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Do you sleep with or without sound/noise?
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It'll eventually stop since I only grab a video from YouTube and listen to it. The earbud will either fall out at some point, or I'll drowsily remove it in the middle of the night if I wake up.
It's primarily to help get me to sleep initially. If I wake up in the middle of the night for something, I'm usually drowsy enough to pass right out. If I have a lot on my mind still, I turn it back on.
I got a noise machine because of my roommate waking me in the morning.
I was surprised that I had trouble getting a defect-free machine that could output a smooth, relaxing sound without distracting artifacts (that sabotage the intended effect) like clicks and such. Like, you have one job, come on. I may look into one of the older-style mechanical ones next time.
I was surprised that I had trouble getting a defect-free machine that could output a smooth, relaxing sound without distracting artifacts (that sabotage the intended effect) like clicks and such. Like, you have one job, come on. I may look into one of the older-style mechanical ones next time.
Nothing, but it's the best/easiest sleep when it's raining.
I'm finding it way easier to sleep now in my mid-30s than it used to be. I usually drift off seconds after hitting the pillow.
I'm finding it way easier to sleep now in my mid-30s than it used to be. I usually drift off seconds after hitting the pillow.
About a year ago I started to sleep with either Twitch streams or Youtube videos on my phone.
Now its kinda hard to fall asleep with just silence.
Now its kinda hard to fall asleep with just silence.
I have had issues with tinnitus for many years so always either music, tv, etc because otherwise I just couldn't sleep
I had assumed it's quite common. It's simply hearing a pitched noise due to hearing damage. It can be bad enough that it may drive some insane. I'm unsure if I have it, perhaps very faintly if I heard NO noises at all. But I randomly get ringing in my ear from time to time. You don't get that? Tinnitus would be that, but permanently.
I can sleep without anything because i use ear plugs but I've recently gotten back into using rain sounds with an app called Rain Rain and it's nice. I keep my sliding door in the living room slightly cracked so my cat can hit the balcony when she wants and even though I'm pretty far from the road I can still sometimes hear car alarms and shit, even with the ear plugs. This app helps mask those.
I can't remember a time in my life where I didn't hear a faint high pitched "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" in total silence.
Hell I remember as a kid I couldn't tell if I was just hearing that or if somebody left a TV on.
Fan in the summer, heater in the winter. Love the noise and feel like I'm pretty dependent on moderate temps around 70 degrees fahrenheit to make it thru the night undisturbed.
Honestly, I wonder if I have tinnitus? I don't know. In total, absolutely silence I hear that wheee noise but it's not loud enough for it to be an issue at all. I wonder if it's just impossible to not hear something??
Nice loud box fan. I do need complete darkness though. A bit of faint sunlight is fine, but unnatural sources of light make it so hard for me to sleep.
At my parents' house, we had a bit of a pest problem (of both the bugs and mice kind), so if there was no noise there was a high chance I'd be able to hear something crawling somewhere and it would freak me out. The earliest I can recall, I had at least a noise machine. At some point, maybe even as early as kindergarten, I upgraded it to a radio and I slept with the radio on all the way up to 11th grade when I went to a residential school and had to stay in a dorm with a roommate. At that point I had to learn to sleep in "silence".
I haven't really lived anywhere else that had a pest problem, though, so it ended up not being a problem.
Now I sleep in silence, but I'd not be inherently opposed to sleeping with a radio on again.
I haven't really lived anywhere else that had a pest problem, though, so it ended up not being a problem.
Now I sleep in silence, but I'd not be inherently opposed to sleeping with a radio on again.
sleep with radio on, tuned to either classic rock or country. The dulcet and familiar tones of The Rolling Stones or Bad Company or Alan Jackson or Blake Shelton or whatever lull me to sleep.
Right now Zac Brown is going on about being knee deep in the water somewhere
Right now Zac Brown is going on about being knee deep in the water somewhere
I've employed some sort of white noise to fall asleep since I was a teen. Back then, it was the whine of the little CRT in my bedroom.
