sky in a forest clearing, been thinking a lot about inspirations from growing up because I was able to find one of those rare actual starter homes we’ve all been told of in myth and legend and have started to hype myself on all the ways I get to make it mine
Shitty hair metal like Dio, Dokken, etc. It reminds me I had really, really shitty taste in music as a teenager.
I never played sleepy music until I was a teen, and every night I played Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great, mellow tunes, and I learned ALL the lyrics subliminally!
Ok, I did listen to it awake, so maybe it wasn’t completely subliminal, but it’s been a while and I bet I could still sing 80% of the album from memory.
Nowadays, it’s just the fan or AC running.
EDIT: I typed the wrong Cake album originally.
That’s how I am with the bat out of hell album… Get off my lawn.
