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:
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Have smooth, hypnotic voices,
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have content that won’t give me uncomfortable dreams (I’m a very visual, realistic, and impressionable dreamer), and
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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.
I love Technology Connections. Something about his voice, the old tech he covers, and the well informed delivery is really good. Sometimes he luls me.
PBS Space Time is also really fucking good because I don’t really understand much of it as someone with a background in healthcare and not astrophysics/physics, and as soon as my ADHD drifts off his voice hits me on the side of my head and puts me in the fetal position.
Technology Connections sounds straight up my alley, thanks!
PBS Spacetime is already a standby. I’ve seen all of them at least twice. I’m always up for more watches.
If Technology Connections is up your alley check out LGR if you haven’t. He has a very smooth voice, talks mostly about 90’s and early 2000’s computer nostalgia, with smooth jazz in the background. We fall asleep watching him regularly as it’s just a calm, chill time.
Technology Connections is awesome. He’s the one who got me to understand how old CRT televisions could put a picture on a radio signal that could be picked up by both color and B&W TV’s.
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
Oh wow, thanks!
This list will keep me for a while.
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.
This! I had to search for Vaatividya in order to find this comment.
His prepare to cry series as well as all of his lore videos could keep me going for ages!
Ooh my time to shine with my long list
- T90 Official plays age of empires games very soothing voice
- Agadmator plays chess videos very rhythmic voice
- 3blue1brown maths videos, even if you hate math he has a voice that is so calm
- 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
- Kurtzgezat science videos with great narration (may hurt your dreams tho)
- Nicole Coenen woodcutting videos great voice great pace only downside very few videos in total so you burn through her videos quite fast.
- Technology Connections, great videos about obscure day to day tech mazing voice
- Primitive technology, no words a lot of nature sounds of him building stuff without technology
I’ll add more if I remember.
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.
Yes almost all great options.
Northernlion’s Binding of Isaac series is notorious for putting people to sleep regularly. Definitely a must-listen in my books
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
I hear that. I’ve gotten used to it over the years and do see its value, but I do miss his oldschool Isaac-esque narration.
Sinvicta automatically knocks me out hahahahaha. “Heeeeeywelcomebackevrrybody” on the floor
Exactly my sentiments! I don’t really enjoy the twitch culture. Recent streams are all about commenters making snarky comments and NL trying to outsmart them I feel like. I still enjoy his unprompted insane takes a lot though.
Same, it’s a lot of old man yelling at kids on the internet.
The narrator from the game the Stanley parable
has one of the most smooth voices I’ve fond. Very chill process even to watch.
I also find very soothing.
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.I have slept through hours of Luetin
I like how recently he knows we do this and will shout us out. Too bad we are asleep and don’t hear it.
If you’ve ever been in the military, and had to endure hour-long PowerPoint presentations, and felt very sleepy… This guy is for you.
Perun does deep dives into defense economics, for modern-day conflicts. Extremely interesting stuff. Easy to fall asleep to. Highly recommend.
Death by PowerPoint!
Oh wow, it just keeps going.
This looks perfect, thank you.
Steve from GN Nexus
Are you sure it isn’t just all the charts and data putting you to sleep? ^^^/s
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.
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!
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
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
Seconding NileRed. If I’m tired and watching his videos I can fall asleep, but they’re great amusement awake as well
Try Drachinifel. It’s about ships and naval stuff from previous centuries. Best sleep. https://youtube.com/@Drachinifel?si=hiHGva5RXNeSVopY
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.
