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i liked having it during smoke season before the claustrophobia kicked in i just need to practise wearing it during the day methinks.

I’m glad I am not the only one to enjoy that perk.

I used to listen to Amazon’s “relaxing music for dogs” playlist until they wrecked it. Now I listen to Lennie’s snores.

pca.st/podcast/0d27... Beware: if you are a history major don’t use this podcast. Perfect training if you want to fall asleep in lectures and fail.

I listen to cozy fantasy books that I’ve read before.

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Also her family's band is very good.

I use an app that lets me mix multiple nature sounds. I mix ocean surf, babbling brook and rainstorm. The loops are long and not obvious. It's better than white noise for me and I can finally fall asleep & sleep through the night most of the time. The app does tons more but this is my main use case.

Sleep stories on the Slumber or Calm app.

Oxford University’s theoretical physics podcast. Don’t understand most if any of it, but trying to makes me sleepy.

Pop Culture Happy Hour. I am usually asleep halfway through but it gives my brain something to focus on and that helps. It is entertaining and keeps me from making to do lists.

The Internationale on a loop. But like a chill version.

Golden Girls!

She’s such a good writer. Boring-story podcasts usually annoy me because often the story is deliberately tedious, but if it doesn’t work and I end up listening to the whole thing, it’s just torture. Nothing Much Happens is at least worth listening to.

@somafm.com ‘s Drone Zone

Rain sounds most nights. Sleepcasts from my meditation app when my brain won't shut the fuck up.

Getting sleepy just looking at this

I stumbled upon an audiobook of some Medieval epic poems in the original Middle English. If I pay real close attention I can mostly follow it, but without that effort it becomes soothing gibberish, a lovely metrical white noise in a calming British accent.

I have a large rotation of documentaries. Basically anything a substitute teacher would have played on the roll in tv cart.

I'm in Eastern Time Zone, so BBC World News Hour.

*le sigh* my guilty pleasure that runs all night open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

Solfeggio tones. I don’t believe the woo woo that claims they do some magical healing or whatever but it is a soothing sound. Also when my mind is keeping me too busy I love sleep stories (stories design for you to fall asleep to).

instrumental music mostly my go to is leonard bernstein with the london philharmonic running through sir edward elgar's enigma variations adagio with variation 9: nimrod being a treasured piece of music i will have in my life forever thx for the prompt!

This: www.maxrichter-sleep.com/en

Yes! I came here to say just this. Jane Austen, Agatha Christie. And my favorite, Georgette Heyer more history-heavy novels. Or her mysteries. I often listen to old favorites that I have read many times so I know what is going to happen.

Boring Books for Bedtime is amazing. Ad-free, and her voice is so consistently soothing. www.boringbookspod.com

Silence. I need silence as much as possible and almost blackout dark.

Thunderstorm from a white noise machine

Lights Out Library! I love her voice.

Bill Evans or Miles Davis

Periodic Videos on YouTube when I'm alone Jenny Nicholson's Star Wars Hotel fiasco when I'm sleeping with my boyfriend Always: whatever shenanigans are happening outside

@ziibiing.com Crickets, usually. Rain is best, when we can get it.

If I’m offline I listen to a collection of Brian Eno’s ambient albums. If I’ve got internet, I listen to Pacific Notions on the KEXP app archive. Very soothing. Anything with lyrics and melodies will keep me awake.

An air purifier

The ocean.

A cartoon I really like. Recently it’s been Bob’s Burgers or The Great North. Prior entrants include Futurama, The Simpsons, and Home Movies

Old episodes of "I ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH IT" on Pluto TV. The audio mix is very consistent, and the narrator is Bill Ratner, whose timbre is amazing.

600+ episodes to work witn

My tinnitus

Futurama now, but Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Hobbit "books on tape" since I was a kid. Narrated by Roald Dahl and Nicol Williamson, respectively.

Three things: Tinnitus buzzing loudly, the constant ramblings of an overactive mind, and an audiobook on my iPod shuffle.

Big Clive or Drachinifel.

Sleep Baseball is my favorite. There’s always a storyline that unfolds around the 7th inning, but damned if I’ve ever heard more than one or two.

Lefty podcasts with monotone hosts

I had sleep issues few years ago and found a french ASMRist on youtube, speechless videos of him roleplaying, just the sounds of opening, cleaning, painting, fixing, rearranging stuff etc. One of his gigs was an eye exam that would knock me righ out, I still get sleepy when I have my eyes checked.

Same, on Oregon Public Radio

Box fan &partner snores when he’s here; Joe Gardener podcast when he’s away. guess I’m hoping I’ll get to be a better gardener thru my subconscious. Basically a soothing podcast where nothing goes wrong. But the 2 hours before I actually fall asleep I alternate seasons of Drag Race &the Repair Shop

The audio book recording of "Braiding Sweetgrass" is my favorite. The chapter "burning cascade head" is my go to. Robin Wall Kimmerer is the author and narrator and she makes me wish I had grown up with a native belief structure instead of Christianity. The world would be so much better

My wife slowly breathing easily, then with a little snore, and my golden retriever moving around a lot until she finds just the right spot on my ankles or legs. Yeah, thanks for asking.

