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.

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.

watson387,
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I have tinnitus, so absolute silence is never enjoyable for me. Music works extremely well; I fall asleep with the tv on.

LachlanUnchained,

I Think I might too. Need to get checked. Always a low humming. Sometimes high pitch ringing. But I meant more of not being able to settle my mind.

watson387,
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Well, I have ADHD so I can identify with that also. lol

sunaurus,
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When I read the title of the post, I immediately wondered if anybody else with tinnitus had commented yet.

“Silence” sounds amazing, would love to try it some time 😅

jocanib,

Put your hands over your ears and drum your fingers on the back of your head for 20-30 seconds.

It doesn’t last for long but (if it works for you), blissful silence.

AlexWIWA,

I’ve been using a fan. It almost entirely hides the ringing

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 😂

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.

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.

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,
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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

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,
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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.

Gabbro,
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I fixed that problem...I never hear silence!

All I hear is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......

DarkThoughts,

I've had ear ringing properly once for like 3 weeks. Never had such a hard time sleeping because the quietness just makes it all the more louder. Really drove me insane and was glad when it started to slowly recede. Good chance I would just eff myself if it were permanent.

RestrictedAccount,

MAWP!

Simplesyrup,
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I wish three was a cure for tinitus

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.

TheDubz87,

Try a fan. And this one’s weird, but I have an analog clock in my room and the rhythmic ticking helps me sleep.

chrisphero,

I know were you are coming from and I know a few people who have a clock in the room and sleep… but I just can’t… the rhythmic ticking drives me crazy haha

podcast or audio books are my go to - sometimes I’m stuck on the same chapter for weeks

NotAPenguin,

I can't handle the constant having to rewind and going wait did I already listen to this last night? that happens if I listen to podcasts or audiobooks to sleep.

Maybe I should just find a podcast I don't care about actually hearing everything in that I could use for sleep.

Celivalg,

I usually put on some PBS Space Time, not quite podcast, but I often don’t look at the visuals when trying to sleep. The videos are short (about 15min) , but provided it’s between 23:30 and 00:30, it usually takes only about 5 minutes before I fall asleep.

Used to do audiobooks, but that would fail if I was too invested in the book…

chrisphero,

I know what you mean, so here are my solutions. My podcast are either about F1 or gaming - so very generic and I have different ones. The topics are very similar, but with different persons and opinions, it’s never the same - so ideal for drifting off.

For audiobooks, I mostly listen to books, I’ve already read or listend to previously. So you know the rough story, but some small details are always missed. My prime example are the harry potter books by stephen fry… I fall asleep within minutes haha

NightOwl,

I have an air purifier in my room that is always running so filling the room with humming and providing clean air.

LachlanUnchained,

I feel like the thoughts in my head would drown it out.

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