I’ve always needed some sort of noise to help sleep. I can do it in complete silence, but it takes a lot longer and I can never get comfortable so if I have to be up early the next day, silence is a recipe for disaster.

I tend to sleep to one of Vinny Vinesauce’s vods he uploads to the Fullsauce channel. Dude has just a nice relaxing voice and personality so I can kind of half pay attention and imagine what’s going on as I lie down with my eyes closed.

Regrettably my tinnitus requires me to have some kind of sound going. I also like having flickering light, so I tend to just put on TV shows I have seen many times. Like Supernatural or Star Trek.

I love listening to college lectures for topics I’m interested in but don’t fully grok. I fell asleep in them back when I was paying for it and getting tested on the material. Now I can listen to the same lecture 50 times if I want. And no test.

An all time favorite: Lenny Susskind’s Stanford open lecture series on Quantum Mechanics

Down side: sometimes I dream that I am trying to ask a question and the lecturer never notices. I have literally in the dream started running around terrorizing the room going insane screaming why does this professor not acknowledge my existence?!

Doubly hurtful when it’s Lenny; he’s such a comforting father-figure

I took a nap while falling asleep to a short video and in my dream I kept trying to turn off the video wondering why I the audio kept looping. Took me a while to realize I’m in dream land

I’ve been rewatching DS9 at night and falling asleep to that.

I started doing this when I went away to college. I think it was some mix of not having parents to tell me to go to sleep, feeling like I needed to reclaim some time for myself when the rest of my day was so busy, and maybe being a bit lonely far away from home.

I almost exclusively watch HS BG. It’s the right level of enough stuff happening that it occupies my mind while I’m conscious but it’s not something I care about missing any of it and they’re generally chill enough to not overexcite me or shock me awake. Plus they usually have on some generic chill music in the background.

I set a timer to shut off my tablet after an hour and with only a few exceptions I don’t ever stay awake long enough to see it shut off.

If you want completely different genre, these I find helpful if I can’t sleep.

Darknet Diaries - stories of ex hackers and penetration testers telling their experiences on a job. Sneaking into various facilities etc.

Stuff You Should Know - two hosts laying out various topics with a bit of silliness and banter mixed in.

Lost SciFi Podcast -dude reads various short stories from ages ago. He’s a good reader but just enough monotony to fall asleep to if you aren’t into the story

I use Joov VODs. Just some random Skyrim sounds, the Fallout ones don’t work as well, what with the gunshots and all.

There’s a dude on YouTube that repairs old cameras, hour long videos that I try to pay attention to but always puts me in that state where I can feel myself falling asleep, and my eyes won’t stay open.

History of the universe, or fall of civilizations podcast.

I’ve started listening to SecretBase from pateron

I used to fall asleep a couple of audio books. The Winds of War, The Stand or The Wheel of time. I found the narrators of those books voices very soothing.

I made my self stop though, I wanted to reduce the amount of stuff I needed to fall asleep.

Sleep With Me and Sleep Magic podcasts are great. Both have interesting enough content to listen to, but designed to make you sleepy. Also they talk like normal people. I can’t stand the ones where people are using their “sleepy ASMR voice.”

All the This Week in Tech (TWIT) podcasts are also really good, and long so good to fall asleep to. Also good if you can’t fall asleep since they’re pretty interesting.

Darknet Diaries is a good one - great stories.

Casefile. Would recommend an earphone if you have a partner hahaha

Yep, lately it’s been Max Richter 's album Sleep.

Supplemented with eye mask, melatonin, and an attempt to keep bedtime and wake up hours very consistent. When I can’t sleep, sometimes the last resort is to go sleep somewhere else, like the living room couch or the guest bedroom. For some reason, that can break me out of the rut and fall asleep.