@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.
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
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.
Tinnitus.
@shahnm
/image Archer tinnitus
The sound of silence
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.
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.
True crime shows.
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.)
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
Solo piano Pandora station
Baroque when nothing needs fixing.
Brown noise instead of white noise
I put the TV on low for background noise
Not just any nature sounds. Specifically thunderstorm recordings.
Bach. I love the mathematical precision.
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.
Heavy metal or classical, which are essentially the same things.
When I NEED to relax? Probably a child screaming. I might already be relaxed and not need it without that.
give the following albums a try:
Moby - Long Ambients 1 and 2
http://moby.la/longambients1Mo
http://moby.la/LA2Mo
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.
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.
ASMR videos.
Music. Style varies by mood.
audio books. Usually C. S. Lewis.
listen to music i enjoy.
Classical music.
/giphy wclv
Almost anything from the ECM record label.
Think Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, Bill Frisell.
https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists
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.
@00
Leon Redbone.
Soothing Relaxation channel on YouTube
Classical or jazz music. Instrumental music in general is relaxing.