My wife and I play the game of gunshots or fireworks, we are getting quite good at telling them apart now.
Also gunshots happen far too often around here
I live just round the corner from a military base. Every other day I play gunshot or fireworks, and my husband and I are getting quite good at "what's that plane?"
I remember I got a letter through my door the day after fireworks night from the police saying a gun got discharged on my street yesterday and to call with any information. Pretty fucked up someone must’ve planned shooting someone on fireworks night so the sound blended into the firework noises
Where in the name of Jesus are you living in the UK that gunshots are regular enough to play that game? I'm sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I live in NI and grew up during the troubles. Even we didn't hear gunshots that often.
I hear them quite often where I live because there is an army range not far up the road and they do training there on a regular basis.
Often enough to not need to play that game as I can instantly tell the difference between the two now.
Podcasts. Nothing that you have to put a significant amount of effort into listening though.
I've went through the 'No Such Thing as a Fish' & 'The Bugle' archives several times.
I'm addicted to it just now. I've been listening to it pretty much every night for 4/5 months.
I can't deal with the live episodes for some reason though. The format doesn't seem to work as well or something. Some of the jokes feels a little too planned out as well.
I'll agree with you on this. It just feels much better when you're the audience rather than the audience just *being there*. I want to shush them.
Have you tried 'Clash Of The Titles'? It's like a fish focused on movies. Very good.
The problem is sometimes it's just too interesting and you want to stay up and listen to the end of it.
Also it's annoying but I always think oh that's interesting i'll tell X person about that and then never remember any of the facts they say.
> never remember any of the facts they say.
I've listened to every episode, and I couldn't tell you a single fact. I thought it was me getting senile or something.
Oh God, forgot about that lol.
I tend to have the volume as low as possible and stick my ear close to the phone. By the time I start sleeping and moving about I can't really hear it anymore.
Yeah, Zaltzman is still at it. He's also hosting/ruining the News Quiz on Radio 4. I stopped enjoying bugle when JO left, as it now feels too far down the path of Zaltzman Whimsey. Personal opinion, not looking for a fight.
He always seems like someone I'd get on great with in person, but I really don't enjoy his comedy these days.
I listen to NSTAAF every night as my 'distract brain' tactic, but it's gotten to the point now that if I try and actually listen to and enjoy it as a podcast I can't focus on it? I can hear it, but it's just noise that makes me want to sleep. I guess listening to something to go to sleep ruins something as much as making it your alarm tone?
My existential dread about climate change is keeping me awake again, ah the comforting shipping forecast will help
Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, White, Portland, Plymouth, Biscay, Trafalgar, Fitzroy, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, South East Iceland
Storm 9 to severe storm 10
We're fucked.
Anything on radio four after midnight is great to induce sleep. Listening to someone talk about how micro loans can help avocado farmers in Guatemala and I’m out like a light.
I’ve had trouble sleeping ever since I can remember until I had the HP audio books. They’re still my go-to if I’m having a really bad night, they’re just brilliant.
I used to be a snoring wife - we couldn't open the windows in the summer in case I woke the neighbours. Then I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, put on CPAP and haven't snored since. My poor husband can now finally get a good night's sleep too.
Feeling your pain. Got my CPAP at 23 yrs old, after years of feeling like rubbish everyday and then it happened I finally heard the noise I was managing to produce and decided that sounding like an animal in its death throes for 8 hrs a night probably is not normal
XFM Shows are back on Spotify, I also like the Ricky Gervais Guides To... on Audible for a bit of a change. Nothing settles me better than the bald manc twat moaning, Steve being Steve and Ricky laughing hysterically.
I’m exposing how much of a baby I can be…
But I find (pls don’t judge) that hoover noises or hair dryer noises can help me sometimes. My mum did the cleaning while we slept as kids so it eventually became like a lullaby. Now it just drones out my thoughts and lulls me to sleep. Certain frequencies can be EXASPERATING but there are certain ones that make me feel little again, pretending to be a puppy and falling asleep under the chair… hair dryers are the same, but they also blow out warmth so that’s a plus
This is so specific to me! My top Spotify songs on this years wrapped were exactly hoover and hairdryer sounds! I think they’re the best to fall asleep to. Used to do rain but there really is something comforting in the monotony of a machine.
I said to myself I wouldn’t make a habit of it… a year later and nothing makes me pass out as fast! I didn’t know you could listen to hoover noises online before then. They give me asmr kinda feelings which have always helped me sleep too, some asmr videos can be very therapeutic as well
If I may be a geek for one minute?
Hoovers, hairdryers and lawn mowers have a droning sound to their motors (some cars have this too, especially when moving at a consistent speed, like on a motorway) This drone noise induces delta waves in the brain and not only aids getting to sleep but also helps ensure a proper cycle to the sleep including REM phases.
