Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?

I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at 4am.

I’ve a few voices I love listening to, but I’d like even more.

Which YouTubers do you recommend who:

  1. Have smooth, hypnotic voices,
  2. have content that won’t give me uncomfortable dreams (I’m a very visual, realistic, and impressionable dreamer), and
  3. have channels I’ll want to listen to when awake? (eta I like sciences and news mostly, a bit of fiction (scifi, horror, nf), gaming, other nerdy things, but never romance, pop culture , or reality tv).

I kinda need all 3.

Daedskin,

Purge (youtube.com/) is pretty good. He typically posts full, un-cut dota games, and is lower energy throughout. There’s not big volume or tone changes, and they’re long enough that you should always be able to fall asleep during them.

mtchristo,

Let’s talk religion. Barely sociable. Lemmino

mojo,

I love Wendigoon, he does interesting long term stories and is really calm

bugieman,

Ethoslab and Docm77 are both older Minecraft YouTubers who have a pretty chill voice and calm demeaner, Etho especially.

dodeca,

If you like video games, try a search for a video game of choice and add the words “role play”.

I was playing a lot of Kenshi and I found some YouTubers who make long playthroughs of games. Specifically I enjoyed Rycon Roleplays Kenshi which was something like 80 videos and each about an hr long. It would put me to sleep.

baronofclubs,

Didn’t see Baumgartner Restoration here yet. Incredibly soothing art restoration

Shard,

Here are some I enjoy. All have a good voice, not overly expressively and no sudden change in background tracks. No sudden screaming/explosions/anything that will wake you.

John Michael Godier Science/Speculative Scifi, Low Soothing voice, even has a sleep playlist.

Issac Arthur Sci-Fi, Calm voice, Good background track, Long Videos

Darth Gandalf Fantasy, Soothing Voice

Forgotten Weapons Firearms, Historical and Mechanical overviews and indepth discussions. I recommend you skip the shooting range stuff if you’re trying to sleep.

Cool Worlds Science & Astronomy. Great Narrative Voice, Calm background tracks.

North02 Science, Anthropology & Natural history. Soothing Voice, nice selection of long videos.

Natural World Facts Deep Sea biology, excellent soothing narrations, very good soothing background tracks.

Psymonkee,
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If you like D&D then I can suggest D&D Deep Dive - roughly hour long videos building weird combos for D&D play but with the smoothest voice ever!

GyozaPower,

For speeling purposes have you tried ASMR content?

For example Let’s Find Out makes ASMR content focused on anstronomy and physics stuff and mainly whispering things. Example: youtu.be/U6M7_Pt0d14?si=0By2q3YJ-r95K0TD.

You also have The French Whisperer ASMR, who does a bit of everything (history, some science, reading stories…)

For pure ASMR (but non informative nor anything) RaffyTaffyASMR puts out some solid content.

faintwhenfree,

ASMR sounds of natural things okay, ASMR talking sounds creepy to me no matter the topic, the moment I feel sleepy I get this feeling that they are sweet talking me and will kidnap me to sell my kidney when I fall asleep.

GyozaPower,

XD. I do get relaxed with them, but to be sincere, there have been a few times when I’ve woken up while listening to one of those and my half-asleep ass, not understanding a dingle word (even though it was english), felt like I was in the middle of an alien abduction.

ivanafterall,
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Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep

The whole series isn't on YouTube, unfortunately, but it is SO worth your time and fits the bill like nothing else.

ook_the_librarian,
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Vi Hart is calm and mathy. Here’s the story of Wind & Mr ug.

HuntressHimbo,

Noah Caldwell-Gervais is my go-to for just relaxing audio. He does very in depth coverage of game franchises talking about how they evolved and the ways the mechanics support the narrative or run counter to it. Very chill and hypnotizing voice

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Nashua,

My wife puts on RyconRoleplays or ChristopherOdd in the background sometimes when she’s having trouble sleeping. Rycon might have the voice you’re looking for; Odd’s narration depends on the game he’s playing, he likes to set the mood in more atmospheric games, and he reads out every bit of lore.

Clarkesworld is a sci-fi magazine with free audio versions on their site, plus on Spotify as a podcast. I’d recommend “The very Pulse of the Machine” personally as an intro. It was adapted into a great episode of “Love, Death + Robots”.

PrefersAwkward, (edited )
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I’ve slept with each of these before:

LockpickingLawyer (lockpicking videos)

Trent Lenarski (multi content. specifically his Stardew Valley playlist is nice and relaxed)

Pekinwoof (streamer. Keep to his first channel for sleeping. Channel 2 is louder)

Talking Feds with Harry Litman (lawyer who talks law in politics)

Sean Carroll (podcasts. Various science topics)

Sam Harris (podcasts. Some episodes can get loud when he’s playing recordings of news events.)

Dontfearthereaper123,

Idk if I just have a dirty mind or whether that was intentional lol

bigmclargehuge,

Lemmino hits 1 and 3, and sometimes 2 (some of his videos are about dark topics, some are more fun or wonderous). His voice is very nice to listen to. Smooth, low, and a relatively thick, but perfectly understandable Danish accent.

To boot, he’s one of the best goddamned researchers I’ve ever seen. For example, he did a documentary on Jack the Ripper. Instead of just going over the same beats everyone else does, this madlad poured over dozens of police reports, newspaper clippings, and eyewitness accounts from the time of the events, (more than 150 years old), and then compared those to more contemporary research to make a more complete study. He somehow put all of this together into the most cohesive description of the events I’ve ever seen, all with detailed and accurate CGI visuals (nothing graphic, just to show locations and timelines and such).

Really, really dedicated guy with a huge amount of integrity in his work, lots of creative flair, and no annoying biases or wild assumptions.

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