How sleep podcasts quietly hack your brain
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More of us than ever need help dropping off. But what’s behind the boom in snoozy podcasts?
By Tom Nicholson
Every night for the last week, I’ve walked down a back street in a quiet suburban town. I know it well, or maybe it’s my first time there. I find a door. Behind the door is a dark room. In the middle of the dark room is a beautiful crafted miniature city. I’m not sure what happens at that point. I tend to fall asleep.
During the pandemic, I’ve got very into sleep podcasts. I don’t mean I stick one on occasionally; since about May last year I’ve come to rely on them, rifling through as many as I could find, trying and discarding new hopefuls. Too nasal. Too scratchy. Too slow. Too fast. Too distractingly whimsical. Too abrasively boring. I have my favourites, and I don’t really know what I’d do without them.
If you don’t tend to spend the early hours of the morning staring at the wall and worrying about work, or your family, or your partner, or the time eight years ago that yo...
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