As a kid in Australia a fan.
As an adult, a fan plus tinnitusI heard there was a website called only fans, you might be eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenterested
Always down for a good blow
Assuming there are no power issues, sleeping with fans is much cooler than not sleeping with fans.
Vin Scully(Dodgers), Dick Engberg(Angels, Rams), Chick Hearn (Lakers) and Jiggs McDonald(Kings) on my 9 volt transistor radio well hidden under the covers. So well hidden that it ended up switched off and in the drawer by morning.
Breeze, rustle of leaves, sounds from birds and insects. Fan if no breeze.
I was nearly always grounded from all electronics from 6-13 (autdhd, and authoritarian parents, bad mix), and had a bedroom with no exterior windows. My window went to a modified 3-season porch thing, in 2 of the 3 places (the third was an apartment for like 6mths, I barely remember it), and that’s where my mom slept, so… really quiet dead silence, mostly, else I was in trouble. Again. Or whatever garbage my mom had on tv, muffled through the wall.
Now I have tinnitus, so silence is really loud. I have aquariums tho and the hum and bubble of the air pump helps a lot (plus really loud circulation fans).
As a kid varius radio play cassettes like Benjamin Blümchen, Bibi Blocksberg, later the Star Wars soundtrack.
Nowadays various science shows on YouTube. Mainly astrophysics stuff. My favourites are Dr Becky, Harald Lesh and PBS Space Time.
Not astrophysics exactly, but you should check out Astrum. He even has Astrum Sleep content.
Hilary Duff CDs on loop. I felt like every song had something to relate too. Anytime I try to play them now and my friends tell be to turn it off.
Mostly nostalgia for me now. Remembering a time I had dreams.
If you’re looking for bed time stories for adults (non-sexual haha) then I highly recommend the podcast “nothing much happens” by Kathryn Nicolai. She has an amazingly soothing voice perfect for bedtime and she writes her own stories! I normally knock out in less than 10 mins when I pop her on my podcasts now.
Is there a way I can haz specific episodes of whatever like in a portable file I can retain? I wanna do freaky audio stuff to it lol
As a kid, it was the local oldies station for a while, then swapped to this long-form recording of ocean surf my parents had on CD.
These days a fan is fine, though I’ll put on rain or surf white noise, or ambient music, with headphones if I’m travelling somewhere & it’s noisy.
Underwater is really nice too, particularly bubbly
I don’t fall asleep listening to anything but my fan, but reading knocks me the fuck out most nights. Sometimes I can’t make it through a paragraph before catching myself with my eyes completely closed.
The Star Wars audio cassette. No idea what it would do for me today, but I miss that tape.
Now I just listen to rain or ocean waves on Alexa.
You should try to find it, is it on Youtube if you search it?
Like
Star Wars [name of episode] original sountrack
Lets make this happen for ya 🤠
It’s not the soundtrack. It’s like, the radio play or something. I can still hear the narration.
Vader grips the rebels throat
“We intercepted no transmissions. This is a consular ship. We’re on a… diplomatic mission.”
Which episode or work?
Episode IV? Do you know anyone who voice acted in it?
They produced episodes IV-VI. Mark Hammill and Anthony Daniel’s were among the film cast who reprised their roles.
It’s really good.
I had Episode 4 and maybe 6?
Who voice-acted do you know?
Other than the narrator it was all original audio from the movies I think. No idea who the narrator was.
It’s incomplete, but it’s here: https://youtu.be/72rovnIg85k?si=NZxuz7VqM4GjKaZp
I think it’s this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Star_Wars
Almost certainly this:
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If there is any discernible pattern to noise it keeps me awake (talking, music FUCKING STUPID MOTHER-FUCKING NIGHT BIRD). I use a noise machine with white noise or fan sounds running. Creates a lovely sound blanket from that mother-fucking night bird.
I shared a bedroom with my twin, so no audio. I prefer the sound of the AC on over off though, lovely background sound of nothingness.
Almost like white noise, right?
I had different audio cassette of Airwolf where they told the story from the episodes in audio form and in German. I would listen to them when going to sleep.
Today I fall asleep seconds after I hit the mattress because I’m so exhausted every day, no time to listen to anything :D
Silence, it was usually my pose rather than the background noise that affected sleep. When I sleep, I often look like I was carried out of the chamber of secrets.
I never played sleepy music until I was a teen, and every night I played Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great, mellow tunes, and I learned ALL the lyrics subliminally!
Ok, I did listen to it awake, so maybe it wasn’t completely subliminal, but it’s been a while and I bet I could still sing 80% of the album from memory.
Nowadays, it’s just the fan or AC running.
EDIT: I typed the wrong Cake album originally.
That’s how I am with the bat out of hell album… Get off my lawn.
