Sleep Music
 

I personally prefer to fall asleep listening to music, and I assume many others do as well. What do you guys generally listen to when you sleep?

Lately I've been listening ambient/minimal techno (mostly The Field and Gas) when I go to sleep. The subtle rhythms make the music easy to get lost in. "Hospice" by The Antlers is an album I frequently fall asleep to as well. Oddly enough, I find Deftones fairly relaxing to listen to.

I've always enjoyed drifting off to Sigur Rós, though lately I've been listening to Arab Strap. It really makes me appreciate the music on a deeper level; hearing all of the different components in that semi-conscious state before falling asleep makes it a really personal experience.

I like to do ambient/downtempo music such as Bluetech, Ooze, Ott, etc. or space rock like Oresund Space Collective, Sula Bassana, Interkosmos, Hidria Spacefolk, Quantum Fantay, etc., but last night, for example, I fell asleep to Chimp Spanner - technical metal guitar infused with downtempo/chill sections. It doesn't have to be chill for me to fall asleep to it.

A good rule of thumb for me is to pick some instrumental music. It can be heavy or mellow, but without a vocalist, I can drift off to sleep easily and happily. I can fall asleep to music with vocals, but not as readily.

I used to put on music to fall asleep to, but several things turned me off from it:

1) Earbuds/phones hurt your ears
2) It almost always means staying awake longer than I would have if I'd just went to sleep without music

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can't remember falling asleep to much besides this growing up. unlike many of us here at mb i have a hard time listening to music and doing anything else at the same time, including fall asleep. it's too engaging and captivates my attention no matter what is going on or what i want to get done, but this is such a sick album. it relaxed me and put me in a tranquil state so that i could clear my head and pass out.

I'm sure I'm in the minority with this but I like to fall asleep to some drone doom on repeat. Waking up slowly to some Khanate or Slomo really makes you appreciate their work a lot more.

I did this regularly earlier this year but got out of the habit. I got a kick out of hearing how fast music sounded as my brain function slowed down.

Brian Eno's ambient records in general work well if all you want is enrich your environment with some nice sounds.

I rarely ever fall asleep to music, but when I do, I would choose anything in the post-rock genre. Stuff like:



pg.lost especially considering I have fallen asleep to this song before.

Massive Attack has joined me in the good fight against insomnia, many a time...

Warren Ellis' SPEKTRMODULE podcasts get used for that purpose a lot lately too.