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posted by martyb on Monday July 08 2019, @04:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the listen-to-the-sheep-count dept.

Have you ever lain awake in the early hours of the morning ticking away the seconds until you have to get up. Wondered if you should have taken a pill while knowing that if you do so you will probably snooze right through any alarm that does not involve water. If so there may be hope for you in the form of a podcast by what may be the world's most boring man. Five years and over 150 episodes of Sleep With Me ago Drew Ackerman recorded the first podcast designed to allow someone to fall asleep — as the recording can make someone feel like they are listening to a friend talk to them which can be very comforting. Ackerman's monologue is so boring that he has fallen asleep while editing his own podcasts. With millions of people around the world listening to him ramble on about nonsense, Ackerman is helping people with insomnia and anxiety find a deeper sleep without drugs.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Monday July 08 2019, @06:07PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday July 08 2019, @06:07PM (#864611) Journal

    The act of imagining what is being told to you relaxes you and helps you to sleep, doesn't need to be particularly boring. Listening to a tv program is better than a radio program, as you have to fill in more stuff.

    Or do like advanced beings and implement some suspend routine.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @06:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @06:15PM (#864613)

    According to the transcripts, this guys drivel is pretty sleep inducing - far less interesting than anyone actually trying to tell you anything. From the latest story:

    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and friends beyond the binary, and all my patron peeps. Thank for keeping the show going, patrons. I couldn't do it without you. Like, really. You're helping me, I'm helping you. And isn't it a wonderful world when it works that way? Thank you. And let's get on with the show.

    Hey, are you up all night tossing, turning, mind racing, trouble getting to sleep, trouble staying asleep? Well, welcome. This is Sleep With Me, the podcast that puts you to sleep. We do it to bedtime story. Alls you need to do is get in bed, turn off the lights and press play. I'm going to do the rest. What I'm going to attempt to do is create a safe place where you could set aside whatever's keeping you awake. Whether it's thoughts, feelings, physical sensations. So, stuff you're thinking about or stuff you're experiencing or coming up for you. But it could be travel. It could be situational. Whatever's keeping you awake, I'd like to take your mind off that. I'd like to create a kind of safe place, as I said, where you could just sink in a little bit more, and I guess be distracted.

    Like, what I'm going to do is I'm going to send my voice across the deep, dark night. Important going to use these lulling, soothing creaky, dulcid tones, pointless meanders. Believe me, I've got plenty of those. I've got an arsenal of, wen it comes to sleepy equipment, I put the arse in arsenal of sleepy stuff. I don't know if you, even I don't know I said, “Should I try to go with that, or no?”

    Bu that's actually, anyway. Oh, some of those things will be at tangents, superfluous dialogue. A lot of, at the beginning of the show, particularly right now, I'd be like unresolved metaphors. I'm pretty sure, I don't want to say I invented that. I'm just the first person that isn't an English major that's used unresolved metaphors. Or this is the only place where it's like, it's not shade, you say. Well, the book was full of unresolved metaphors. And you say, oof, I mean, that was about as harsh, as I said, when you said Byron esque, and I didn't even know what that meant. But I know what unresolved. I think, is unresolved metaphor, is it anything like a simile that doesn't get finished? I know technically that one kind of did. But you don't know. Are we in the midst of a metaphorical dialogue right now? Oh no, it's imaginary dialogue.

    https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/787-legend-of-billie-jean-tale-of-the-tape/ [sleepwithmepodcast.com]

    And then it goes on and on and on ...

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Rupert Pupnick on Monday July 08 2019, @06:18PM

      by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Monday July 08 2019, @06:18PM (#864615) Journal

      Sounds like 95% of the YouTube videos out there in which the first 10 minutes are pure self-promotion by way of extended introduction.