Sleeping With Ear Plugs

[James B.]

guess I better change my avatar....lol...

 

[silver_turquoise]

I've considered this, but I don't feel safe with all sound blocked out. I live on a busy intersection and it's really affecting my sleep quality, but I don't like the idea if there was an emergency (or even my alarm clock going off) where I needed to wake up, that I wouldn't be able to. Do any of you find this to be a problem?

 

[Sandra]

I live in a noisy area too. It isn't as bad now but I used to sleep with my tv on to block out the noise.

 

[jostle]

That's a tricky one. You could try sleeping with just one earplug in. I do that sometimes and I choose the ear that I mostly have up (sleeping on side) for the plug. You could have your alarm clock up really loud if it was set to radio. I think some people use like a white noise machine or something for when they live in a noisy area - it cancels the sound out I think.

 

[silver_turquoise]

I find white noise / blocking the sound out with more sound to be worse - I'm very sensitive to sound and anything more than silence is triggering on some level.... looks like I'm being forced into exposure therapy for it though because this street is LOUD :)

 

[James B.]

unhalfbricking wrote:

I find white noise / blocking the sound out with more sound to be worse

me too, never understood how some can sleep w/ "white noise" but know this is pretty common. Not me.

I don't like the idea if there was an emergency (or even my alarm clock going off) where I needed to wake up, that I wouldn't be able to. Do any of you find this to be a problem?

I can relate to this, but gotta tell ya, the freaking beeper on my alarm will wake the freaking dead. Besides, actual events (like a fire) where I would have to (or need to) get up fast? These events seem to happen so infrequently (at least for me) that it's never really been too much of a concern;

the little bullet shape foam ear plugs from Rite Aid (now available in discrete flesh tone tan) do let some noise in, but seem to filter distant sounds really well. Or enough, at least.

Have tried the gel ones (you form fit) and they are more noise reducing, more serious than the foam. Really good ear plugs made of silicone, like the ones mentioned up thread. Saw 'em at Rite Aid recently, also.

 

[Srain]

With the silicone earplugs DO NOT break them up - umm like I did :speechless: - because, if you get them stuck in your ear you cannot get them out. I have small ears and somehow in my sleep I tore off half put it in there and then another in my ear :confused: and got a piece stuck...slippery little suckers. I went to the ER they couldn't get it out, no ENT on-call (yep!) so had to wait to get in to see mine...a total of almost 3 weeks of not being able to hear out of my good ear and panicking taught me what I HAD read about them. It took a little doing but my ENT is good and it finally came out in pieces because the silicone warms and breaks up after that amount of time in a waxy ear. Flushing would have only driven it further in. (What a moron!)

I use the foam again. ;)
Yes, I wear one most of the time.

 

[Anna]

I love earplugs, but don't like the foam ones. I prefer the silicon ones myself. I change them frequently though as they do as Srain says tend to break up, especially when they are getting old.

 

[Sandra]

When I was still working I got all the earplugs I wanted for free.

One had to buy their first pair of work boots. After that the company paid for them and all of the other safety equipment they also paid for.

 

[freakofnurture]

So the couch was best for me.

That's one of the many reasons why I have my very own room with my very own bed in it. Sometimes husband's snoring makes me so aggressive that I can either leave or strangle him to death.

I've considered this, but I don't feel safe with all sound blocked out.

When I was still very afraid of the dark I couldn't have slept with earplugs, too.

When it's too noisy even for earplugs, I use White Noise (like rain, a waterfall or synthetic noise). I use earphones, but if you put it on the stereo it will drain out pretty much all of the sounds from outside your room. Your ears are still open, though, so if the alarm clock goes off, you'll hear it, just like everything else that's louder than the White Noise.

 

[Sandra]

Well I only have a one bedroom house so that wasn't an option for me.

 

[freakofnurture]

Well I only have a one bedroom house so that wasn't an option for me.

Put hubby into a tent in the garden :D A sound proof tent.