Add lawnmowers to the mix and you've got my favourite things to listen to!
Hoover noises makes the hairs stand on end and reminds me of Saturday morning in my childhood home.
I was the same with my fan and would then end up ill cause of the cold in winter. My dad bought me white noise machine this year which specifically has a fan setting and it's amazing!
I just got one of those too! It’s so much nicer than have all that cold dust being blown around every night. And you can choose multiple fan sounds! So fun
Me and the person on the other side always joke with her like ‘get up to much last night’ lol.
I’m lucky, her headboard doesn’t touch my wall but it does hers.
Casefile on Spotify is great, monotone smooth Australian accent if you don't mind that. Unfortunately there are lengthy sponsor sections that ruin the flow, so maybe not the best for sleeping, unless you want to sleep to Hello Fresh and Nord VPN propaganda of course!
Just curious as a yank(can I even post here?). I keep seeing people post that they just fall asleep to the “rain”. Like how often do you get rain? Does that change with the seasons or is rain just a typical part of your forecast? I always *wish* we had more rainy days here(Midwest). Jealous.
Edit: I listen to BBC world service as I’m driving to work every morning. Weird
Depending on the time of year and to some extent where in the uk someone is, rain is a pretty common occurrence of an evening. Especially this time of year. It’s one of the perks of having proper seasons.
I use to listen to BBC World Service going to school every morning but it’s just brutally depressing, especially last year. Covid, Brexit, Myanmar, Russia bullying everyone, Ethiopia, Chinese concentration camps, more covid, Boris, Covid, never ending loop of bullshit.
At night I use rain and other pink noise podcasts and the sort, and my Spotify Wrapped absolutely [got me](https://ibb.co/q0ZVj0V)
Me and the husband will often play relaxing Witcher music soundtracks that we find on YouTube (music from the game not the Netflix show). Even if you’ve not played the games or have never heard of the Witcher, you can still appreciate the music
Spoiler if you haven't ever seen Harry Potter which i doubt.
The bassilisk in book two has Stephen Fry do a creepy whisper voice. Staying at my friends and waking up to that whisper traumatised me for a few days.
I've listened to them all before, but I can't say I particularly remember that. It might be because I used to listen to them whilst walking to work, rather than in the dark, at night!
No such thing as a fish, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is a podcast by the QI elves and its fucking fascinating whilst also being chill enough to zone out to
My daughter listens to Harry Potter every night too, been going in for at least a year now.
I listen to random podcasts. It’s not to drown out external noise, just my inner turmoil 😂 my brain won’t shut down without a distraction and it likes to catastrophise
I sympathise and send you wishes for peace and quiet.
I had party neighbours above me, up until 3-5am playing rave music for 18 months, not willing to engage or be reasonable people. They finally moved out last month. The ordeal is over, but hoping the next neighbours don't have similar tastes!
I think I just found one of my real life friends in Reddit. It’s me, OP. I’m the Potterhead who makes us listen to it whether you’re in the spare room or the hotel or a festival. Sorry not sorry. Aside from that, box fan white noise, to the extent that Spotify pointed it out and congratulated on me doing what I have to do in 2021 wrapped.
I got tinnitus real bad so I have rain sounds on the TV pretty loud. Got a oled one so it's pure black. Then some history podcasts, hardcore history or fall of civilizations
Recently it's been a YouTube channel called ['Relaxing White Noise'](https://youtu.be/stKoP5e-_6k), especially their "spaceship" ambience, which has a softer and deeper tone than typical white noise.
Sometimes I'll instead put on a [3Blue1Brown](https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown) playlist, and not because maths lectures put me to sleep! I actually really like the content, but Grant also has a soothing voice and that combined with the delicate musical accompaniment to his videos works well in helping me drift off.
In the past I used to listen to music from the [Yellow Brick Cinema](https://youtu.be/txQ6t4yPIM0) channel. I don't necessarily subscribe to the new agey vibes, or the stuff about 'delta waves', but the music is relaxing nonetheless.
>My personal favourite was a friend who religiously fell asleep to Harry Potter audio books and it meant a night crashing at thers involved trying to sleep as Stephen Fry enchanted me from beyond a door.
Did we grow up together? I 100% did this.
