Dan Luu

A friend of mine listens to various sounds to help her fall asleep in an app that has various "sleep sounds" (ocean, wildlife, etc.)

As a former semi-serious sailor, she was excited to see that there were sailing sounds, so she started them up and immediately fell asleep. She then had rigging-related sailing nightmares all night because the soundtrack has the sounds ropes make when they're under an unsafe level of tension.

Oct 15, 2023 at 4:51amWeb
Show threadDan LuuOct 15, 2023

The rope creaking stuff doesn't start until a bit into the track and she was already asleep by then.

This seems absolutely hilarious to me. This would be like if someone who didn't know anything about cars and had never ridden in a car put together a nice "car road trip sounds" sleep track and then a few minutes in, it has screeching tires, the sound of metal scraping on metal, etc. for the next eight hours.

Show threadDebabrata Bhattacharya || SEOct 15, 2023
@danluu lol this is hilarious.
Show threadHeath BordersOct 15, 2023
@danluu related story: in college, I played competitive Counterstrike and I once had a dream that I was playing, but then my perspective got stuck, and I could only move was the WASD keys would let me. When I woke up, my right hand was jammed between my pillow and bedframe, and I liked to think I was trying to move my hand to change my perspective as I would in game
Show threadJoanna HolmanOct 15, 2023
@danluu @negative12dollarbill those apps are a hazard. A friend started using rain sounds to fall asleep. Now they have trouble not falling asleep at their desk when it’s raining outside
Show threadJason Petersen (he)Oct 15, 2023
@danluu I know you said some will find it funny but I still feel the need to chime in: I also find this deeply funny.
Show threadmikiOct 15, 2023
@danluu This is like those authors that put their writing on the internet, chapter-by-chapter, and then get angry comments from physicists saying that “balls don’t actually fall like that.”
Show threadAstraOct 15, 2023
@danluu that's kinda like having a nightmare where you go to work and think "man, this hell hole is even less OSHA-compliant than usual..."
Show thread🏳️‍⚧️Claire🏳️‍⚧️Oct 16, 2023
@danluu
I will share this story with my ship captain friend.
@letsbekind2
Show threadWildduckOct 16, 2023
@danluu @mammyisa ☝️😬