loveee love this genre called "slowcore", it's a genre of indie rock that sounds really quiet and melancholic and just overall feels like lullaby, if that's what you're into :] never fails w me, i love feeling like i'm being sung to sleep lol, also focusing on all the sounds and lyrics can help with falling asleep for me!
bands like red house painters, duster, galaxie 500, eiafuawn, tram... i have many
also ambient music! i love the band grouper, there's this song "litte gray cat" and i think it did its job even when i wasn't feeling tired at all haha
Buut if you don't want music, you can watch interesting livestreams on twitch or letsplays, a true crime documentary(if not disturbing while trying to sleep haha), any other documentary or commentary video, whatever's long enough !
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if these don't make you nod off nothing will
Area 3 - Area 3
Otto Benson - Songs Before Bed
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Words That I Could Not Convey to You
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Ashra - New Age of Earth
Josh Shpak - You Can Always Go Outside
Photay - On Hold
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Masakatsu Takagi - Marginalia III
Sep 23, 2024
laid in bed listening to this last night while trying to stay awake waiting for my laundry to be done, i was extremely tired since i’d been up since 4AM tho. kept the music on just loud enough to keep me alert but low enough to let me drift off intermittently. highly recommend the experience.
you’ll get lost in the textures, have weird half dreams while you fight off sleep, notice the progression and slight changes over the course of the song, and overall lose perception of time
Apr 23, 2024
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Theres a playlist on spotify called jazz in the background. I find it better than other jazz playlists. The feeling of waking up to soft calm music like that is unmatched. Try it sometime and let me know of any of ur favorite soft jazz playlists or albums! :)
Jan 27, 2025
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i loveee early mornings, 5/6 AM, taking a shower starting your day early, too bad i'm the sleepiest person alive and never get to experience them :s
3/4 AM when you're sitting with your friend on the balcony sobering up, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, sharing stories and gossip and laughing your asses off over dumb jokes you won't remember later
6-9PM BUT ONLY in summertime when the sun has set and it's not hot anymore but it's still light outside and you're talking a walk and life is beautiful and worth living and ahh *chef's kiss*
10PM when the day is done and everyone's gone to sleep and you have no work to do so you can just do your thing in your room watch a movie snug as a bug y'know the drill :3
Apr 18, 2024
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to be completely honest i struggle a lot with rlly bad social anxiety and not feeling like i have anything worthy to say lol and i want to try to beat it all and i'm giving it a try by answering asks here n possibly engaging with people ( scary :0 ) and maybe genuinely saying something helpful once we'll see
and i like the anonymity! i don't think it's that widely-used of a website and it just feels safe unlike other social medias do for me haha
i'm a tumblr girlie and this reminds me of it in certain ways! cutesy and the people seem nice
as for why any of us are here at all... me personally, i was put on this earth to listen to music while riding the bus and drinking a smoothie... don't know bout the rest of y'all...
Apr 18, 2024