I must have noise to go along with going to sleep. Usually thats an audio book or long-form video essay type YouTube videos. I wear one earbud to bed if I’m sleeping at night with my girlfriend or just blare it from the TV if I’m sleeping alone during the day (rotating shift). I feel like when I don’t have engaging audio and I’m trying to sleep I can’t quiet my mind enough to sleep. A fan or random ambient noise isn’t enough for me.
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I absolutely have to have white noise of some sort. My stupid ass brain is ALWAYS on alert for any noise whatsoever. A pin drops on the opposite side of my apartment and my brain freaks out “omg wake up and pay attention!!” it’s so fucking frustrating. Any typical creaks or whatever that a house makes, well time to focus the entirety of my attention on it whether I want to or not. A knocking heater? It’s the most dangerous thing in the universe and apparently my brain feels that it deserves all of my focus…
I swear sleeping is the most difficult thing for me to do. I’m so tired of being tired lol
White noise (usually a fan) has been greatly beneficial to my quality of sleep. I wish I had started doing so many years sooner.
I do not do well with TV or anything that has speech though.
I always put on one of Vinny Vinesauce’s vods from his Fullsauce channel when I go to sleep. He just relaxes me so much I’m normally out within less than 5 minutes whereas in complete silence I could end up taking half an hour or multiple hours to fall asleep.
Yes. Generally with Would I Lie to You or the Unbelievable Truth.
No
Never, but I like conversing with my internal monologue in my head. I’m not quite neurotypical, but I have been pretty good (trained?) to rein in any out of control thoughts if they ever wander by using bait I know my brain can chill with.
When I was a teen, it was sexy stuff. Young adult, plot points for a novel setting I’ll probably never write. Lately, it’s just plans for the day (I sleep so much faster now than I used to, though, since I changed my sleep habits after having kids).
Plus, my own monologue makes sense of how I’m feeling and gives me pep talks! That’s probably a product of coping with abuse, but it’s nice none the less.
You planfor the day and fall asleep? If I start planning I start stressingand worrying and I stay up all night
Especially when it spirals into panic about not having fallen asleep yet which keeps me awake even longer which makes me panic because I have stuff to do tomorrow! Which keeps me awake, on and on
Yes.
There’s a retirement village nearby, and EVERY MORNING around 4 o’clock, some motherfucker with a huge rubbish truck goes in.
The driver parks.
The driver walks over to the large industrial bin.
The driver opens the lid to see if it’s worth putting the contents in the truck. If it is, he lets the lid SLAM down, then pushes the rusty metal bin over the bitumen road towards his truck GRRRRNNNNNNNTTTT (because the wheels on those things never work).
He then gets back in his truck, does the little garbo magic with the mechanical arm thing, the truck lifts the bin, and he bangs it against the top of the truck receptacle a few times for shiggles BANG BANG BANGGGG, then moves the mechanical arms to place it back down on the bitumen with a gentle kiss BANG!
He then gets out of his truck, and pushes the now empty industrial bin over to where it was GGNNNNNNKKKKTTTTTT and positions it gently against the brick wall there BANG!
He then gets back in his truck, and reverses out the driveway DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT DOOT, and finally fucks off.
Dozens, if not hundreds, of people live there. If I can hear that truck as a neighbour, how much worse must it be for the oldies trying to sleep there?
Hearing loss can be a blessing…
“If I’m awake everyone else should be awake to witness it.” ~ asshole on a motorbike, overrevving on a 30mph road at 5 am
White noise machine
Moved to a very noisy apartment about a year and half ago. Near a major hospital so ambulances 24/7. Near a rather busy intersection so cars, trucks, motorcycles accelerating 24/7. Live under the approach for a large international airport, so large planes decelerating often throughout the day.
Kept a fan on for almost a year. Fan didn’t like it so now it wobbles.
Finally bought an old white noise machine with an actual fan inside. LOVE IT. It doesn’t filter out everything but it sure helps.
My fiancée sleeps with a fan. I sleep with my finacée snoring.
I do the same, I can’t sleep without a fan
I even use a fan in the winter. I like cold air on the outside and warm air on the inside. More than that, something about the wind moving past my head is soothing.
Lmao thats a tough one
Not necessarily.
I’m hoping you already have, but if you haven’t, get your fiancée to get a sleep study. Very often snoring is their way of telling you they are dying slowly.
Yup, I ignored my snoring. That led to waking up tired every day, then a sore neck, then a mild headache that went away after waking up, and finally all of my extremities started to tingle. It all went away once I was able to wear my cpap for maybe half of the night.
Tv every night
Yeah, my girl is a pitch black silent room sleeper so I do the headphone out of respect. Like I said though, during the days when I sleep alone the TV is blaring.
No, I cant sleep with anything with vocals in it. My brain strains too hard trying to interpret or ignore it. Non-vocal music can work very well at low volume as long as its repetitive and thus predictable enough that my brain doesn’t have to pay attention or react to a lot of changes in composition.
I sleep with a fan going and some zen-like meditation music on my computer.
Varies from one night to the next, but I typically put on something from myNoise.net when I do want sound.
I’m so goddamn hyper alert that I need complete silence and pitch black darkness to fall asleep.
Except for thunderstorms. Those are oddly soothing. But that’s it.
Playing by Minecraft rules, I see.
Thunderstorms wake me up because I like them so much.
Ooooof I’m the opposite. Hyper alert meaning every minor noise, shadow or anything will keep me up. Need to drown it out with someone’s voice telling me about a video game from 20 years ago.
seconded on stormy nights, I love sleeping with the pitter patter of rain and thunder
