PBS Spacetime or Space Matters at 0.75 speed.
Alan Watts, Eckart Tolle, Great Meditations (the sleep ones as there is no wakeup bit at the end)
Malcontent.
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnMichaelGodier
This guy’s videos. He has the perfect cadence and voice for it, and the right video length too. To be perfectly honest I have no idea if the content of the videos is good, but they’re very useful.
This… JMG is the best. Him and Isaac Arthur…
The crickets and frogs outside through an open window.
I’ve been listening to Fall of Civilizations, with some Kosmo before that.
I used to try to put on ocean things, but the animals were all too pretty, so I’d end up watching it instead of sleeping.
Fall of civilisations is my go-to as well!
Nice! Those videos last me forever, too! They’re 2-3 hours, but knock me out in 5-10 minutes, and they’re interesting enough I keep going back until I get through it.
I finished the Sumerians last week and am 1/4 into the Songhai now.
Cutting Edge Engineering. Aussie machinist who fixes large mining equipment parts
A Playlist made up of a bunch of 90’s primetime cartoons
My kid swears by train-crossing channels on YT.
Same. I’ve listened to so many I have a playlist pared down to just Japanese trains and specific crossings I found on YT. okok, Imma nerd. But still.
Fucking quiet. Which is damn near impossible to get, which is what gives me insomnia
If you haven’t tried already: use earplugs. I realized embarrassingly late that my sensitivity to sound wakes me up quite often and earplugs have been a life changer.
Good sleep hygene ie dark quiet cold is incredibly good for you. It makes you 5-10% better at literally everything. Falling asleep to content is incredibly bad for this its literally making ur dumber and more distracted.