{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Small noises were driving me nuts as I tried to sleep - misc. house sounds, the refrigerator running, activity outside. ...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/622387400492089344/", "html": "<p>Small noises were driving me nuts as I tried to sleep - misc. house sounds, the refrigerator running, activity outside.<br/></p><p>Eventually remembered I used to go to sleep to music until last year or so since I was 15 or so, remembered I used to listen to the silence so hard I would imagine voices of people I knew saying random things.</p><p>So opened up an ambient cast I used, set it low enough to be unobtrusive but loud enough to drown everything out and be clearly audible and unchallenging to process, and instantly got 3x more relaxed</p><p>Oh! By the time I stopped I\u2019d been doing that at night just cause that was what I did at night, I didnt make that connection. This is what I\u2019m saying, as bothersome as it is I\u2019m getting some real insight into what my life has <i>been</i> from all this<br/></p>"}