#sleep apps

So you know how when you wake up in the middle of the night and your brain is like “Let’s think about everything ever!” and it takes you an hour and a half to fall back to sleep, just in time for your alarm to go off?

Yeah, that sucks.

But I discovered the other night (4 AM, actually), when a thunderstorm was rolling in, that listening to the thunder and the rain lulled me to sleep in just a few minutes.  

So, after purchasing wireless headphones - because I flop around in my sleep and don’t want to strangle myself on my corded earbuds - I’m going to download an app to my iPad.  

Sorry about taking the long road to get to this question, but what apps do you guys like for white noise/sleep?  I don’t need to track my sleep - I couldn’t anyway because I don’t wear those Fitbit bracelet things.  I just need a good app that will give me some wind/rain/thunder/waves sounds.

But I am pretty sure they're all AI generated.

Here's my favorites.

Monks, but they're, like, 2 rooms away from the pipe organ because they're singing in a different key from it.

What if we crossed the Mulan soundtrack with Tibetan throat singing

What if a bunch of ladies just sang in different keys and we cranked the reverb up to 11

God of War

Point and Click Lucas Arts adventure game: LOOOOM!

The last thing you hear before you're shoved into the wicker man

A literal fife and drum 1700's march. Very relaxing.

And now for the winner of least relaxing sound to fall asleep to:

The sound that horror movies crave.

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