Well, to be clear, I don't need any help finding music to fall asleep to. I use my own stuff, works for meNumanoid wrote:To quote John Lennon: How do you sleep?ghettosynth wrote:Marvelous, but, I could never fall asleep to that. There seems to be a lot of variation in what people need to fall asleep.
Myself I get to sleep the Al Jourgensen way: "With a frozen dream and a borrowed hope that died"
Music for insomnia that isn't boring
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- KVRAF
- 15517 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
Yeah, I guess that is an instant sleeping pillghettosynth wrote:I use my own stuff, works for me
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- KVRAF
- 15517 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
No, it is, that's what I've been working on, music that puts me to sleep. I mean, I get that you're being funny, but, it's actually true.Numanoid wrote:Yeah, I guess that is an instant sleeping pillghettosynth wrote:I use my own stuff, works for me
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
- KVRAF
- 4968 posts since 26 Apr, 2007 from Noosphere
If ASMR works for you, then watch some massage sessions in Youtube. It may sound weird, but it works for many ppl. Something like this:aMUSEd wrote:Really suffering from insomnia since stopping mirtazipine. Some nights I'm just getting a couple of hours then waking up with my mind active and finding it impossible to get back to sleep even though I'm physically knackered.
been trying various relaxation/mindfulness apps but I can't stand them, I just can't listen to some dick droning on about letting go of my tension bla bla bla, but the typical sort of new agey relaxation music I just find unlistenable as well. What would you recommend? I want something that will relax me but without making me just want to turn it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wunsbyF1XPA
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someone called simon someone called simon https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=185637
- KVRian
- 543 posts since 24 Jul, 2008 from a small city in a small country in the antipodes
I find this great. dark, soft, enveloping. Nothing stands out, no melody, no rhythm, no chords. Could be interpreted as scary or bleak. It could like floating alone in the universe, but not in a bad way... and it shifts very slightly in tone over its 1:14 length, but basically if you listen to a minute of it, it's all like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN1tG6y-MsY&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN1tG6y-MsY&t=15s
- KVRAF
- 4968 posts since 26 Apr, 2007 from Noosphere
It's cool ambient, but the pad has too much low frequencies for a sleep. Low frequencies don't go well with sleeping, they tend to give tension. Mid range is the key here. That's why many meditation tunes are not heavy on lows.someone called simon wrote:I find this great. dark, soft, enveloping. Nothing stands out, no melody, no rhythm, no chords. Could be interpreted as scary or bleak. It could like floating alone in the universe, but not in a bad way... and it shifts very slightly in tone over its 1:14 length, but basically if you listen to a minute of it, it's all like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN1tG6y-MsY&t=15s
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- 155 posts since 27 Mar, 2008 from California
I sleep all the time and mimic myself waxing nostalgic with all of my loops because secretly i'm being blamed as rumplestiltskin because of what ruin my underachiever attitude in school caused to me.
My YOUTUBE slideshows, etc. - https://www.youtube.com/user/samabate2k
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- 155 posts since 27 Mar, 2008 from California
my underachiever attitude involved being a true somnambulist who could never keep up with bad rheumatoid so i only did what i called "creative writing" that i enjoyed. Or was it different? it was. I loved things like ad libs and choose your own adventure dudes. My music is the same thing.
My YOUTUBE slideshows, etc. - https://www.youtube.com/user/samabate2k
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- KVRAF
- 15517 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
No, I think that this is definitely personal preference. The lows are great, the low-mids, OTOH, are very distracting. I'd put a great big notch on that somewhere around 600 or 700 Hz and a nice low shelf to give those lows a bit of a boost.Igro wrote:It's cool ambient, but the pad has too much low frequencies for a sleep. Low frequencies don't go well with sleeping, they tend to give tension. Mid range is the key here. That's why many meditation tunes are not heavy on lows.someone called simon wrote:I find this great. dark, soft, enveloping. Nothing stands out, no melody, no rhythm, no chords. Could be interpreted as scary or bleak. It could like floating alone in the universe, but not in a bad way... and it shifts very slightly in tone over its 1:14 length, but basically if you listen to a minute of it, it's all like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN1tG6y-MsY&t=15s
My bedroom studio has a couple of small PA speakers that I use for jamming and I just added a 15" powered sub to them for some better low end. It makes a huge difference for my sleep program. I don't listen to any of it very loud, of course, but I do overemphasize the bass on the sub.
Of course, I've had more experiences than I care to count falling asleep to something like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Td_CCWhIk
- KVRAF
- 25852 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
Tone Tales from Tomorrow Too, very nice and chilling
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Tone-Ta ... ease/33036
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Tone-Ta ... ease/33036
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- 35294 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
No boring is just torture - I simply can't listen to that 'let me hold one finger on that pad for an hour' 'relaxation' music. I need something I won't turn off and that holds some interest for me, something worth being mindful of.
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- KVRAF
- 15517 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
I have no idea whether there's any validity to my own perception other than my own experiments work for me.incubus wrote:I still don't understand how boring isn't conducive to getting sleepy easier.
If something is too boring, e.g., surf sound, it doesn't distract me enough and my mind wanders. If something is too busy, it causes me to focus on it actively. In both cases, I have difficulty falling asleep, but for different reasons.
Stuff that is interesting, but can't be memorized, i.e., has no perceptible hook, catches my attention, but doesn't cause me to actively focus on it, e.g., sing it, hum it, think about it.
So drones, slow random melodies, even modulated noise, etc.
I think that it varies a lot by person based on why they have trouble sleeping.