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White noise as a sleep aid

milesmiles Member Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Anyone else find white noise an aid to get to sleep when your more stressed than normal.

Some white noise(to me) is more of a distraction than an aid but the sounds of ocean waves coming ashore or any water sounds put me out like a light.
This one on my desk top on full screen and volume up knocks me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEbABPtTv8
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,271 ******
    edited November -1
    I don't care for water sound.
    I have one of these:
    https://www.marpac.com/dohm-product-category/product/33-dohm-ds-white.html
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We've been using one of these noise makers for the past 30 plus years. I think my wife bought the first one of these at Sears and it lasted for over 20 years and now we're on the second one. They were pretty pricy but they last a long time. We can't sleep without some noise in the background.

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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,365 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I use to listen to the radio ,and that drove my wife nuts , but now just have a fan running on med- high
    I had a white noise the water sound . but never got use to it .
    the ringing and buzzing in my ears is terrible . when its dead silent I go nuts from it.
    I have spent a lot of nights with the TV on some news station or the talk shows just so I could sleep. in a separate room from the wife due to the noise
    so I am interested in what the rest of you do.
    I often wonder if I will live long enough for medical science to be able to help
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I close my eyes and I am asleep in one minute, so everyone tells me[;)] I also snore like a friggen freight train[;)][;)][xx(]
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I have the "white noise" 24/7 with my fridge and my AC.
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,365 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oakie
    you and my wife must be related she can fall asleep in a minute ,3 minutes at the most . and snores OMG I would describe as a chainsaw with no muffler and that's on her low level [V]


    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    I close my eyes and I am asleep in one minute, so everyone tells me[;)] I also snore like a friggen freight train[;)][;)][xx(]
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    when I sleep for some reason my hearing is intensified , I can hear a pin drop in the next room, no white noise but I have a fan on 365
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  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    I have horrible buzzing and ringing in my ears so I need some sort of noise. The best I have found is to have a fan on medium or high, it is really the only thing that helps. The issue comes up if I'm traveling, then I have to have the AC on high the whole time in the hotel room and I have to take the bed closest to the AC unit.
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    +1 on a fan. You get the double benefit of the white noise and the air circulating and not getting stagnant.
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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    I have to have something, usually its the tv I just turn it way down
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,518 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No noise .
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,155 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have the constant chirping of 10,000 crickets. More noise would be unbearable.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
    I have horrible buzzing and ringing in my ears so I need some sort of noise. The best I have found is to have a fan on medium or high, it is really the only thing that helps. The issue comes up if I'm traveling, then I have to have the AC on high the whole time in the hotel room and I have to take the bed closest to the AC unit.


    When we travel the noise machine goes in the suitcase with us. My wife and I both have to have something to drown out those cicadas in our heads or as we called them when we were kids in Tennessee..."jar flies".
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    screaming two octave tinnitus 24-7-365 i try to ignore but wife and two dogs snoring ???
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,754 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    when I sleep for some reason my hearing is intensified , I can hear a pin drop in the next room, no white noise but I have a fan on 365


    Same here. I always had a fan going or music on low growing up too. It took a while for my wife to understand I needed the fan on in the middle of January here. [:D]

    Jon
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,493 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've had screaming "tea kettle" tinnitus for over 50 years now. I've gotten so used to it that I really only hear it when the topic comes up. Like now, for instance.

    If I become aware of it, it is very hard indeed to get to sleep. White noise of some kind helps a lot then. NOTHING works as well as rain on the roof, which puts me in league with WC Fields (who at times paid people to play a hose on his roof all night so he could sleep!)

    The other thing that tinnitus does is to make it very difficult to understand women or anyone who speaks at a higher pitch. If I have to battle background noise plus my own noise, understanding some people is simply impossible. The worst are teenage girl order takers/servers. They can NOT be made to understand that not all people have the hearing of bats.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My daughter has raised a 16 year old boy with a noisemaker combo radio all his life.

    I think it is a bad idea. He is hooked.

    I tell him, " When you enlist in the Marines, they aren't gonna let you use it anymore."

    [;)]
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  • sxsnufsxsnuf Member Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't know if this qualifies by most definitions of "white noise" but I have to have a fan blowing and the higher the fan speed, the better.
    I stay in lots of hotels/motels and the worse ones are those with thermostat controlled heating and cooling where you have no manual control of the fan.
    I can be sound asleep, but when the fan turns off, I spring awake.
    Arrivederci gigi
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have used this one for a number of years.
    http://www.amazon.com/Ecotones-Sound-Sleep-Machine-ASM1002/dp/B002SMJQT4/ref=sr_1_11/192-4076708-5218002?ie=UTF8&qid=1437336957&sr=8-11&keywords=white+noise+machine
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here in AZ we use "brown noise" to help us sleep, mariachi/rap music playing in the street and intermittent gunfire [;)]
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