Ask Lemmy

Can’t sleep without the TV on, ever since I was a teenager. I have playlists of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, the entire chronological timeline of Star Trek, Star Wars extended universe, Stargate, and many others. I rotate through them.

I sleep with noise but I don't need it to sleep. I just leave my windows open and get the ambient sounds of the city at night: traffic, distant music, fireworks, snatches of conversation as people walk by.

But I also go camping and the sounds of nature are just as fine: coyote howling, wind through the trees, crickets and birds and raccoons

I rarely get true silence but when I do... I still fall asleep just the same.

Yeah, I have a mp3 player under my pillow with a white noise track on it

I started sleeping with rain sounds years ago because I would always hyperfixate on every little noise. The wobbling tone of the ceiling fan was enough to keep me awake some nights. I've played my usual setup for people and it's always too quiet for them to near, but it's louder than every creak and pop of the house. The track I picked was based on what actual rain sounds like outside my window.

I didn't do it for noise initially, but I've become quite dependent on the fan noise from my air purifier these days.

My window unit on hot days. Also some tv show I’ve seen before.

Yes. I have a list of YouTube channels that make content suitable for me to sleep to.

English isn't my mother language so I think it's easier to me to pay attention when I want to but just turn off my brain when I feel like it's time to sleep

Ive been sleeping with a noise maker (the kind that blows air through holes) my entire life. Ive noticed I get deeper sleep in silence though, it just takes too long to fall asleep without the white noise.

I started using a white noise machine and fans on high when I lived down the block from a hospital emergency room. It sounded like a jet engine in my bedroom, but my brain learned to interpret the white noise as profound silence. I moved away from the hospital zone but still use the white noise to sleep.

I sleep with a fan going and some zen-like meditation music on my computer.

Yes.

I prefer movies or anime I've seen so many times that I have them memorized, so my mind follows along effortlessly.

It's sort of like my mind is a toddler, and if I don't plunk it down in front of something familiar that I know it likes, it'll run off and get into god-knows-what and I'll never get a moment's peace.

I sleep in my AirPods listening to tv shows. The new feature where it pauses my stuff after I fall asleep is pretty nifty.

My husband usually falls asleep to tv, so I usually put on instrumental music on earbuds to drown it out. I'll stay up way too late listening to tv otherwise.