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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.
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
Ooh my time to shine with my long list
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.
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'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!
The narrator from the game the Stanley parable
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.
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
Pete Complete, in particular hhis 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!
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.
"The Why Files" and "Kutzergart".
If I'm really not ready to sleepy, I find the content interesting. If I am ready to sleep but my brain won't shut down then I ignore the words and I find the voices very soothing and relaxing.
That’s exactly the quality I’m looking for, thanks!
has one of the most smooth voices I've fond. Very chill process even to watch.
I also find very soothing.
Thevolgun... Just don't listen to the really scary scps .....
I'll add The Exploring Series as well, they have more long form videos and cover other subjects as well as SCP content. Both have great voices and I've fallen asleep to both before.
Dan Olson
John Michael Godier, great sleep ready content about science and science fiction. One of my faves.
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
I love Wendigoon, he does interesting long term stories and is really calm
Professor David Kipping and his Cool Worlds youtube series / podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab/featured (sorry, linking to the channel instead of a specific video so can't use piped it seems
I should mention audiobooks. I love listening to audiobooks, and sleeping to them is also great. There's some excellent works out there, especially voice work by Steven Fry, that's just magic to listen to.
https://www.proofreadingservices.com/pages/audiobooks-read-by-stephen-fry
Oh yeah. And Stephen Fry is a national treasure.
I don’t know why, but I can’t sleep to them, though. I have to listen for some reason, and my brain gets too engaged.
It might be because it's a new story. Try listening to a story you've already heard before.
I find when I go to sleep with audiobooks, it feels like I'm awake for hours. But the next day when I try to pick up where I left off on the audiobook, I'm usually 5 to 10 minutes in. But it felt like hours.
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.
If you like video games, try a search for a video game of choice and add the words "role play".
I was playing a lot of Kenshi and I found some YouTubers who make long playthroughs of games. Specifically I enjoyed Rycon Roleplays Kenshi which was something like 80 videos and each about an hr long. It would put me to sleep.
Ethoslab and Docm77 are both older Minecraft YouTubers who have a pretty chill voice and calm demeaner, Etho especially.
Honestly Kitboga is just so soothing to listen to
Didn't see Baumgartner Restoration here yet. Incredibly soothing art restoration
Try Drachinifel. It's about ships and naval stuff from previous centuries. Best sleep. https://youtube.com/@Drachinifel?si=hiHGva5RXNeSVopY
The History channels:
It's really good long form fomat. You don't have to watch anything and just listen. It's long enough for me to fall asleep and not hear the whole video so next night I just go close enough to the end of what I heard/remember I heard and just continue listening. I don't mind relistening at all - I always miss something so I always learn something new.
Edit: the awesome thing is that these videos are told basically like a story. The narrator's voice is calming, there are no loud noises or anything. He really tells it like a good night story.
I listen to my favorite British game show (QI and "8 out of 10 cat's does countdown") or the 10 hour loop of Joe Pera talks you to sleep https://youtu.be/91wX0NRjJqg?si=aMDe0U0oyoNmAbVR
Here are some I enjoy. All have a good voice, not overly expressively and no sudden change in background tracks. No sudden screaming/explosions/anything that will wake you.
John Michael Godier Science/Speculative Scifi, Low Soothing voice, even has a sleep playlist.
Issac Arthur Sci-Fi, Calm voice, Good background track, Long Videos
Darth Gandalf Fantasy, Soothing Voice
Forgotten Weapons Firearms, Historical and Mechanical overviews and indepth discussions. I recommend you skip the shooting range stuff if you're trying to sleep.
Cool Worlds Science & Astronomy. Great Narrative Voice, Calm background tracks.
North02 Science, Anthropology & Natural history. Soothing Voice, nice selection of long videos.
Natural World Facts Deep Sea biology, excellent soothing narrations, very good soothing background tracks.
Let's talk religion. Barely sociable. Lemmino
Northernlion, specifically his non-twitch content. I also enjoy his twitch content but he goes reaction mode for it and it's not the same rhythm
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.
History of the entire universe
And earth
And humanity is their newest channel
For speeling purposes have you tried ASMR content?
For example Let's Find Out makes ASMR content focused on anstronomy and physics stuff and mainly whispering things. Example: https://youtu.be/U6M7_Pt0d14?si=0By2q3YJ-r95K0TD.
You also have The French Whisperer ASMR, who does a bit of everything (history, some science, reading stories...)
For pure ASMR (but non informative nor anything) RaffyTaffyASMR puts out some solid content.
The Librarian for me, no competition. He analyzes horror games/stories so well and the dude has a very pleasant voice.
Posy.
