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.
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.
Thunderstorms wake me up because I like them so much.