alt Hacker NewsRecently worked on https://sleepsignal.app
It's an app to get sleepy without meds. Simply close your eyes and imagine the micro-scenarios you hear. Like if you hear "moonlight on a white flower", imagine that scenario until you hear the next one. Session duration is also not too long (10 minutes default, you may change the session duration too).
It's like a digital melatonin pill - but without chemical side effects. Try it!
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unsungNovelty • today at 2:25 AM
Gonna try it. And also share it with my friend if it helps me. Interesting idea. Thanks.
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It's a very interesting idea. Sometimes I do let my brain go wild imagining crazy things when I'm trying to fall asleep. A couple suggestions:
- the TTS voice sounds way too excited for something meant to be relaxing
- the sudden speaking after 10 seconds of silence is very jarring -- I wonder if something like a reverse-reverb effect would be enough to "warn" the brain that a new sentence is incoming. There's an example of how to do it in Ableton on YouTube[0] but the basic concept is: take a short slice of audio from the beginning of the sentence, reverse it, apply a long reverb, reverse it again, trim the end a little. You get a sort of ghostly aspirated sound that leads perfectly into the original sample.
0: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QuknZMUa7Rs