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Pearl Clutcher
Not my circus, not my monkeys ~refugee pea #59
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Jun 25, 2014 19:51:11 GMT
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Aug 7, 2014 2:07:47 GMT
No noise. If I don't fall asleep before my husband, the snorer, I am screwed.
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eastcoastpea
Prolific Pea
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Jun 27, 2014 13:05:28 GMT
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Post by eastcoastpea on Aug 7, 2014 2:11:12 GMT
Does my husband's snoring count as ambient noise?
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Oct 8, 2024 2:57:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 2:27:29 GMT
Absolutely some kind of background noise. DH and I are the perfect pair in that respect: he likes to have the fan blowing on him directly, but I just like the noise.
We have an alarm clock that has different sound settings, but I've gotten lazy about using it because it's on his side of the bed.
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Post by Minnesota*Mom on Aug 7, 2014 2:32:07 GMT
I like silence except that I can tolerate (and actually love) having the windows open, so the outside noises don't bother me. However, I can't stand having the fan on because that humming noise drives me crazy. Weird, I know.
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Post by chlerbie on Aug 7, 2014 3:09:10 GMT
I could never sleep with a TV or anything like that going. However, I DO sleep with a fan every night. I'm a light sleeper, but having the fan on seems to just be white noise and keeps me from hearing other sounds that would normally bother me. I've now gotten to where if it's NOT on, I have difficulty falling asleep.
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Post by Dixie Lou on Aug 7, 2014 3:16:40 GMT
I always go to sleep with the tv on. My husband sets for it to go off at a certain time. If I wake up I can usually go back to sleep. My mind stays too busy if I am not listening to something while trying to go to sleep.
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Post by cyndijane on Aug 7, 2014 3:19:49 GMT
Sometimes I don't mind white noise, or soft music, but most days we go to sleep with nothing on.
I'm so grateful we don't have a TV in our bedroom. I know my DH would fall asleep to it at night, and it would drive me crazy.
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Post by littlefish on Aug 7, 2014 3:21:36 GMT
Fan.
Habit since college, when I lived right above the front entrance freshman year.
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Post by peano on Aug 7, 2014 3:28:54 GMT
I don't need one for ambient noise but I do need a fan blowing on me year-round.
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Post by smokeynspike on Aug 7, 2014 3:29:29 GMT
Silence.
Melissa
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linda~lou
Pearl Clutcher
Keep calm and eat crumpets
Posts: 2,744
Location: Motown but my heart is in San Francisco
Jun 25, 2014 21:57:08 GMT
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Post by linda~lou on Aug 7, 2014 3:36:39 GMT
I always sleep with some type of ambience music playing on my iPod. But the speakers were on the nightstand so I couldn't really hear it if volume was low, yet you don't want it loud, defeats whole purpose of trying to fall asleep. Then I found this, on Amazon of course. Pillowsonic Stereo Pillow Speaker! It's a thin, thin stereo speaker that lays under your pillowcase. I have a very very firm contour pillow, so this lays right in the groove where the pillow curves, under the pillow case. Plug it into an old iPod with sleep music, rain and ocean sounds. You can't feel the speakers, you just hear this soothing music and it seems to surround you. Can't fall asleep without it. It works so much better than listening from speakers on your night stand. Pillow speakersAttachment Deleted
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tiffanytwisted
Pearl Clutcher
you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
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Jun 26, 2014 15:57:39 GMT
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Aug 7, 2014 3:41:18 GMT
I love the sound of the fan, but ours one of those huge attic fans and is right outside my bedroom door. My husband travels, so despite what my 18 yr. old son thinks, I am the only adult home most nites. I can't hear anything going on in the rest of the house w/that thing on, so if we're running it during the day, it goes off when I go to bed.
I do need some type of noise to sleep, so it's the TV. If I'm away, I have a certain playlist on my iPod that puts me to sleep w/in minutes.
ETA:
I used to, but a few years ago our roof began leaking and it was months before we could afford to replace it. Every time it rained more than a drizzle, there was leaking in our garage, our kitchen & my bedroom. It was awful. Even though we replaced it 2 years ago, the sound of rain & high winds still gives me a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. It sucks. I miss liking the sound of rain on the roof.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Aug 7, 2014 4:09:58 GMT
I sleep with the tv on. Dh was in the Navy and now works nights, so I don't like the silence.
