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Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep

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Post by anonu »

superasn wrote: post #56

One trick that makes me sleepy really fast: After I close my eyes, I imagine someone throwing black paint on them. The first coat is kinda gray and has lots of blob and not fully black. Then another coat. And another. Each one gets darker until it's just pure black and I'm usually asleep by then. For some reason, my brain follows it, and I fall asleep much faster. It works way better for me than box breathing or most…

Love this. I'll try it.

Ive found great success with the Military Sleep Method where you progressively shutdown your body from head to toe.

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Post by hdgvhicv »

nmridul wrote: post #45
nikhilgk wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics . I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.

In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)

Amazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.

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Post by prox »

superasn wrote: post #56

One trick that makes me sleepy really fast: After I close my eyes, I imagine someone throwing black paint on them. The first coat is kinda gray and has lots of blob and not fully black. Then another coat. And another. Each one gets darker until it's just pure black and I'm usually asleep by then. For some reason, my brain follows it, and I fall asleep much faster. It works way better for me than box breathing or most…

If noise keeps you awake (loud neighborhood) then a white noise blanket could work. I downloaded a 10 hour beachwaves sound and played it to cover the noise. Two small speakers left and right made it feel like I was there with the stereo. It took a little bit to get used to, but it did the trick.

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Post by prox »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #20
fsckboy wrote: post #14

i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs to be some crazy simple UI, i don't want the light on my phone to turn on, i don't want to fiddle, just skip forward, skip back, that's about it there's all sorts of stuff that is dry…

If you have AirPods there’s a “Pause media when falling asleep” switch.

Isn’t it annoying to have Airpods in your ears when sleeping?

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Post by fragmede »

hdgvhicv wrote: post #72
nmridul wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)

Amazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.

There's a very emotional "I'm not paying for YouTube" feeling that some people have. They try and justify it with logic after the fact, but the underlying principal seems too simply be "I'm not gonna pay for YouTube, I deserve to get everything for free!" Like, you get paid at your job where you work, which gets you money. Paying other people money for their work, however, suddenly that's just not ok. Somehow.

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Post by TooSmugToFail »

tedk-42 wrote: post #57

Sean Carroll's Mindscape is my favourite. Though sometimes it is very interesting and might delay sleep a bit

Same here. Love the Mindscape podcast. It taught me everything I know about quantum physics (haha). But for me, the bedtime listening is ALWAYS fascinating. It has to be. And I fall asleep nevertheless. My routine is to play a podcast that I am interested in, put a sleep timer on 20 min (Overcast app FTW), and just enjoy the content.

No matter how interesting it is, it very rarely takes me setting the timer for another 20 min, almost always I fall asleep in the first run, often times within the first 10 min.

What makes it funny is I will be listening a single episode for weeks sometime, often listening the same parts over and over again simply because I can’t precisely start today where I fell asleep yesterday.

It became a part of a routine that I am genuinely looking forward to. This is how I worked through the entire Mike Duncan opus (Revolutions first, and then the History of Rome), I am currently working through the History of Byzantium by Robin Pierson, but occasionally I am listening to Sean Carrol, and sometimes I will go back to In our Time by BBC’s Melwyn Bragg.

Actually, come to think of it, most of my podcast listening time is bedtime. I would hate to waste it to listen something boring.

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Post by gullywhumper »

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials between innings are monotonous.

I listen to it during the day too. I’m very tempted to score some of the games, but I’m a little worried I’d find holes like only 2 outs in an inning or missing innings in a game.

https://www.sleepbaseball.com/

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Post by nicbou »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #54

Not sure how accessible all this is outside of the UK (you'd need to check the BBC Sounds website & app), but the BBC has perfected a couple of great "gets you to sleep" radio outlets. The oldest is Radio 4, the BBC's national spoken word radio station (there's also Radio 5 which focuses on sport and news, Radio 4 is more a mixture of comedy, arts, culture and news). Late at night (UK time), there are programmes that…

What do you mean in the last paragraph? I don't know much about the BBC, but I cherish our local equivalents.
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