When you sleep at night, does it have to be completely quiet or do you need some type of noise? Tv, radio, fan?

[Beckybooboo]

I like it quiet.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I can do both without a problem. I had 12 people living with me growing up and it was always noisy, but I prefer quiet and I am sleeping better in quiet.

I had to get used to quietness though, because it was so uncommon for me, I felt strange when I first left home years ago and slept quiet for the first time.

[MiddleAgedClimbee]

I don't really need anything to fall asleep. I'm pretty exhausted at the end of every day. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to fall asleep reading with the pup next to me on the couch. That's an extra special treat. In bed, my wife isn't much of a cuddler so a body pillow lays next to me. I don't really use it/embrace it, but I like having something right up against me.

[HawkPerception]

I always have at least a fan on, even if it's not blowing on me. If you think about it, humans weren't ever meant to sleep in absolute silence either. When we lived in more primal times and slept outdoors, we had crickets, wind, rain, etc for all the surrounding noise so I think it's definitely more normal to want a bit of noise.

[Cynicaldreamer]

I have to have background noise, or I can't sleep!
Nothing too loud: I'll usually put on a YouTube podcast and listen to it in the background, or some white noise (snow falling, rain, fireplace, etc).
I'm out in 5 minutes or less...

[NathanDavis]

as a former insomniac, and also having lived in Mexico...

I just go to bed and try to sleep no matter what, and I usually fall asleep against all odds

the odds being Mexican all weekend parties... lol

[DaBiggestBird]

I don’t mind silence sometimes but having a fan on is nice. Most of the time though, complete silence just feels off and is a big red arrow head ass invitation for bad thoughts. It also just feels like your surrounded by death manifested into mist, the absence of a positive or neutral presence.

[Likes2drive]

It can be completely quiet, but I also like to have some type of white noise because of the fact of background noises I might hear will annoy me, my ex wife could sleep with the tv on and I couldn’t and we would have fights over it

[Beckybooboo]

Same here! My boyfriend sleeps with a fan, which the noise doesn’t bother but I freeze! Then he’ll have the tv on, when I turn it off, he’ll wake up and say he was watching it! I’m like, “no, you weren’t! You’ve been snoring for an hour”!

[Likes2drive]

Yes exactly what would happen to me, but f the fan freezes you just buy one of those white noise machines, it blocks out a lot of noise and no wind from it

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't HAVE to but, I prefer music. For the past few years, I've been going through my Tangerine Dream collection starting from 1967 and I'm now up to 2005, I have another 11 years to go.

[Beckybooboo]

It’s funny, because when I was young, I fell asleep listening to the radio every night! I would always wake up when my favorite song came on. I wonder when that changed? Hmmm..

[FunkyMonkee]

I started doing it in my teens but, back then, I'd put on a stack of albums that I either hadn't heard, yet or that I liked and just felt like playing at night. I don't think I'd ever heard of Tangerine Dream`til my late teens. It was around that time that that kind of music was becoming popular, to a degree, and I started getting heavily into it. I guess it was the start of my romantic period and that's the kind of stuff I'd always imagined listening to while in bed with a girl but, it never happened for another 8 or 9 years. I've been listening to similar stuff in bed ever since. So far, I still prefer TD's `70's to mid `80's period.

[Billlewis]

I need some background noise, to minimize the occasional random car horn or door being slammed, etc.

[Beckybooboo]

Very nice, Bill, thank you!

[Billlewis]

Yes, ma'am, you're quite welcome.

[RoronoaZoro8]

I like putting a YouTube video on in the background to sleep to.

[Beckybooboo]

I have a friend that used to listen to horror stories on YouTube, then was to scared to sleep. Lol

[OnlyMeee]

@Beckybooboo I'm a super light sleeper, so it has to be deadly silent, any slight noise and I'm awake

[Beckybooboo]

My dad is like that. Our neighbor worked third shift, so he’d leave around 11:30 at night. When he would slam his car door, a lot of times it would actually wake my dad up.

[OnlyMeee]

Not good. I have a neighbour that cannot close his doors without banging them. Proper annoying. Feel free to message if you ever want a chat, put the world to rights lol 🤣

[Wallythewalrus2]

I listen to stories on YouTube. I don’t think I’ve heard a story from beginning to end yet. After about ten minutes, I’m out!

[MiddleAgedClimbee]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=teIbh8hFQos
Sleep tight, Wally

[Al_Musafir]

The quieter, the better. However, I can tolerate some noise.

[IslaTheWitch]

When I'm falling asleep I like it quiet. But with a certain lever of tiredness I can fall asleep immediately and anywhere.

And then I don't care if it's silent or loudly :D

[love_conquers_lust]

Either. As long as the decibels aren’t too loud.

If I’m dog tired from physical labor, won’t matter.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I have to have a fan on at least as the only noise. Other than that, I have to be the last one to go to bed.

[Adventurer23]

I prefer it to be quiet. Although, in the summer sometimes I run a fan if the room gets too hot.

[RavVid]

I listen to history podcasts. I'm not going to miss out if I fall asleep. I can catch up tomorrow or next week or next month or next decade.

[clampfan101]

Quiet works, but I typically like some relaxing music.

[Rimaisme]

I can sleep with a fan on

TV should be off

[Lliam]

I prefer quite. Although I don't mind a fan or window AC unit in the summer.

[SphynxUK]

I wear earplugs and use an eye mask.
I don’t want noise or light.

[Date_a_Snob]

I can only sleep with my fan on. I've also fallen asleep with music playing quietly.

[Sparkie460]

I can pretty much sleep through just about anything.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't matter. I can sleep almost anywhere.

[The-Stud]

Quiet usually.. or a drive in the rain ASMR

[collie22]

Noises keep me awake unless I'm super tried

[jcampbell115]

I need background noise like a fan running

[Cutegirl06]

I like it quiet and dark

[Simslover92]

I like it quiet as well.

[douride2]

I prefer it dark & completely quiet.

[12karen]

I used to listen to rock before sleeping

[DextroShade]

I need a fan for white noise.

[EmpressAJ]

I like peace and quiet lol

[OddBeMe]

Fan. Perhaps fall asleep to a true crime doc

[kingmaker21]

Ofc quite

[Grklad]

I like quiet