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>The downsides are that I have trouble sleeping unassisted, as I'll just lay in bed thinking til the sun comes up, and also have trouble staying focused on movi
by aphextron 5y ago
>The downsides are that I have trouble sleeping unassisted, as I'll just lay in bed thinking til the sun comes up, and also have trouble staying focused on movies or even conversation, as my mind will be elsewhere.
I'm the exact same way. Podcasts are a godsend. The trick is finding one that's just interesting enough to keep your attention, while simultaneously being just boring enough to fall asleep to. I find that really dry, technical historical lectures work great.
- devenson 5y agoI agree completely. Commercials and flashy endings are to be avoided.
- Wistar 5y agoOh, man. I do this, too, but mostly with youtube. I have discovered that Jim Al-Khalili, Brian Greene and Hannah Fry are too interesting to fall asleep to but that there are plenty of Royal Institute lectures that serve really well and have no, or very few, commercial insertions.
- irchans 5y agoThis is crazy. I never thought that anyone else would use those lectures to sleep. I like them when I'm awake also!
- Wistar 5y agoThe exception is RI's Andrew Szydlo. His lectures are… well, kind'a nuts. Too entertaining to be soporific.
- deepnet 5y agoI fall asleep to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time Discussions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player
- lliamander 5y agoCuriously, I have found that my own ability to lecture monotonously on some obstruse topic has (at one point or another) put every member of my family to sleep. I've though about doing a podcast or something where I just read boring, impenetrable books to help people fall asleep.