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.


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.