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Does anyone else find absolute silence difficult to deal with? In particular difficult to sleep in complete silence?
I think it started from a young age, being obsessed with music. Falling asleep with music.
As an adult, I still struggle with this and need some form of audio to drift off, be it music or something else.
More recently, I find stand-up comedy works best - it's light-hearted and doesn't require too much thought.
Tinnitus fucking sucks. I hate silence
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I think I have a strange version of tinnitus where instead of ringing I'll feel pulses as vibrations in my ear, it syncs with my heartbeat.
I think that's a known glitch where the heart beat doesn't go away after you get critically injured, it should be patched in the next update.
It's called pulsatile tinnitus.
I have tinnitus, so absolute silence is never enjoyable for me. Music works extremely well; I fall asleep with the tv on.
I've been using a fan. It almost entirely hides the ringing
When I read the title of the post, I immediately wondered if anybody else with tinnitus had commented yet.
"Silence" sounds amazing, would love to try it some time π
I Think I might too. Need to get checked. Always a low humming. Sometimes high pitch ringing. But I meant more of not being able to settle my mind.
As a teen, I needed complete silence/darkness to sleep well. Then I met my now-wife, who needed a TV on to sleep well.
It took a while, but we eventually compromised on a fan for background noise.
I prefer seperate rooms haha
I have tinnitus. Had it my whole life. I live with a fan running in every room except the kitchen and bathroom. They are on 24/7 365. The silence literally makes my head feel like it's about to pop
Luckily, I have children to do this for me haha
I must have earplugs and an eyemask to sleep. Always wanted pitch black and complete silence since I was a child.
My wife is the same.
I would love absolute silence. I got Tinnitus in my right ear 24/7/365.. It will probably never disappear.. And I also sleep with a CPAP which makes annoying sounds when sleeping. So I would absolute silence.
Most people I know sleep with a fan on for this reason. Really common, yeah.
I need a fan or white noise. Silence is just "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" until I fall asleep.
Yes, I can't sleep without white noise
Silence isn't a thing.
Sound of leaves rustling, the ocean, or even gentle wind? I sleep, no problem
A house quietly creaking and my blood flowing?
I've put on music or Netflix since childhood
Buy yourself a white noise machine. Iβve been using one for almost 10 years, itβs helped my sleep routine immensely. I prefer it to something with talking because the fluctuations of something like comedy would disrupt me. Also, I think that concentrating on something like comedy makes me want to watch it and I would woke up.
The next thing is an eye mask. Even if your room is mostly dark, Iβve found it helps me to stay asleep.
More the opposite. I can't stand all the noise. Especially during spring & summer when you have to open your window during the night.
The only time I ever would've preferred silence to some background noise was when I was at a scout camp along the banks of a river and the cacophony of frogs and crickets at night was super fucking loud. I barely slept the whole time I was there.
Other than that, I always put on some kind of ambient sounds or yoga music.
Try a fan. And this one's weird, but I have an analog clock in my room and the rhythmic ticking helps me sleep.
I know were you are coming from and I know a few people who have a clock in the room and sleepβ¦ but I just canβtβ¦ the rhythmic ticking drives me crazy haha
podcast or audio books are my go to - sometimes Iβm stuck on the same chapter for weeks
I fixed that problem...I never hear silence!
All I hear is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
I wish three was a cure for tinitus
I have horrible tinnitus after years of searing guitars. I have to sleep with a white noise machine or I am completely tweaked
Yep. I also have a bit of tinnitus so I prefer a bit of sound. Usually I play an episode of Frasier, Mom or Modern Family. Usually before the end of the episode I'm sleeping.
Doβ¦do you live in my house? I will say that I tend to wake up to hear tossed salads and scrambled eggs though and shut off the TV when I can just roll back over and be asleep though.
Put your TV on a 15/30min sleep timer?
Yeah, my wife usually sets an hour timer. Her sleep patterns are odd for falling asleep. She is out in 5 minutes some nights, other nights she canβt sleep for hours.
I usually fall asleep to a podcast. One that is interesting, but not so interesting that it'll keep me up. A history podcast or something like that.
I do this too. Unmade Podcast is my sleeping podcast. 2 dudes talking podcast. It's a little hard without it.
I quite like We Have Ways podcast, although they never balance their mics so one of them ends up blasting my ears waking me up while you can't hear the other one at low volume π
If I'm not asleep by a certain time of night, "hour of the wolf", then I find it very hard to sleep without something in the background. Usually I use the sound of a babbling brook that I recorded while in Iceland.
Try weed. Not right before sleep but a bit earlier, while watching those stand-ups for example.
Yeh. Itβs amazing. I have a medical license for it. But sometimes I want to not sleep haha. More about the silence being frightening. Rather than not being able to sleep. Haha.