Do you listen to white noice audios i order to sleep better?

[abovedown]

Do you like to listen to audio of nature sounds: bird song, ocean waves or similar in order to be able to sleep better? I am experiencing seasonal anxiety/depression because of autumn and found that I am not able to sleep so well if it's too quit.

 

[Friday]

Nope!

My kid has, since day 1. He’s in his 20’s, now, and still prefers to sleep to music/fans/etc. Silence and ambient noise? GRATES on him. Like sand paper. He needs discordant noise, to sleep soundly. Always has. No idea why, just that it works. Music, machinery, fans. It’s all of a piece.

My own self, I prefer whatever is naturally about, IE ambient. “White noise” or unnatural to the environment WAKES me up. It takes me about 3 days to a week to adjust to whatever the ambient noises are. Unless they’re BLATANT. (Like being on a train. Or in a party district.) The kinds of things most people can never sleep through, lull me to sleep. But deafness? The inability to tell what’s going on around me? A recipe for insomnia & hypervig.

 

[Sideways]

Yes. Water sounds, bird sounds, I’m not all that fussy. But it helps switch my brain off for the day.

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

I have a white noise machine, like the ones you find in therapists' offices. It helps me so, so much.

 

[abovedown]

I have a white noise machine, like the ones you find in therapists' offices. It helps me so, so much.

What kind of machine is that?

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

I dont know exactly! It was given to me by a family member. But it is so, so effective.