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Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:32 pm
by 01010111
Where I live the only sounds you can hear are people trespassing and the train that's a couple miles away. So if i don't have the radio or fan on to fall asleep too, I get really freaked out.

One time the power went out in the middle of the night. It woke me up because my fan went off. Then I could hear someone outside my window. My nearest neighbors are easily over a mile away, so that kind of thing is pretty unusual.

But on the plus side I can set up my fender twin on the porch for sonic destruction at 2 in the morning without anybody calling the cops.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:35 pm
by Achtane
DarkAxel wrote:Music of Hammock...

... but i have no problem sleeping in quiet, i'm used to it - the traffic at night is not really an issue here


Yeah Hammock knocks me out super quick. I am also a huge fan of "Flood" by Boris. The climax at part 3 might jolt you a tiny bit but if the end doesn't do you in Part 4 surely will.

I also like living semi-close to a highway.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:51 pm
by Big Mon
Noise/no noise,I sleep my ass off. I can go to sleep just about anywhere.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:03 pm
by jrmy
When I was a little bebbeh, my mother used to run the vacuum cleaner to get me to sleep at naptime. True story. She should have known it was a sign of things to come....

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:19 pm
by tuffteef
jrmy wrote:When I was a little bebbeh, my mother used to run the vacuum cleaner to get me to sleep at naptime. True story. She should have known it was a sign of things to come....


so your either a hotel cleaner or got caught with your dick in the vacuum cleaner

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:25 pm
by StudioShutIn
tuffteef wrote: ...or got caught with your dick in the vacuum cleaner



The potential hazards of this activity were proven..well actually it was somebody's lower-lip got caught in a handheld vacuum nozzle (on MythBusters) t'was not a pleasant sight :facepalm:

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:35 pm
by Bellyheart
I like the sound of a car driving on gravel

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 7:45 pm
by ashdown
wfs1234 wrote:Where I live the only sounds you can hear are people trespassing and the train that's a couple miles away. So if i don't have the radio or fan on to fall asleep too, I get really freaked out.

One time the power went out in the middle of the night. It woke me up because my fan went off. Then I could hear someone outside my window. My nearest neighbors are easily over a mile away, so that kind of thing is pretty unusual.

But on the plus side I can set up my fender twin on the porch for sonic destruction at 2 in the morning without anybody calling the cops.


i've always wanted to set up outside and just let it blare

i like sleeping to the sound of nothing. usually problematic

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:29 pm
by MaxMaps
Mudfuzz wrote:I know this is a little odd but I find noises like fans, heaters ,rain, fridges, freeway noise easier to fall asleep to then total quiet :idk: Anyone else?


Its the same way for me.

Its why I bought a house next to rail road. :thumb:

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:20 pm
by 01010111
ashdown wrote:i've always wanted to set up outside and just let it blare


Without neighbors I can be as loud as I want, there's nothing quite like playing doomy post rock around a big bonfire at three in the morning in the middle of nowhere.
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But if there are people around you have no idea where they came from, so I have to sleep with the radio or fan on. Otherwise the smallest noises turn into raging hillbillies in my brain.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:28 pm
by foomanfat
I need tv or music while fall asleep or else I will start hearing things because I am super paranoid.
Specifically something that puts me to sleep: Several times, I have almost fallen asleep at work, while actually working, listening to Grizzly Bear.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:32 pm
by Scruffie
hclapp219 wrote:I usually fall asleep listening to music or the radio. I use headphones so it doesn't bother anyone else in the house, but I am worried that I will strangle myself in my sleep with the headphone wire some night.

I have that same fear... especially as i'm drunk alot when I do fall asleep listening to stuff (I'm a curteous drunk with my headphones, don't wanna annoy people :lol: )

There is one thing though that stops that fear though, ever notice they pull out while you're asleep? You'd usually yank them out and you're no more likely to suffocate your face in your own pillow really, you'd probably notice.

I find it really difficult to sleep without some external noise source stopping me thinking though... fans are good, a TV Show i've seen before is usually the best I don't normally use music but I guess some types could work.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:22 am
by the raytownian
Playing with tone generators on the computer can put me into a sleepy, trance-like state when I hit on the right frequencies.

Same with HNW, and even more chaotic/dynaminc (if not "monochromatic") noise like Masonna, and really just about any noise in general.

The last two HNW few HN/HNW releases I played conked me the fuck out (and I often feel exhausted after entering and coming out of a trance-state while making Noise or playing geetar myself)... It's not boredom either, it just makes me tired to listen to it. I guess it's relaxing.

I can go to sleep with music on, but it usually ends up waking me repeatedly, whereas drone/noise stuff does not disturb me.

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:28 am
by unownunown
i have a hard time falling asleep if there's any noises at all.

falling asleep to music is totally out of the question unless i'm pretty much near-dead

Re: Soothing sounds....

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:28 am
by theactionindex
Music has never worked, purely because I try to stay awake to listen to it because it's so damn good. I NEED some sort of fan, tv with the volume down, electric hum, what have you to fall asleep. Silence is too...creepy.