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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at 4am.

I’ve a few voices I love listening to, but I’d like even more.

Which YouTubers do you recommend who:

  1. Have smooth, hypnotic voices,

  2. have content that won’t give me uncomfortable dreams (I’m a very visual, realistic, and impressionable dreamer), and

  3. have channels I’ll want to listen to when awake? (eta I like sciences and news mostly, a bit of fiction (scifi, horror, nf), gaming, other nerdy things, but never romance, pop culture , or reality tv).

I kinda need all 3.

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[-] bdazman 10 points 1 year ago

Youre looking for Bismuth, the technical speedrun communicator. Hes perfect in everyway.

Also theres Tomatoanus, also speedrun comminicator, excellent work.

Isaac Arthur is a futurist I like for this, hell give you wonderful dreams.

3blueonebrowns visual communicatio style is excellent but ive fallen asleep to his videos tons of times.

Chyrosan22 has the voice of God and he reviews mechanical keyboards, absolutely love it

Donoteat01, justin rosczknyaiacs channel, has perfect shit in his Power Planning and Politics series, hypnotic, funny, and entrancing

Drachinifel is a naval historiographer whos excellent, highly reccomend his video on the second pacific sauadron

Emplemon also has some excellent content

Food Wishes is chef johns youtube channel and he has a very unique way if talking that i love

Hypohystericalhistory has excellent longform documentaries about warstuff

Hope thats enough thats off the top of my head and is through H of my subscriptions lol

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[-] Vengefu1Tuna@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned VaatiVidya yet. His voice is so calm and relaxing, he's a fantastic narrator. His content is mainly lore about FromSoftware games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring.

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[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 8 points 1 year ago

Ooh my time to shine with my long list

  1. T90 Official plays age of empires games very soothing voice
  2. Agadmator plays chess videos very rhythmic voice
  3. 3blue1brown maths videos, even if you hate math he has a voice that is so calm
  4. Real Civil Engineer plays indie or building games is a bit weird, 90% he is nice but sometimes he gets excited and I've been woken from my sleep, but still good as I fall back right after
  5. Kurtzgezat science videos with great narration (may hurt your dreams tho)
  6. Nicole Coenen woodcutting videos great voice great pace only downside very few videos in total so you burn through her videos quite fast.
  7. Technology Connections, great videos about obscure day to day tech mazing voice
  8. Primitive technology, no words a lot of nature sounds of him building stuff without technology

I'll add more if I remember.

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[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Northernlion's Binding of Isaac series is notorious for putting people to sleep regularly. Definitely a must-listen in my books

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I miss old NL before he was always interacting with twitch chat. I get why he made the move, and I like a lot of his newer content, but I feel like he was funnier when he was just bullshitting to himself

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Baumgartner Restoration has one of the most smooth voices I've fond. Very chill process even to watch.

Foureyes Furniture I also find very soothing.

[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] DrRotwang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I watch a lot of tech related youtubers to fall asleep.

Techmoan, LGR, Bigclivedotcom, Usagi Electric, Tech tangents, technology connections.

Non-tech related youtubers: Baumgartner restorations, atomic shrimp, ashens

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/@Luetin09 and https://www.youtube.com/@baldermort for Warhammer 40K stuff. But that may break rule 2

https://www.youtube.com/@ScottsThoughtsPokemon for Pokemon Yellow playthrough with every Pokemon and back porting some gen 2 Pokemon to gen 1.
If you prefer red and blue there is https://www.youtube.com/@Jrose11 but his voice may not be rule 1.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have slept through hours of Luetin

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[-] EggsCurrently@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pete Complete, in particular his RimWorld series. His voice, relaxed tone and slow pacing with a lot of pause in his speech puts me to sleep even when I'm not trying to.

[-] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

Absolutely my choice as well. In addition to being all the things that OP has asked for, he's also a phenomenal player and his dedication to highly precise play is insane.

My wife and I have been through all of his Rimworld series, and watch it as we would a TV show when a new episode drops. We just got done watching biotech episode 5!

[-] civylw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Try Drachinifel. It's about ships and naval stuff from previous centuries. Best sleep. https://youtube.com/@Drachinifel?si=hiHGva5RXNeSVopY

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

My big two are long form chemistry videos (codyslab, nilered) and old archived hours of the first version of the AI show Nothing Forever. Very easy listening IMO and should hit most of your bases. Maybe also look for podcasts on a topic you like, those can be hours long

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[-] FelixMortane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Professor David Kipping and his Cool Worlds youtube series / podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab/featured (sorry, linking to the channel instead of a specific video so can't use piped it seems

[-] Daedskin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Purge (https://youtube.com/@PurgeGamers) is pretty good. He typically posts full, un-cut dota games, and is lower energy throughout. There's not big volume or tone changes, and they're long enough that you should always be able to fall asleep during them.

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Here are some I enjoy. All have a good voice, not overly expressively and no sudden change in background tracks. No sudden screaming/explosions/anything that will wake you.

John Michael Godier Science/Speculative Scifi, Low Soothing voice, even has a sleep playlist.

Issac Arthur Sci-Fi, Calm voice, Good background track, Long Videos

Darth Gandalf Fantasy, Soothing Voice

Forgotten Weapons Firearms, Historical and Mechanical overviews and indepth discussions. I recommend you skip the shooting range stuff if you're trying to sleep.

Cool Worlds Science & Astronomy. Great Narrative Voice, Calm background tracks.

North02 Science, Anthropology & Natural history. Soothing Voice, nice selection of long videos.

