Some advice/tips

[other one]

My wife has problems sleeping and she uses a youtube video of rain falling and occasional distant thunder.   Once you get used to it, it blocks out other noises.

Personally, I have trouble falling asleep when there is total silence.   I wear hearing aids that are bluetoothed to my phone, so I listen to mood sleep music all night.

[Still Alive]

37 minutes ago, Sower said:

Sometime in the early 70's my wife and I moved back to Houston and lived in our first (and ONLY apt) apartment. Two story, we had the lower. Above us was a couple about in their 30's, and next to them was a hippie. The hippie played loud music when we did so no problem. I worked construction an early riser. It became a regular routine sometime about midnight for the couple above us to start arguing, shouting and knocking things around.

Got so bad I would wake up and  jumped up on our bed and banged on the ceiling, more than once. Noise stopped.  At late morning they would silently come down the stairs, the woman with a scarf around her head wearing sun glasses hiding her face. Every time.

One evening while watching TV we heard our gate door latch being closed on our tiny patio assuming someone came to visit. After waiting awhile and still no knock I opened the door and cut on the porch light. 

A woman was squatting there dress hiked while peeing a big puddle next to our BBQ smoker screaming for me to cut off the light.
Unless God directed us, we would never live in an apt so close to people knowing we all have habits that can irritate each other.

We now live in the wooded country on 30 acres. Our closest neighbors are the owls fox and deer, coons snakes and scorpions, hawks javelinas, ferrell cats dogs and hogs etc.   We get along fine...(If I could just keep the deer away from the fruit trees:)

Wow. Sounds a lot like our story. The only apartments I lived in was the one I lived in for a year when my first wife kicked me out at the 20 year mark, and the one my second wife and I lived in why we waited to find work to move to our rural 32 acres in Kentucky. I really hate apartments. And yeah, we get along with the "neigbors" except at certain times of year our chicken coop becomes the local smorgasbord. Racoons and Foxes. Oh, and the birds feasted on our peaches. and our "second picking" of blueberries. But still, we LOVE it here.

BTW, in our last apartment our upstairs neighbor was this 30ish Russian guy that "hooked up" a lot. Sometimes it got pretty noisy up there, and sometimes I'd meet the women in the walkway to the parking lot on my way to work in the morning. I have to admit, he had pretty good taste. 

[warrior12]

3 minutes ago, other one said:

My wife has problems sleeping and she uses a youtube video of rain falling and occasional distant thunder.   Once you get used to it, it blocks out other noises.

Personally, I have trouble falling asleep when there is total silence.   I wear hearing aids that are bluetoothed to my phone, so I listen to mood sleep music all night.

When I can't fall asleep on my schedule, I listen to podcasts of all types, from biblical to world trends ect.   I then go to lay down and listen, which I then wake up to find about four or more have rolled out , and i did not get through the first ten minutes of the first one.  That does not happen all the time, but most.   

When I really can't sleep though, then nothing help, and I only pour more fire with tea and biscuits and wait for the agony to end.

 

[other one]

14 minutes ago, warrior12 said:

When I can't fall asleep on my schedule, I listen to podcasts of all types, from biblical to world trends ect.   I then go to lay down and listen, which I then wake up to find about four or more have rolled out , and i did not get through the first ten minutes of the first one.  That does not happen all the time, but most.   

When I really can't sleep though, then nothing help, and I only pour more fire with tea and biscuits and wait for the agony to end.

 

I can not sleep when the bible is playing...   I get mentally involved.    During my work career (38 years with Xerox) I drove about 3,500 miles a month to and from service calls and listened to the Bible most of that time for 19 years.  Would not have been good to train myself to sleep with the Bible playing. LoL