as a kid, current favorite music or radio
as an adult, science podcasts, movie directors commentaries (ridley scott, francis coppola highly recommend), select rain sounds and currently the watergate senate hearings
Shitty hair metal like Dio, Dokken, etc. It reminds me I had really, really shitty taste in music as a teenager.
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.
It’s gonna take a bit of explaining, so bear with me.
You guys know Al Jazeera, right? The news channel that everyone loves. Well uh… in the 2000s, they had other non news related television networks. A series of sports channels, a documentary channel, and… a children’s channel (we’ll call it JCC for short). Depending on the time period, at night they don’t broadcast programs at all, and instead they aired an animated test card that looped all night long. Before 2009, it looked like the EBU color bars, but they actually made it seem alive. I don’t remember that one very fondly. From 2009 to about 2012-13, it was just the channel logo in a night setting, but with extremely soothing music (a remix of the channel’s theme song) and sound effects that actually genuinely made me fall asleep on multiple occasions.
I actually managed to find recordings of both test cards on this French website, right here.
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
As a kid I usually listed to CDs from the series “Was ist Was”. Originally it’s a science book series for about 10-15 year old with topics like weather, the sun, mathematics, pirates or vulcanos. The series usually goes pretty in depth for a series more or less aimed at kids.
Apparently it’s a translation from the series “How and Why Wonder Books”.
For anyone interested: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Was_ist_wasAnyway, I enjoyed listening to the audio versions of the books (they were moderated by characters).
Later on I just listened to general music.
Nowadays I do not listen to anything. Sometimes to self recorded sea noises from vacation.
I uploaded them as well :)
-> https://on.soundcloud.com/RD6PWSilence, 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.
Bugs bunny and Friends sing The Beatles.
As a kid, CD documentaries about constellations and astronomy
Modern day, video essays about the lore of soulslikes and random media I’ve gotten sucked into
That sounds like such a neat childhood! I wish I had those documentaries growing up.
As a kid I rarely listened to anything, these days I put on Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show, just go bacl to the start I’ve heard up to the third phase often but not the further ones as much. In the more recent past it may have been a Harry Potter (UK) book or again Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy voiced by Stephen Fry. Guess that’s a lot of UK stuff considering I’m Canadian, but Fry has such a nice voice to drift off to.
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.
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.
Nothing, mostly. And nothing. Unless there was hard wind or rain or an occasional bird. Loud birds can be a bit annoying to me these days.
I listened to piano music from the Suzuki method. The Suzuki thing is to treat music like a language, so immerse young kids in it when their brains are young and mushy.
Now I fall asleep to nothing most often, sometimes to a podcast or to an episode of a show I don’t really care about; something old and formulaic like Columbo.
When I was a kid I had a record player and usually played a particular record that had various artists on it Like Johnny Horton (Battle of New Orleans) and Elvis Presley (Blue Suede Shoes).
Now 40+ years later, it’s usually stuff like Frog Leap Studios (Leo morrachelli https://www.youtube.com/user/leolego/videos) mainly so I don’t have to hear my cats screaming around the house in their nightly turbo mode.
I still like Johnny Horton, but anything from Elvis makes my eye twitch.
