What Is the Most Soothing Sound? 

Why are you asking me

Every Solar Sands video either makes me question my life choices or makes me smile and I love it

was definitely an eye-opener when I was looking for sound effects for a fight scene and the comments were talking about how soothing the blood splatters were

My favourite of these 1 hour with sound videos has got to be “1hour of silence randomly broken by a metal pipe falling” truly soothing

The call of Mourning Doves is easily one of the most soothing sounds to me. Brings me back to when I was 9, my grandma would wake me up early to watch the sunrise. It was one of those mornings when she told me she had terminal cancer, and that "the doves had been mourning for me this whole time, but when I'm gone, I'll join them, and you'll still get to hear my voice" Godspeed, Yaya

The most soothing sound I’ve ever heard was in a history lecture in college. Big class, 200-300 students. One of the few professors in the department that would let people have laptops out in class. He had a teaching cadence that involved occasional long pauses. In those moments, the room was flooded by the sound of over a hundred people typing on their laptops in every direction. It was mesmerizing. Of course very similar to rain, but man, it was incredible. What I would give to experience that soundscape whenever I pleased

11:08 dude you LITERALLY hit what it's like to have trains outside my window exactly like i did after realizing that i actually appreciated the trains. seeing an amtrak go by and knowing that the world continues on with everyone living their own lives and experiencing their own stories is just so god damn comforting. it just makes you content as you fall asleep

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I live in what can kindly be referred to as a desert hellscape, so I think my fondness for the sound of rain and thunder is less a relaxation thing and more a "this means I'll actually be able to take a step outside for longer than 5 minutes without having to worry about the sun being a deadly laser" thing.

As a Midwest American I never realized how much train horn sounds were just part of my life growing up but yeah, the nostalgia is real.

I love the low rumbling sound of AC vents when you’re deep inside a large building like a hospital or on a cruise ship. The sequence of rooms upon rooms next to each other create a dampening of noise from the outside world, and the low rumble of AC is all you can hear. Very soothing imo

I’ve always liked the sounds of a summer forest with cicadas and birds, people find cicada’s really annoying but I find them super nostalgic and rhythmic

Trains really are the most soothing sound. When I was little, we'd always go up to my grandparents' ranch to help them with harvesting and just having a good time. Every night we'd leave our windows open to let the cool air in and the kids would always fight for the room that faced the tracks. I had some of the best dreams in that room with the gentle horns of the trains rolling through the hills and dancing through my ears.

Solar Sands could literally talk about anything and I would watch it. When talking about soothing sounds, his voice is definitely up there.

My childhood house was directly across from a train track. And when I heard the distant horn at night I would always find myself getting a little sleepy. I used to have terrible sleeping problems as a kid, but the train passing by my house, while it annoyed my brothers, always relaxed me. It's nostalgic.

One of my favorite ambient sounds is specifically when I'm trying to go to sleep and there are people talking softly in the other room. The idea that I can sleep and other people are nearby if I need them instantly takes me back to childhood and makes me want to go to sleep.

The most soothing sound is, of course, your beautiful, handsome, and charming voice Mr. Solar Sands.

I've had tinnitus and insomnia for my whole life and I've found the sound of nothing to be deafening when it's 3 am and I want to sleep. I personally like thunderstorms and other nature sounds for sleeping. This one therapy office I went to had a really pleasing particular colored noise that I've never heard since. It's a good day when I'm blessed with a Solar Sands video

Woah, that was crazy. The moment you flipped to Pink Noise my shoulders dropped and I couldn't help but smile. That instantly relaxed me. I didn't even know that was a thing.

Thank you yet again for posting such a lovely and grounding video essay. Your work is humbling and selfless to the public and you deserve acknowledgement for your dedication. You are a main source to my use on this platform still. I look forward to each video and every day that happens is the highlight of that day for me.

Nothing soothes me like thunder. I don’t know what it is about it but it fills me with a deep sense of wonder and peace.

