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The Sleep With Me Podcast is very good. It helped my wife when she had a period of insomnia.

He has a number of tricks he uses from a monoto delivery, to meandering stories where the narrative constantly interrupts itself with. So you can’t really “follow along”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_with_Me_(podcast)

by Utilera5 hours ago|

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There's a real craft to making something feel safe, low-stakes and impossible to get invested in

by estearum6 hours ago|

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Lifelong insomniac (racing thoughts, probably ADHD-related) and this podcast cured me.

To anyone who tries it, it's important to know upfront: there's nothing to "get." It's nonsense. It exhausts the brain without being interesting enough to keep it running.

by jansan9 hours ago|

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Woke up too early this morning and tried it, after Mafra public radio did not work for me. This worked great, and now that I am listening to it again it is quite hilarious that I just cannot follow what he is talking about

by ycombinete3 hours ago|

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Haha. Thats very well put!

My favourite episode (The Bear with a Comet on his Belly): https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/414/

by jackvalentine13 hours ago|

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I don’t need it now but this was a godsend a few years ago.

by nikhilgk13 hours ago|

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A similar one I recently discovered is https://www.youtube.com/@SleepOnPhysics. I think it was meant to put you to sleep with the detailed narrative, but I found it to be very interesting and captivating, especially for long drives. The content quality is pretty good, I am almost certain the audio is AI generated, but wonder how the content itself was authored.

by nmridul11 hours ago|

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In the middle the YouTube Advertisements starts playing at a louder volume and you wake up :)

by hdgvhicv8 hours ago|

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Amazes me how people in a tech industry paying six figures refuse to pay a tiny percentage of their income to get rid of adverts on something that consumes so much time.

by dexterdog6 hours ago|

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Paying for YouTube does not get rid of ads. Only using sponsor block does.

by hombre_fatal4 hours ago|

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I avoid sponsorship read outs by choosing the channels I spend my time on, especially if it’s mid roll. Those people are bypassing the built in ad system and deliberately placing the read out in a place where it’s annoying for you to skip.

by fragmede8 hours ago|

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There's a very emotional "I'm not paying for YouTube" feeling that some people have. They try and justify it with logic after the fact, but the underlying principal seems too simply be "I'm not gonna pay for YouTube, I deserve to get everything for free!" Like, you get paid at your job where you work, which gets you money. Paying other people money for their work, however, suddenly that's just not ok. Somehow.

by rdiddly2 hours ago|

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Glad I'm able to amaze you.

I can't speak for other cheapskates, but I personally think it's more that YouTube is still so utterly inessential that if ads ever start managing to get past my ad blockers, I'll simply not watch.

by kuboble11 hours ago|

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I don't believe it to be ai generated voice. It's too good.

Or if it is - why e.g. automated voices reading nyt articles are so bad?

by Utilera5 hours ago|

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That's the funny trap with a lot of "boring" material: the moment it's old, technical or oddly specific, it becomes interesting again

by atmosx7 hours ago|

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