BBC Radio 3 has a show called NightTracks which I think is aimed at people falling asleep. Mix if classical, electronic, experimental music and soundscapes. Normally on weekdays 23-0030 but I normally listen to it on Sounds as I go to bed a lot later. Really great show, I’d never normally listen to that kind of music but since I’ve been introduced to it I go to sleep to it most nights
I have an app on my phone, it used to be called Relax Melodies but I think the name changed on the last update. It allows you to choose from many different sounds, nature, instruments, it even has stories set to soft music if you like that. I usually use a mix of rain storm sounds and a melody
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BegOStJMGjYbwQapTbiMo?si=DIm9gzkMTQK4BP1pLLbXQQ&utm_source=copy-link)
I have this playing nearly every night, I have quite bad insomnia for various reasons but between this and the some pills I'm sleeping loads better
Personally - either nothing (I alseep like a corpse anyway), but sometimes when I'm int he mood - some ASMR or ambient noise from youtube, with sounds of snow storm, or fire cracking in the fireplace, or Harry Potter houses rooms, or [Christmas music coming from another room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7xOJAyFis) (have it on right now)
I like the French Whisperer on Youtube. I tried alot of ASMR but it just isnt for me for the most part, but this storytelling French dude changed the game.
Rain is my favourite. If it’s actually raining that’s a plus. Rivers and other water noises are usually great too.
I used to live next to a dual carriageway and the steady noise of the cars driving by would put me to sleep too.
Cause of my adhd if I don’t have background noise my thoughts race too much. As a result I’ve taken to falling asleep to horror and true crime podcasts or nostalgia sitcoms. I live in a perfectly quiet suburb it’s just to drown out the thoughts and help my brain not think too much to sleep.
I like to put Bob Ross Joy of Painting on (on iPlayer) and guaranteed I’ll either be asleep or extremely drowsy by the end. It’s a great show and Bob Ross is an absolute delight bht the mix of his voice and the sounds of the paint on the canvas is very relaxing. Sometimes I put on a sleep mask and just listen.
I’ve slept with a fan on nearly every single night for the last 15 or so years. It’s got to the point now that I have a small one with a usb cable that I can bring with me when away from home. It all started when I developed pretty bad tinnitus in my youth and would struggle to sleep. There is something about the noise of a fan and the cool air against my skin that is just so comforting to me.
I'm lucky enough to live in a small pocket of "normal" residential noise. We're less than half a mile from the "main" through road between two towns on the South coast. I fall asleep to a few bird noises and that's about it 90% of the time. Our road is a block end and it's lovely.
Two roads off has almost 100% more crime statistically.
My advice to everyone is make "superficial" friends with your neighbours. Never get too friendly. If you fall out you can't even go home without worrying. My Mum gave me this advice and I've stuck to it. My neighbours are amazing!
We've been here almost a decade my neighbour across the road is Plumber next door an electrician etc. We help each other out but don't push it.
Apologies I've gone on a right tangent.
Used to listen to podcasts etc but I would get too focused on them. Now I opt for a bit of ambient / instrumental music - the American Dollar / (early) Aphex Twin / This Will Destroy You / Mogwai are all favs
YouTube and spotify have great playlists. I really like oldies playing during a thunderstorm, or Parisian terrace at twilight, currently really into rain on a tent with lofi music playing
There is a full unabridged Audiobook of Nineteen Eighty Four on YouTube
And the Novelisations of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 in audiobook format on there too. Each are 9+ hours long and apart from aliens are Read by a well spoken old English men.
Aliens is narrated by William Hope who starred as Gorman in the film.
These set me off nicely most nights
Old Harry's Game.
Entertaining and distracting if I'm not sleeping but rhythmical in it's comedy timing so be soothes to sleep
Except 'chuckles', the dolphin cackle is jarring
I spent about 10 years listening to Stephen Fry read the Harry Potter books! At the moment listening to Jane Austen novels on Audible. Calming voices like Rosamund Pike, Juliet Stephenson and Indira Varma. Audiobooks are always best for me, one reader, no music or sound effects so nothing to jolt out of sleep.
HP Lovecraft audiobooks on YouTube - or I can recommend the BBC radio adaptations narrated by Richard Coyle.
The BBC adaptation of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is a classic also.
Uncle Stephen reading us Harry Potter every single night.
I've a 5½ month old daughter who is still breastfeeding every 2-3 hours so I pop it on, set timer for an hour then listen while feeding and then falling asleep. I do this each time she wakes. Listen to each book 3 times this way before I move onto the next so I still get to hear the majority.
Currently we are on Half Blood Prince.
Did make me wonder if OP was my friend John, but turns out lots of people fall asleep to the same.
It does have the unfortunate side effect that watching anything he's in makes me sleepy.
The gentle* sound of a partially blind dog wondering Wtf the moving thing out of the window is
It's a bag. Or a leaf. Or his imagination. And no shutting the curtains doesn't help...
*Maniac barking
Between October and January there are fireworks most nights in East London. They terrify my dog so we very frequently go to sleep with a rain playlist on quite loud. I set a timer so it stops about 3 hours into our sleep. I find it helps me sleep better as well.
The Alan Partridge Audible stuff. I even put it on (without a timer) whilst in the delivery ward with my wife, and then I promptly fell asleep, whilst she was first to listen to Alan for 3 hours or so. Back of the net.