I swear this man, can talk about anything and its going to sound interesting

the last part!! it makes realize one of the most soothing sound i put on before sleep is muffled people talking from another room. it really feels like a warmth emotion about living with other people (family, loved ones, community etc.) and also gives an assurance that i am not alone. there are people out there doing their own thing, out of my responsibility, and i can put myself down to slumber.

A weird one for me is the sound of a distant dog barking. I grew up with dogs and around them so I know that it can be annoying when they’re nearby and barking when you’re trying to sleep. However, when its distant, its very nostalgic. I realized this after I listened to Mac Millers- So It Goes, a dog is barking in the very beginning of the song and it actually sounds very pleasant to me. Odd choice but it got me interested into the idea/ question of what exactly makes a sound pleasant for different people. I also figured it has to do with what you grew up with and what was around you.

Dude kills it with every one of these video essays. Well researched, original, alarming and calming in an existential way...

Adding onto the point you made about the train horn being a reminder there are other people out there while you go to sleep is almost exactly what comes to mind for me. From fifth grade to when I left for college I lived on the outskirts of Tampa and in a semi-rural environment so naturally all I heard at night was nature. Because of this I'd sometimes leave my radio on quietly at night just as a reminder the world still exists beyond the ink-black darkness of the woods and the train horn would only serve as another reminder of that fact.

If you've ever been hiking in the woods, and you are starting to get a bit uncertain about being on the right track, hearing a distant train (I'm thinking more of a local 'toot' than a huge wailing horn) is VERY comforting.

Whenever I see a new Solar Sands video dropped.....I don't watch it right away. I literally mark out time the next day, when I can devote my full attention to it. Your videos......are some of THE best content on RU-vid.

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I am surprised no one mentioned the sound of wood burning and cracking in a fireplace.

10:45 you described my exact feelings perfectly. sometimes I get really wrapped up in my own head and it can be easy to forget how big and complex the world really is. when I hear the sound of a train horn off in the distance, it just reminds me that I'm not alone and that there are so many other people out there with their own lives and troubles.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Solar Sands for showing off his dog? I hope he and his dog are having a good day!

I never realized how many people loved train sounds. But when I think about it, it's actually pretty comforting to me because it reminds me of home. I've right lived by a decently active set of tracks for years (coming up on eight years) and while walking next to the tracks when a train is going by is ear-grading, laying in bed late and night and hearing that slightly softer horn really does have a calming affect

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I personally love brown noise and industrial air vent sounds. A soothing, deep, cool rumble makes me feel calm immediately. Funnily enough, I used to leave by trains as well, but being a little kid they just scared the hell out of me, so I’ve always found train sounds unnerving lol. As for music, I love the artist Windows96. Deep Swim and Yujia Forest (two of my favorite songs by them) are indescribably beautiful and calming to me for some reason.

For me, I love the sound of winter wind. Or similar sounds, it reminds me of being a carefree kid, playing in the snow. And I've always enjoyed the cold weather. I know this is an old upload, but like many of your uploads. It's solid work.

As a Railfan, personally my favorite train horns are the Holden M3H, Leslie RS3L, and the Old Cast Nathan P5 and RS5T-RRO. The chords they make are so pleasing to listen to (up close is debatable, lol) and resonate within myself. Can't deny the Wabco A200 is a classic.

Yeah to me, the horns of the local transit railroad always remind me of home. They are very distinct in sound profile and carry quite a distance. I can't recall a part of my life where I wasn't within earshot of an NJT K5LLA with its really distinct sound profile. The lack of it outdoors is as odd to my brain as not hearing birds in the summer.

I listen to rain with rumbling thunder noise every night, it is my personal favorite sound of all time. Thank you for this video I’ve always loved ambient soundscapes

TNG ship engine noise is a really nice ambient sound. Constant, level audio but not annoying at all. Also, I’ve noticed that you can almost pavlov response yourself into associating certain sounds with sleep, by playing them enough as you’re going to bed.

I grew up well off, so I used to sleep every night with an air conditioner that vibrates slightly, shaking a bit in the wall, the cooling system makes a whirring sound, thus it became my 'ambient noise' when sleeping. Broke during college, the sound of an electric fan spinning it's blades or the power plant nearby replicates that ambient noise for me. It's the most soothing sound that is all I ever need to hear to sleep.

