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Falling asleep to music

nuttynutskin

nuttynutskin

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I know it's bad to sleep with your tv going, but a lot of times I'll go to sleep with some music on extremely quiet (usually house or trance). Is this bad and am I making my sleep less than optimal?
 
well i guess silence is optimal, sometimes ill go to sleep while listening to interviews or audiobooks or podcasts. i don't think it matters that much if it is very quiet, and its probably better if it doesn't happen every night.

my piano teacher used to encourage me to go to sleep with the piano pieces i was learning on all night. classical conditioning or something i guess :P
 
I'd say if you still wake up feeling refreshed, it's all good. Use how you feel as a gauge of how good it is for you.
 
I never wake up refreshed lol. But I think I'm going to stop falling asleep to music or with the tv on. Although I've done it before, the main reason I was doing it currently stemmed from anxiety I was having about falling asleep due to something that happened recently. I think it may be affecting my sleep tho and causing weird dreams so I'm going to see if I can do without it.
 
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an alternative is to try reading a book to go to sleep. eyes get tired and you put down the book and *bam* sleepytime
 
I used to do this quite frequently but I would often wake up in the middle of the night with the music still playing, feeling very annoyed.

Now I either use the "auto-off" feature on my phone, or I turn it off myself when I'm relaxed enough and ready to sleep.

Reading is a good idea, reading a paper book is even better, just make sure you use a weak warm white light bulb (daylight/cool white bulbs are more likely to interfere with your sleep, as they produce more blue light)
 
I pretty much have stopped this since I'm not really having anxiety about going to sleep now. I think even leaving light music on was fucking with my sleep to a degree. Now I just watch tv until I go to sleep and turn it off. If anyone wants a good way to have weird dreams tho leave the tv on without any volume. lol
 
I used to sleep to music when I slept alone.
It seems to be a personal thing though - if my girl can't sleep with music playing, it's silent slumber.
If I'm sufficiently zonked and want to drift off to some smooth, gentle music, there is always the headphones option...but I try to avoid listening to music that will energise or awaken me in the hours leading up to bedtime as I know it has the tendency to cause insomnia.
One really interesting thing about sleeping with music playing is that when I did used to regularly do it, I would frequently wake up when a long I liked came on. On the radio too, not some semi-aware playlist pattern sort of thing.
Didnt matter if I'd been asleep for 1 hour, 5 hours or it was close to time to wake up - a song I wanted to listen to very often roused me. Makes me think about the nature of sleep/wake consciousness and that idea that you can bring people out of comas by playing their favourite music. It doesn't surprise me, and i think it is really cool.
Music is amazing powerful.
 
I must admitt crashing to hardstyle bass in my ears, just being that exhausted that no matter I was doing I was gonna be sleeping, I never have really had trouble sleeping, only thing that keeps me awake is hearing the crasp coming from the tv
 
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