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Kolanaki, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

The only time I ever would’ve preferred silence to some background noise was when I was at a scout camp along the banks of a river and the cacophony of frogs and crickets at night was super fucking loud. I barely slept the whole time I was there.

Other than that, I always put on some kind of ambient sounds or yoga music.

snor10, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

I must have earplugs and an eyemask to sleep. Always wanted pitch black and complete silence since I was a child.

LachlanUnchained, 2 years ago

My wife is the same.

teawrecks, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Most people I know sleep with a fan on for this reason. Really common, yeah.

kakes, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

As a teen, I needed complete silence/darkness to sleep well. Then I met my now-wife, who needed a TV on to sleep well.
It took a while, but we eventually compromised on a fan for background noise.

LachlanUnchained, 2 years ago

I prefer seperate rooms haha

Squirrel, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

I need a fan or white noise. Silence is just “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” until I fall asleep.

theneverfox, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Silence isn’t a thing.

Sound of leaves rustling, the ocean, or even gentle wind? I sleep, no problem

A house quietly creaking and my blood flowing?

I’ve put on music or Netflix since childhood

chepox, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Tinnitus fucking sucks. I hate silence

SaltyLemon, 2 years ago

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Xylight, 2 years ago

I think I have a strange version of tinnitus where instead of ringing I’ll feel pulses as vibrations in my ear, it syncs with my heartbeat.

BigBootyBoy, 2 years ago

I think that’s a known glitch where the heart beat doesn’t go away after you get critically injured, it should be patched in the next update.

TheHalc, 2 years ago

It’s called pulsatile tinnitus.

ophelia, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Not at all, I love falling asleep to perfect silence. It’s so rare though, I usually sleep with ear plugs to mimic it but it isn’t the same.

Ab_intra, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

I would love absolute silence. I got Tinnitus in my right ear 24/7/365… It will probably never disappear… And I also sleep with a CPAP which makes annoying sounds when sleeping. So I would absolute silence.

darkstar, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Yes, I can’t sleep without white noise

ChaoticEntropy, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

If I’m not asleep by a certain time of night, “hour of the wolf”, then I find it very hard to sleep without something in the background. Usually I use the sound of a babbling brook that I recorded while in Iceland.

Shepstr, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

I usually fall asleep to a podcast. One that is interesting, but not so interesting that it’ll keep me up. A history podcast or something like that.

Vex_Detrause, 2 years ago

I do this too. Unmade Podcast is my sleeping podcast. 2 dudes talking podcast. It’s a little hard without it.

Shepstr, 2 years ago

I quite like We Have Ways podcast, although they never balance their mics so one of them ends up blasting my ears waking me up while you can’t hear the other one at low volume 😂

Spaaarkz, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

A plus one for the white noise machine. Game changer.

BeelzAlBob, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Same problem. I just use a box fan though for white noise.

negativeyoda, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

I have horrible tinnitus after years of searing guitars. I have to sleep with a white noise machine or I am completely tweaked

LachlanUnchained, 2 years ago

I feel like I am the same. I love worry about my hearing in ten years time.