For me it has always been the nights where snow is falling, school is canceled and I can just watch. There is something about the way the wind whispers through the trees while the snow drifts in a playful way that puts my heart at ease. In fact, one night such as this, I went out at later than midnight to just walk in the yard and enjoy the snow falling.

I’m similar to some people in that distant train horns are a soothing, nostalgic sound to me. My grandparents lived 6 hours away from my family so we only visited for holidays or summer vacation. Once I was old enough, my parents would drop me off with them and I would get to spend two weeks out at their home, nestled in the countryside of Wyoming near the train tracks. I can picture the sound as well as the smell of a summer night breeze coming in through the window of the room that was designated as mine whenever I was there. Those were some of the most carefree times of my life, so I will always love the sound of distant train horns. Just writing this is making me tear up, as my grandma has now passed away, and my grandfather no longer lives at that house. I wish I could revisit one of those summers.

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Growing up in the middle of the woods, I always loved the sounds of bugs chirping at night accompanied by rustling leaves and the occasional hoot from an owl. The sound of cicadas in the summertime instantly put me in a good mood.

It’s the Kingassripper “farting on my roommate’s door” video. That is the most soothing sound.

The most soothing sound to me is when I go to the coffee shop in the library center I live by. It's so quiet, but the occasional typing on a laptop, turning of a book page, and clanking of mugs on tables mixed with the smells of books and coffee makes sitting there so enjoyable. Some other honorable mentions... The sound a paintbrush makes on a canvas. Wind blowing through trees and long grass on a spring day Flipping a page in a giant schoolbook and it makes that slicing sound When you're sitting in the passenger seat in a car at night (muted white noise mixed with silence and driving sounds) Morning rain hitting your tent in the asscrack of dawn met with that crisp air and nature doing its thing A clock ticking Sitting in your 3rd grade gymnasium with the rest of the school waiting for the assembly to start (echoing kid voices talking and laughing, bleacher sounds, sneakers skidding the floors). Maybe this ones just me 😐

My grandma lived in a crappy trailer park near a railroad. As a little kid i stayed there a lot. I'd always be woken up by the trains before the sun rose, it was so comforting to hear and I love train sounds now.

I live directly next to a busy train station, and the train horns go off very frequently, every 45 minutes or so during the day into the late night. I always found the sound relaxing, but when I see the train pass, I always think of what it might be like to hop on and go on an adventure, away from the business of life, and fade away into the sound of the horn.

I find really amusing the exploration of "sleeping sounds" mainly in music, its always facinating see how music from C418 or Vangelis for example, can be so relaxing while still mantaining character and a lot of musical depth, but despite that, I also find really interesting the point where music gets to be so simple that it looses a lot of that characteristics, and it starts to be sort of an exercise of designing new sounds or ambients pleassing to the human being.

"right now, you have no responsibilities for the great machine that is civiliazation, you can rest" may be the most soothing sentence i've heard today 10:56

The clip of the train you used at 9:03 was filmed in Hughson California at the corner of Whitmore and Santa Fe Ave. I go through there on my daily commute. Seeing a place I drive past daily on a solar sands video is something I never expected. The dollar tree and the body shop across the tracks made me realize where it was 😂

Whenever I’m at a water park, I’ve always gotta take time to sit down at the water playground. The soundscape it provides is such a calming, sublime, and even religious experience, heightened by your physical exhaustion from walking up all those water slide stairs all day…that is my favorite sound in the whole world.

The last 20 seconds of the video gave me goosebumps. Very Peaceful yet sad words..

Living near the sea, people expect me to say waves, but a lot of people overlook the noises the seagulls and other waterbirds make. Where I live harrowing-gulls make very loud almost gargle-ly noises that most people I know find super annoying, but I just find them mesmerising. Not exactly relaxing, but more like a reminder of appreciating other kinds of life that often live around me and my house. That plus the fact that they are usually most active during 6-7 am, so it's like a sea rooster for me.