@ziibiing.com Secrets of the Dead on PBS Passport. There's a quality in the narrators voice that I like. Baumgartner Restoration on Patreon, especially the episode "Completely Different, Completely the Same". Very soothing.

My cat purring. Can’t top it.

The streaming channel of the Johnny Carson Show. The dialogue is pretty even. If I wake up for a bit and can't fall back asleep I catch whomever is being interviewed and eventually nod back off. I can't do thunderstorm white noise anymore, one of the dogs is afraid of storms.

Stories about people riding trains on the Calm app.

The Good Place, The Residence or Man on the Inside.

White noise machines and nature sound loops don't work w/ my tinnitus, so I depend on podcasts. This one sounds right up my alley, so thanks.

I do actually face away from it often, so I guess that counts as only listening...?

Sleep With Me. It's a podcast of deliberately boring and/or nonsensical stories. Since I started suffering from tinnitus, I need both a white noise generator (I use the thunderstorm setting) and a voice that takes my focus away from the buzzing whine that I hear all the time.

yes!

Lately, thunderstorm recordings

...at 1.05x speed. Dude is phenomenal but talks slow to my Boston/NYC ears.

Audiobooks: P. G. Wodehouse and the Maigret novels by George Simenon

My top 5 favourite tv shows, on rotation

quiet non-creepy asmr not unlike when i used to fall asleep to qvc as a child

Binaural beats NASA's powernap youtu.be/AVmi67PbGVs?...

soft rain distant thunder black screen

My dog licking herself.

I've recently discovered Sleep Documentaries on Spotify - a lovely soft spoken Irish man tells you about ostensibly boring topics. Caveat that sometimes I get interested and that defeats the purpose.

her voice is so soothing

Lmaooooo I am a 100% committed to the bit kind of girlie so I support no questions asked. Do you have a bit about Michael Seeley? He’s a rising alternate for me.

When you can annoy a Golden Retreiver, you've really got something!

Podcast, audiobook.. it doesn't matter. They all put me to sleep. The only voice that keeps me awake is the one inside my head. 🫠

lately it's been National albums, though I occasionally mix it up with Neko Case

Two very specific podcasts with chill presenters and fascinating (but slightly dry) topics)

@ziibiing.com Audiobooks. Ones I’ve read before so I don’t need to pay attn. very low volume

My wife snoring.

Northwoods Baseball Sleep Radio, available as podcast.

I used to listen to a guitar for sleep mix of classical guitar songs but it messed up my Apple Music algorithm so now I do emdr-inspired bilateral sleep on the calm app

Old episodes of Blank Check with Griffin & David.

My wife snoring?...

Thunderstorm white noise. Keeps the tinnitus away!

Christie Malry audiobooks

Ken Burns docs that aren’t about music or have too much gunfire

Community or 30 Rock

Pop science geology and paleontology audiobooks. They’re perfect: entertaining when you have trouble sleeping and unbelievably soporific when you’re sleepy.

The humble fan

On my own, house or edm. But my husband *hates* that so usually just ocean waves. I keep checking out Jeffrey Thompson Music for Sleep essentials and listening to Sleepy Ocean every night.

The same audio book over and over. I’ve had a few over the years, but right now it’s The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow.

Old detective shows, so when I wake up in the night there’s something familiar going & I don’t get caught up in “wonder what’s gonna happen next”

SOMA FM's Deep Space One channel.

Brian Eno...mostly Discreet Music or Music For Airports.

My dog snoring

Funny podcasts like The Read, What Now with Trevor Noah, Who's With Me with W. Kamau Bell, Furious Thoughts, Vibe Check, etc. with an end-of-episode sleep timer set. I have also managed to fall asleep to audiobooks like Alice Wong's Year of the Tiger, Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard, etc!😴

Sounds of water in nature.

Old movies that I’ve seen dozens of times. Or at least I’ve seen the first few minutes dozens of times before falling asleep.

The soothing white noise produced by my HEPA air purifiers and my CPAP

Ambient Sleeping Pill on TuneIn. Often craps out, but hey - free.

BetterSleep app, some green noise + thunder sounds + rain on tent + loon calls mix 😂

Used to be Knowledge Fight, now more likely I Hate Bill Maher

I got a brown noise machine, it helps with my tinnitus.

air purifier. it has a timer that goes up to 8 hours, so if it’s still going when i wake up i know i can stay in bed a bit longer

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Double J Sydney

1. Rifftrax, MST3K or Giant Bomb 2. Two nearly quiet tower fans 3. Noise machine to simulate the fan noise of above 4. Dog snoozes 5. Cars honking outside my window (less desirable)

I listen to a recording of the north fork of the Salmon River splashing over rocks.

All the demons inside who sleep by day?

Audiobooks, otherwise it’s the sounds of what’s outside the cracked window; sometimes with earplugs because there might be snores next to me.