Does anyone else struggle with silence, particularly when trying to sleep?

Does anyone else find absolute silence difficult to deal with? In particular difficult to sleep in complete silence?

I think it started from a young age, being obsessed with music. Falling asleep with music.

As an adult, I still struggle with this and need some form of audio to drift off, be it music or something else.

More recently, I find stand-up comedy works best - it’s light-hearted and doesn’t require too much thought.

Kolanaki,
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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,

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

LachlanUnchained,

My wife is the same.

teawrecks,

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

kakes,

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,

I prefer seperate rooms haha

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

theneverfox,
@theneverfox@pawb.social avatar

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,

Tinnitus fucking sucks. I hate silence

SaltyLemon,
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Xylight,
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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,
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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,

It’s called pulsatile tinnitus.

ophelia,
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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,
@Ab_intra@lemmy.world avatar

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,

Yes, I can’t sleep without white noise

ChaoticEntropy,
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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,

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,

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

Shepstr,

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,

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

BeelzAlBob,

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

negativeyoda,

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

LachlanUnchained,

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

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