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I do the same with listening to NPR, the BBC World Service, or some Ken Burns documentary. Sometimes just some classic tv works too. Anything to provide a bit
by cbanek 8y ago
I do the same with listening to NPR, the BBC World Service, or some Ken Burns documentary. Sometimes just some classic tv works too. Anything to provide a bit of background noise and something for me to listen to other than my own repetitive thoughts. Plus having a bit of background noises drowns out any other noises that might wake me up. And if I can't fall asleep, at least it's something interesting.
- war1025 8y agoI also find NPR great for falling back to sleep for an hour or two when I wake up and it's technically morning, but not my normal wakeup time. Worst case, I'll get to listen to the radio for a little longer in the morning. Almost always it ends up calming me down enough that I fall back to sleep though.
- cbanek 8y agoExactly. And one of the reasons why I think NPR is different from other things I can listen to is the lack of ads. I know there's placement and sponsorship, but they don't have other ads spliced in (usually at a much louder volume, with random noises and music and ways to get attention) that easily wake me up.