strange things you find calming?

[Seasoning]

(Edit) Three things-

-Liminal spaces, like, the ones that feel oddly familiar or give you déjà vu. They're just so nice to look at and I can't really put my finger on why.

-Horror game ambience. The stuff from Silent Hill especially. Obviously it's meant to feel unnerving, but it just...doesn't to me? I fall asleep to it all the time.

-Louis Wain's cat art. Have no idea on how to elaborate on this one, it just makes me happy.

[Sharkkweak]

Cal here with weird things. I had this book about whaling I read when I was like 8, and ever since then, harpoons and whaling have been a very unusual comfort to me.

[vinylteeth]

I'm not sure if this is actually strange, but classical music. Also, occasional opera music gets in the mix.

Since I was a baby, my mom would play the same classical music CD over and over for me to fall asleep. I no longer have the CD but I now listen to classical music every time I sleep since it's so comforting and feels safe. Since I listen to the Alexa classical playlist (ultimate classical! it's not bad!) sometimes there's also opera music in there and I found that I actually really love listening to opera while I sleep as well (it's like falling asleep to the music of angels I think, haha).

[Burning Memory]

-Liminal spaces and those "nostalgic images" compilations on YouTube. I'm a nostalgic being at my core so anything from around 2000-2017 or the 1920s-1940s is just really soothing to look at or remember. Even though the 1920s-1940s stuff is more aesthetic than anything I personally remember, I'm not that old, haha!

-Nighttime in the winter, particularly when the sky is blue and when it's snowing. I'm not sure it's "strange" per se but it reminds me of when I was a child and would go to malls or shopping centres with my parents, and when we'd spend the whole day there and it would be nighttime when we left.

-Rick and Morty. It's probably super strange that it's as comforting as it is considering the content of the show, but I would always watch it in binge sessions with my mother when I was a younger teenager, around 2015 or 2016ish. Reminds me of when times were simpler and when I was happier.

-Music that's considered "Weirdcore" or "Internetcore". The Caretaker, Instupendo, Bo En, Bo Burnham, stuff like that.

-Swing music or Dark Cabaret, or anything with that sort of feel. Shayfer James, The Cog is Dead, This Way to the Egress, the usual.

-Deer! One of my favourite OCs is a deer and he's become such a comfort to me that the entire animal as a whole just makes me feel safe and happy lol

-The song Sick Crowd by Teddy Hyde. Would recommend this song and any of the artists I've mentioned in this reply!

-White noise from a fan, or the static from old TV or radios.

[CaptainAltenor]

Oddly enough, the music from FNAF: Security Breach is surprisingly soothing. In particular, the Rockstar Row theme. I know it’s a horror game, but that theme is… oddly comforting.

[×Seven of Nine×]

My hoodie. But I can't wear it because it's too hot. I wouldn't call it strange. But I wanted to say it lol

[kitsukami]

- weirdcore/dreamcore/etc music that just has that, soft and calming feel to it. it helps so much to calm me down.
- i guess this also goes into this category but calming soundtracks from nintendo games as well

- the sound of my fan and the wind that blows from it
- also the sound of nature, especially if i'm in the shade around trees and the like.
(i guess these two arent really strange lol)

- weirdcore images that have nature's influence in some way, i.e. a ferris wheel taken by overgrowth on a gray cloudy day, empty ski lifts during a heavy snowstorm, etc

- pictures or art of toro inoue and his friends

[vaguevoices]

ooh!
i love listening to really long analysis videos, or video documentaries. Its something to fill the silence when i'm not in a music mood, and listening to somebody passionately talk about something for 30+ minutes is really fun kajsdf;lkajsk

also the ambience noises in FNAF games! like the stuff in fnaf 1 that plays when they're nothing going on is SPOOPY and I sleep to it on a regular basis.

[Ogoeatarock]

being wrapped up like a burrito and having a pillow fort around me

very sespific snerieo

[ferretjuice]

Smooth plastic, glass