sleeping_music raze i need relative silence in order to sleep. i've never been able to fall asleep listening to music, as tired as i've been at times. some sound always ends up jarring me awake at the last second before dipping down to a murkier level of consciousness. i have a friend who would regularly fall asleep listening to aphex twin's "selected ambient works vol. 2" (maybe she still does), and i always thought that sort of music would make for the most interesting and strange dreams. i'm content with the strangeness and variety of my dreams as they stand, but i've always wondered what kind of influence music would exert and how it would alter the shape of things. what do you listen to when you're falling into sleep? 091025 ... cr0wl lately i've been turning on the public classical station and setting it to 30 minutes. i never hear it past the first song. zzzzzzz...huh?wha? oh....zzzzzzzz! 091025 ... ovenbird Twenty odd years ago when I was in the midst of one of my worst battles with debilitating anxiety the album I most frequently turned to for help with sleep was Sutras by Donovan. The third track is actually called “Sleep” but the entire album is a bit like an extended lullaby. Listening to it now brings me back to the single bed in my childhood bedroom where I pulled blackout blinds closed against the light that would exacerbate my migraines. I can remember the way the light from the hall leaked under the door and the way my mind refused to settle. My favourite track might be “Everlasting Sea.” There’s almost nothing to it, but that’s entirely the point. There’s nothing to disrupt the edge of sleep. It’s a mantra that gains an aching depth through the addition of a weeping cello. I listened to this over a shitty pair of foam headphones, the kind with the flexible wire band that expands to fit your head. I can feel the foam against my ears. I can feel the cold bite of the wire at the top of my skull. I don’t think I could fall asleep to this now. It comes with too much aching remembrance of how broken I was then and how I am still broken, but in new ways that require new songs. 260208 what's it to you? who go blather from