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        I always wake up when Jurassic Bark comes on and it’s a real bummer. So I don’t watch Futurama going to bed anymore.

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    Technology Connections doing a deep dive into something like how a VHS cassette tape works. I’m interested, but if it’s late, the topic also knocks me out in about 15 min.

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      This is mine too. Half the time my brain records bits and pieces when I’m asleep and I wake up knowing a few facts about how street lamps work or some shit.

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      …my fan broke earlier this year; i’m shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator…

      …when our central air conditioner failed during this summer’s hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans…

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    Audiobooks.

    Mostly the one I’m currently reading, but I have to listen to that part again the next day.

    If that’s too engaging I listen to Nothing much happens, Bedtime stories where as it says, not much is happening, read in a soothing voice.

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      Same. Whatever I’m currently listening to I add a bookmark before bed and go back to that point the next time I listen.

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        My audiobook player has a sleep timer that after it expires, will gradually fade out to nothing.

        Best part is if you’re still awake enough that you notice it happening you can just shake your phone (with an adjustable intensity) without turning the screen on or anything and it resets the sleep timer.

        My ability to fall asleep has never been better.

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        Nice! Those videos last me forever, too! They’re 2-3 hours, but knock me out in 5-10 minutes, and they’re interesting enough I keep going back until I get through it.

        I finished the Sumerians last week and am 1/4 into the Songhai now.

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    Classic movies, usually from TCM. I love classics but they’re often fantastic to fall asleep to with their slower stories and quieter dialog.

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    Fucking quiet. Which is damn near impossible to get, which is what gives me insomnia

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      If you haven’t tried already: use earplugs. I realized embarrassingly late that my sensitivity to sound wakes me up quite often and earplugs have been a life changer.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Over the last year or so I’ve conditioned myself to fall asleep to “Seasons” by Chris Cornell. It’s the first song on my sleep playlist and I realized I was conditioned a few weeks ago when my wife was watching the movie Singles (which features the song repeatedly) and every time a bit of the song was played I would yawn.

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    ASMR videos. I know some people associate them with fetish stuff but they’re really varied and most are just about relaxing.

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      The fetish stuff is all created by people who can’t experience ASMR and just assume it’s what being horny feels like. Sad really.