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Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
I have to have the television on to fall asleep always have since I was little. Well now I am old or just a lighter sleeper but I find myself waking more frequently and I think it is from the light changes (though I have the picture setting quite dark and the blues removed). I am trying to fall asleep to music. Though it seems I need a pretty specific type. There has to be vocals, it has to be somewhat up beat, and stay in a higher octive. A huge help if it is on Amazon Prime music as I have that little bedroom spy echo dot thing I use for tunes. So far the best I have come across is Owl City The Postal Service Snow Patrol Deas Vail is really good too put it is only on the paid upgrade of Amazon. Deas Vail Enya and Enigma have some good ones but they tend to get into the lower octaves much more. It is weird as these samples are nothing like music that I normally listen to which ranges from lots of country to heavy heavy rock like Five Finger Death Punch. I really enjoy Classical music and that did wonders when I was in High School and College and needed study music. Classical was the first I tried out and it did not help me fall asleep. The ones I have listed give me almost a trance like feeling laying in the dark listening to them almost like I am floating or weightless and no alcohol or other mind altering substance has been used. I don't even know what one calls this genre of music to really search for more of it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Black92LX, ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | ||
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E tan e epi tas |
I feel for you as I am not the best sleeper. Have you tried white noise or nature sounds maybe crickets? "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
Not tried the crickets but white noise must sound like water to me in my sleep as I seem to have to get up and pee a couple times the times I tried it. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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Evil Asian Member |
Indie rock in the most general sense, but it sounds like you like the electronica instrument sounds, so maybe I'd say somewhere in the chillwave/synthwave/indietronica area? | |||
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E tan e epi tas |
I have an iPhone app that plays numerous nature sounds ranging from water, to crickets, to fire etc. works well for me. Electronica music works as well but the whole other person in bed thing is a pesky nightly problem. "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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It's not you, it's me. |
I can never sleep. Been that way since I was a kid. I need to be physically exhausted to sleep. Tried music, it worked sometimes. What worked better was listening to a mildly boring podcast. My go to now is setting my iPad to reverse contrast (mostly black) and reading until I fall asleep. A shot of Zquil helps too. I wish I was like my wife who has the talent of closing her eyes and sleeping. My mind is just too active. | |||
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Staring back from the abyss |
You might try this. Delta Sleep System No vocals though. I have always had to have some kind of music on when I went to bed, ever since I was a child. About fifteen years ago I went through a stage of insomnia where I just could not get to sleep and when I finally did I'd wake up every hour or so and never get any good rest. I tried just about everything to remedy the situation and nothing worked. One night, when I couldn't sleep, I was wandering through a Borders Bookstore and came across one of these CDs and thought, "What the hell." I figured if it didn't work I was only out $10. Every night since that night I've played these (I rotate through three different ones) and I've yet to hear the end of them. They work for me. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Listening to those bands you've listed (and reading your criteria) brings to mind Dashboard Confessional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLzuOMpkFw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j82FBbgpUy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcgwuZZsTc | |||
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Help! Help! I'm being repressed! |
How about these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1awIcBrhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-xGerv5FOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClBwr64lLrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U__3KRudhEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO8qCRVj8dI I've added this one because I just think its cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StFsv6P9OE | |||
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
Certainly not every track by these, but off the top of my head, try these artists: Death Cab for Cutie The Shins Broken Bells Portugal the Man Iron & Wine Florence and the Machine Mumford and Sons some The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order Haelos (like the track Dust) Also, plug any of the songs you like of this sort into Pandora as a new "Station" and mine it for similar suggestions. It's very good at this... | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I guess I won't recommend the sound that I like to fall asleep to: the sound of waves crashing on the beach. It's got that rythmic but a bit random timing. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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A fan. | |||
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Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream Album. Turn off shuffle and start at Disarm. I never make it past mayonnaise . ____________________ I Like Guns and stuff | |||
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I like the local oldies rock station (60s era). Hits most of your criteria and is actual music, instead of angry yelling. YMMV. A Perpetual Disappointment... | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
I prefer the sound track from Amadeus, second on the list is a news station out of Las Angeles - knx1070 am. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I put together some albums/songs targeted towards sleep awhile back through amazon that included all three LOTR soundtracks, and the Gladiator soundtrack. I think I also included Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing, which to me is a really good album, but somehow very favorable to sleep. I also used to find putting on a very familiar movie helped me fall asleep. I'd not even try to watch it. | |||
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Slappin' dat Bass! |
Black, Gustopher is on the right track. Look into Binaural beats. Binaural beats for sleep are super low (3-4 hz). Human hearing can only go as low as 20 hz if your hearing is good. To solve this problem, two pitches (within human hearing range) are placed in each ear at 3-4 hz apart. This tricks the brain into hearing a 3-4 hz binaural beat even though the pitches are higher than 20 hz . It kind of sounds like a slow wobbling effect. You must use headphones. You can find just the wave form or the wave form can be embedded into music. Based on your op, I would think the binaural beats embedded in music would be best. Check YouTube for them. Google other info regarding binaural beats. There are different levels of binaural beats for things such as pain control, concentration, etc. | |||
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Devil's Advocate |
My go-to is the Windham Hill Sampler '84. The Windham Hill label unfortunately got caught up with "New Age" music, but it actually featured(s) incredibly talented musicians like Michael Hedges, who unfortunately died young in a car wreck, and George Winston. There are a number of "samplers" for various years, from which you can draw other musicians/tracks. I also find Cocteau Twins very ruminative, but all of these may be a product of time and place for me, i.e., relaxing because it brings me back to a very good time in my life. Sample '84: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...wr3uZhshghc2-16T66_). Michael Hedges, Aerial Boundaries: https://www.bing.com/videos/se...D0958DB9E4&FORM=VIRE George Winston, December: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2OXjl_xqQ8&list=PLH8F749pX4cXSmwr3uZhshghc2-16T66_). ________ Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto | |||
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Live long and prosper |
Eric Serra s The big blue OST is great, some other of his soundtracks as well. There's spexifically another sea related but Messenger could also do the trick. Big blue definitely a winner G Winston for the win and try early Pat Methemy Group albums 0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | |||
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
His album entitled Autumn is a favorite of mine. No vocals, though, which the OP likes. | |||
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