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Something 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?
by Reedx 8y ago
Something 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.
- rhizome 8y agoHah yeah, I hear melodies in white noise fairly often. Are you a musician by chance?
- bcoates 8y agoNo but I've spent a good amount of time doing vaguely sound-engineering work where I listen carefully to audio samples. I may have overtrained some pattern-recognition wetware along the way.
- rootusrootus 8y agoEven 'naturally' generated white noise (e.g. Marpac Sound Machine)? I have similar problems listening to electronically generated white noise but no problems with the Marpac.
- bcoates 8y agoPossibly not lab-grade white noise, just broadband audio noise in general: fans, moving water, RF static, voice codec comfort noise turned up too loud, that sort of thing.
- closetohome 8y agoIf you grew up in a big family and got used to there always being voices and activity in the house, it can be kind of comforting just to have quiet, familiar voices as background noise.
- naravara 8y agoI'm not on Twitch much, but "quiet" and "comforting" aren't really how I'd characterize the voices of most streamers I've been exposed to.