In response to the previous item - What sounds do you like to sleep to?38 responses total.
Classical music. Usually, quiet piano etudes and sonatas.
Classical on a very quiet, old tube radio. But usually just silence.
A friend of mine falls asleep to taped thunderstorms. Spending the night at his house once, I found it very relaxing. There was a while when I would play something mellow just before going to bed, usually Phish's "The Squirming Coil" - which has a great, relaxed closing piano solo - or Miles Davis' "Sanctuary" - not entirely mellow, but I find it very relaxing. Recently, I've been listening to "Twinkly" by Tori Amos just before I go to sleep, but not as music to sleep to. Sort of the agnostic equivalent of an evening prayer :)
I loved listening to my father's guitar lullabies when my sister Rachel and I were very young. Our biggest favorite was "Have You Ever Heard Of The Sugar Plum Tree?" which was a poem he set to music. Then I used to listen to a sample tape that included Roger Whittaker's "Winken, Blinken and Nod," Zamfir's "Ave Maria" (he's a master player of the pan flute, if you don't recognize him), and Lindsey Buckingham's "TIme Bomb Town" (from _Back To The Future_). Then I used to listen to a collection of ambient music. I've also found myself falling asleep to Enya's _Shepherd Moons_.
my cat purring, mostly, or silence.
While orin was out of town, I found myself listening to the luv song off the anime movie _X_. Normally, tho' I don't listen to anything.
There're a few things I find unsuitable when I'm trying to get to sleep (for example techno and ska, because of their strong, driving beats..) but I don't have much problem with the great majority of music I like..
Often, the soundtrack to "Labyrinth". Some classic REM (STand,etc.). More often, whatever Gareth has on his radio (usually the alternative stuff) or whatever's playing on tv downstairs.
Yeah, TV voices can be nice. A monotonous newscast works just as well as waves, rain, etc. to relax, if you can ignore the content.
re:8 you have Labyrinth?! I am *so* jealous! I love that music, and have been looking for the soundtrack for a couple of years now, and have never been able to find it! Argh! I'm so totally jealous!
If I fall asleep to music (rare), I usually put in a tape and cue it up a song or two before one of my favorites. It makes me want to stay awake to hear the favorite, and I absolutely *never* make it. Doesn't matter what style the music is, either.
Tricia, check out Border's. That's where I found the soundtrack to Labyrinth on CD. I laready had it on vinyl. (Twila is tempted to buy a second copy on CD just so she'll always have one.)
Yeah. I'll do that. I need to go do some looking around for books and music anyway, I might as well make a stop in there.
I like to sleep to my _T.V.'s Greatest Hits_ CD. I put the theme from _Sanford and Son_ on repeat.
My favorites to sleep to: Mozart's Requiem Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
I used to fall asleep to Ace of Bass and other early techno stuff....I just hypnotizes me.!
Ace of Bass is techno? Technopop/synthpop, maybe, but this group doesn't quite fit into what is strictly categorized as techno. (Sorry, I'll shut up now.)
Calling Ace of Bass techno gives me a sick feeling in my stomach.
It was part of the origional european techno movement. It's not was t we would call techno today.
Maybe you're confusing "Ace of Base" with "Kraftwerk".. Otherwise I'm not sure how you could support a claim that Ace of Base was part of the "original european techno movement."
Aha - another Bitches Brew fan? I doubt I could sleep to it, though. Sounds like the makings of strange dreams.
I can fall asleep to almost anything, but lately I've been dozing off to Phillip Glass' _Low Symphony_
I'm afraid I just can't resist making some sort of snide comment about Glass's work being perfect music for falling asleep.. :-) I think the current holder of the "drifting off to sleep" position in the CD-changer in my bedroom is Mojave 3's "Ask Me Tomorrow"..
re 20: It's what they were calling techno 5 years ago in Germany, when I was there. Like I said, now it's not really considered that, but then...
This will sound strange, but when I was young, about 7th grade or so, I listened to a tape of Hawaiian music to fall to sleep too. I'm talking without words, I always have a problem sleeping to music with words to. With the exception of Secret Garden, or Lorenna McKennit CDs.
I find that old Metallica is good to sleep to, it is amazing how many simalarities there are between metal like old metallica, and good classical music. anyway, it is very relaxing. i know that sounds strange, but if you get something like master of puppets, (or ealier) you will notice the relaxing qualities. new metallica just sucks tho..
Actually, a friend of mine told me that metal guitarists often unwittingly explore polphonic lines..reminsicient of of the Baroque.
I tend to work best to metal-type music - something about the repetition and the heavy beat helps me concentrate, I guess - but I'd never try sleeping to it.
recently i have been falling asleep to silence (aahhhhh), but before that, I was falling asleep to Delerium's 'Karma,' Stabbing Westward's 'Darkest Days,' and Yello's 'Essential.'
When I was a wee bairn, I'd always fall asleep to music (such as Tom Lehrer, which might go some way towards explaining something) or just noise in general, but at some point that changed, and I can't fall asleep with _any_ music. I've tried, but I always get too wrapped up in just listening to it.
I'm the same way, cloud. I used to have to have the radio on to sleep, but the other night when I tried keeping the radio on I just kept listening to the music and couldn't fall asleep.
(You were a wee bairn? I'm jealous! I didn't even get to be knee high to a grasshopper. My family appears to be dialect-impaired...)
Well, actually, I was refered to as a "Rugrat," but I use whatever dialect suits me in a given moment
I like to fall asleep to rainstorms. When I listen to music to sleep, I find that Ambient or anything etherial works well for me. It has to be mainly instrumental though.
I'll fall asleep to just about anything barring really fast paced music. Any soothing sound works, though. Even the music of Jon's snoring helps me to fall asleep some nights.
Hola, yo solo quiero opinar que en algunas ocasiones enciendo la radio o la tv para poder dormirme.. creo que no soy el unico por lo visto ;) jaja adios!
Pues se me olvido que significa opinar.. bueno, que significa 'opinar'? Y creo que pedirte si puedes hablar en ingles.. todo la gente aqui no entienden espanol. Okay, so why do I have a feeling dwight's never going to see that? He doesn't seem like a *gavacho* because few non-native speakers of Spanish would spell "ha ha" as "ja ja" (because that's how native speakers spell it). Anyway, <drift off>
two cd's - icebreaker and piano magic.
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