Another soothing sound is called the brown note, search it up and listen to it in bed

Yaaay a Solar Sands video that doesn't give me a profound existential crisis!

i’ve got a similar association with train sounds. both my current and my childhood home were within earshot of a train station. the sound had always felt peaceful and soothing when i was a kid, and now that it’s formed a throughline between that home and my current home, the sound itself FEELS like home. i never considered that so many other people can find comfort in that same sound

It has taken me this long to fully realise one of the probable reasons I find Toby Foxes “it’s raining somewhere else” so very soothing. Outside of it being a fantastically well composed piece, that not only is one of my favourite undertale songs but one of my favourite OGST songs ever, it also incorporates some of these sounds. The composition and instrumentals a well made keeping a calming and relaxing vibe, but the intro and outro of the song fades out from- and into rain sounds (I’d almost say city like rain). While that is something I have always loved with the song, this is the first time I’ve really thought about it and properly noticing it’s usage. The song starts of with this mix of rain sounds, with what I would almost describe as the distant beeps and boops of one of those old cash registers or something (I call it almost city like sounds cause idk what else to call it), this mixed in with a few piano strings and it sets a relaxed vibe that flows through the rest of the song. But the song also fades back into this rain mix sound (minus the piano) in the outdo. This start and end combo is probably one of the reasons I’ve always found the song so wonderful and relaxing. Sometimes when I’m having troubles sleeping (which is often, like rn lol) I can listen to that song a few times over and I’ll be ready to sleep. This start and end combo creates a sort of wholeness or completeness, almost loop like, that I find so very soothing. Thank you Solar Sans undertale for helping me realise this observation. Although a bit aimless in goal and written while sleep deprived, it was enjoyable. And so was the video, very enjoyable.

Randomly thought about this channel when thinking of old channels I used to watch religiously when I was a preteen- had no clue that it was still active, past a million subs, and the content has changed this drastically- Good on you, Solar Sands, because I cannot say the same about many their channels I used to watch when I was a kid.

This was definitely the video of all time

Pink noise brings me a certain sense of comfort. It reminds me of hearing gentle rain while trying not to fall asleep in the car as a kid

Your channel is one of my favorites here on RU-vid. Thank you for the great vids.

Great video. I always enjoy the ones you make.

I sleep with rain sounds nightly for my PTSD, It's so interesting seeing many of the ones I like being references here. Good stuff!

Train horns are one of if not my most favorite sound (I know, how could you guess lol). You would be surprised how big of a community there is out there of just train horn collectors. It's pretty hard to choose a favorite for me but my top 2 are either the Leslie RS3L or the WABCO E2B1. Earlier Nathan horns such as the M3s hit hard too.

Yours is one of the only channels that gets me excited every upload. Thanks.

Interesting video! When I think of "the most soothing sound", I think of a low-pitched, low frequency, and quiet sounds, like breezes, wind, or those low-frequency sound videos. But the sounds produced by water like rain, waterfalls, waves, and droplets are also soothing to me. Also, as a person who lives in a country were train railways literally don't exist (Brazil), I find the sound of trains to be kinda annoying while watching this video, but I find interesting this correlation between sounds and memories, which definitely helps with each individual's perception of "soothing sound". Anyway, great video as always! :D

Love your videos! They are always unique and well made! ❤

keep up the awesome work man! love the videos

One of my new favorite videos by you Solar, loved this one! 💙💖

Late night car drives were always a comforting sound for me. The sound of the car moving along an quiet road while you drive towards home, going through all the familiar lefts and rights always makes me fall asleep.

The most soothing song I heard is Subwoofer Lullaby, especially at 1:12, it makes me feel inner peace and nostalgia at the same time, reminding me of times where I was still discovering the world and everything seemed so new and fascinating because I was just living life, not thinking about it.

My love for this video doubled when you mentioned Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, very good choices for relaxing music. Also, that little ending monologue beginning at 10:48 , pure poetry, well done; Mr. Solar Sands.