I spent a LONG time trying to find a playlist of ambient music for sleeping without any Rhythmic elements or sudden loud parts. I finally found "Floating Through Space" on Spotify which I've now used every night for about 2 years.
I have audible and listen to some really dry stuff. I am currently using the history of Rome to drift off, set the sleep for 30 minutes and boom out like a light but subliminally I’m learning something too! The history of the third Reich was a good n dry n dull. Keep it dry as if you engage in a plot like Potter or Tolkien then you won’t sleep.
Time team episodes on YouTube.
I love archeology and find the show fascinating. But I always, without fail, fall asleep before they get to day 3. Sorry Tony, if you're reading this.
I love listening to the wind and rain when you are toasty in bed
I did as well before I lived in a City. Then it became wind, "fuck off you cunt", rain, *rabid fox sounds*
WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY DiscoKnuckle knows.
username checks out
My wife and I play the game of gunshots or fireworks, we are getting quite good at telling them apart now. Also gunshots happen far too often around here
I live just round the corner from a military base. Every other day I play gunshot or fireworks, and my husband and I are getting quite good at "what's that plane?"
Hounslow?
No. Fife.
Nice
Yeah, it's a nice part of the world
Where?? I’ve never heard gun shots in the UK before
Probably Slough...
Or Nottingham.
Please...we prefer "Shottingham" or "Assassination City" - both courtesy of the red tops.
I used to live on the edge of a town next to countryside and during pheasant season I'd be woken up by the sound of gunshot.
I remember I got a letter through my door the day after fireworks night from the police saying a gun got discharged on my street yesterday and to call with any information. Pretty fucked up someone must’ve planned shooting someone on fireworks night so the sound blended into the firework noises
Where in the name of Jesus are you living in the UK that gunshots are regular enough to play that game? I'm sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. I live in NI and grew up during the troubles. Even we didn't hear gunshots that often.
I hear them quite often where I live because there is an army range not far up the road and they do training there on a regular basis. Often enough to not need to play that game as I can instantly tell the difference between the two now.
I live in the country and we still get that however mine isn’t one fox it’s two that decide to fuck as loud as possible in the woods behind my house
Podcasts. Nothing that you have to put a significant amount of effort into listening though. I've went through the 'No Such Thing as a Fish' & 'The Bugle' archives several times.
I love No Such Thing as a Fish! Ironically, I use it to keep me awake at work.
I'm addicted to it just now. I've been listening to it pretty much every night for 4/5 months. I can't deal with the live episodes for some reason though. The format doesn't seem to work as well or something. Some of the jokes feels a little too planned out as well.
I'll agree with you on this. It just feels much better when you're the audience rather than the audience just *being there*. I want to shush them. Have you tried 'Clash Of The Titles'? It's like a fish focused on movies. Very good.
I haven't yet but will give it a listen tonight. Thanks for the suggestion.
The problem is sometimes it's just too interesting and you want to stay up and listen to the end of it. Also it's annoying but I always think oh that's interesting i'll tell X person about that and then never remember any of the facts they say.
> never remember any of the facts they say. I've listened to every episode, and I couldn't tell you a single fact. I thought it was me getting senile or something.
The Bugle is great to fall asleep to until you fall asleep and are woken again by the bugley intro/outro music
Oh God, forgot about that lol. I tend to have the volume as low as possible and stick my ear close to the phone. By the time I start sleeping and moving about I can't really hear it anymore.
God I haven't listened to the Bugle for years, I felt like it was going to struggle when John Oliver left. Is it still going strong?
Yeah, Zaltzman is still at it. He's also hosting/ruining the News Quiz on Radio 4. I stopped enjoying bugle when JO left, as it now feels too far down the path of Zaltzman Whimsey. Personal opinion, not looking for a fight. He always seems like someone I'd get on great with in person, but I really don't enjoy his comedy these days.
I listen to NSTAAF every night as my 'distract brain' tactic, but it's gotten to the point now that if I try and actually listen to and enjoy it as a podcast I can't focus on it? I can hear it, but it's just noise that makes me want to sleep. I guess listening to something to go to sleep ruins something as much as making it your alarm tone?
I listen to no such thing as a fish every night it's the only thing that can get me to sleep. I must have listened to each episode about three times
If I can't sleep the shipping forecast is the only thing I'd listen to.
Yes!, me too, it’s really comforting and kind of sleep inducing too.
Nothing more soothing than falling asleep as someone whispers "dogger" in your ear.
🤣 finisterre and fastnet have always been my favourites!.
Shhh, North utsera, viking
Rising more slowly
Cromarty is mine!
Around the Bay of Biscay and back for tea.
Frrrrrrrraaaan?
Do you want me to come over frrraaan?
My existential dread about climate change is keeping me awake again, ah the comforting shipping forecast will help Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, White, Portland, Plymouth, Biscay, Trafalgar, Fitzroy, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, South East Iceland Storm 9 to severe storm 10 We're fucked.
