I’m talking about people who listen to the radio when they sleep. How do they sleep with music blairing? It defeats the purpose and concradicts the creation of the clock radio. Do these people use clock alarms in a backwards manner? For their alarm does the music turn off?
I can imagine them in a deep sleep with some random music playing then all of a sudden the music turns off and they smash the radio around untill they hit the snooze button which turns the music back on and they can go back to sleep
I used to always sleep with music on. It gave my mind something to concentrate on and helped me fall asleep. I haven’t done it for about two years cuz GF doesn’t like it. But she’s going to Florida in may and the first night I plan to fall asleep on the couch with music on. It’s just one of those things that some people like and some people don’t. BTW it’s not blaring, in fact I’m fairly certain it couldn’t even be heard on the other side of a closed door.
Both of my kids sleep with a radio or TV on but wake to an alarm. When the elder one was little he used to wake to every little noise around the house, so I put a radio/cassette player in his room and left it playing when he went to sleep. He liked it and when his younger brother came along we did the same with him. Both regularly play CDs while going to sleep and leave them on.
I can’t do it - I pay too much attention to what’s playing.
I listen to talk radio most nights. It either lulls me to sleep with the soporific voices, or, if I have insomnia, it keeps me from getting bored.
Joey P, I got me one of these because my missus has the same problem with the radio being on. It’s quite good as long as you don’t move your head around the pillow too much.
A lot of clock radios (and clock CDs, etc) are capable of both music and alarm at the same time.
They’ve sold “white noise” generators for a long time, as an aid to sleep. And there are “soothing sounds” clocks too. Some people can sleep standing up.
I also sleep with music because it gives my mind something to focus on. Otherwise, I just sit thinking about random things for hours on end. This way, I just listen to the music and enjoy it until I fall asleep. I also make it a point to listen to mostly relaxing music (acoustic rock, r&b, jazz, art of noise - moments in love).
As a tinnitus sufferer I sleep with a fan going to provide background noise that helps drown out the ringing. Otherwise, your attention is focused on one thing and it’s difficult to let your mind drift. I can certainly extrapolate that to the use of a radio by a small percentage of the population.
I generally fall asleep to music from a CD, or a radio with a timer that will switch off after I’ve fallen asleep. Like other posters, I find it helps my mind “switch off”, otherwise I’d be lying there thinking about all kinds of stuff.
But I generally wake up to a radio as well - more to the point I have a clock radio that had both radio and alarm, so I have the radio set to come on 10 minutes before the alarm. If the radio doesn’t wake me up, the alarm will.
Like r_k, I have a radio that plays for 90 minutes and then shuts itself off. I listen to classical radio, playing quietly (I could never sleep if it was blaring). Then the same station wakes me up in the morning.
My clock radio has an interesting feature - I can set it so that the radio will play for a predetermined amount of time, up to 1 hour, and then shut itself off. It’s so that you can go to sleep listening to music, but don’t need to have the radio playing all night once you’re asleep. This feature is completely separate from the alarm functions, so that you can both go to sleep and wake up to music if you want.