White noise? A fan? Music? What genre? Videos?
I used to be an ASMR person. Then I'd watch league of legends games. Then I watched Binding of Isaac gameplay, now I watch Northernlion! I go back to ASMR if I'm having a particularly hard night, but I find the banter from games quiets my thoughts in way idle sounds don't
But that's enough about me, what about you?
two things awe me most: the starry sky above me, and the moral law within me" I've had problems sleeping since I was ten years old, which got progressively worse by the time I was 16 when it became common to only be able to sleep after 2am, with many horrible nights when I couldn't sleep until 6am. Even today, I often have to binge crap and doomscroll Youtube just to tire out my mind enough that I can zonk out and sleep.
What used to help me sleep in the past few years was the "Ashes Against the Grain" album by American atmospheric black metal band Agalloch. I would usually play this album in those extremely bad nights when i'm still awake at 5am. I would often fall asleep before the second song begins.
In my early 30s (36 as of writing this) my psychiatrist discovered that I have ADHD, which helped to make sense of a lot of things in my life, including why I have trouble sleeping. Atmospheric black metal can help me sleep because the atmosphere is soothing, yet it is stimulating enough to clear my mind to allow me to sleep.
I find that what really prevents me from sleeping is the typical ADHD symptom of an extremely cloudy and foggy mind. Through experimentation, I recently discovered (in the past year or so) that taking my ADHD medication (Dexamphetamine) on those nights when my mind is too foggy and racing usually helps me sleep within 15 minutes of taking it. It was an odd experiment, because Dexamphetamine is literally the same drug as speed, a stimulant that recreational drug users to make them more awake. Therefore, I was taking a risk of it preventing sleep even more, but the brain fog was intolerable and I knew it would alleviate that so I gave it a go and it worked. I've done this quite a few times on those nights that are hard to manage and it works every time. ADHD is friggin unpredictable and it sucks lol.
Another thing that helps me sleep is praying the Rosary. In the past few years I've been getting in touch with my Catholic origins (was baptised as a baby, family isn't religious at all). I was very attracted to the Rosary for many reasons, and after praying it only a few times I directly experienced and observed how incredibly effective it is for entering a very deep state of meditation. I pray it most nights while I lay in bed, sometimes I'll fall asleep mid-prayer.
I usually listen to recorded thunderstorms. But I switch up with green noise.
youtube or TV, has to be positive stuff
Either just the fan, or some longplay vids of old favorite games. It has to be something I'm super used to hearing, any other noise is too distracting and keeps me up.. plus the game vids give me a cozy feeling like I'm a kid again falling asleep while my sister and her friends play lol
majula ost from dark souls 2 😌 or the fountainhead palace ost from sekiro. souls music just gets me...
usually long youtube videos I already watched.
I used to exclusively watch Call Me Kevin's Sims 4 videos to the point of making a whole playlist of them for myself just to have them on in my sleep.
Within just a year that playlist accumulated 619 views just from me watching it to fall asleep lmao
Right now though it's whatever I see first that I watched before. I love Kevin to death but watching his videos while falling asleep for half a decade conditioned my brain to instantly go into sleepy mode whenever I heard his voice and I'd like that to not happen when watching new videos lmfao.
a fan
is it a bad thing im so addicted to class of 09 i fall asleep to it..? like it's my routinely habit at this point.
Whatever is on my husband's TV and fan definitely fan.
I live above a gas station. So at night, I hear the sound of the commercial refrigeration/AC units that sit on top. Sometimes they get a little grindy and the repair men come around and fix them up. But for the most part, that do a good job of drowning out other noises of the city.
Videos, preferably Minecraft
post breathwork. otherwise, i have a hard time falling asleep, no matter how tired i am
my beloved fan and ac (n i listened to asmr while reading fics b4 i go to sleep)
The goat Emma's Myspace. It's just ASMR but it helps :p
Sometimes I listen to subs or frequencies.
Otherwise, my husband snoring XP
i always have to have a fan running beside me, specifically a small desktop fan. i’ve always had one of those since i was a newborn. fun fact actually my first ever memory was lying next to a small fan while my ma was talking in the background. maybe that was the first attempt at consciousness… anyway i always have to have a constant white(?) noise or else i’ll hear ringing. i think it’s tinnitus or something. but to help me relax i often put on music like the minecraft ost or sabbath from the saya no uta ost.
The cries of all the middle aged sweaty macho-men (nah just my fan lol)
magnesium and melatonin pills lmao
true crime podcast (i listen to it when it comes out which is pretty late so I accidentally fall asleep to it ;-;)
For me, dead absolute silence and darkness. I don’t want anything disturbing me
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