Er, the title pretty much explains. My wife listens to podcasts and falls asleep to them but I can’t not listen to a human voice so I listen to (ideally instrumental) music.
Anyone else? If so, what do you put on to drift away to?
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Nothing. No music. No white noise (I absolutely hate white noise). Just silence
It’s true, no music is indeed music and this is a perfect answer.
I only listen to something if I’m having trouble turning off my thoughts. In those cases, I listen to the Let’s Read YouTube channel.
Same. I listen to the Sleep With Me Podcast. Something so soothing about that man’s droning voice.
Try Brian Enos Music for Airports. Good luck trying to make it through the end without sleeping.
Melodic death metal 🫣
i had a phase where any type of death metal would make me sleepy. not sure why
Usually nothing. But if I need to it’s either Dead Can Dance or Ludovico Einundi.
Watermark by Enya
Soma FM - Dronezone It’s pretty much perfect: free, no commercials, rain, ocean, droney. I actually listen to it most of the day, if I can.
Sometimes there are higher pitched drone tunes that aren’t as dreamy (for me)
I can’t with music. I put a Scholar’s Lore video on youtube and I’m sleeping within 5 minutes even when I’m not trying to fall asleep.
Great Couses are awesome too, Tools of Thinking dude has a ridiculously hypnotic voice. I honestly orobably havent ever made it thru the entire first lecture and i definitely didnt retain anything
Hammock, psychedelic trance music, or there is a lucid dreaming playlist on YouTube Music I like.
ETA “Psybient”, there used to be a perfect playlist called psybient, that may work well as a search term to find that downbeat psychedelic trance music.
No way could I fall asleep to a podcast, but my husband plays Alan Watts explaining meditation, and that I sure can. Maybe it would be a middle ground for y’all - a guided meditation?
I prefer to read to sleep; but if it’s to be music, mellow children’s music or classical.
I declare that from now on Baby Shark is defined as mellow. Goodnight.
Bonus nightmare points: Kars4kidz is mellow too, by the way.
Mell… low… songs doot doot de doot de doo
Saint-Saëns “Carnival of the Animals”.
Music for Airports by Brian Eno or anything by him at all really.
My go-to is streaming playlists by Northernlion. Something about his voice is incredibly soothing. I think I’ve probably gone through his Rimworld playlists (both of them) at least 10 times over the years.
Some kind of ambient instrumental. Or nature sounds. Nothing with lyrics or I won’t be able to concentrate on sleeping lol.
I listen to this on loop for 12 hours. every day for the last 270 years.
