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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.
As a teenager in the '70s I used to fall asleep to albums and the radio on headphones. These days, I need silence!
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 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.
Whatever it takes to quiet the thoughts. Plus, adding a base layer of familiar sound helps drown out the odd sounds that makes your brain assess the danger. I don't often use sound, but for a while I did key myself into playing a particular Deadmau5 album to knock me out for a lunch nap.
The thoughts can be a problem. You can't stop thinking about how to fix something from earlier. My favorite mental game is picking a category and going through the alphabet, naming an item for each letter. It's OK to skip a letter, come back later. You're still thinking creatively, but the speed is much slower. The "problem" is no longer something threatening you (bills, arguments, chores), it's just finding a one-word response at a time. Cities, towns but not real cities, desserts, bodies of water, car models, zoo animals, construction materials, colors...
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 didn't do it for noise initially, but I've become quite dependent on the fan noise from my air purifier these days.
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.
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.
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
My window unit on hot days. Also some tv show I’ve seen before.
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
Nope, the quieter, the better
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.
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.
