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Same boat. I find a chill streamer that doesn't talk much and plays a game I like. I set the TV to 30 minute timer and watch for ~10 minutes before falling asle
by degenerate 8y ago
Same boat. I find a chill streamer that doesn't talk much and plays a game I like. I set the TV to 30 minute timer and watch for ~10 minutes before falling asleep. This is similar to people that fall asleep to shows they like -- see https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurama_Sleepers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurama_Sleepers/
- theNJR 8y agoWhoa. I am a The Office sleeper and had no idea that was a thing. There's something comforting about knowing I'm not the only one.
- eeeuo 8y agoThe entire ASMR sleep community is built around this premise as well, fwiw.
- weberc2 8y agoNature and history documentaries for me. Pretty sure I've slept through some part of every documentary David Attenborough has made.
- matwood 8y agoThe Office or Forensic Files and I'm out.
- gmfawcett 8y agoOnce upon a time, a huge segment of Western civilization used to fall alseep to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. :)
- Reedx 8y agoSomething I'm curious about is where that comes from. Why do people like falling asleep to the TV? Why is it preferred over white noise?
- degenerate 8y agoWhite noise is better than nothing, but my brain won't stop generating content (thoughts) with white noise. When the TV is generating the content, my brain focuses on that, and it's mindless enough to fall asleep to. I think it has something to do with being a mentally active person forced into a passive role, like shifting the brain into low gear.
- thejake0 8y agoCheck out the Sleep With Me Podcast[1]. Same concept: Dull, meandering talking to lull you to sleep. [1]https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/ https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
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- Fjolsvith 8y agoCheck out the book, "Turning the Mind into an Ally" by Sakyong Mipham. I used the techniques in that book to silence those random, erratic thoughts. I fall asleep within a minute of hitting the pillow now.
- degenerate 8y agoThanks, I will look it up.
- J5892 8y agoHonestly, I do it because I'm afraid of the dark. When my SO is out of town, my brain generates all sorts of horrible possibilities of things that could happen to my while laying in bed, from simple home invasions to black holes suddenly appearing and consuming my right arm. Watching Futurama (I had no idea there was a whole community around it) distracts me from those invasive thoughts.
- bcoates 8y agoI get pareidolia from white noise. Not a lot, but enough that the 'sounds' are more distracting than mundane background sounds like TV or music that I can tune out easily.
- mimimihaha 8y agoI've been trying to go to sleep earlier for a little over a week now (I used to sleep at about 3AM-5AMish and now I'm sleeping at about 9:30PM-10:3PM0ish now). My sleep plan is turn off all the lights, open up my laptop about 30 minutes before I try and sleep and watch an episode or two of futurama on 1.23x speed. I've been getting to sleep every night since on my target time despite being on an Adderall prescription. Futurama really helps for some reason. I'm trying to build it up to the point where I don't need to watch any show to get to sleep early, but I'm not quite at that point yet.
- b3b0p 8y agoFor me it's dubbed anime, it probably takes me 1-2 weeks to make it through an entire episode. While I work I need some noise, something, nearly anything. The complete lack of silence bothers me. I usually listen to OCRemix at work (via rainwave.cc) or 90's/00's music from when I was younger (nostalgia). At home I will put on something like Friends (Netflix), Giant Bomb videos (giantbomb.com), or classic game play throughs (NES, SNES, Genesis) on YouTube (or Giant Bomb). For example, LaserTime did Aladdin SNES vs Aladdin Genesis side by side video and they played through NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpson's games on NES/SNES. Giant Bomb has a series called Vinnyvania where Vinny (one of the Giant Bomb employees) plays through all the Castlevania games and another where they play through all the fighting games and rank them. I'm not into the new games.
- voltagex_ 8y agoJust a sidenote for anyone else who might be streaming rainwave from a limited connection: it uses about 60 megabytes an hour and sounds pretty heavily compressed (only a problem on some tracks)
- Fjolsvith 8y agoI like new age music while I work. Tangerine Dream, Andreas Vollenweider, Vangelis, etc.