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AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
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What the fuck?
My partner does this, I will never understand how she can fall asleep with something playing in the background
Trauma
I grew up in a pretty messed up family. We're indigenous so my parents and grand parents went through residential school, I went through boarding school in high school, everyone including me was an alcoholic, people did drugs, messed up shit since before I was born ... but somehow I and my family survived through it all.
But a common thing with me and my siblings was to fall asleep listening to music. Pop songs, rock songs, whatever and I never understood it for a long time .... it was just comforting. Later on after my journey into recovery from alcoholism, I learned it was just a coping mechanism for us ... a way to just distract ourselves to stop us from thinking about sad, depressing, frightening, disturbing or traumatic things.
Oh yeah that makes sense, she went through some shit
Oh damn. I never realized that's why I cannot sleep in quiet.
I do that, for me it’s a form of white noise. There are certain content creators/ panel shows that send me right to sleep. I have issues with racing thoughts and I’ve found out helps quiet that.
Related to the OP post I have to be really diligent on vetting new (to me) content creators. So I end up just rewatching content.
almost the entirely of Britain over a certain age falls asleep to the shipping forecast.
Why is this a news to you? There are many people who listen to music, asmr, white noise, audiobooks etc.
Seriously has no one else in this thread fallen asleep to TV? Lol
I used to listen to my walkman to fall asleep, sometimes I'd pass out in front of Discovery Channel or The Learning Channel, before TLC went to shit they used to play good documentaries
The sound of someone talking for an extended time makes me fall asleep. I always had trouble staying awake in school. Sometime if I'm having trouble sleeping I'll put on YouTube and watch Technology Connections and I'm out in 5 minutes. I think this is related to ADHD but I'm not sure?
I used to listen to classical radio stations as white noise when I wanted to get to sleep.
More recently, if I wake up due to insomnia, I will watch YouTube ASMR Restoration videos. The sound of sandblasting and electrolysis and sanding and polishing acts as a soporific.
I do this too lol. Usually I watch the sasquatch gang to fall asleep