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 😅
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.
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I need a fan or white noise. Silence is just “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” until I fall asleep.
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
Yes, I can’t sleep without white noise
Buy yourself a white noise machine. I’ve been using one for almost 10 years, it’s 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, I’ve 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 sleep… but I just can’t… the rhythmic ticking drives me crazy haha
podcast or audio books are my go to - sometimes I’m stuck on the same chapter for weeks
I can’t handle the constant having to rewind and going wait did I already listen to this last night? that happens if I listen to podcasts or audiobooks to sleep.
Maybe I should just find a podcast I don’t care about actually hearing everything in that I could use for sleep.
