Scientifically, listening to music improves sleep leading to slower breathing, lower heart rate, and reduced blood pressure. Studies have indicated that listening to audiobooks is like listening to music. The article talks about how audiobooks have become more popular nowadays and people use them to help them sleep at night.

 

Music and Audiobooks

Music helps us sleep better , and can be a great part of healthy sleep hygiene. A 2006 study had troubled sleepers listen to classical music as they were falling asleep. Students who are troubled sleepers listened to music had slept better than those who did not listen to it. This experiment shows how music can help people get quality rest.

Audiobooks have grown in popularity over the past years. Surprisingly, research on how well they can help people falling sleep is rare.

 While there is little science supporting audiobooks, there is still a nightly benefit to this new way. Audiobooks could help sleepers off disturbances like social media and TV. It could also help you to relax.

 

Audiobooks and Insomnia

Approximately 30% of adult samples drawn from different countries report one or more of the symptoms of insomnia: difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, waking up too early, and poor quality of sleep. And so, some have turned to audiobooks to combat their insomnia.

Audiobooks led freeing hands and eyes to focus on other tasks like driving or house cleaning—also tends to the process of falling asleep.

Some claim that tuning into an audiobook while falling asleep can alleviate from other disrupting noises or thoughts of the day. Focusing on calming storytelling, listeners allow themselves to sleep despite stress and dealing with insomnia.

 

Audiobook’s Popularity

Audiobooks recognition hit audiobooks services or platforms like Audible and even libraries or schools offer physical copies of audiobooks and download or stream audio content. Apps like Audible usually features to automatically stop playback after an hour or so, making easy to pick up where the listener left off. Some choose to listen to new stories as they fall asleep.

Additionally, there are other reasons to listen to audiobooks:

  • Can expand your mind and vocabulary
  • Can allow reading to be a collaborative social activity

Scientific evidence is still less certain — the impact of audiobooks on sleep, whether negative or positive. Whether it is psychological or not, if listening to audiobooks helps you get to sleep, then keep doing it.

 

Soothing Audiobook’s to Try

Try out different genres and find which is best for you to fall asleep to. Not every book is going to be a good fit for sleeping. There is a calm and relaxing audiobook to help you fall asleep.

  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • Life on Mars by Jennifer Brown
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  •  The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

It is worth a try!