[GoneWithTheSun]

funnily enough, there's a band called Sleep and their songs are very calming!

[Kik]

'yamerias' wrote on '02:

No honestly, it's not, I don't suffer tinnitus are anything like that but silence truly really hurts more that I can describe…

Feeder have an album called Comfort in Sound. Have to say I disagree with them on that one.

I miss the silence! My tinnitus can be deafening sometimes. Price I pay for listening to too much Feeder! 😀

[MarinaFournier]

'IvanAleisterMesniaa' wrote on '14:

This is a song I used to listen to to help me sleep, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr_MJAOyOeU

What a beautiful melody! What a sweet video! I must listen to more of this artist.

I can't listen to music to get me to sleep, but if I try to reproduce an instrumental piece, or a tune to a restful song in a language I can't understand (can't engage the active brain!), then I have a chance of dropping off.

[MarinaFournier]

'Caers' wrote on '18:

Also, I have a playlist composed of music that has a certain tone and pitch to it that acts like a switch to stop m brain racing. It's weird. It doesn't put me to sleep, but it calms my brain enough to where I can at least try to sleep without a million things going through my head.

That's great! Finding a way to switch the brain activity to off is the key to me getting to sleep, too. Mere exhaustion won't do it.

[MarinaFournier]

'mspeekay' wrote on '01:

I haven't found that music helps, but spoken word does. Go figure!

Did anyone read you before/to sleep when you were younger?

[MarinaFournier]

'Martin' wrote on '02:

I remember reading about how to pick the right type of music to listen to when trying to fall asleep. I think you've all just proved there is no such thing as one 'right' type that works for everyone.

However, I have read that you should choose something you are already very familiar with. Otherwise, your brain will remain active as it listens to the words and sounds. When you listen to music you're already familiar with, it helps your brain relax (and hopefully helps you sleep).

When I'm trying to get to sleep by running an instrumental piece of music through my head, trying to get all the notes in the right order and pitch, a familar tune is all I *can* use.

I was at the San Jose Harvest Festival (not a true festival: you pay to get in to shop, much like Dickens Fair, Renaissance Pleasure Fairs, and the like) yesterday, hoping to connect with a particular vendor (never did manage to meet), I found a musician, Richard Searles <http://earthdancemusic.com/> whose albums I have in vinyl LPs (yup, that long ago) or on tape. He had about a dozen more than I knew I had purchased. We chatted for quite a while while I tried to figure out which albums to buy. I had a chance to listen to various tracks on several albums, talk about the instruments he'd used, stuff like that. I also had the chance to tell him how enjoyable I found his albums, which one rarely gets to do directly. I found his new series of Nature Sounds, and asked about them.

Redwood Grove [Relaxing sounds of the forest after a heavy rain (no music). Featuring a continuous stream of water accompanied by birds and other wildlife. Recorded in a grove of Redwoods by Richard Searles at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park on the California coast.]

Pacific Coast Surf /size][i][size=3]60 minutes of hypnotic ocean surf (no music). Helps create a relaxing ambience perfect for sleep or meditation. [/size][/i][i][size=3]Recorded by Richard Searles at Garrapata State Beach in the Big Sur region of the California coast.[/size][/i][size=3

Rain on Loon Lake /size][i][size=3]60 minutes of gentle rain falling on water (no music). With distant thunder and haunting loon calls, this recording helps create a relaxing ambience perfect for sleep, meditation or massage. Recorded by Richard Searles on a lake in Ontario, Canada[/size][/i][size=3

Unlike many other “nature” or environmental albums, there is no music to interfere. This is not white noise engineered to sound like something, and the ear and brain can tell. There are no repeats, no looping, just one continuous 60 minute track of nature with water being the predominant sound. Pacific Coast Surf has no sounds save that of the surf, ebbing and flowing.

We talked about how other series having jarring sounds, obvious looping after 10-20 minutes, and how unsatisfactory this was to either of us. When I get a chance to listen to the Surf album, I'll let you know how it goes. I'm wondering if my MiL might like it, in spite of the fact that she lived on the Intercoastal Waterway in Destin FL for many years, and that there is no real surf there, nor really on the Gulf coast on the other side of the peninsula/barrier island. Water sounds are very soothing to me–except the sounds of faucet trips, toilets running, and the irrigation system turning on.

YMMV!

[MarinaFournier]

'sarahkay' wrote on '19:

I use classical sooting music, no words unless made up ones such as Karl Jenkins' Adiemus stuff.

When I'm writing anything, I have to have instrumental music only, unless it's stuff like Adiemus or Dead Can Dance–or something in a language so foreign to me I can't make out any words I might know. Yma Sumac is right out–I learned a little Quechua, and the other songs are in Spanish, which I can follow. The Tuvan throat singers (male) or the Inuit throat singers (female) are fine.

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