I have had a TV in my room for as long as I can remember. I have a very difficult time going to sleep without some sort of noise with words.
For the longest time I flat could not go to sleep without a TV. I finally broke that but still need at least a touch of music.
My wife can’t do music to sleep so the TV it is. Usually some sitcom we have seen a bunch of times or does not really have much plot.
The Office was our go to until it was pulled from Netflix and now we fall asleep to Seinfeld.
My kids will never have a TV in their room as long as they live in my house.
Sometimes when the kiddos all pile in the bed and I don’t feel like fooling with it I just go in one of the boys rooms and sleep.
So I fall asleep to some low volume music.
I have 3 albums that I tend to fall asleep to.
Robert Miles - Dreamland is my usual go to as for whatever reason I have super vivid dreams when I fall asleep to it. Kind of enjoy the dreams so I pick it mostly.
Waterdeep - Enter The Worship Circle or Deas Vail - All The Houses Look The Same come into play just to mix it up on occasion.

I can fall asleep with no music or TV but it takes me forever. My mind tends to race and I worry about a lot of stuff that need not be worried about. The noise helps drown that out I guess.

I remember going to summer camp as a kid and not sleeping much of the week as my mind would just race and not slow down.
I found a tiny little flat speaker that I could hide with a walkman in my pillowcase and have the volume just loud enough I could hear it and no one else was the wiser.

Anyone else stuck with needing some sort of sound to be able to sleep well?

I got a set of musicozy Bluetooth earphones to play YouTube videos.

I found that listening to certain voices help me fall asleep. Male voices don’t work for me. Annoying whispering female voices don’t work either. Lina Grace has the best stuff.

These three stories are my favorite: https://youtube.com/playlist?l...OOBp6NJd6IrT7BIpHpJ9


Sometimes stuff like this works for me, too: https://youtu.be/i6Yvk8eT2Ss

Edit to add - I can’t do a TV because I need darkness to get to sleep.

I sleep with the TV and the lights on and usually 1-3 cats in my lap. Typically get 3-4 hours in before I have to use the bathroom, then another nap.

Much of the TV on when I'm sleeping is reruns of the various NCIS shows.

flashguy

Neither for us. I read for a while on my Kindle Oasis and drift off.

I have tinnitus and my mind races. If I stream a lecture or interview on youtube I can fall asleep in a few minutes. Y

I like it quiet when I go to sleep unless I'm feeling restless, then I'll put on a YouTube video of soft rain. The rain helps relax me and I usually fall asleep pretty fast after that.

For me it is a continuous loop of American Sniper.

Either that or the grandfather and cuckoo clocks tick, tick, ticking away.

Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night and start overly thinking about stuff. I will then go into the den, turn on the television low barely enough to hear and my brain starts thinking about that instead of worry stuff ... and I fall asleep again.

Never. Even a loud ticking clock has to be moved from my bedroom.

I fall asleep with the TV on, but to stay asleep I need to use the sleep timer feature. If I don't use the sleep timer, either the noise or the bright flashing screen will wake me up in the middle of the night.

My mother had to have the radio on to sleep

I fall asleep with the TV on every night. Have done for decades. The GF hates it

I have the T.V. on and usually playing a video, I can't get to sleep without it.


ARman

When I started travelling for work back in my twenties I got the habit of sleeping with the tv on in the hotels I stayed at. First thing when I walked into a hotel room the tv was turned on and it stayed on the entire time until I left sometimes two weeks later. Never watched it much it was just on. Now forty years later I still go to bed with the tv on.

I usually have one of the forensic crime shows on. I can't fall asleep to comedies for some reason. I think the canned laughter annoys me. Can make for some interesting dreams at times. When we travel out of town and stay at a relatives and there is no tv in the room I will play a podcast on my phone. Takes me a lot longer to fall asleep but it eventually works. Oh, music doesn't work for me it holds my attention and doesn't let me drift.

The TV, always. Something that is kinda interesting but not really. If there is no white noise then I will hear every creak the house makes and think about what happened yesterday or what I need to do tomorrow. With the boob tube on my mind switches off and I fall asleep in a heartbeat.

Oh no...I gotta have it quiet.

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Do you fall asleep with music or the TV on??

Never. I'm used to sleeping here with windows cracked and the only noise is an occasional owl.

I use earbuds with the volume on super low, almost inaudible.

No, I like it dark and quiet.

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Originally posted by snwghst:
My mother had to have the radio on to sleep

I fall asleep with the TV on every night. Have done for decades. The GF hates it

I always go to bed/fall asleep with the TV on. I also have done this for years as well. No GF though. My wife would not approve. Although we do sleep in separate rooms. We both annoy the other with snoring.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I have tinnitus and my mind races. If I stream a lecture or interview on youtube I can fall asleep in a few minutes. Y

Another tinnitus sufferer, but I don't need sounds to sleep or mask the hiss. But many times I fall asleep in the recliner watching programs at low volume on TV, like Newsmax programs.