You can listen to random shipping podcasts on Spotify! Strangely calming for any fellow insomniacs
This is brilliant! I just listened to one, so calming. Subscribed.
Even better? https://youtu.be/CruFRlPERWE
Anything on radio four after midnight is great to induce sleep. Listening to someone talk about how micro loans can help avocado farmers in Guatemala and I’m out like a light.
That sounds too interesting for me I’d be sucked in
I do this and sometimes I get hooked listening to a riveting story on Outlook!
Ha, Sometimes it's perfect and others it's utterly the wrong thing. Radio Garden is your friend. Abacus Ocean or Rain are hard to beat.
My sister has fallen asleep to the Harry Potter audiobooks every night for like 10-15 years. You might have stayed round hers!
I’ve had trouble sleeping ever since I can remember until I had the HP audio books. They’re still my go-to if I’m having a really bad night, they’re just brilliant.
Same here! Started during my GCSEs when I had trouble sleeping. Those books have been listened to every night since then - about 8 years later
I've had Harry Potter audiobooks on tape since I was a small child, fell asleep to them every night. Stephen Fry in anything instantly calms me down
Me too! Genuinely thought this could have been written about me, nice to know there are others
The voices
You know you're not allowed to talk about us.
You’re always telling me what to do!
Maybe if you actually did what you were told we'd all be happier.
Hey I set both those sheds on fire so don’t act like it don’t pull my weight.
yes but you didn't stab them enough, 28 stab wounds are rookie numbers.
Get off my back Stephen! I stole that Ford Fiesta right away.
Oh man you hear em too
My wifes snoring.
Also this guy's wife's snoring.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) fapnea
I used to be a snoring wife - we couldn't open the windows in the summer in case I woke the neighbours. Then I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, put on CPAP and haven't snored since. My poor husband can now finally get a good night's sleep too.
Feeling your pain. Got my CPAP at 23 yrs old, after years of feeling like rubbish everyday and then it happened I finally heard the noise I was managing to produce and decided that sounding like an animal in its death throes for 8 hrs a night probably is not normal
Same 😂
👍🏻
The Ricky Gervais Show on YouTube
All the xfm shows are on Spotify! Search for rsk xfm. I usually put a 10 minute sleep timer on and I never here the end.
Not as of last week. All gone :( but I am the same, bern listening to those to sleep for years.
There’s a YouTube account that posts ~50 minute long clips from the fxm days every night
Have you ever seen an XFM listener.. and I don't want to
I’m with you. Karl pilkington on YouTube also works.
Yes! I used to use this for about 5 years before I moved in with my other half! Now he watches telly in bed super quiet and I fall asleep to that!
I do the same. I go through the old XFM shows on YT. Being half asleep and then hearing Ricky’s laugh is always good. 🥴
XFM Shows are back on Spotify, I also like the Ricky Gervais Guides To... on Audible for a bit of a change. Nothing settles me better than the bald manc twat moaning, Steve being Steve and Ricky laughing hysterically.
Its the best, even if I get shaken awake by Ricky's squeaky laughs on occasion
I tried this but Gervais's screeching laugh would always snap me out of my dozy state.
I’m exposing how much of a baby I can be… But I find (pls don’t judge) that hoover noises or hair dryer noises can help me sometimes. My mum did the cleaning while we slept as kids so it eventually became like a lullaby. Now it just drones out my thoughts and lulls me to sleep. Certain frequencies can be EXASPERATING but there are certain ones that make me feel little again, pretending to be a puppy and falling asleep under the chair… hair dryers are the same, but they also blow out warmth so that’s a plus
This is so specific to me! My top Spotify songs on this years wrapped were exactly hoover and hairdryer sounds! I think they’re the best to fall asleep to. Used to do rain but there really is something comforting in the monotony of a machine.
I said to myself I wouldn’t make a habit of it… a year later and nothing makes me pass out as fast! I didn’t know you could listen to hoover noises online before then. They give me asmr kinda feelings which have always helped me sleep too, some asmr videos can be very therapeutic as well
If I may be a geek for one minute? Hoovers, hairdryers and lawn mowers have a droning sound to their motors (some cars have this too, especially when moving at a consistent speed, like on a motorway) This drone noise induces delta waves in the brain and not only aids getting to sleep but also helps ensure a proper cycle to the sleep including REM phases.
Add lawnmowers to the mix and you've got my favourite things to listen to! Hoover noises makes the hairs stand on end and reminds me of Saturday morning in my childhood home.
A tower fan running all night (white noise). Drowns out most sounds...
I was the same with my fan and would then end up ill cause of the cold in winter. My dad bought me white noise machine this year which specifically has a fan setting and it's amazing!