Nowadays, it's a tower fan during the summer, and an old iPod dock speaker playing this on repeat during the winter:
Nowadays, it's a tower fan during the summer, and an old iPod dock speaker playing this on repeat during the winter:
Sometimes I use asmr channels on YouTube while wearing headphones. Some just tingle me straight to sleep... Or at least put me in a state where I can take it from there and go straight to sleep.
Asmr relaxes me and makes me feel comfy.
Pretty much the same. But I use over ear headphones to isolate the outside sound from the ASMR artist.
I found a really nice channel recently and it is so good because her sounds are quality. It sounds like she is moving around my room -- softly, mind you...
Asmr relaxes me and makes me feel comfy.
Pretty much the same. But I use over ear headphones to isolate the outside sound from the ASMR artist.
I found a really nice channel recently and it is so good because her sounds are quality. It sounds like she is moving around my room -- softly, mind you...
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I'm curious if anyone has tried these: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/wellness/noise_masking_sleepbuds/noise-masking-sleepbuds.html
Looks like it wouldn't hurt to learn on them like other earbuds.
Looks like it wouldn't hurt to learn on them like other earbuds.
I sleep in silence. I close my eyes and I'm gone within 10 minutes. I don't need a background noise. If there's one, I fall asleep just as quick so it doesn't really matter. I'm lucky I guess.
Doesn't matter to me. I can sleep in absolute quiet or somewhere really noisy.
However I do sometimes listen to podcasts if I can't sleep. But that's only because I can't sleep because I'm not tired.
However I do sometimes listen to podcasts if I can't sleep. But that's only because I can't sleep because I'm not tired.
I sleep with Audible with the volume on very, very low most nights. Only takes me 5-10 mins to fall asleep most nights.
Winter without, summer it's impossible to escape the sound of crickets, tree frogs, and owls here...
Yep the machines even cheap plug ins are way better than apps somehow those always sound like a loop that hitches or stutters.
Sleeping in absolute silence is not recommended because you are leaving yourself very vulnerable to any other environment than your own. Good luck sleeping in a hotel or other place.
After 10 years of night shifts it's white noise all the way even long after ditching night shift
I always have a box fan going, plus my house gets unbearably hot in the summer, so it serves two purposes.
I always have a fan on. Always. Need that air circulation and the noise.
Gotta have a fan in the bedroom.
Gotta have a fan in the bedroom.
I need sound. I generally use a fan but when that's not optimal I use the Lectrofan, it's incredible.
Adaptive Sound Technologies LectroFan High Fidelity White Noise Sound Machine with 20 Unique Non-Looping Fan and White Noise Sounds and Sleep Timer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6D6LQY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_SFqsDbVQ4AA5G
Adaptive Sound Technologies LectroFan High Fidelity White Noise Sound Machine with 20 Unique Non-Looping Fan and White Noise Sounds and Sleep Timer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E6D6LQY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_SFqsDbVQ4AA5G
I mean, you can get a good white noise machine for $30-50. I don't understand what these bring to the table, and I'd expect something amazing for $250.
I've had pretty bad insomnia all my life. Due to it, i usually need to fall asleep with an audiobook, or more rarely music. Pure silence just leaves my mind too active to sleep, i start endless thought trains and then look at the time and two hours have gone by and i'm no closer to sleep.
I prefer silence, but I'm fine with quiet and constant white noise or nature sounds. If it's something that pauses on and off or changes in pitch or volume a lot, though, (like music, tv, snoring, cat meows, etc) it usually doesn't bother me if I'm already out, but I have a really hard time falling asleep while hearing it. That kind of stuff just distracts my brain and will keep pulling it away from the edge of slumber over and over. I'm insanely jealous of people who can pass out right away and through any kind of noises.
Both are okay to me. To compensate with that one, i can recommend you a playlist
I always listen to it every night because it is so calming
I always listen to it every night because it is so calming
