rs4life
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How many of you need white noise to fall asleep and stay asleep? Without it the smallest noises wake me up.
Revvy said:Me, I use a fan. I've tried white noise generators, but I end up easily distracted by the the break in the pattern where the sound effect loops on itself. When I was recovering from my surgery and staying at my sister's house my old droid had a couple halfway decent white noise apps. But oldschool fans work best for me. I run them year round whenever I sleeping or napping.
I've been doing it since I was a kid, my dad was hard of hearing and a shouter at the tv when his teams were loosing, so when I'd go to bed as a kid, the fan would be a perfect layer of constant noise to block out any intermittent noise li9ke tvs or traffic.
Satisfaction said:My wife introduced me to sleeping with a fan on, now when I travel I find that my sleep is dramatically improved with white noise in the background. On the iPhone, SleepMachine is a good app to use.
I've tried white noise generators, but I end up easily distracted by the the break in the pattern where the sound effect loops on itself.
I go to bed with netflix playing, after the show or movie, the tv shuts off after being idle, its pretty handy no need to remember to set the sleep timer.
Our one year old sleeps in our room and I keep a noise app going on my phone, usually waves on a beach. It's a long audio clip so it's usually fine unless I'm almost asleep when it loops back, then I'm wide awake thinking about how easy it would have been to use a nice, gentle crossfade. I can sleep through almost anything, so I think it's just because it annoys me that there's a flaw that could have been easily fixed. I used to use a fan to put our daughter to sleep, but my wife doesn't like the draft.
Yeah, too many years as a sound/radio engineer for me. Too many years spent listening for just those flaws in a soundscape that need to be edited out. My mind just gloms on to them.
I generally don't have any issues falling asleep, I don't mind noise unless its intelligable. The worst is when its talking that is slightly muted, like a television in another room. The natural tendency to listen makes me struggle to try to make out what is being said and that wakes me up more. Then I have to turn on a fan to override, otherwise, quiet is good by me.
I have heard of a teenaged competitive shooter that shot too much without hearing protection, and his tinnitus was so bad he couldn't sleep without a RUNNING VACUUM CLEANER in his room.I have severe tinitis which can be quite maddening without some extra noise to balance it. Recently I've started using a C-PAP machine which I totally didn't want to do, but now I have become used to. in fact, I hate to say it but it actually makes falling asleep much easier. usually though, I'll wake up in the wee hours, uncomfortable because of it and take it off.
I keep a pair of the reusable plastic plugs in my suitcase for travelling. On family vacations, myself, my brother-in-law and father all snore like lumberjacks. If any combination of us end up sleeping in the same room, plugs are needed. It does take some getting used to hearing your own breathing (and heartbeat, if you REALLY get them put in) but once you get past that, hellloooo sweet snore-free silence.Foam ear plugs. It makes your own breath sounds much more audible, if that's the right word, and that's the perfect white noise for me. Plus it blocks out other noise.
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