I must have noise to go along with going to sleep. Usually thats an audio book or long-form video essay type YouTube videos. I wear one earbud to bed if I’m sleeping at night with my girlfriend or just blare it from the TV if I’m sleeping alone during the day (rotating shift). I feel like when I don’t have engaging audio and I’m trying to sleep I can’t quiet my mind enough to sleep. A fan or random ambient noise isn’t enough for me.
Go and get that ADHD assessment
Diagnosed and medicated since 8 lol.
Haha fair play then, you got to find out why 25 years before I did
I’m so goddamn hyper alert that I need complete silence and pitch black darkness to fall asleep.
Except for thunderstorms. Those are oddly soothing. But that’s it.
Playing by Minecraft rules, I see.
seconded on stormy nights, I love sleeping with the pitter patter of rain and thunder
Ooooof I’m the opposite. Hyper alert meaning every minor noise, shadow or anything will keep me up. Need to drown it out with someone’s voice telling me about a video game from 20 years ago.
Thunderstorms wake me up because I like them so much.
not intentionally, white noise from the ac or a fan is fine on summer nights though! and the sounds from my girlfriends headphones when she stays up a bit later than me, but only because I get to be next to her lol
a speaker/TV show/movie? absolutely the fuck not I can’t sleep with that my brain wants to pay attention so bad
Yeah, for me if I didn’t have something to pay attention to my thoughts would never let me drift off.
ive tried a few times when in a hotel or any shared sleeping space, never fails to keep me awake. i used to have that problem with the thoughts but as long as I’m holding something/someone I’m usually good
This is exactly how my brain works too. Can’t sleep unless my brain is focused on one thing rather than a hundred.
Precisely
I needed the fan when I was younger, but I am more tired now. lol.
Being tired definitely helps the sleep come on faster.
Varies from one night to the next, but I typically put on something from myNoise.net when I do want sound.
No, I cant sleep with anything with vocals in it. My brain strains too hard trying to interpret or ignore it. Non-vocal music can work very well at low volume as long as its repetitive and thus predictable enough that my brain doesn’t have to pay attention or react to a lot of changes in composition.
“Woo” unintentional ASMR, for me. Love hand reading and concave earth nonsense, it sends me straight into Morpheus’ arms.
Is that an app ?
Nooo, just weird videos on YT, lol. Let me show you a classic, “Welcome to the real world” (misspelled in the video), an introduction to the concave earth “”“theory”“”: https://youtu.be/WLnSRWaPu3I
I can see the appeal but I’ve always hated the breathey way ASMR videos are. Even unintentional ones haha.
Tv every night
Yeah, my girl is a pitch black silent room sleeper so I do the headphone out of respect. Like I said though, during the days when I sleep alone the TV is blaring.
Usually a story-telling or audio play podcast.
I could get down with that.
My fiancée sleeps with a fan. I sleep with my finacée snoring.
I do the same, I can’t sleep without a fan
I even use a fan in the winter. I like cold air on the outside and warm air on the inside. More than that, something about the wind moving past my head is soothing.
Lmao thats a tough one
Not necessarily.
I’m hoping you already have, but if you haven’t, get your fiancée to get a sleep study. Very often snoring is their way of telling you they are dying slowly.
Yup, I ignored my snoring. That led to waking up tired every day, then a sore neck, then a mild headache that went away after waking up, and finally all of my extremities started to tingle. It all went away once I was able to wear my cpap for maybe half of the night.
White noise machine
Moved to a very noisy apartment about a year and half ago. Near a major hospital so ambulances 24/7. Near a rather busy intersection so cars, trucks, motorcycles accelerating 24/7. Live under the approach for a large international airport, so large planes decelerating often throughout the day.
Kept a fan on for almost a year. Fan didn’t like it so now it wobbles.
Finally bought an old white noise machine with an actual fan inside. LOVE IT. It doesn’t filter out everything but it sure helps.
I sleep with a fan going and some zen-like meditation music on my computer.
We have the sounds of NYC to fall asleep to… when we (are able to) go upstate, I sleep like a rock, the silence is deafening
I could never live in a loud city, especially one as loud as NYC.
A lot of comments in here about white noise and no one talking about brown noise! Brown noise is elite iykyk
I want something deeper than brown noise. Haven’t had any luck though.
Try the Biggest, Blackest Brown Noise!
I use an app (iOS, Android, Windows, web) by TMSoft called White Noise. I think it was like $2.99. It has a bunch of pre-programmed sounds (waves, chimes, birds, traffic, etc) that you can use. You can also import sounds, change existing sounds (alter pitch, make slower, etc), create your own mixes, etc.
My current “sleep sound” is a mix. The base is pink noise, which nicely muffles many sounds. Since a constant hiss can be annoying on it’s own, I topped it with a pitch-lowered heavy rain (the regular pitch was a little annoying). To avoid being woken up by bass noises (lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, delivery trucks), I added in a slowed-down heavy thunderstorm: it has intermittent peals of thunder that rumble on and then fade away; any base noises that I hear, my sleeping mind interprets as a long peal of thunder and doesn’t bother waking me up. Underneath all that, I have a very slowed-down heartbeat; my heart will tend to try to match it, prepping me for sleep. And I’ve added in some very intermittent birdsong and frogs croaking to make it a little more cheerful, and a kitten purring because that’s relaxing too so why not?
I tinker with it occasionally, but it really helps me sleep through any disturbances at night.
