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Psychology says falling asleep to your favorite podcast or show often isn’t about the content at all — in silence, the thoughts you successfully outran all day finally catch up with you, and the voice in the background is the last line of defense against them
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Try a fresh episode of something gripping and you will be wide awake at half past one, invested.
What you need is something with no surprises in it whatsoever that still occupies the exact frequency your own inner voice uses.
Acast found that most people who use podcasts to fall asleep do not switch to calming sleep content at all.
The quiet is where the day catches upSleep researchers have a term for the busy pre-bed mind: pre-sleep cognitive arousal.
Keep the podcast, change its jobI am not going to tell you to embrace silence like some sort of monk.