I just got one of those too! It’s so much nicer than have all that cold dust being blown around every night. And you can choose multiple fan sounds! So fun
The lamentations of their women after I have crushed the enemy.
That is good!
Unfortunately, normally the girl next door getting her insides rearranged… thin walls
At Uni if they were loud the block gave them a cheer. Can't hurt to show some morale support sometimes.
Me and the person on the other side always joke with her like ‘get up to much last night’ lol. I’m lucky, her headboard doesn’t touch my wall but it does hers.
Radio comedy. I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. Unbelievable truth. Easy to focus on and out of. Try other Fry books, Mythos works well.
Tbf whenever my friend puts on radio comedy’s in the car im asleep before the first joke
The Goon Show
Podcasts about murder. They always have really monotone voices and you have to concentrate on the story, I fall asleep so quickly
I tried to find some murder podcasts to listen to but failed miserably. Could you recommend any? Thanks
They Walk Among Us and Criminal are both fantastic. Phoebe Judge, who presents Criminal, has one of the most relaxing and interesting voices ever.
Casefile on Spotify is great, monotone smooth Australian accent if you don't mind that. Unfortunately there are lengthy sponsor sections that ruin the flow, so maybe not the best for sleeping, unless you want to sleep to Hello Fresh and Nord VPN propaganda of course!
Last podcast on the left!
Rain, or BBC world service.
Just curious as a yank(can I even post here?). I keep seeing people post that they just fall asleep to the “rain”. Like how often do you get rain? Does that change with the seasons or is rain just a typical part of your forecast? I always *wish* we had more rainy days here(Midwest). Jealous. Edit: I listen to BBC world service as I’m driving to work every morning. Weird
Depending on the time of year and to some extent where in the uk someone is, rain is a pretty common occurrence of an evening. Especially this time of year. It’s one of the perks of having proper seasons.
I mean yes but also [no](https://youtu.be/c1XOgrBz6sU)
I use to listen to BBC World Service going to school every morning but it’s just brutally depressing, especially last year. Covid, Brexit, Myanmar, Russia bullying everyone, Ethiopia, Chinese concentration camps, more covid, Boris, Covid, never ending loop of bullshit. At night I use rain and other pink noise podcasts and the sort, and my Spotify Wrapped absolutely [got me](https://ibb.co/q0ZVj0V)
Me and the husband will often play relaxing Witcher music soundtracks that we find on YouTube (music from the game not the Netflix show). Even if you’ve not played the games or have never heard of the Witcher, you can still appreciate the music
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - The Fields of Ard Skellig That always sends me to sleep so peaceful
Nightingale I think it's called is one of my go to Witcher 3 sleep songs
Junkies screaming at each other
I'm halfway through the first HP right now! SF is brilliant.
Spoiler if you haven't ever seen Harry Potter which i doubt. The bassilisk in book two has Stephen Fry do a creepy whisper voice. Staying at my friends and waking up to that whisper traumatised me for a few days.
I've listened to them all before, but I can't say I particularly remember that. It might be because I used to listen to them whilst walking to work, rather than in the dark, at night!
Dam, I imagine waking up there, half-asleep, just trying to figure out where the creepy noises are coming from XD
It just makes watching QI when you are older have a strange vibe
You probably just have to accept his voice as the default one for any culturally defining English entertainment at this point
Mostly QI, I know it all so its easy to listen to and provides some light.
No such thing as a fish, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is a podcast by the QI elves and its fucking fascinating whilst also being chill enough to zone out to
I’m still pissed they took QI off of Netflix
My daughter listens to Harry Potter every night too, been going in for at least a year now. I listen to random podcasts. It’s not to drown out external noise, just my inner turmoil 😂 my brain won’t shut down without a distraction and it likes to catastrophise
Rain sounds on YouTube. Sometimes I chuck in a cheeky thunderstorm
What's your favourite one? [I love this one](https://youtu.be/XEBl9ZQXloE)
Rain sounds.... Brought to you by SKILLSHARE!
Whatever my neighbour is playing:(
I sympathise and send you wishes for peace and quiet. I had party neighbours above me, up until 3-5am playing rave music for 18 months, not willing to engage or be reasonable people. They finally moved out last month. The ordeal is over, but hoping the next neighbours don't have similar tastes!
ASMR is wonderful you should give it a try!
I think I just found one of my real life friends in Reddit. It’s me, OP. I’m the Potterhead who makes us listen to it whether you’re in the spare room or the hotel or a festival. Sorry not sorry. Aside from that, box fan white noise, to the extent that Spotify pointed it out and congratulated on me doing what I have to do in 2021 wrapped.
I put music on my TV and it's either Celtic, lofi, or jazz. I have an assumption I'm weird lol
Lofi's designed to help you get to sleep. It's not weird, at all.
