as someone with a crippling fear of silence, here’s me ranking some of the things ive fallen asleep to (in order of which i tried them)
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1- radio: 7/10. not bad. it does its job, only problem is there’s not as much freedom of choice when it comes to specific songs (a perfect example of this is my favorite station playing my least favorite band all the time). plus the chance of EAS alerts just blaring out of nowhere and giving me panic attacks
2- minecraft music: 8/10. relaxing, sometimes has fire or rain sounds. not bad. only problem is inconsistent volume and I have to keep turing it up and down.
3- lofi: 9/10. the livestream is great cus no ads but it drained my battery quite a bit to have it streaming all night
4- ASMR: 0/10. NO NO NO EW YUCKY EW. I only found this with an ad and I had to skip it ASAP BAD SOUNDS BAD SOUNDS.
5- Simple Flips (youtuber): 10/10. if you dont know who this is, hes a gaming youtuber. hes relatively calm, and I fall asleep to his “walkies” series, where he tries to beat Super Mario Maker levels with just walking. the videos are long (like an hour and a half) which is great so I dont have to go looking for more when it ends. plus there’s just enough going on so it feels like the silence is filled. plus if i cant sleep i have entertainment
6- Bob Ross: 8.5/10. its great because its Bob Ross, but the videos are short and I had gotten through 2 or 3 videos before falling asleep. I had to find a playlist to keep it going. plus it’s just a little too much quiet. there’s no music or anything which makes it feel a little empty when im trying to stop the silence and just make it quiet. however it was calming to listen to Bob talk about fishing while he painted a lovely little river scene.
anyway give me more things to try bye