Ask Lemmy

Tv every night

Always, because I have to use a CPAP

White noise (usually a fan) has been greatly beneficial to my quality of sleep. I wish I had started doing so many years sooner.

I do not do well with TV or anything that has speech though.

I’m so goddamn hyper alert that I need complete silence and pitch black darkness to fall asleep.

Except for thunderstorms. Those are oddly soothing. But that’s it.

Give me the sound of rain or white noise or give me death!

Yes I use a fan.

If it's hot out yes because I got a window ac unit. But when it's cold out, it is the deepest silence, and I love it. Either way, doesn't bother me. But I prefer the quiet.

ADHD adult with chronic insomnia here. I usually sleep with "electronic ambient music for sleeping with delta waves", which is the prompt I give my bedside google home before bed. I do not sleep more, but the delta waves thing seems to help me sleep deeper.

We have a ceiling fan, and I also used various white noise apps on my phone. I read somewhere that sound apps running on my phone all night was bad for the battery, so I bought a small, dedicated rechargeable white noise machine.

I have sleep with me podcast

I have tinnitus, I can't sleep without it.

Usually a story-telling or audio play podcast.

White noise. I cant stand random volume changes, otherwise I wouldn't mind soft music. I also cant stand the sound of my own breathing, so silence isnt an option.

I'd prefer to sleep in total silence, but since that's not an option where I currently live, I have a white noise machine.

I have the TV on in the other room while falling asleep. I live alone, so nobody is bothered by it

I absolutely have to have white noise of some sort. My stupid ass brain is ALWAYS on alert for any noise whatsoever. A pin drops on the opposite side of my apartment and my brain freaks out "omg wake up and pay attention!!" it's so fucking frustrating. Any typical creaks or whatever that a house makes, well time to focus the entirety of my attention on it whether I want to or not. A knocking heater? It's the most dangerous thing in the universe and apparently my brain feels that it deserves all of my focus...

I swear sleeping is the most difficult thing for me to do. I'm so tired of being tired lol

Every night, White noise via the sound of rain and/or the fans of my computer if I leave it on.

It takes practice, like anything else. Doing something makes you better at something and not doing something will make you worse at it. In this case you have been conditioning your brain to need ambient noise. There is a line between it being a small help on some days and it being a crutch you've built your life around. Sounds lile you are in the latter camp.

Before I got married, I always put some snoozefest video to fall asleep to. Now I fall asleep by itself. Frankly, I am not even close to my wife who falls asleep in 5 minutes if she leaves her phone alone. But 10 to 15 mins is guaranteed for me.

It took practice too. After I stopped doing it, sometimes it would take me more than half an hour to fall asleep. Especially if something is bothering me. Overtime I have developed ways to take my mind off these thoughs by focusing on music or sounds around me.

Yes. Generally with Would I Lie to You or the Unbelievable Truth.

I needed the fan when I was younger, but I am more tired now. lol.

"Woo" unintentional ASMR, for me. Love hand reading and concave earth nonsense, it sends me straight into Morpheus' arms.

Just the sound of my CPAP running

We have the sounds of NYC to fall asleep to.... when we (are able to) go upstate, I sleep like a rock, the silence is deafening

I use an app (iOS, Android, Windows, web) by TMSoft called White Noise. I think it was like $2.99. It has a bunch of pre-programmed sounds (waves, chimes, birds, traffic, etc) that you can use. You can also import sounds, change existing sounds (alter pitch, make slower, etc), create your own mixes, etc.

My current "sleep sound" is a mix. The base is pink noise, which nicely muffles many sounds. Since a constant hiss can be annoying on it's own, I topped it with a pitch-lowered heavy rain (the regular pitch was a little annoying). To avoid being woken up by bass noises (lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, delivery trucks), I added in a slowed-down heavy thunderstorm: it has intermittent peals of thunder that rumble on and then fade away; any base noises that I hear, my sleeping mind interprets as a long peal of thunder and doesn't bother waking me up. Underneath all that, I have a very slowed-down heartbeat; my heart will tend to try to match it, prepping me for sleep. And I've added in some very intermittent birdsong and frogs croaking to make it a little more cheerful, and a kitten purring because that's relaxing too so why not?

I tinker with it occasionally, but it really helps me sleep through any disturbances at night.

Varies from one night to the next, but I typically put on something from myNoise.net when I do want sound.

Yep, HomePod has a 'babbling brook" loop. I used to use "rain on a tin roof", but Apple is a jerk and doesn't make bringing your own sleep sounds easy.

Been falling asleep to music recently, using Finamp and set a timer for 90 minutes because sometimes it takes me 30+ min to fall asleep. Wear one ear piece, so it's not to drown out noise, just something to fall asleep to

Podcasts can help me fall asleep when I can't, but that happens rarely and does not feel like a good thing to me, as it's usually being stuck in bad thoughts.