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>Rain On A Tent • If you have trouble falling asleep, try spending a night under a tarp tent listening to the sound of the rain. As someone who spent a lot of
by c_o_n_v_e_x 4y ago
>Rain On A Tent • If you have trouble falling asleep, try spending a night under a tarp tent listening to the sound of the rain.
As someone who spent a lot of time camping while growing up, I could not think of a worse sound for trying to fall asleep... namely the large drops that come off trees at just a slow enough "rhythm" to be torturous.
- bamboozled 4y agoSame, also flapping tarp in the wind. I go to great efforts to stop this happening.
- dekhn 4y agoAlso with the implication you're going to end up waking up in a wet sleeping bag!
- pigsinzen 4y agoAs someone who has also spent a lot of time camping, rain hitting the tent of a roof, a metal roof, or even a tarp over a hammock is hypnotic and I love sleeping to it. It’s one of my favorite sounds and puts me in an amazing headspace. Maybe there were circumstances which led to us each experiencing the same type of soundscape completely different?
- afandian 4y agoI used to live in a canal boat, 3mm steel roof. The sound of rain on that, so long as you had a fire going, was very cozy and enjoyable. But I think on a psychological level a large part of the comfort is the relief of being sheltered.
- olyjohn 4y agoIt depends on the rain for me. A nice steady rain with small, well-dispersed droplets makes a wonderful sound. Giant droplets accumulated on branches, falling off of a tree onto the roof of your truck, falling at random intervals, something like 5-30 seconds apart. Sounds more like someone tapping on the roof. That will keep you up all night.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 4y ago>A nice steady rain with small, well-dispersed droplets makes a wonderful sound. This is relaxing. >Giant droplets accumulated on branches, falling off of a tree onto the roof of your truck, falling at random intervals, something like 5-30 seconds apart. Sounds more like someone tapping on the roof. That will keep you up all night. This is what I cannot stand.
- jollyllama 4y agoThe worst are tracks that have "nature sounds" aka bird calls. Those make me very wakeful.
- stinos 4y agoYeah camping in areas where female Tawny Owls are screaming through the night quite isn't my favorite thing to do.
- burntwater 4y agoConsidering that bird noises are most associated with morning, the sun rising, and when you should becoming awake and alert, having bird sounds in tracks meant to be "relaxing" has always seemed backwards to me.
- hinkley 4y agoI think literally only Totoro finds 'big rain splat' to be enjoyable.