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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by aphextron on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:35PM (#27236277)
>The downsides are that I have trouble sleeping unassisted, as I'll just lay in bed thinking til the sun comes up, and also have trouble staying focused on movies or even conversation, as my mind will be elsewhere.

I'm the exact same way. Podcasts are a godsend. The trick is finding one that's just interesting enough to keep your attention, while simultaneously being just boring enough to fall asleep to. I find that really dry, technical historical lectures work great.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by Wistar on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:42PM (#27236394)
Oh, man. I do this, too, but mostly with youtube. I have discovered that Jim Al-Khalili, Brian Greene and Hannah Fry are too interesting to fall asleep to but that there are plenty of Royal Institute lectures that serve really well and have no, or very few, commercial insertions.
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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by irchans on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:54PM (#27237495)
This is crazy. I never thought that anyone else would use those lectures to sleep. I like them when I'm awake also!
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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by Wistar on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:59PM (#27238399)
The exception is RI's Andrew Szydlo. His lectures are… well, kind'a nuts. Too entertaining to be soporific.
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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by deepnet on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:31AM (#27244377)
I fall asleep to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time Discussions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by lliamander on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:23PM (#27237901)
Curiously, I have found that my own ability to lecture monotonously on some obstruse topic has (at one point or another) put every member of my family to sleep.

I've though about doing a podcast or something where I just read boring, impenetrable books to help people fall asleep.

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Re:Ask HN: How much do you contemplate per week? by devenson on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:40PM (#27236368)
I agree completely. Commercials and flashy endings are to be avoided.
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