Nothing. As close to silence as possible.
I can’t do silence, my thoughts are too loud. Rain sounds work well for me.
…white noise drowns out the ringing in my ears and calms the voices in my head…
I always have a fan running in there summertime and it’s too weird sleeping without it on the winter.
I use Futurama. It’s my comfort show and I’ve watched it so much it makes me sleepy now haha
Hell yeah Futurama sleepers ftw. There used to be a sub for it.
Anything but jurassic bark 😭
Technology Connections doing a deep dive into something like how a VHS cassette tape works. I’m interested, but if it’s late, the topic also knocks me out in about 15 min.
A fan and total darkness.
…my fan broke earlier this year; i’m shopping for a mechanical white-noise generator…
…when our central air conditioner failed during this summer’s hundred-degree spell, i installed a temporary window-box unit and sleeping was BLISS: tinnitus gang needs fans…
Audiobooks.
Mostly the one I’m currently reading, but I have to listen to that part again the next day.
If that’s too engaging I listen to Nothing much happens, Bedtime stories where as it says, not much is happening, read in a soothing voice.
Same. Whatever I’m currently listening to I add a bookmark before bed and go back to that point the next time I listen.
My audiobook player has a sleep timer that after it expires, will gradually fade out to nothing.
Best part is if you’re still awake enough that you notice it happening you can just shake your phone (with an adjustable intensity) without turning the screen on or anything and it resets the sleep timer.
My ability to fall asleep has never been better.