For me it’s not a single sound. It’s a combination.
A nice breeze rustling the leaves of trees or blades of grass in a field and the sounds of birds chirping in the distance.
Light rain on the sides of a tent
Yup yup. This is perfect. Sends me right to sleep.
My tinnitus, I listen to it all day.
WHAT?? CAN YOU SPEAK UP?
Things that, ironically, enhance silence.
- Heavy raindrops on a metal roof
- Leaves rustling in the wind
- Campfire
Similarly, my wife mumbling in her sleep punctuating the silence of reading quietly to myself
When my cats purr.
Silence.
Hello darkness my old friend.
That ultra thin whistle
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I know a cat who does a sorta chirpy purr and sends himself into a coughing fit doing it sometimes, it’s one of my favorite sounds
A trill?
My cat, purring.
Crackling fire.
My windchimes.
Wind through the poplar tree leaves.
We just adopted a second cat to keep our first (supposedly cat hating) cat company. My new favorite sound is the pitter patter of their little paws as they play together every single morning and evening.
The sound of an English country garden on a Sunday in summer.
This is a composite of several sounds all of which must be quiet or distant enough to not be a distraction but which in conjunction are glorious:
- the sound of the breeze through the trees
- childrens’ laughter just far away enough to not be bothersome
- bees buzzing from flower to flower
- a propeller-driven light aircraft from a nearby aerodrome (ideally this would be a vintage plane with a Merlin engine, lazily warbling in the distance)
- the sound of leather on willow, and the occasional call and muted cheer, from a cricket match on the village green
- the gentle burble of a stream
- church bells, far enough away that their individual peels almost blend into each other
- the clink of ice as someone pours a perfect gin and tonic.
I went to an isolation float tank once where you get to choose the sounds/music you hear at the beginning and end of the session. I chose “Alpine meadows” that had bees buzzing, light wind moving in trees and grass and little bells chiming and it was my favourite part of the experience, I could have listened to that the whole hour. What you described is very similar and would make a great soundscape for situations like that!
Rain when I go to sleep.
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Whale songs
Church bells.