Wow. That conclusion was so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for your videos man

Hey Solar Sands, your videos of my soothing videos. I've found your voice so calming.

Bro Solar Sands coming in clutch outta nowhere.

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There is all lot of trains where I live we even have a train as a monument. Everyday morning and night I will hear the train pass by and it is so nostalgic and comforting

The last few paragraphs were sublime. Excellent work, as usual

I can’t express how incredibly happy this video makes me… I also live close to train tracks, and everybody looks at me like I’m crazy when I say that I love the sound of the train and the tornado siren, so hearing that I’m not the only one is so nice!

Good take on the ASMR. ASMR is a sensation akin to hearing or sight. It leads to relaxation, it is not equivalent to it. Additionally, sound is not the only trigger of ASMR. Visuals and touch are large components for many people, and I myself have had my ASMR triggered by reading text.

I love these longer vidoes from you.

Honestly yeah. I like the thought- "The world is still busy out there, but you are here, you are far from it, your job is done for today, you can rest."

I've been thinking about the sound of trains a lot lately. I haven't heard the sound of trains since moving out of my parents' home and to the city around 2 years ago. I think for me it is an intensely nostalgic sound. It reminds me of the innocence and joy of childhood.

Rhubarb or #3 is one of the most relaxing songs I've ever heard as well. Every time I'm reading or relaxing I put it on and it really helps.

I can confirm that the sound of a trains horn is quite soothing. All my life I have lived in a neighborhood close to a highway and a railroad. When I lay down late at night with my window open, all I can hear are the distant thrums of cars and trains. As I write this comment right now, I am listening to the sound of the cars running past.

thanks, always enjoy your insights

Hey, maybe mention steam locomotive whistles! At least how they were in the past. They were extremely unique and some could have a very haunting or almost “living voice” to them. One great example is the Norfolk and Western (among others) “Hooter” whistles. Very eerie and beautiful. They were able to blend into nature far better than the jarring horns of today. Think a flute vs a trumpet. I dream of being put to sleep by them😂

My favorite "sound" is "oldies playing in another room", mostly by Nemo's Dreamscapes here on youtube. I don't much care for rain sounds, but old somewhat muffled music became so important to me. During the worst year of my depression, I found Nemo's Dreamscapes and something about it called to me. I love steampunk so "old" music holds this place in my subconscious that I just love even though the victorian era and 30s-50s music aren't anywhere near each other. I guess it maybe makes me think of some eccentric old man in some whacky whimsical victorian house. Something feels so right and comforting. Some limbo between an (idealized) past that never existed and the hopes for a safe place

Your videos are soothing Mr. Sands. I like to put them on when I work on a project or go take a sleep

"Colored Noises"? Come on, get woke. "Noises of Color".

this video had no right being as deep and having such a poetic ending as it did

i just love youre videos, ever since you did that one about the frear of the ocean ive been hooked

When the video showed the fork scratching the plate, I legitimately jumped despite there being no sound.

Good video, loved the structure of introducing the topic woth the train horn and bringing it home at the end! Cheers :)

Your videos are so soothing to me. Even when they get melancholic and existential

I love the sound of negly flowing water - like the ones in those small garden fountains your neighbors might have? Or the ones flowing out of bamboo sticks? Yeah, I love those

What a great video and the best video to hear right before bed. I myself fall asleep to slowed vinyl of chill albums

For me, among the most relaxing sounds for me are, rain/thunderstorms, distant train horns, crickets (particularly summer crickets) and sometimes cicadas. Those sounds (besides train sounds) are so relaxing because of me living on the coast of the state of Georgia and even in terms of atmosphere living near the sea has always been my most safe place as I have never lived too far from the ocean as we have only moved once back in 2009. Some last things are, I myself has autism and ADHD (with my anxiety of things typically being pretty severe but I do try to manage) and those "colored noise" sounds for have never really been very relaxing (typically just an annoyance). But thank you for opening my eyes some to relaxation of those sounds and the great, comforting nostalgia that they bring... God Bless! :-) -Alankuhaa Samuelkah Fischum Eircaru