• slazer2au
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    279 months ago

    As a kid in Australia a fan.
    As an adult, a fan plus tinnitus

  • Toes♀
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    99 months ago

    Hilary Duff CDs on loop. I felt like every song had something to relate too. Anytime I try to play them now and my friends tell be to turn it off.

    Mostly nostalgia for me now. Remembering a time I had dreams.

  • @Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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    89 months ago

    Vin Scully(Dodgers), Dick Engberg(Angels, Rams), Chick Hearn (Lakers) and Jiggs McDonald(Kings) on my 9 volt transistor radio well hidden under the covers. So well hidden that it ended up switched off and in the drawer by morning.

    Breeze, rustle of leaves, sounds from birds and insects. Fan if no breeze.

  • Björn Tantau
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    79 months ago

    As a kid varius radio play cassettes like Benjamin Blümchen, Bibi Blocksberg, later the Star Wars soundtrack.

    Nowadays various science shows on YouTube. Mainly astrophysics stuff. My favourites are Dr Becky, Harald Lesh and PBS Space Time.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    9 months ago

    I never played sleepy music until I was a teen, and every night I played Cake - Fashion Nugget. Great, mellow tunes, and I learned ALL the lyrics subliminally!

    Ok, I did listen to it awake, so maybe it wasn’t completely subliminal, but it’s been a while and I bet I could still sing 80% of the album from memory.

    Nowadays, it’s just the fan or AC running.

    EDIT: I typed the wrong Cake album originally.

  • @neidu2@feddit.nl
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    59 months ago

    A radio either turned to an AM station far away to the point where it’s mostly brown noise with hints of someone speaking, or to some calm music.

    Nowadays it’s mostly KnowledgeFight.

  • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    59 months ago

    I don’t fall asleep listening to anything but my fan, but reading knocks me the fuck out most nights. Sometimes I can’t make it through a paragraph before catching myself with my eyes completely closed.

  • Jay
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    9 months ago

    When I was a kid I had a record player and usually played a particular record that had various artists on it Like Johnny Horton (Battle of New Orleans) and Elvis Presley (Blue Suede Shoes).

    Now 40+ years later, it’s usually stuff like Frog Leap Studios (Leo Morrachelli https://www.youtube.com/user/leolego/videos) mainly so I don’t have to hear my cats screaming around the house in their nightly turbo mode.

    I still like Johnny Horton, but anything from Elvis makes my eye twitch.

  • @Donebrach@lemmy.world
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    49 months ago

    If there is any discernible pattern to noise it keeps me awake (talking, music FUCKING STUPID MOTHER-FUCKING NIGHT BIRD). I use a noise machine with white noise or fan sounds running. Creates a lovely sound blanket from that mother-fucking night bird.

  • @RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    49 months ago

    I shared a bedroom with my twin, so no audio. I prefer the sound of the AC on over off though, lovely background sound of nothingness.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    49 months ago

    Silence, it was usually my pose rather than the background noise that affected sleep. When I sleep, I often look like I was carried out of the chamber of secrets.