Nothing. By separating sleep time and TV time, I’m less likely to fall asleep before I’m ready, and I fall asleep much faster when it’s bedtime.
I can’t sleep if there’s any sort of talking. For some reason I can’t tune it out and my mind latches onto every word
My ex would go to sleep to those CSI and true crime murder porn shows and I’d be laying there, mad, exhausted, with a pillow over my head, but still invested in whether or not the over-helpful neighbor was the real killer.
Bad habit, your brain needs a lack of talking heads when you sleep.
If silence doesn’t work for you, try something with steady noise. Some use white noise generators, for me it’s the whir from an air purifier.
My thoughts would overwhelm the silence, and well, we can’t have that.
Any long run laugh track sitcom ie Mike & Molly or Mom (Netflix).
10 hours of the Wii Weather Channel music
So there’s this Youtube channel called Astrum
He now specifically has Astrum Sleep for this specifically.
Star Trek: Voyager
Road cycling races. In particular sprint stages from the grand tours from Eurosport or TNT/Max streaming. The coverage for these races is typically over two hours long, and there are no commercial breaks. There’s very little action until the final 10 minutes or so, so the commentary is fairly monotonous until then. I just make sure to set my TV’s sleep timer to shut it off before then.
Nowadays I’m married, and cuddling my wife and listening to her breathing are generally all the help I need to drift to sleep, but back when I was living alone I’d throw on either a playlist of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes (comforting old ones I’d seen a zillion times and could zone out to) or the eclectic online music station Radio Paradise.
I’ve always been pretty good at lucid dreaming, and in those days having some dream scenario randomly interrupted by the soothing voice of Radio Paradise owner Bill Goldsmith doing a song intro or the wisecracks of MST’s Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot would help clue me in that I was dreaming.
Nature created and narrated by George Page.
Ancient aliens
Spongebob
I don’t, but I’ll listen to a podcast or audio book before I settle down to sleep.
I’ve never really had a TV in my bedroom so never got into the habit of having the TV on while I’m sleeping
I find a random 3 hour youtube video and put it on.
If its something I’m interested in I’m gonna watch it instead of falling asleep.
Not shows but YT videos. Starts with a couple of fig tree vids where she recaps Gilgamesh, Oedipus, Madea, and then goes in to Mike’s Mic Appropriately Unhinged Lost Season 1-4 Recap.
Highly recommend both for entertainment but they’re easy to sleep by as well.
