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To the extent that "relaxing" online is possible, YouTube is full of relaxing content, from hot knife ASMR to unedited dog show footage. But sometimes I don't have two hours to watch the 2017 Crufts sporting group competition. Sometimes I don't have time to watch anything at all.
This is where relaxing nature sounds come in. When I find myself anxious but truly unable to take a break from work, I pop on a video from artist Johnnie Lawson's YouTube channel to use as background noise.
The videos range in length from about 20 minutes (perfectly fine) to eight hours (what I actually want). They feature a wide swath of nature audio, from "Nature Sounds and Relaxing Classical Music" to "Forest Waterfall Sounds w/o Birds Singing" to "Forest Waterfall Sounds Birds Singing."
SEE ALSO: Videos of tech being destroyed will set you free, if only for a few minutesOK, they are mostly just water sounds, but I lovethem. They're muted, pleasant, and repetitive -- not so repetitive that I notice, but enough to lull me into something resembling a productive rhythm.
They're helpful if you want to sleep, too: One video, "Relax 8 Hours-Relaxing Nature Sounds-Study-Sleep-Meditation-Water Sounds-Bird Song," has become a famous source of relief for insomnia sufferers.
One video has become a famous source of relief for insomnia sufferers.
Per the BBC, Lawson started making his videos as a way to "bring nature into people's lives." He films them himself in the Irish countryside, traveling to discover new shots, new sounds, and new scenery.
Lawson, who seems like a very nice person, began making eight-hour videos so that if insomnia sufferers woke up in the middle of the night, they wouldn't wake up to silence. Even though I don't use the channel as a sleeping aid, I appreciate the eight-hour clips, too. Yesterday, I started listening to one at work around 3 p.m., and only made it halfway through by day's end. I clicked nothing; I chose nothing; I forgot I had the window open. I simply pressed play on eight hours of waterfall noise and went about my day.
And if I had reached the end of the video, it would've started playing another video of waterfall noise -- perhaps with birds, perhaps without.
What a paradise.
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