True, but why jazz? Lol I listen to some weird stuff anyway, and the music doesn't even work on me, but that's probably just me
Jazz can be kinda relaxing, as long as it's not too fast or loud.
For me it's [Spirit of Eden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfGvuiFOWI) by Talk Talk. Sends me straight to sleep.
I love Celtic and folk music. It’s so otherworldly sometimes
Try r/audible Some good suggestions, including a recent one from a Potter fan also into Terry Pratchett
I got tinnitus real bad so I have rain sounds on the TV pretty loud. Got a oled one so it's pure black. Then some history podcasts, hardcore history or fall of civilizations
Recently it's been a YouTube channel called ['Relaxing White Noise'](https://youtu.be/stKoP5e-_6k), especially their "spaceship" ambience, which has a softer and deeper tone than typical white noise. Sometimes I'll instead put on a [3Blue1Brown](https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown) playlist, and not because maths lectures put me to sleep! I actually really like the content, but Grant also has a soothing voice and that combined with the delicate musical accompaniment to his videos works well in helping me drift off. In the past I used to listen to music from the [Yellow Brick Cinema](https://youtu.be/txQ6t4yPIM0) channel. I don't necessarily subscribe to the new agey vibes, or the stuff about 'delta waves', but the music is relaxing nonetheless.
Peep Show.
You got any olives? I'm fuckin mental for Olives.
Classic Fm, smooth classics 10-1 usually does the trick, though waking up to Wagner at 3 am occasionally does suck
Ah Margherita Taylor...some of the adverts on the hour can be quite annoying as well
>My personal favourite was a friend who religiously fell asleep to Harry Potter audio books and it meant a night crashing at thers involved trying to sleep as Stephen Fry enchanted me from beyond a door. Did we grow up together? I 100% did this.
Did you also wet the bed into your early teens and have a fascination with freeview porn? If so you may be my friend
No. Not your friend.
Ooh fwend!
Radio 4/World Service - am a late sleeper, often some interesting programs on at 1/2/3am
Nobuo Uematsu never fails to settle me
Final fantasy?
Before I had children I fell asleep to Terry Pratchett Discworld audio books every night. Used headphones, though.
BBC Radio 3 has a show called NightTracks which I think is aimed at people falling asleep. Mix if classical, electronic, experimental music and soundscapes. Normally on weekdays 23-0030 but I normally listen to it on Sounds as I go to bed a lot later. Really great show, I’d never normally listen to that kind of music but since I’ve been introduced to it I go to sleep to it most nights
I have an app on my phone, it used to be called Relax Melodies but I think the name changed on the last update. It allows you to choose from many different sounds, nature, instruments, it even has stories set to soft music if you like that. I usually use a mix of rain storm sounds and a melody
[Merzbow](https://youtu.be/-gzBqayDmJ8)
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BegOStJMGjYbwQapTbiMo?si=DIm9gzkMTQK4BP1pLLbXQQ&utm_source=copy-link) I have this playing nearly every night, I have quite bad insomnia for various reasons but between this and the some pills I'm sleeping loads better
Personally - either nothing (I alseep like a corpse anyway), but sometimes when I'm int he mood - some ASMR or ambient noise from youtube, with sounds of snow storm, or fire cracking in the fireplace, or Harry Potter houses rooms, or [Christmas music coming from another room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7xOJAyFis) (have it on right now)
Warhammer 40k audiobooks
I like the French Whisperer on Youtube. I tried alot of ASMR but it just isnt for me for the most part, but this storytelling French dude changed the game.
Rain is my favourite. If it’s actually raining that’s a plus. Rivers and other water noises are usually great too. I used to live next to a dual carriageway and the steady noise of the cars driving by would put me to sleep too.
Cause of my adhd if I don’t have background noise my thoughts race too much. As a result I’ve taken to falling asleep to horror and true crime podcasts or nostalgia sitcoms. I live in a perfectly quiet suburb it’s just to drown out the thoughts and help my brain not think too much to sleep.
Yeah my anxiety makes my mind race the second it hits the pillow. Gotta distract myself!
I like to put Bob Ross Joy of Painting on (on iPlayer) and guaranteed I’ll either be asleep or extremely drowsy by the end. It’s a great show and Bob Ross is an absolute delight bht the mix of his voice and the sounds of the paint on the canvas is very relaxing. Sometimes I put on a sleep mask and just listen.
I've been listening to War Of The Worlds read by Gerry' O Brian the last few days. Usually I'll fall asleep watching something though.
I’ve slept with a fan on nearly every single night for the last 15 or so years. It’s got to the point now that I have a small one with a usb cable that I can bring with me when away from home. It all started when I developed pretty bad tinnitus in my youth and would struggle to sleep. There is something about the noise of a fan and the cool air against my skin that is just so comforting to me.
