Danny Harmon of Distant Signal, if you're interested in railroading. I could listen to him talk at length about literally anything for hours.
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My wife puts on RyconRoleplays or ChristopherOdd in the background sometimes when she’s having trouble sleeping. Rycon might have the voice you’re looking for; Odd’s narration depends on the game he’s playing, he likes to set the mood in more atmospheric games, and he reads out every bit of lore.
Clarkesworld is a sci-fi magazine with free audio versions on their site, plus on Spotify as a podcast. I’d recommend “The very Pulse of the Machine” personally as an intro. It was adapted into a great episode of “Love, Death + Robots”.
Highly recommend History of the Universe and its sister channels, it is incredibly calming
History of the entire universe
And earth
And humanity is their newest channel
Lemmino hits 1 and 3, and sometimes 2 (some of his videos are about dark topics, some are more fun or wonderous). His voice is very nice to listen to. Smooth, low, and a relatively thick, but perfectly understandable Danish accent.
To boot, he's one of the best goddamned researchers I've ever seen. For example, he did a documentary on Jack the Ripper. Instead of just going over the same beats everyone else does, this madlad poured over dozens of police reports, newspaper clippings, and eyewitness accounts from the time of the events, (more than 150 years old), and then compared those to more contemporary research to make a more complete study. He somehow put all of this together into the most cohesive description of the events I've ever seen, all with detailed and accurate CGI visuals (nothing graphic, just to show locations and timelines and such).
Really, really dedicated guy with a huge amount of integrity in his work, lots of creative flair, and no annoying biases or wild assumptions.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais is my go-to for just relaxing audio. He does very in depth coverage of game franchises talking about how they evolved and the ways the mechanics support the narrative or run counter to it. Very chill and hypnotizing voice
ZFG. He has a nice deep voice. He mostly does Zelda Ocarina of Time speed runs, but as of lately he has focused on playing Zelda randomizers.
My current go-to is Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Madseasonshow. I found him when World of Warcraft Classic launched a handful of years ago. Thinking about it, he and Joe Pera have a very similar speech style.
No idea about YouTubers, but I sometimes put on Nemo's Dreamscapes to sleep. It's just a music ambience but I like it.
Thanks!
Unfortunately music doesn’t work for me. I need something to engage part of my brain or my mind races.
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Hardware Haven is very calm and articulate. His (home made, I think) background music is really zen.
For gaming I'd go with 'Midnight Snap' long let's plays designed for being on while you sleep. No shouting, no loud laughs or anything, just chill rambling
I go to sleep with the History of Philosophy: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-of-philosophy-without-any-gaps/id396903391.
Everyone has different things they want for going to sleep, and this might not be right for you. But for me this is perfect because:
- its just the right level of boring. If it were any more interesting id stay awake to listen, if it were any more boring I’d turn it off.
- its not multiple people talking, because my brain thinks it needs to stay awake to be part of the conversation.
- i cant do video, needs to be audio.
- his voice is reasonably relaxing.
I seriously can barely get through 1 or 1 episodes before going to sleep. Another similar one is Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History.
I like ! He's a Dutch fella that does videos of him playing Doom levels with live commentary, all done in single takes with no saves. He also does Doom analysis videos, which are fantastic deep dives into the code and mechanics of the old Doom games, but I love his play throughs as sleep aid since he keeps the game volume low and has this low, soothingly calm voice and laid back quality.
https://m.youtube.com/@sea_space
This one is my favorite. It's mostly 30 minute videos about astronomy. I recommend starting with the newer ones.
I like brutal moose, he has had a whole slew of different content through the years from video games, cooking and shopping outings that are all funny, meanwhile his second channel moose2 has streams that are calm and great to sleep too.
Real calm voice, jazz in the background usually, still entertaining. Just don't put on any point and click adventure games to go to sleep because all the noises will be clicked repeatedly lol.
The Librarian for me, no competition. He analyzes horror games/stories so well and the dude has a very pleasant voice.
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Warlockracy, but I don't think that's normal.
Wristwatch revival is a go to for me !
Wolfpack345 plays naval war games and has a voice like that. He usually does slow and strategic submarine stuff. Puts me right to sleep.
Ozzyman reviews. I sleep violently.
Danooct1 was this for me, though I've no idea if you'd be interested in old computer viruses.
Posy.
I've slept with each of these before:
LockpickingLawyer (lockpicking videos)
Trent Lenarski (multi content. specifically his Stardew Valley playlist is nice and relaxed)
Pekinwoof (streamer. Keep to his first channel for sleeping. Channel 2 is louder)
Talking Feds with Harry Litman (lawyer who talks law in politics)
Sean Carroll (podcasts. Various science topics)
Sam Harris (podcasts. Some episodes can get loud when he's playing recordings of news events.)
Idk if I just have a dirty mind or whether that was intentional lol
Have you tried ASMR videos? I'm sure there are lots of creators there that will hit all 3 for you.
Purge (https://youtube.com/@PurgeGamers) is pretty good. He typically posts full, un-cut dota games, and is lower energy throughout. There's not big volume or tone changes, and they're long enough that you should always be able to fall asleep during them.
Gopher, I found his channel learning how to mod various Bethesda games over 10 years ago but he has let's plays for various games that are great and put me to sleep when I'm tired
Don't know if they're on the tube, but I never made it through an episode of Brian Cox's Cosmos without nodding off.
Wirtual - trackmania streamer and ancient Egyptian expert
The guy who makes the vita carnie series and his art tutorials might not fit the second criteria
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