What music do you like to fall asleep to?

Nothing. No music. No white noise (I absolutely hate white noise). Just silence

I only listen to something if I'm having trouble turning off my thoughts. In those cases, I listen to the Let's Read YouTube channel.

Usually nothing. But if I need to it's either Dead Can Dance or Ludovico Einundi.

Melodic death metal 🫣

I prefer to read to sleep; but if it's to be music, mellow children's music or classical.

Soma FM - Dronezone It's pretty much perfect: free, no commercials, rain, ocean, droney. I actually listen to it most of the day, if I can.

Sometimes there are higher pitched drone tunes that aren't as dreamy (for me)

Watermark by Enya

I can't with music. I put a Scholar's Lore video on youtube and I'm sleeping within 5 minutes even when I'm not trying to fall asleep.

Saint-Saëns "Carnival of the Animals".

Hammock, psychedelic trance music, or there is a lucid dreaming playlist on YouTube Music I like.

ETA "Psybient", there used to be a perfect playlist called psybient, that may work well as a search term to find that downbeat psychedelic trance music.

No way could I fall asleep to a podcast, but my husband plays Alan Watts explaining meditation, and that I sure can. Maybe it would be a middle ground for y'all - a guided meditation?

My go-to is streaming playlists by Northernlion. Something about his voice is incredibly soothing. I think I've probably gone through his Rimworld playlists (both of them) at least 10 times over the years.

Rain sounds, Arabian instrumental ambient, Enya, Hildegard von Bingen. Some nights one playlist doesn’t work for me so I use another.

formula 1 onboard sounds. I'm not kidding, it's SO relaxing
https://youtu.be/_5Lr6fDIZG8

edit: I forgot to mention that I also hear the team radios and can hear them say stuff, so sometimes I'll be dreaming and my brain will just add in lewis Hamilton or some shit lmao

blue moon take 9/m by elvis presley is an insane experience listening to while teetering between sleeping and awake

Believe it or not the Goldberg variations works for me.

Rain or Thunder is very calming to fall asleep to. Though most often it's with a TV show on. Something I've seen a bunch before and can nod off to, without missing anything. Just comfort noise.

The album These Winter Dreams by All India Radio

Music for Airports by Brian Eno or anything by him at all really.

I used to listen to the Star Wars soundtrack. But nowadays I listen to small documentaries like PBS Spacetime.

Rain white noise

I prefer silence, but had to get a white noise machine to help drown out the neighbors. Nothing crazy, I'm just sensitive and grumpy.

Rainfall, thunderstorms, rivers. That kind of thing!

I listen to this on loop for 12 hours. every day for the last 270 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBB5-bP6qs&t=51

Nothing in the general case.

If I'm having issues getting to sleep because of stress, I turn on a Mighty Jingles World of Warships video. I usually don't make it past the intro and I'm out.

Some kind of ambient instrumental. Or nature sounds. Nothing with lyrics or I won’t be able to concentrate on sleeping lol.

The sound of silence. I don't mean Simon & Garfunkel, and I definitely don't mean Disturbed (though, it's a good cover).

Honestly though, I can sleep to whatever. My younger brother used to sleep to death metal. I'm not kidding. It was annoying for about a week. We've had noisy neighbors and my wife will ask if she should go yell at them or something when I'm about to go to bed (she stays up all night, I wake up early). I say nope, it's not an issue. And it never has been. I don't think I can sleep to a baby crying or a shrill alarm though. Anything high pitched. I'm pretty sure I even fell asleep to loud sex one time. As I was drifting off, I could have sworn I heard moaning and thumping. I remember having a bit of a chuckle over that. Hot college girl used to live next door, she's getting railed TF out of like 2 feet away through a wall, and she'd be embarrassed if I saw her in her underwear (I never tried to look, just saying). But you don't really think, there's another room right there, another bed up against the same wall, and somebody who always leaves before the sun comes up is probably in there. So yeah, anyway, I'm a heavy sleeper.

Pink Floyd Division Bell or YouTube has some decent black screen music options. I really like black screen classical music mix, but sometimes it's hard to find.

Chill Out by the KLF. Always soothes me.

Isn't it dangerous to train yourself to fall asleep to music? What if you need to take a long drive? You put on some tunes, zzzzzzz CRASH!

Bands like Follakzoid, Oresund Space Collective and Zement

Nothing, or a YouTube video that's mildly entertaining but not too much so I don't regret missing the end by falling asleep. LTT for instance.

Cat purring beside my head

"fall asleep" 💦