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.

TheWorstNL,

Yep. I also have a bit of tinnitus so I prefer a bit of sound. Usually I play an episode of Frasier, Mom or Modern Family. Usually before the end of the episode I’m sleeping.

LachlanUnchained,

Yeh. Exactly me.

kill_dash_nine,

Do…do you live in my house? I will say that I tend to wake up to hear tossed salads and scrambled eggs though and shut off the TV when I can just roll back over and be asleep though.

Shepstr,

Put your TV on a 15/30min sleep timer?

kill_dash_nine,

Yeah, my wife usually sets an hour timer. Her sleep patterns are odd for falling asleep. She is out in 5 minutes some nights, other nights she can’t sleep for hours.

Gabbro,
@Gabbro@kbin.social avatar

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

DarkThoughts,

More the opposite. I can't stand all the noise. Especially during spring & summer when you have to open your window during the night.

LachlanUnchained,

Growing up, my bedroom faced a main road (even though it was a decent way aways), always want the bedroom window open. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

relative_iterator,
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I do this too as a way to escape my thoughts. Meditation/mindfulness has helped in the past and it’s probably the healthiest solution. I don’t do that enough though…

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.

BeelzAlBob,

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

Spaaarkz,

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

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 😂

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.

darkstar,

Yes, I can’t sleep without white noise

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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