Natural World Facts Deep Sea biology, excellent soothing narrations, very good soothing background tracks.

[-] Psymonkee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you like D&D then I can suggest D&D Deep Dive - roughly hour long videos building weird combos for D&D play but with the smoothest voice ever!

[-] bugieman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ethoslab and Docm77 are both older Minecraft YouTubers who have a pretty chill voice and calm demeaner, Etho especially.

[-] baronofclubs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't see Baumgartner Restoration here yet. Incredibly soothing art restoration

[-] dodeca@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If you like video games, try a search for a video game of choice and add the words "role play".

I was playing a lot of Kenshi and I found some YouTubers who make long playthroughs of games. Specifically I enjoyed Rycon Roleplays Kenshi which was something like 80 videos and each about an hr long. It would put me to sleep.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I love Wendigoon, he does interesting long term stories and is really calm

[-] jiriks74@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The History channels:

It's really good long form fomat. You don't have to watch anything and just listen. It's long enough for me to fall asleep and not hear the whole video so next night I just go close enough to the end of what I heard/remember I heard and just continue listening. I don't mind relistening at all - I always miss something so I always learn something new.

Edit: the awesome thing is that these videos are told basically like a story. The narrator's voice is calming, there are no loud noises or anything. He really tells it like a good night story.

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[-] GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

For speeling purposes have you tried ASMR content?

For example Let's Find Out makes ASMR content focused on anstronomy and physics stuff and mainly whispering things. Example: https://youtu.be/U6M7_Pt0d14?si=0By2q3YJ-r95K0TD.

You also have The French Whisperer ASMR, who does a bit of everything (history, some science, reading stories...)

For pure ASMR (but non informative nor anything) RaffyTaffyASMR puts out some solid content.

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 1 year ago

ASMR sounds of natural things okay, ASMR talking sounds creepy to me no matter the topic, the moment I feel sleepy I get this feeling that they are sweet talking me and will kidnap me to sell my kidney when I fall asleep.

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[-] EarWorm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like The Spiffing Brit (game exploits), The Backlogs (challenge runs) and JoshStrifeHayes (MMO stuff).

[-] AnaGram@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

My current go-to is Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations Podcast

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Let's talk religion. Barely sociable. Lemmino

[-] CamelCityCalamity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've heard there are a lot of people who listen to PBS Space Time to fall asleep.

[-] EndOfLine@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

"The Why Files" and "Kutzergart".

If I'm really not ready to sleepy, I find the content interesting. If I am ready to sleep but my brain won't shut down then I ignore the words and I find the voices very soothing and relaxing.

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[-] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've slept with each of these before:

LockpickingLawyer (lockpicking videos)

Trent Lenarski (multi content. specifically his Stardew Valley playlist is nice and relaxed)

Pekinwoof (streamer. Keep to his first channel for sleeping. Channel 2 is louder)

Talking Feds with Harry Litman (lawyer who talks law in politics)

Sean Carroll (podcasts. Various science topics)

Sam Harris (podcasts. Some episodes can get loud when he's playing recordings of news events.)

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[-] Nashua@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My wife puts on RyconRoleplays or ChristopherOdd in the background sometimes when she’s having trouble sleeping. Rycon might have the voice you’re looking for; Odd’s narration depends on the game he’s playing, he likes to set the mood in more atmospheric games, and he reads out every bit of lore.

Clarkesworld is a sci-fi magazine with free audio versions on their site, plus on Spotify as a podcast. I’d recommend “The very Pulse of the Machine” personally as an intro. It was adapted into a great episode of “Love, Death + Robots”.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cracking the Cryptic always lulls me to sleep. Specially Simon.

[-] Ilflish@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Northernlion, specifically his non-twitch content. I also enjoy his twitch content but he goes reaction mode for it and it's not the same rhythm

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] ThaijsClan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly Kitboga is just so soothing to listen to

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmino hits 1 and 3, and sometimes 2 (some of his videos are about dark topics, some are more fun or wonderous). His voice is very nice to listen to. Smooth, low, and a relatively thick, but perfectly understandable Danish accent.

To boot, he's one of the best goddamned researchers I've ever seen. For example, he did a documentary on Jack the Ripper. Instead of just going over the same beats everyone else does, this madlad poured over dozens of police reports, newspaper clippings, and eyewitness accounts from the time of the events, (more than 150 years old), and then compared those to more contemporary research to make a more complete study. He somehow put all of this together into the most cohesive description of the events I've ever seen, all with detailed and accurate CGI visuals (nothing graphic, just to show locations and timelines and such).

Really, really dedicated guy with a huge amount of integrity in his work, lots of creative flair, and no annoying biases or wild assumptions.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Probably NileRed if he isnt handling explosives...
Some vTubers from Hololive have awesome voices and the live stream content isnt packed with interesting content

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[-] GenesisJones@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

History of the entire universe

And earth

And humanity is their newest channel

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

John Michael Godier, great sleep ready content about science and science fiction. One of my faves.

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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

ZFG. He has a nice deep voice. He mostly does Zelda Ocarina of Time speed runs, but as of lately he has focused on playing Zelda randomizers.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep

The whole series isn't on YouTube, unfortunately, but it is SO worth your time and fits the bill like nothing else.

[-] Bahalex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Madseasonshow. I found him when World of Warcraft Classic launched a handful of years ago. Thinking about it, he and Joe Pera have a very similar speech style.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend History of the Universe and its sister channels, it is incredibly calming

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