sleep Sleepy time music

[FL530]

It's been about 5 years since "Esther's Dreams" came out, and I'm wondering, since I'm now a father myself, if there's any other music that would fit in the same vein, that maybe I missed. I was putting together some chiptune stuff for a potential child (and my own peaceful times), but sorta fell of the scene shortly after the aforementioned album released. I'm open to suggestions, OCR, original game music, or otherwise.

 

For starters, I've already thought of Zelda's Lullaby, and still have the chiptune playlist, but I don't have much access to a computer these days. I know if I can get in-game suggestions, I have the chip formats of most older (ps1 and prior) games on my phone and tablet. Thoughts?

[The Damned]

There are the two volumes of Prescription For Sleep Game Music Lullabies, which has a total of 20 songs from Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger, Duck Tales, Shovel Knight, Elder Scrolls, Donkey Kong, Mario, even one from Metal Gear Solid 3.

It's entirely piano and sax, but it might work.

There's also the various music box style video game music you can find on youtube. For example:
 

 

[djpretzel]

We've currently got usage tags for meditation, workout, wedding, Halloween, & winter holiday.... perhaps a "Sleepytime" option would let us offer up a list of mixes (some from Esther's Dreams + many more mixes on the site)... would anyone find this useful?

[The Damned]

Sure.

[yangfeili]

Since my daughter was born last May, I started putting together a playlist a bit at a time. Some game music in there, some other stuff as well, most of it sleepy-ish, a few less so:

 

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by yangfeili

[captaineegee]

I created a playlist out of the two most recent (2015 & 2019) Chrono Trigger and Chrono Croas albums. My daughter is 5 now and seems too like both albums for nap/bedtime. 

 

[djpretzel]

8 hours ago, captaineegee said:

I created a playlist out of the two most recent (2015 & 2019) Chrono Trigger and Chrono Croas albums. My daughter is 5 now and seems too like both albums for nap/bedtime.

@captaineegee Thanks - this comes as a reminder that we need to enable tagging for albums, in addition to mixes. Did you do the whole albums, or specific tracks? If the latter, mind sharing? It can be a starting point for tagging posted mixes from both...

[captaineegee]

@djpretzel I went with the full albums for the playlist - mind you I did it this way for simplicity sake if Mom, Grandparents, or babysitter put her down instead of me.

[LuckyXIII]

From a playlist I made years ago.

[Daylectorbr]

hey Lucky, thanks for sharing your playlist very much appreciated.

[Jonathan David Arndt]

On 2/1/2020 at 4:36 AM, LuckyXIII said:

From a playlist I made years ago.

 

That really is a fabulous list. I recognize many of these (as they are on similar playlists that I made for myself).

Especially appreciate how you have 400+ plays on "Another Inspiration". That is a favorite here, as well.

[LuckyXIII]

Glad y'all like it! OCR's had a special place in my heart since just near about the beginning. It really helped me flesh out my love for ambient/electro music in general but primarily through the lens of remixed VG music. And one thing the quieter stuff does is help me sleep as I have ADHD and chronic anxiety & depression - it helps soothe my mind running at a billion RPM and the melancholy mixes (such as Another Inspiration) resonate and resolve the depressive stuff. 

This site has really been a foundational and important part of my life going on 20 years now and I'm so grateful for its existence.

[Jonathan David Arndt]

7 hours ago, LuckyXIII said:

And one thing the quieter stuff does is help me sleep as I have ADHD and chronic anxiety & depression - it helps soothe my mind running at a billion RPM and the melancholy mixes (such as Another Inspiration) resonate and resolve the depressive stuff.

You know, I feel the same way. I have never been diagnosed with anything, but anytime I'm really depressed or just feeling down, this ambient/electro stuff really helps me so much. Really soothes the racing mind.

I am not anxious anymore. I used to very on edge about a lot of things, and that has finally vanished completely. This is probably due to many things, but what Paul says to the Philippians often comes to mind, and really rings true: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

I had no idea this site existed 20 years ago (but my brother & sister and I have found a number of tracks in our mp3 library from the late 90's that originated from OC Remix, so I guess it really has had an impact on me for that long!) But I have been listening to this collection since 2016, and am so happy for this place. Now I'm totally going through and recreating the playlist from @LuckyXIII (are there more than just the 52 tracks pictured in your post above?)

[LuckyXIII]

Good on you with the anxiety going away. Prescription drugs do wonders for me, personally.

And yes - here's the rest of the playlist (the play counts aren't all accurate after several hard drive switches over the years and varying degrees of success in migrating the iTunes library - also, it's not 100% OCR, but OCR is 100% why I have any of these songs):

 

[Jonathan David Arndt]

Thank you for posting the rest! I'll try to find the rest of these and listen through.

(Prescription drugs do indeed do wonders. Good for you, too!)

[Garpocalypse]

Not to self promote or anything...

Too hard...

But I recently compiled and released a few EP I did that were inspired by the game Aquaria.  You can check it out here http://ryandavismusic.net

With my posted remix from the game here: https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03281

[LuckyXIII]

Love the remix! Thanks for sharing!

[Jonathan David Arndt]

It has been ONE YEAR.

Really enjoy listening to the playlists you all put together, because it often leads to some amazing rabbit trails.
Thanks to@LuckyXIII I have now been introduced to RKO. (There is a lot of listening there, and it is WORTH IT.)

There are a few items on that playlist that I cannot find anywhere:

#45 - Traversing the Ngori - Ambient People - Ambience Again (4:50)
#46 - Into the Ngori - Ambient People - Ambience Again       (5:31)
#60 - ACCIDENT - Mysterious Secret Room - Super Mushroom     (8:53)

For this next one, I identified a few candidates, but am wondering if your copy is from some other source?

#90 - Dream of the Shore Near Another World - Yasonori Mitsuda (2:33)
   Piano version by Kara Comparetto (2:19) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIraiwX96jE
   Chrono Cross OST                 (2:26) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV-FvxoR1PQ

Thanks! Have really enjoyed this!

 

Edited April 14, 2021 by Jonathan David Arndt
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[Daylectorbr]

On 3/15/2020 at 6:51 PM, LuckyXIII said:

Good on you with the anxiety going away. Prescription drugs do wonders for me, personally.

And yes - here's the rest of the playlist (the play counts aren't all accurate after several hard drive switches over the years and varying degrees of success in migrating the iTunes library - also, it's not 100% OCR, but OCR is 100% why I have any of these songs):

 

My kind of medicine. Big thanks!

[captaineegee]

I'm real happy to see you guys have itunes folders that look like mine...