Ask Lemmy

https://ozlosleep.com/

I backed it for my wife and while they have their quirks, she says they’re very comfortable and generally do the job well. Basically Bose used to make a Sleepbuds product then discontinued it. A good chunk of the product team left, bought the IP from Bose, and started this to continue the development and add lots of requested features.

I use a cheap Bluetooth eyemask from Amazon. It's plenty comfortable.

SleepPhones are great! They are super comfortable and secure (I toss and turn a lot, anything in-ear never had a prayer). I wear mine working out too.

Under-appreciated advantage over cheaper, similar competition: super easy to clean. The mechanism slides in and out of the band, which is machine washable. You’re not just building up sweat and oil might after night.

Probably already plenty solutions here, but wanted to throw in that pillows filled with spelt, millet or similar keep their shape pretty well, so you can push in with two fingers to carve out a little hole for your ear and then you can just wear normal earbuds.

Anker Soundcore are onto their second revision of sleep earbuds. They are really good.

Manta Sound mask

I have the wired version of these Hearprotek earbuds, and they are amazing. The earbud is so small it doesn't reach past my ear, and they are some sort of soft silicon, so they dont bother my ears when sleeping on my side. I went through dozens of "sleep earbuds" until I found these. https://a.co/d/0a7kYUM

i like my galaxy buds live a lot as theyre not actually in-ear. not necessarily for sleep but comfy to me

I just use an old true wireless one I don't mind misplacing, put it in the ear of the side I'm not sleeping on, and assume it will fall out before I toss n turn.

Check out bone conduction headphones.

The audio quality is not the best but it more than enough for podcasts or youtube content. They are much more comfortable for me as long as the volume is relatively low or else the vibration starts to become annoying. I would recommend trying them out if you can from a friend or order some expecting to return them because they aren't for everyone but if you are like me you won't want to use anything else.

I've got a pair of these that I like. They do the job as described. They're not great at anything else but I like them for laying in bed.

I put my phone under my pillow.

Well now I've upgraded it with two tiny speakers from AliExpress so my phone is not overheating while charging

I use Sennheiser HD450BT over the ear headphones. A little tricky but with a softer pillow side sleeping is fine. Can occasionally have issues with the ANC with some pillows.

Using Brownian noise from my phone.

I'm a side sleeper, and would use something like a Pillow Speaker if I wanted that: https://www.talkaboutsleep.com/best-pillow-speakers/

Depending on how you sleep, you might just want to look into slim conductive headphones instead of overpriced sleep-specific ones

Sleep Bluetooth sleeping audio wearable?? What..

I got some $8 sleep buds from Aliexpeees that have done well. I've also done the headband ones, but you can just put that in in Amazon and find a plethora of them. I've also see people use pillow speakers and put them inside the pillow case, but you'll need to still have your audio jack for that.

The original AirPods 1 (non pro) do the trick for me

I'm surprised so many people wear earpods while sleeping. Do you not have alarms in the morning that you need to hear? Is there a reason you can't have a white noise machine?