@oppodude My boyfriend likes to fall asleep to soothing British voices (James May is a favorite). He would love this. I can’t sleep to any human voices, so generally we sleep apart. I prefer a good white noise like rainfall.
Tune one of the several channels on https://di.fm.
Mostly vocal chillout, but varies.
Antenna Bayern is another station I tune into if app-less and browser-less, like on the receiver.
After I’ve had a long day with lots of commotion and noise I like to drive home in silence. No radio no nothing. That’s relaxing to me. But I’ve also spent most of my life working in psychiatric hospitals and such so it’s very chaotic.
television. i like house or star trek (tng, ds9, or voyager) before bed every night. i’ve seen every episode countless times so it’s soothing without my brain needing to know what happens next.
if i’m not trying to fall asleep i like jeopardy or heinous true crime shows.
Mozart.
Music from the Baroque period.
Free jazz. Non vocal.
Choral music done in the “UK chorister” tradition
Portions of the LOTR soundtrack.
Some Sergio Leone stuff.
Some Trent Teznor soundtrack stuff.
Portions of the Braveheart soundtrack
Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
I downloaded 9 hours of the Shipping Forecast from BBC.
More on it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-shipping-forecast/
@oppodude My boyfriend likes to fall asleep to soothing British voices (James May is a favorite). He would love this. I can’t sleep to any human voices, so generally we sleep apart. I prefer a good white noise like rainfall.
The sound of silence
Harry Potter audiobooks
@arielleslie
I know several who di this.
Do you use the U.K. or the US audio version? (I love them both)
@f00l The US version because that’s what I grew up listening to over and over.
@arielleslie
They are both excellent, in slightly different ways.
Tinnitus.
@shahnm
/image Archer tinnitus
Solo piano Pandora station
Heavy metal or classical, which are essentially the same things.
True crime shows.
Baroque when nothing needs fixing.
When I NEED to relax? Probably a child screaming. I might already be relaxed and not need it without that.
ASMR videos.
Brown noise instead of white noise
Music. Style varies by mood.
Ambient music. Eno and friends.
Enough with the airport music.
Brian Eno / Jon Hassell - Fourth World Possible Musics Vol. 1: Full Album
@SpyreFox
@SpyreFox This album is my go-to for listening as I go to sleep.
Bach-6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello or the Goldberg Variations; or Bob Dylan.
Old-time radio comedies (Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Red Skelton, Burns & Allen, etc.)
give the following albums a try:
Moby - Long Ambients 1 and 2
http://moby.la/longambients1Mo
http://moby.la/LA2Mo
audio books. Usually C. S. Lewis.
listen to music i enjoy.
Classical music.
/giphy wclv
Cisco default hold music
I thought “how random and weird of me”, but one day I was listening to This American Life and was cheerfully reminded of how the Internet can make our world a little smaller:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/516/stuck-in-the-middle/act-one-2
Almost anything from the ECM record label.
Think Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell.
https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists
I put the TV on low for background noise
Tune one of the several channels on https://di.fm.
Mostly vocal chillout, but varies.
Antenna Bayern is another station I tune into if app-less and browser-less, like on the receiver.
John Cotrane’s version of Greensleeves has been doing it lately. It’s not so much relaxing as it brings calm to my soul.
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The Cha Cha slide
After I’ve had a long day with lots of commotion and noise I like to drive home in silence. No radio no nothing. That’s relaxing to me. But I’ve also spent most of my life working in psychiatric hospitals and such so it’s very chaotic.
Jazz, I use it to drown out the ambient noise at work too.
Not just any nature sounds. Specifically thunderstorm recordings.
Leon Redbone.
television. i like house or star trek (tng, ds9, or voyager) before bed every night. i’ve seen every episode countless times so it’s soothing without my brain needing to know what happens next.
if i’m not trying to fall asleep i like jeopardy or heinous true crime shows.
Traffic and pedestrians outside. Sometimes, a bird chirps.
Mozart.
Music from the Baroque period.
Free jazz. Non vocal.
Choral music done in the “UK chorister” tradition
Portions of the LOTR soundtrack.
Some Sergio Leone stuff.
Some Trent Teznor soundtrack stuff.
Portions of the Braveheart soundtrack
Coltrane
Ornette Coleman
Whatever catches my fancy from memory.
Soothing Relaxation channel on YouTube
Bach. I love the mathematical precision.
Classical or jazz music. Instrumental music in general is relaxing.