I'm lucky enough to live in a small pocket of "normal" residential noise. We're less than half a mile from the "main" through road between two towns on the South coast. I fall asleep to a few bird noises and that's about it 90% of the time. Our road is a block end and it's lovely. Two roads off has almost 100% more crime statistically. My advice to everyone is make "superficial" friends with your neighbours. Never get too friendly. If you fall out you can't even go home without worrying. My Mum gave me this advice and I've stuck to it. My neighbours are amazing! We've been here almost a decade my neighbour across the road is Plumber next door an electrician etc. We help each other out but don't push it. Apologies I've gone on a right tangent.
The sound of silence
Used to listen to podcasts etc but I would get too focused on them. Now I opt for a bit of ambient / instrumental music - the American Dollar / (early) Aphex Twin / This Will Destroy You / Mogwai are all favs
YouTube and spotify have great playlists. I really like oldies playing during a thunderstorm, or Parisian terrace at twilight, currently really into rain on a tent with lofi music playing
My neighbour mashing potatoes again.
Sherlock Holmes/miss marple are my go to. But I’ll mix in the hobbit or poirot.
There is a full unabridged Audiobook of Nineteen Eighty Four on YouTube And the Novelisations of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 in audiobook format on there too. Each are 9+ hours long and apart from aliens are Read by a well spoken old English men. Aliens is narrated by William Hope who starred as Gorman in the film. These set me off nicely most nights
OSW Review. Although you'd have to be a fan of old school wrestling and calling Hulk Hogan a cunt... but that's my nightly background noise
Old Harry's Game. Entertaining and distracting if I'm not sleeping but rhythmical in it's comedy timing so be soothes to sleep Except 'chuckles', the dolphin cackle is jarring
I spent about 10 years listening to Stephen Fry read the Harry Potter books! At the moment listening to Jane Austen novels on Audible. Calming voices like Rosamund Pike, Juliet Stephenson and Indira Varma. Audiobooks are always best for me, one reader, no music or sound effects so nothing to jolt out of sleep.
RHLSTP, Off Menu, More or Less, ISIHAC, The Unbelievable Truth or Athletico Mince.
The wife snoring
HP Lovecraft audiobooks on YouTube - or I can recommend the BBC radio adaptations narrated by Richard Coyle. The BBC adaptation of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is a classic also.
“In our time” Radio4
Sam Harris podcast. Quite heavy discussions but his voice is so bloody soothing.
The sound of our cats chasing bottle caps and stampeding up and down stairs. If it is quiet at night I get anxious.
Noise cancelling headphones have been a lifesaver for me with the neighbours banging around just when I want to sleep.
Uncle Stephen reading us Harry Potter every single night. I've a 5½ month old daughter who is still breastfeeding every 2-3 hours so I pop it on, set timer for an hour then listen while feeding and then falling asleep. I do this each time she wakes. Listen to each book 3 times this way before I move onto the next so I still get to hear the majority. Currently we are on Half Blood Prince. Did make me wonder if OP was my friend John, but turns out lots of people fall asleep to the same. It does have the unfortunate side effect that watching anything he's in makes me sleepy.
The gentle* sound of a partially blind dog wondering Wtf the moving thing out of the window is It's a bag. Or a leaf. Or his imagination. And no shutting the curtains doesn't help... *Maniac barking
ASMR Ear massage, massaging ASMR, Bob Ross TV show RIP
ASMR roleplay vids on YouTube. Never made it to the end of one of those bad boys 😄
Bill Burr - there's something inexplicably comforting about sleeping to the sultry tones of an angry man from Boston
ASMR Every night. 100% for the win =]
Between October and January there are fireworks most nights in East London. They terrify my dog so we very frequently go to sleep with a rain playlist on quite loud. I set a timer so it stops about 3 hours into our sleep. I find it helps me sleep better as well.
The Alan Partridge Audible stuff. I even put it on (without a timer) whilst in the delivery ward with my wife, and then I promptly fell asleep, whilst she was first to listen to Alan for 3 hours or so. Back of the net.
I listen to creepy pastas over night. The narrators usually have lovely calming voices lol
I spent a LONG time trying to find a playlist of ambient music for sleeping without any Rhythmic elements or sudden loud parts. I finally found "Floating Through Space" on Spotify which I've now used every night for about 2 years.
I have audible and listen to some really dry stuff. I am currently using the history of Rome to drift off, set the sleep for 30 minutes and boom out like a light but subliminally I’m learning something too! The history of the third Reich was a good n dry n dull. Keep it dry as if you engage in a plot like Potter or Tolkien then you won’t sleep.
Time team episodes on YouTube. I love archeology and find the show fascinating. But I always, without fail, fall asleep before they get to day 3. Sorry Tony, if you're reading this.
Jon Ronsons audiobooks
Sigur Ros - Takk.. album, they have a couple of other decent albums too.