I’ve been using a mix of nature sounds to help fall asleep for years. If I’m having a particularly rough night, I’ll play some repetitive calm music I’m super familiar with as well, EQ’d to just be barely audible through the nature sounds. ADHD brain uses all the extra energy that would be keeping me up spinning ideas around to tune one or the other of the “two” audios out and I’m out pretty quick.
I use a version 1.3.3 of an app from F-Droid, Noice, for the nature sounds. Later versions added premium features and load the audio from a remote server. That’s the last version with everything local.
PowerAmp for the music. Took the “Soft” EQ preset to keep any “sharp” sounds from coming through and lowered the overall volume of it, then applied it to a specific “chill/sleep” playlist I made.
Both apps have sleep timers so they can shut off automatically after a set time.
NGL, in a pinch get a good nature sound app and pop in the earbuds and just crash out on the sofa and listen.
I have been using one called Naturespace for a decade and it’s glorious. Best track is called The Imaginarium. Whoa.
I do the same but with real nature audioscape tracks people put on youtube. Creeks and blackbirds especially.
I’ve been using a mix of nature sounds to help fall asleep for years. If I’m having a particularly rough night, I’ll play some repetitive calm music I’m super familiar with as well, EQ’d to just be barely audible through the nature sounds. ADHD brain uses all the extra energy that would be keeping me up spinning ideas around to tune one or the other of the “two” audios out and I’m out pretty quick.
I use a version 1.3.3 of an app from F-Droid, Noice, for the nature sounds. Later versions added premium features and load the audio from a remote server. That’s the last version with everything local.
PowerAmp for the music. Took the “Soft” EQ preset to keep any “sharp” sounds from coming through and lowered the overall volume of it, then applied it to a specific “chill/sleep” playlist I made.
Both apps have sleep timers so they can shut off automatically after a set time.