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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Any sitcom made by Greg Daniels or Michael Schur.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Adventure time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The inside of my eyelids have this weird shapes and light show, work every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

When not in the mood for talking, singing bowls for sure.

When my brain can't stop and I need a distraction, either the sleep with me podcast or welcome to nightvale. Sometimes Sleep Whispers but that one can be over stimulating for my lil ASMR brain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Police interrogation videos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dreamscape ASMR (YouTube channel)

Every vid is a thoroughly thought out and immersive artistic experience, unlike many ASMR channels with regular soft talking in the room.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cutting Edge Engineering. Aussie machinist who fixes large mining equipment parts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

A Playlist made up of a bunch of 90's primetime cartoons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

PBS Spacetime or Space Matters at 0.75 speed.

Alan Watts, Eckart Tolle, Great Meditations (the sleep ones as there is no wakeup bit at the end)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The crickets and frogs outside through an open window.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/@JohnMichaelGodier

This guy's videos. He has the perfect cadence and voice for it, and the right video length too. To be perfectly honest I have no idea if the content of the videos is good, but they're very useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This... JMG is the best. Him and Isaac Arthur...

https://youtube.com/@isaacarthursfia?si=os9gCpAVxKe1igNo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I go to sleep listening to music. Some of my favorite sleep time artist:

Carbon based lifeform, Solar fields, Aes Dana, Emancipator, Album leaf, Random Rab, Sync 24, Ulrich Schnauss

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The non musical family guy episodes.

It's the only comedy show where there's no laugh track, loud noises, and they explain every scene as it's happening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Usually nothing but silence, but if I can not sleep or am thinking to loud I try to distract myself with some glitch in the matrix or anything by as the Raven dreams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Formula 1 and tennis matches. Not because they are boring but they are relaxing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good sleep hygene ie dark quiet cold is incredibly good for you. It makes you 5-10% better at literally everything. Falling asleep to content is incredibly bad for this its literally making ur dumber and more distracted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How is it bad sleep hygiene to fall asleep to noise? If it is adequately non-engaging, it is pretty much the same as other white noise. Furthermore, it really depends on each person what makes them relax.

To paraphrase an actual sleep scientist (and not just talk out of my ass like most people do about health):

It is easy to see know if you are getting enough sleep. If you feel tired during the day, you need more sleep.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because the issue with noise is it causes disruption in your sleep cycle and possibly prevent you reaching deeper stages of sleep. White noise is fine and actually considered beneficial because it provides sufficiently consistent noise that can help mask other sounds that may be disruptive. It boils down to monkey brain still worried about animal coming to eat you but not worried about sound of rain hence millions of years of evolutionary selection on our brains to wake on sudden noises but not consistent noises.

Do you drink coffee? If so how are you going to know if your tired or not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I see you repeating the claim that it makes sleeping more difficult, but I do think those that listen to sounds, be it ocean waves or someone talking, have the experience that it makes it easier for them to fall asleep.

Sure, there can be problems with sleep quality for numerous reasons. However, making a blanket statement that this disrupts the sleep, especially of those that have positve experience with it, is going to need some factual sources (that I do not think exists).

According to what I have read, it is fine if it is not too stimulating.

EDIT: Also, it is easy to take a break from coffee: It only requires not drinking a few cups. Either way it does not really prevent fatigue, at most delaying it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As I said, if the noise is sufficiently consistent, then there probably won't be a problem with it. Content, though, implies something more than just background noise.

You missed my point about coffee entirely. The point is that if you take coffee, you don't know that you're tired, regardless of if it's effective or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am pretty certain our brains evolved to filter out friendly/known voices some tens of thousands of years (or more) ago. I feel tired sometimes before and after coffee, and often less so on coffee breaks because the real issue with coffee is that the caffeine can definitely disrupt sleep.

I understand you need consistency to not be engaged by sounds. I hope you understand that other people have other limitations, hence, again, it is your first statement I disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The I cant sleep podcast. Just a guy reading random wikipedia articles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Painting videos are the best.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

There's a few short fiction podcasts I like for bedtime stories:

  • Myths & Legends
  • Fictional
  • LeVar Burton Reads
  • The Magnus Archives
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Usually a science video on yt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The box fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

David Gilmour - Live in Pompeii

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The hum of my oscilating tower fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Listen to Fred again... - 10 April 2021 by Fred Again... on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/RJUDy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon

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Any video on WWII

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oliech. Belgian streamer who plays the Battleground mode of Hearthstone. I don't play that game but I watch his videos on Youtube and whenever I do, I fell asleep and usually sleep well.

Otherwise, silence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Futurama. used to be Dan Carlin podcasts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Long form gaming videos like 8 hour review of Morrowind, 12 hour review of Oblivion, or 20 hour review of Skyrim.

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