I cannot sleep in silence…… if I am lying in the dark all I hear are my own thoughts and I lie there for hours and hours.
I take medication daily which sadly has insomnia as a side effect, which obviously doesn’t help, and the only way I have found that enables me to get to sleep is to have Netflix playing on my mobile (low volume) with a timer so it stops playing after a couple of hours.
This works really well and I fall asleep really quickly.
However, I have noticed now that whenever the show/series stops playing I will wake up within 20 minutes. It’s almost like my brain now can’t stay asleep unless there is background noise.
I tried using a longer timer but after a few hours the programme stops anyway and a message appears that says, “Are you still watching?” - and obviously as the show has stopped I quickly wake up.
I have got a lovely Bluetooth eye mask with inbuilt headphones but obviously as it’s all connected to my phone the issues with the programme ending and things becoming silent still apply.
I need something that will play continuously throughout the night that is a device of its own, i.e it is entirely separate to my phone.
Kind of like a child’s night light, but it plays stories instead of white noises, and doesn’t glow 🤣
Does such a device exist??