What music do you like to fall asleep to?
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?
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.
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
Saint-Saëns "Carnival of the Animals".
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.
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
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)
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.
Rain white noise
The album These Winter Dreams by All India Radio
I prefer silence, but had to get a white noise machine to help drown out the neighbors. Nothing crazy, I'm just sensitive and grumpy.
Music for Airports by Brian Eno or anything by him at all really.
Nothing in the general case.
If I'm having issues getting to sleep because of stress, I turn on a Mighty Jingles World of Warships video. I usually don't make it past the intro and I'm out.
blue moon take 9/m by elvis presley is an insane experience listening to while teetering between sleeping and awake
I used to listen to the Star Wars soundtrack. But nowadays I listen to small documentaries like PBS Spacetime.
I used to listen to the Conan the Barbarian sound track. The beginning is quite exciting, got me thinking heroic thoughts, then the middle section is quite quiet and I'd drift off to sleep with those heroic thoughts still echoing around my head.
Pink Floyd Division Bell or YouTube has some decent black screen music options. I really like black screen classical music mix, but sometimes it's hard to find.
Some kind of ambient instrumental. Or nature sounds. Nothing with lyrics or I won’t be able to concentrate on sleeping lol.
Rainfall, thunderstorms, rivers. That kind of thing!
I listen to this on loop for 12 hours. every day for the last 270 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBB5-bP6qs&t=51
Rain sounds, Arabian instrumental ambient, Enya, Hildegard von Bingen. Some nights one playlist doesn’t work for me so I use another.
formula 1 onboard sounds. I'm not kidding, it's SO relaxing
https://youtu.be/_5Lr6fDIZG8
edit: I forgot to mention that I also hear the team radios and can hear them say stuff, so sometimes I'll be dreaming and my brain will just add in lewis Hamilton or some shit lmao
You wouldn't have been able to do that during the V10 years.
Let me guess,he's complaining about his tyres?
Believe it or not the Goldberg variations works for me.
Rain or Thunder is very calming to fall asleep to. Though most often it's with a TV show on. Something I've seen a bunch before and can nod off to, without missing anything. Just comfort noise.
The sound of silence. I don't mean Simon & Garfunkel, and I definitely don't mean Disturbed (though, it's a good cover).
Honestly though, I can sleep to whatever. My younger brother used to sleep to death metal. I'm not kidding. It was annoying for about a week. We've had noisy neighbors and my wife will ask if she should go yell at them or something when I'm about to go to bed (she stays up all night, I wake up early). I say nope, it's not an issue. And it never has been. I don't think I can sleep to a baby crying or a shrill alarm though. Anything high pitched. I'm pretty sure I even fell asleep to loud sex one time. As I was drifting off, I could have sworn I heard moaning and thumping. I remember having a bit of a chuckle over that. Hot college girl used to live next door, she's getting railed TF out of like 2 feet away through a wall, and she'd be embarrassed if I saw her in her underwear (I never tried to look, just saying). But you don't really think, there's another room right there, another bed up against the same wall, and somebody who always leaves before the sun comes up is probably in there. So yeah, anyway, I'm a heavy sleeper.
Chill Out by the KLF. Always soothes me.
Bands like Follakzoid, Oresund Space Collective and Zement
Nothing, or a YouTube video that's mildly entertaining but not too much so I don't regret missing the end by falling asleep. LTT for instance.
Isn't it dangerous to train yourself to fall asleep to music? What if you need to take a long drive? You put on some tunes, zzzzzzz CRASH!
Cat purring beside my head
"fall asleep" 💦