[ChiMan]

Common sense and experience inform my theory of good sleep: Pitch black, stone quiet, with noise limited to pre-sleep audial approximations of the dream-like mental noise that precipitates sleep.

[nandomrumber]

> -sleep audial approximations of the dream-like mental noise that precipitates sleep.

What does this mean for you?

My hypnagogia, or mental-noise that precipitates sleep as you put it, is entirely visual hallucinations.

I’m not aware of ever having been able to recall any auditory hallucinations.

[kstrauser]

Glad that works for you! To me, silence sounds a lot like insomnia.