Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 19, 2020

I find flowing water to be quite soothing…

Fan noise works well.

Flowing magma.

My therapist once tried a white noise generator in her waiting room. I guess it was supposed to be soothing but since I was working in our microwave center at the time white noise (like an open squelch) was a sign something had gone very wrong with one of the comm systems. Fan whir makes me drowsy, though. What strange brains we have.

How about sound of tv ?

Silence, please. ASMR keeps me awake.

Clear conscience. Sometimes it takes me as much as two minutes to fall asleep.

Yeah. We’ve no more room to put anything.

I didn’t know they used “mood music.” ;o)

When she said what will it be tonight, I thought they were talking about sex.

Dueling Bedsprings! :-D

How about a little Simon and Garfunkel.

Music, low volume. Anything from Bach to Beatles to Billy Joel. Switch to Def Leppard, Govt Mule, Colin James, etc during the day.

My hearing is pretty much gone no wasted money on those gadgets.

Our first irreconcilable difference after 42 years: I like classical music, and she likes PBS/British accents narrating documentaries. Simple answer, separate bedrooms.

flickering yellow light and crackling fire sounds… Yes, I have a wood burning stove in my bedroom. In the summer a couple of LED candles work as well.

“Static?”

“You’re gonna talk all night?”

And that’s when the fight started… ☺

Using unfinished basement bedroom while kid is visiting. Have to listen to furnace, 3 freezers, water softener recharge, and back up supply for home office fans run full time and loud. Plus the floor creaks when she moves about.

I find it VERY dificult to sleep without my sound machine. I even take it to the hospital when I am unfortunately required to spend less than quality time there.

At 72 years old and male I would find the sound of flowing water to be way too much of an inspiration for another visit to the bathroom.

I have an app on my phone, White Noise, that has a bunch of different sounds: various white noise, train, weather, water, etc. I plug it into my clock radio AUX and drift off to sleep. I’m an extremely light sleeper. When I was in the hospital, I had it playing through a bluetooth speaker, loudly to drown out the sound from the hallway. I was right outside the nurses station. The night nurse walked in and panicked, asking what the noise was.

Theres always the heartbeat option. Its super creepy. (I know its good for babies & puppies…) but its not relaxing for an adult!!

I can’t sleep if it’s quiet. I usually have the fan on unless it’s really cold; then I use my sound machine on white noise.

I can’t sleep in silence. Can’t do music because my brain plays/sings along. I kept TV on very low mumble so my brain wouldn’t try to make out dialog. I now play “fan” on Alexa’s “Ambient Sounds” skill.

I prefer ‘Soothing Sounds of the Western Front, 1918.’ Puts me right under.

I use heavy rain, or trains. I grew up near railroad tracks, so I find that soothing.

I find flowing water makes me need to make water of my own…

Makes me have to pee.

Soothing yes. Except then I have to get up to pee.