[MarinaFournier]

Do you find that most “environmental sounds” offered in clocks and on CDs to help you sleep are 1) really from white noise generators (and damned irritating to me, awake or tying to sleep) or 2) on too short a loop, and you can tell when the cycle starts up again? I found someone who agreed with me on these two items.

Richard Searles http://earthdancemusic.com/natureseries.html offers an album of Pacific Surf. It's 60 minutes of nothing but surf music, captured in one recording at the beach. You might enjoy some of his music, as well.

I had a chance to talk to him at a fair he was at–I have a couple of his albums from when they were originally issued, some time ago, and I was happy to chat. It often gets boring and tiring running a booth at a fair (except for the times when crowds descend upon you!), indoor/outdoor makes no difference. It's probably pleasant to chat with someone who knows and enjoys your work.

We got on the subject of “nature” sound albums and insomnia, and he showed me the three albums he had recorded. Two of them are foresty–one's in a redwood grove, and the other by a lake with loons, and they do have birds in them, which I can find disrupting to sleep-time relaxation. Fog horns and bouys are right out!

I also talked about my occasional practice of trying to run a piece of instrumental music through my head in order to switch off my active brain–won't work for a musician!

I have yet to listen to the albums I picked up that weekend, so I can't say anything about the entire album. I did listen to a bit of each of his Nature Series albums before I bought two–he doesn't think that music necessarily belongs with nature recordings.

[cherrychapstik]

The only ones that I don't find annoying are any that consistently just play rain. Rain makes me calm and puts me to sleep. Birds and animals make me feel anxious (but really what doesn't these days?). Whenever I hear rain though, it's just… peaceful and quiet. People don't scream outside in the rain usually. You can count on a sort of peace after it's done until the people come out again. I love that feeling.

[Martin Reed]

Being from Oregon, maybe I should get some sound recording equipment and record the rain falling here and give the CDs away to Insomnia Land members?!

I'm actually half serious!

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[MarinaFournier]

'cherrychapstik' wrote on '10:

The only ones that I don't find annoying are any that consistently just play rain. Rain makes me calm and puts me to sleep. Birds and animals make me feel anxious (but really what doesn't these days?). Whenever I hear rain though, it's just… peaceful and quiet. People don't scream outside in the rain usually. You can count on a sort of peace after it's done until the people come out again. I love that feeling.

Love the sound of rain, and the smell of it just starting, and in winter, the smell of moss on th driveway. I also like to fall asleep to its sounds.

[MarinaFournier]

'Martin' wrote on '10:

Being from Oregon, maybe I should get some sound recording equipment and record the rain falling here and give the CDs away to Insomnia Land members?!

I'm actually half serious!

Sounds good to me!

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