I have had insomnia most of my life and found out that falling asleep listening to something as opposed to white noise really helps the anxiety I feel leading up to and falling asleep. I ended up buying a sleep mask with headphones after my wife was being woken up/kept awake by my phone on my nightstand. I can no longer sleep without this thing, kinda like a kid with their stuffed animal lol.
I am slowly running out of my normal stuff after repeated listening over the last 3 years. Just looking for some suggestions of stuff to fall asleep too.
Normally, I am listening to some competitive Pokémon analyses/videos (JimothyCool, FSG, BKC, anything covering Smogon metas), lore videos covering long running game series (mainly just WoW), comic book analysis (ComicTropes, Owen likes comics, strange brain parts, merry marvelite) and now some “sleep story” based channels (harder to find non-ai junk, but ive been enjoying Good Knight Sleep for their batman stories/call in radio and some mystery stories).
Sorry if that was too much for an example of what ive been listening to, but I would love to find some new things to throw into the rotation.
Thanks for this; I can’t say that I wasn’t just particularly exhausted last night but I put this on and conked out pretty quickly.
I used to be able to listen to just about any music, when falling asleep, but my anxiety’s reached a point that even playing the sound of waves is too much commotion and ramps up my adrenaline.
This was calm and unobtrusive enough that it really was just background noise and my brain didn’t keep getting its attention yanked away from drifting off.
Awesome. I’m glad it was a fit for you and best wishes on more improvements to your sleep.
Apparently, Richter consulted with a neuroscientist specializing in sleep on it. And Richter has a sequel, Sleep Circle, which I haven’t checked out yet but have seen positive recommendations a few times online.