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.
Others have made great points; I’d like to add my favourite: you can play rain sounds from Spotify (and iOS devices can do this without any subscriptions from the Hearing CC toggle)!
It helps me during nights I have a lot on my mind :)
Try a fan. And this one’s weird, but I have an analog clock in my room and the rhythmic ticking helps me sleep.
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
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.
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
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…
I feel like the thoughts in my head would drown it out.
I have an air purifier in my room that is always running so filling the room with humming and providing clean air.
Tinnitus fucking sucks. I hate silence
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.
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.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
A plus one for the white noise machine. Game changer.
I fixed that problem…I never hear silence!
All I hear is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
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.
MAWP!
I wish three was a cure for tinitus
I have tinnitus, so absolute silence is never enjoyable for me. Music works extremely well; I fall asleep with the tv on.
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 😅
Me too. I don’t even remember what silence doesn’t sound like. XD
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.
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.
Well, I have ADHD so I can identify with that also. lol
I’ve been using a fan. It almost entirely hides the ringing
More the opposite. I can’t stand all the noise. Especially during spring & summer when you have to open your window during the night.
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.
I have tinnitus. Had it my whole life. I live with a fan running in every room except the kitchen and bathroom. They are on 24/7 365. The silence literally makes my head feel like it’s about to pop
Luckily, I have children to do this for me haha
Yes, but more so because of my tinitus. It fucking sucks, I can’t really focus on reading books because the silence is deafening.
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I sleep with a fan. Luckily hotel A/C’s have a constant fan function.
I need constant noise from something like a fan to sleep.
Buy yourself a white noise machine. I’ve been using one for almost 10 years, it’s helped my sleep routine immensely. I prefer it to something with talking because the fluctuations of something like comedy would disrupt me. Also, I think that concentrating on something like comedy makes me want to watch it and I would woke up.
The next thing is an eye mask. Even if your room is mostly dark, I’ve found it helps me to stay asleep.
Absolutely. A consistent noise like a fan is best, but music is good too.
The noise in my head is plenty loud already.
