For years now I've been falling asleep to documentaries on YouTube. Mostly about space or military history. The often monotonous tone of narration usually lulls me off quickly.
The draw back is if I find a particularly interesting one and get to focused on it.
What about you phukers
I used to use those 8 hour music or sound loops, like space music or rain trickling.
But I always tried to find new ones instead of reusing the same one every day, and they started showing up in my YouTube recommendations. It eventually spiraled into this weird new-age subculture of chakra healing music, monks chanting 'om' a certain number of times (they list the actual number in the video titles), good energies and toxin removal and all that nonsensical garbage.
I don't really care about its supposed spiritual effects, I just need some smooth noise.
For a while I dabbled I the binaural beats in YouTube. Practiced lucid dreaming and stuff. Eventually just kind of stopped.
There's definitely some weird channels out there with some serious hippy dippy stuff.
I used a TV at about a whisper along with a fan for most of my life, then when I got married and moved out my wife didn't like the light from the TV as the flashing caused her to wake up. The TV was replaced with a night light, the fan has to be on my person but not my face--I generate a ton of heat when I'm sleeping.
I'm not kidding, I used to cancel out my window air conditioner when I lived at home. My body puts off major fucking heat, always has. It's not as bad now that I'm mostly sedentary, was worse when I did physical work and played sports. Still, when I'm moving a lot the heat still radiates off my body and I can't stand being in a place without good constant air movement.
Have you tried those passive cooling mattress things that send water through a fan to try and keep your mattress around your ambient temperature? I hear they're relatively silent and are great for hot sleepers.
Last night the Tribe / Twins game. When there isn't baseball I fall asleep in silence or to the sound of a fan. My favorite is to fall asleep in a tent to sounds of outdoors.
Sometimes when it's warm out and raining I'll open up the window and fall asleep to the sound of that.
Normally I fall asleep to my boy cat wrapped around my head on my pillow. I stopped using fans and other noise devices years ago and found it significantly helped not using them. It took a while to sleep normally after that change, but I can now sleep comfortably while travelling again.
My TV is so bright I wish I could dim it or just listen to audio. Earbuds are uncomfortable and the ferrets steal them so that's not a good option.
I use my phone and disable autoplay. I just let it run for an hour and than it'll turn off.
Hell on the internals in the long run though.
I often put on mediocre shows. It can't be a good show, or I also get focused and end up staying awake.
Netflix is great for it. They have an almost unlimited number of meh shows to put me to sleep.
Reading a book also works, but I always lose my place.
The tears of my enemies? Sobbing has a nearly rhythmic quality to it.
Just kidding.
Nothing. I can fall asleep anytime in less than 5 minutes.
Buckethead at around 40% volume on my phone.
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