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I used to fall asleep to Napalm Death on my way home from college then university.
It was confusing at first, as I put it on to stay awake, but then I just went with it. My brain accepts their songs as more melodic than they appear, strange. Anyone else have similar experiences?
I used to do the same: I would fall asleep to Rings of Saturn in high school. Same deal; more melodic than expected and also untreated AuDHD and bipolar made for a noisy brain.
Not napalm death, but for a while I went to sleep to the movie “Die hard.”
Machine guns and explosions dont normally line up with lullaby’s, but I’d watched it so much that I found it comforting. I expect my brain just learned to filter out the louder noises as I slept.
I used to fall asleep to Napalm Death on my way home from college then university.
It was confusing at first, as I put it on to stay awake, but then I just went with it. My brain accepts their songs as more melodic than they appear, strange. Anyone else have similar experiences?
I used to do the same: I would fall asleep to Rings of Saturn in high school. Same deal; more melodic than expected and also untreated AuDHD and bipolar made for a noisy brain.
Not napalm death, but for a while I went to sleep to the movie “Die hard.”
Machine guns and explosions dont normally line up with lullaby’s, but I’d watched it so much that I found it comforting. I expect my brain just learned to filter out the louder noises as I slept.