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What works for me is to just put on a documentary and something about the monotone narration voice just shuts my brain down. I don't even pay attention to the w
by ams6110 9y ago
What works for me is to just put on a documentary and something about the monotone narration voice just shuts my brain down. I don't even pay attention to the words. I'm generally asleep within minutes. I assume audio books might have the same effect.
I guess it might be related to my young childhood as I had parents who would almost always read to my brother and me at bedtime. So possibly there's a part of my brain that has associated falling asleep to the sound of a voice speaking.
- actsasbuffoon 9y agoBob Ross videos on Hulu or YouTube are the most pleasant and soothing things I've ever watched. They usually knock me out in just a few minutes. And if you still can't fall asleep, you got to watch someone paint a pretty landscape.
- robocat 9y agoMy girlfriend trained herself to sleep with movies. Now she can't watch movies without falling asleep.
- stickdogg 9y agoIt was imperative for an ex girlfriend of mine to have a movie on; or she was unable to sleep. I prefer total darkness so that my body gains the maximum recuperative benefit.
- megy 9y agoI did the same thing with books. I always used to read before I went to sleep. Now, I get tired reading.
- dvtv75 9y agoMine does exactly the same thing. If she's on the couch watching a movie, she's a goner, but the moment she moves to bed, "it's too loud! Turn it down!" even when it's at 1/10th of the volume when she was drooling on the couch.
- stickdogg 9y agoI have been using audiobooks frequently to help me fall asleep. For me it has to be the right tone of voice and not a high pitched voicy or jerky style enunciation.
- knuththetruth 9y agoBBC's In Our Time podcast is an instant sedative. Roundtable of British academics dryly discussing historical topics. 5 mins and I'm out like a light.
- confounded 9y agoAre you an Englishperson in San Francisco by any chance?
- knuththetruth 9y agoNo, sorry. Originally from the East Coast.
- birksherty 9y agoI use Sleep With Me podcast and like you said it shuts my thinking and then I sleep within few minutes. I highly recommend it. https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/ https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
- busterarm 9y agoThere's a podcast that's literally just this. Some guy reads nonsensical stories in a monotone. 10 minutes or less, guaranteed, every time.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoThere's a couple youtube channels of Go game commentary and strategy lectures that does something similar for me.
- harshulpandav 9y agoI start a random YouTube video and set SleepTimer [1] app to 15 minutes. The beauty of the app is that it softly fades the volume to 0 and turns the screen off by the end of 15 minutes. It has always helped me fall asleep! [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pboos.android.SleepTimer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pboos.andro...