I read before turning off the light. And a purring cat helps me to fall asleep, too.

I prefer fan noise or bugs/nature/waves/etc, preferably real vs some sound machine.

I want a cool enough to need the covers, very dark, and mostly quiet environment...

I always have something on or I won’t fall asleep. It has to be something I have seen a lot. If it interests me at all, I am wide awake. My other option is listening to the Bible. It has to be narrative.

Heck, I fall asleep responding to posts on the interne... zzzZZZZZZZZZ..........

Not on purpose but sometimes when I “rest my eyes”.

Sometimes I do so. Here are a few of the soundtracks in the rotation. The first one, Clare de Lune had about 28M views when I first found it. The count is now 36M, so many must be using it.



Clare de Lune, extended loop

https://youtu.be/ea2WoUtbzuw

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Suite Popular Brasil, solo guitar

https://youtu.be/Z2_LDC-WQQ0

Takashi Kukoba, The Day I Saw the Rainbow, japanese ambient

https://youtu.be/oyJSV9nnt10

Roberto Lara, Guitar of the Pampas

https://youtu.be/Jt1HnKB5WEc

World War 2, Distant Battle Ambient

https://youtu.be/Ul9Da5c2UXw

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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

I have tinnitus also. Didn't know I had it for a long while as I thought I was just real sensitive to background noise. Then I realize my hearing has gone down but the background noise level still stayed the same.

I go to YouTube and select from rain sounds with dark screeen with or without thunder. I like the splatty kind of rain sound. Most of them are like 10 to 12 hours long.

That's what I sleep to.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Much of the TV on when I'm sleeping is reruns of the various NCIS shows.

Oh my God, you too? My wife has to sleep to either NCIS or Law and Order. I tried weening her off it but whenever I wake up, the remote is gone and the one of those two shows are playing. Believe it or not, the Ken Burns documetaries 'The War' and 'Prohibition' are also acceptable to her.

I finally got used to it.

Somebody put Sigmonkey to bed........

I bought a radio shack white noise machine when I first had to work nights. It did more to help me STAY asleep through the normal family noise going on in the house than it helped me GO to sleep.

My night shift work only lasted about 6 months but ~30 years later I still use it 100% of the time, but it is turned down pretty low.

No, just a fan. If I wake up because the tv was left on it makes me grumpy. I haven’t watched the bedroom tv in a very long time.

No. I prefer the whooshing of the ceiling fan.

We have a small stream about 50 feet from our bedroom window that helps put me to sleep in warmer weather. In the colder months, our lab snoring beside our bed does it.

I don't have much trouble sleeping. I think my eyelids are somehow connected to my ass, because all I have to do is sit down on my recliner & pick up a book, and before I know it I'm dozing off.

Every night for many years now.

We call it watching TV with our asses. Switch channels to TNT Series and roll.
Usually, some rerun of CSI or Mentalist.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:
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.


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

This right here perfectly describes why I have a TV in my room. Exact same reason. We usually watch some kind of Korean religious programming.

What is most important is the show you choose. Now there is a method to picking out the right program. It has to be interesting enough to get my attention and keep me focused on the program. It has to be boring enough that I don’t care how it ends.

The sleep timer is pretty necessary. 90 minutes. Longer than that, the TV may wake us up again. Any less than that and you may not be asleep enough, and the TV shutting off may wake you up.

I use an app on my phone called 'Thunderspace'. It plays a recording of rain in a thunderstorm. I have it set to run for 59 minutes, but I never get past 5.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by darthfuster:

I go to YouTube and select from rain sounds with dark screeen with or without thunder. I like the splatty kind of rain sound. Most of them are like 10 to 12 hours long.

That's what I sleep to.

Same here. I think the channel is called Sleep Relax or something like that.
Rain with thunder on water is a personal favorite of mine.
Another one is blowing Winter wind that I'll listen to.

With the programs today it’s easy for me to fall asleep out of pure boredume.

I can fall asleep in the barber’s chair. I can fall asleep with or without music/TV on, with or without lights.

If it’s a road trip and I’m not driving, I’m out within minutes. (Sometimes even if I AM driving…just kidding…maybe)

I used to fall asleep to music but that was in Tech School at Keesler AFB in ‘86-‘87 and I had to distract my mind. Now my mind just shuts off on its own most of the time.

I don't deliberately do so, but most nights I sleep on the couch because of my wife and I have different work schedules, so I will often fall asleep watching Youtube. Very often it will be a blacksmithing video or bushcrafting, so I suspect the sound of rhythmic chopping of wood or hammering of steel puts me out.

Side note: I did occasionally try to listen to Dreamland to sleep back when I was in college. Weird coincidence.