Classic movies, usually from TCM. I love classics but they’re often fantastic to fall asleep to with their slower stories and quieter dialog.
Pink Floyd: Dark side of the moon
A book.
The I cant sleep podcast. Just a guy reading random wikipedia articles.
“Content”
Astrum and or SEA. calm space documentaries. interesting enough to hold my attention and keep my mind from racing, not critical enough that I’m afraid to miss it.
There’s a few short fiction podcasts I like for bedtime stories:
- Myths & Legends
- Fictional
- LeVar Burton Reads
- The Magnus Archives
Usually nothing but silence, but if I can not sleep or am thinking to loud I try to distract myself with some glitch in the matrix or anything by as the Raven dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnMichaelGodier
This guy’s videos. He has the perfect cadence and voice for it, and the right video length too. To be perfectly honest I have no idea if the content of the videos is good, but they’re very useful.
This… JMG is the best. Him and Isaac Arthur…
My kid swears by train-crossing channels on YT.
I go to sleep listening to music. Some of my favorite sleep time artist:
Carbon based lifeform, Solar fields, Aes Dana, Emancipator, Album leaf, Random Rab, Sync 24, Ulrich Schnauss
Audiobooks.
Mostly the one I’m currently reading, but I have to listen to that part again the next day.
If that’s too engaging I listen to Nothing much happens, Bedtime stories where as it says, not much is happening, read in a soothing voice.
Same. Whatever I’m currently listening to I add a bookmark before bed and go back to that point the next time I listen.
Math class
Great Lectures are so fantastic too. Interesting stuff but the production quality is so great and soothing I don’t stand a chance haha.
For sure
Almost all the suggestions here are videos. Who wants light from a screen keeping them awake when they are trying to sleep? Put on some very quiet music instead. Best for me is when it’s something I know pretty well.
I usually just have an earbud in and face the screen of my phone/tablet down on the nightstand.