My wife and I have settled on some dynamite ambient music that puts us out like a light. Maybe dynamite was not the word. More like woozy space music.
I wrote about this before. But I forgot to try it out more than once or twice and promptly forgot about it. Then I started having trouble going to sleep. Then I bought a pre-owned Pink Floyd re-mastered ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ and it reminded me of that post from several years ago.
I had described it as Pink Floy in their softer, repetitive passages. (No vocals). Or it’s like Electronic Dance Music (EDM) shorn of all that makes you want to dance.
In a study the Marconi Union music lowered anxiety by 65 percent.
So here’s what my wife and I do. I ask Alexa to play Marconi Union for two hours. I keep the volume very low.
Here’s my command from my bed: “Alexa, play for two hours Marconi Union.” (Putting the hours before the name of the song or group seems to work better with Alexa.)
Obviously you can play for 1 hour or 20 minutes or all night. We overcompensate at 2 hours because I’m usually out in 10 minutes or less.