I have had insomnia most of my life and found out that falling asleep listening to something as opposed to white noise really helps the anxiety I feel leading up to and falling asleep. I ended up buying a sleep mask with headphones after my wife was being woken up/kept awake by my phone on my nightstand. I can no longer sleep without this thing, kinda like a kid with their stuffed animal lol.

I am slowly running out of my normal stuff after repeated listening over the last 3 years. Just looking for some suggestions of stuff to fall asleep too.

Normally, I am listening to some competitive Pokémon analyses/videos (JimothyCool, FSG, BKC, anything covering Smogon metas), lore videos covering long running game series (mainly just WoW), comic book analysis (ComicTropes, Owen likes comics, strange brain parts, merry marvelite) and now some “sleep story” based channels (harder to find non-ai junk, but ive been enjoying Good Knight Sleep for their batman stories/call in radio and some mystery stories).

Sorry if that was too much for an example of what ive been listening to, but I would love to find some new things to throw into the rotation.

  • pcn@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Sleeping with celebrities is celebs trying to calmly talk you to sleep. Empire and Revolutions are great podcasts. You can learn and then re-listen the next day if you want to learn more.

    Would I lie to you is amazing, and the stories start to become a safety blanket. The unbelievable truth is great too.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I typically need something familiar to listen to in order to fall asleep. I doubt it would work for you, but for me personally, Alpharad among us vods work great. I envy you, as a single person it’s very difficult early in a relationship to navigate these things

  • fubarx@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Paper books with nightlights, or ebooks on low light level.

    Reduced sensory input works like a charm.

  • Vince@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    There’s a dude on YouTube that repairs old cameras, hour long videos that I try to pay attention to but always puts me in that state where I can feel myself falling asleep, and my eyes won’t stay open.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone/Outer Limits/Black Mirror style weird anthologies.

    Right now I’m finding a lot of great stuff in:

    • The Other Stories (all kinds of stuff, they have a different theme every month or so)
    • The Wrong Station (similar, but less likely to stick to a theme for a while)
    • Gray Matter (lots of modern adaptations of older horror/sci-fi, like Lovecraft)
    • The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings (higher ratio of dumb stuff, but still some gems)
    • The Program (Black Mirror-esque)
    • The Truth (various radio plays. Many aren’t sci-fi, but still weird in some way. Kind of reminds me of the bits of Inside No. 9 I’ve seen.)
    • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I’ll take a look at all of these! I started get into old SciFi radio dramas and never knew where to start with modern ones. Thanks!

      • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        You might also like Auditory Anthology then. Their original stories are sometimes a little hit or miss for me, but one neat thing they do is they rebroadcast old episodes of a 50s radio show called X Minus One between their own stories. Often ones that they used as inspiration for a modern rewrite in an earlier episode.

  • Cattail@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I took a nap while falling asleep to a short video and in my dream I kept trying to turn off the video wondering why I the audio kept looping. Took me a while to realize I’m in dream land

  • darthelmet@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I started doing this when I went away to college. I think it was some mix of not having parents to tell me to go to sleep, feeling like I needed to reclaim some time for myself when the rest of my day was so busy, and maybe being a bit lonely far away from home.

    I almost exclusively watch HS BG. It’s the right level of enough stuff happening that it occupies my mind while I’m conscious but it’s not something I care about missing any of it and they’re generally chill enough to not overexcite me or shock me awake. Plus they usually have on some generic chill music in the background.

    I set a timer to shut off my tablet after an hour and with only a few exceptions I don’t ever stay awake long enough to see it shut off.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Regrettably my tinnitus requires me to have some kind of sound going. I also like having flickering light, so I tend to just put on TV shows I have seen many times. Like Supernatural or Star Trek.

  • EarWorm@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    I use Joov VODs. Just some random Skyrim sounds, the Fallout ones don’t work as well, what with the gunshots and all.

  • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Really just about anything. I can fall asleep to movies, videos, music, audiobooks, whatever. I just keep it at a low volume

  • Sherad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    14 days ago

    If you don’t mind unsettling/horror/sci fi stuff, I recommend Exploring Series on YouTube. I find their voice just that right level of interesting enough to listen to the actual info if I want to, but calm enough to fall asleep to as well.

    They have a few Lovecraft book readings as well, but I usually just binge the SCP Foundation recordings, haha.