I must have noise to go along with going to sleep. Usually thats an audio book or long-form video essay type YouTube videos. I wear one earbud to bed if I’m sleeping at night with my girlfriend or just blare it from the TV if I’m sleeping alone during the day (rotating shift). I feel like when I don’t have engaging audio and I’m trying to sleep I can’t quiet my mind enough to sleep. A fan or random ambient noise isn’t enough for me.
I’m so goddamn hyper alert that I need complete silence and pitch black darkness to fall asleep.
Except for thunderstorms. Those are oddly soothing. But that’s it.
seconded on stormy nights, I love sleeping with the pitter patter of rain and thunder
Playing by Minecraft rules, I see.
Thunderstorms wake me up because I like them so much.
Ooooof I’m the opposite. Hyper alert meaning every minor noise, shadow or anything will keep me up. Need to drown it out with someone’s voice telling me about a video game from 20 years ago. Or some nonfiction book read by a dude with a monotone voice.