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.

  • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
    8·
    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.

    • monotremata@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      3blue1brown is a great call.

      I would add Applied Science and NileRed (who does chemistry experiments) as possibilities if OP likes their voices. Their content is very methodical and uniform. My cat likes their videos, which seems like a pretty good metric for this use case.

      I also love vihart, who does math videos, but her stuff is a little more varied, including some music, so OP might want to evaluate her during the day before trusting her channel for sleep.

      Jeremy Fielding has a great voice if you want videos about engineering and how to salvage motors out of washing machines and treadmills.

      I’ll consult my subscription list and add more if I find any.

      Edited to add:
      Carl Bugeja (electronics)
      CGP Grey (mostly history)
      DIY Perks (various projects)
      Henry Segerman (math art)
      OskarPuzzle (designs for 3d printed puzzles)
      Razbuten (video games)
      Sabine Hossenfelder (physics)
      Stand-up Maths (math)
      Steve Mould (explanations of unusual everyday things, I guess? kinda hard to summarize)
      Technology Connections (as others have mentioned)
      Tim Hunkin (makes weird mechanical art and explains machines)
      Tom Scott (videos about unusual places and bits of history)
      Two Minute Papers (advances in AI and computer graphics)

      Edited again to add: Breaking Taps. This one is mostly microscopic fabrication stuff, so, various kinds of microscopes, vapor deposition, etching, etc.