For a new experience, try listening to TOS only
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I usd to do this years, well, decades ago, during the latter 70s. I would record episodes onto audio cassette tape. My TV had an earphone jack and I'd plug that into the audio input jack of my tape recorder, thus eliminating any external noise. Later, I'd select a tape and pop it into the player just as I'd recline in bed for the night, much like you descibed. It was similar in experience as listening to vintage radio dramas. I'd usually listen to the first 30 minutes one night and the next evening play the rest of the presentation. (If I went to the trouble of fumbling in the dark to flip the tape, I roused myself too much.) Usually by 30 minutes, I was on the verge of dozing.
Wow, I hadn't thought about that in years. Thanks for stirring some happy childhood memories!
Sincerely,
Bill
Wow, I hadn't thought about that in years. Thanks for stirring some happy childhood memories!
Sincerely,
Bill
I was going through a very stressful period a few years ago, working 60 odd hour weeks, so any every minute of sleep I could get was important. Unfortunately the stress of the job kept getting worse and it was taking me hours to get to sleep each night, wondering what new horrors would be coming my way the next morning.
I found the only way I could get to sleep quickly was to put TOS on my laptop with headphones, turn the laptop the other way, close my eyes and space out. Worked every time, but thank god those days are over!
Oh and welcome, Cyclist!
I found the only way I could get to sleep quickly was to put TOS on my laptop with headphones, turn the laptop the other way, close my eyes and space out. Worked every time, but thank god those days are over!
Oh and welcome, Cyclist!
Heh... when I was a kid, I had a cassette recorder and taped the audio of my favorite Star Trek episodes (uh, yah, before the days of VHS--cough). I took those tapes with me to summer camp, so I could "re-live" Star Trek episodes. Funny enough, a few other kids in my cabin were Star Trek fans and so we'd listen to episodes every now and then, even pretending to be the characters (mouthing their words). It was fun. 
This isn't a new experience for me. It's what I did as a kid, recording it off the telly back in the 70s to listen to later. You just had to hope that someone didn't come into the room and start talking!
I also used to tape them on a cassette recorder and play them back. It was poor quality as I would be just leaving the recorder next to the television, there was also that awful clunking noise as I turned it off and on to avoid commercials. I remember it was quite special to actually own the episodes and be able to listen to them any time I wanted. Oh and yeah I remember I had my sister talking in the background and me yelling at her to shut up on some!
I have to make another pitch here for the Dimension X and X Minus 1 radio shows, available for download here: http://www.archive.org/details/oldtimeradio
I go to sleep listening to these...
I go to sleep listening to these...
The most somnolence inducing episode would be The Alternative Factor IMO.
Like a few other, this is also not new for me. I spent all of the 70's and well into the 80's listening to cassette recordings of Trek episodes. This is why I am so picky about the audio mix on the DVDs and Blu-Rays. I have it ingrained in my head how every episode should sound. Because of this, I am totally dissatisfied with the audio mixes of the DVDs and Blu-Rays. Except for the first season BD mono mix, none of the other releases provides the original audio, no matter what the box tells ya. Closest we got to it was on VHS and Laser, and even that wasn't perfect. But close enough…
This is exactly why I started doing it.
When I had troublesome insomnia in the mid-1980s I'd use videotapes of TOS to lull me to sleep - just turned my face away from the TV and listened.
Thing is, I'd watched each episode so many times that nothing in the audio would pique my curiosity - I knew exactly what was going on and what was about to happen, so I could use it as relaxing noise.
Thing is, I'd watched each episode so many times that nothing in the audio would pique my curiosity - I knew exactly what was going on and what was about to happen, so I could use it as relaxing noise.
THAT is a good idea! It's precisely the reason why I can fall asleep watching an old TV show, but never when my wife is watching the new Criminal Minds on the DVR box in the bedroom.
I've made mp3's of the audio for Doomaday Machine, Wolf in the Fold, and Menagerie. I listen to them when I clean my church. It's a good way of keeping track of how long I'm taking.
Not just Star Trek, I've also got a couple Twilight Zones, an episode of MASH and an episode of Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated. They helped me get through many stressful days at my former job.
Not just Star Trek, I've also got a couple Twilight Zones, an episode of MASH and an episode of Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated. They helped me get through many stressful days at my former job.
Ha! When I was a kid I would not only record episodes onto cassette, I would also narate them! I would wrap the microphone cord around the tuner knob on our black and white console TV and hang it over the TV speaker. Then when there was some action going on that might not be reflected in the sound of what was going on I would narrate what was going on.
I also used to listen to those when I went to sleep.
Believe it or not, I still have some of those tapes. I listened to one about a year ago and cringed at me pre-pubescent narration.
I also used to listen to those when I went to sleep.
Believe it or not, I still have some of those tapes. I listened to one about a year ago and cringed at me pre-pubescent narration.
Prolly opening a can o' worms here but....'bills' do not create jobs. Demand for a product or service does. 'Jobs bills' are a fairly recent phenomenon. Business/Businesses create jobs.
LOL!!!!!!!! Well, as long as we are all taking our skeletons out of the closet, I too was a Tape Recording Trekkie,... and I thought I was the only one! LOL!
Whatever gave me the idea to do this, I will never know, but I do distinctly recall feeling as though I had REAL GOLD at my finger-tips,... especially when I listen to the very first playback,... it was overwhelming to know I had the power to invoke STAR TREK at my whim-and-whimsy.
GREAT THREAD!!! Thanks for posting this,... something I haven't thought about in YEARS.
Whatever gave me the idea to do this, I will never know, but I do distinctly recall feeling as though I had REAL GOLD at my finger-tips,... especially when I listen to the very first playback,... it was overwhelming to know I had the power to invoke STAR TREK at my whim-and-whimsy.
GREAT THREAD!!! Thanks for posting this,... something I haven't thought about in YEARS.
YES that was my experience, MY GOD IT WAS EXCITING!!!!!!
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