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Post by marysue63 on Aug 7, 2014 4:24:53 GMT
I used to sleep with my TV on all night until I got married last month. Now I fall asleep to the TV but have it shut off after an hour. I have to have some kind of noise, my historic home makes way too many noises and it makes me nervous.
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Post by cmpeter on Aug 7, 2014 5:22:10 GMT
White noise needed. I have a noise machine at home and an app on my phone for when I travel.
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Post by my.unquiet.mind on Aug 7, 2014 6:02:50 GMT
I have to have a fan on every night, no matter what it's like outside. In fact, I'm so dependent on it that when I was in the hospital after having had my ds, I nearly had an emotional breakdown when I realized there wasn't a fan in my room (Granted it WAS February and freezing cold outside). Of course my hormones were crazy from having just given birth, so no one was really surprised when I went into full-on panic mode. The poor nurses were running around all over the hospital, desperately trying to find a working fan for me. My mom went to every store in the area, hoping that she'd luck out and find just one little fan left from the summer that had been stuck on a clearance shelf somewhere and forgotten. She returned to the hospital empty-handed. I was sure I'd never be able to sleep again for the rest of my whole, entire, life (crazy hormones, remember?) and was not handling the situation well at all. I'm pretty dramatic anyway, so you can imagine how I was after having just had a baby a few hours before! A few nurses had started going from floor to floor, digging around in the closets used by the janitors and maintenance workers. I'm not sure which floor or what closet it was found in, but one of the nurses FINALLY found a fan I could use. Thus, the crisis was averted and I was able to fall asleep...to the calming and familiar sound of a fan. Oh, and when I had my dd, I remembered to bring a small fan with me from home.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 7, 2014 6:06:25 GMT
Silence for me, although when I lived in India and there was a lot of noise eg dogs barking I found the white noise from a fan really useful.
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anniebygaslight
Drama Llama
I'd love a cup of tea. #1966
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Location: Third Rock from the sun.
Jun 28, 2014 14:08:19 GMT
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 7, 2014 6:10:54 GMT
I prefer silence, but the combination of SO's snoring like a train, and the fact that we live on a busy main road means that there is next to no chance.
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peppermintpatty
Pearl Clutcher
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Jun 26, 2014 17:47:08 GMT
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Post by peppermintpatty on Aug 7, 2014 11:45:15 GMT
I used to fall asleep with the tv on as well as a Marpac sound machine. The TV was muted but I found that I had more trouble falling asleep with it on than off. I do use a sound machine.
I need the noise and can't sleep without it. Those machines are expensive but I have 3 of them plus one that is battery operated if the power goes out.
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lionsimba
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Jul 27, 2014 0:22:02 GMT
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Post by lionsimba on Aug 7, 2014 11:57:03 GMT
I used to need total silence (and darkness), but since my last babe has been sharing a room with dh and I since birth and she is now 2 we have had a noise machine in our bedroom. We got it for the baby but now we are all accustomed to the white noise and can't sleep without it. Silence is deafening.
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oblibby
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Location: Bonnie Scotland
Jul 10, 2014 10:30:12 GMT
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Post by oblibby on Aug 7, 2014 12:56:44 GMT
I prefer noise, DH prefers silence. I've learned to adapt a bit!
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Post by leannec on Aug 7, 2014 13:01:06 GMT
I keep my fan on 365 days per year
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SuPeaNatural
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Jun 27, 2014 8:49:11 GMT
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Post by SuPeaNatural on Aug 7, 2014 13:10:42 GMT
I do like it quiet although I don't need total silence. I have the window open most nights except if it's really cold, and like the outside sounds such as crickets or the wind in the trees etc. Even the occasional passing car doesn't bother me, and I sometime hear a passing freight train, but the railway line is a mile from my house so I only hear it very faintly at night sometimes.
I have a friend who lives across the road from the railway line. I wouldn't like to be that close but she said you get used to it pretty quickly and they barely notice it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 13:13:45 GMT
Must have a fan. Just returned from a week with family in Colorado Springs. On day one I went to Target and bought 2 small fans (one for me one for my son). We left them there for future trips.
Silence while trying to sleep is one way to make sure I get no sleep!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 13:16:02 GMT
I used to need silence, but DH sleeps with a fan. Now if I notice, u have to turn the fan on. Back when we were having some struggles, I couldn't turn my mind off. I started to listen to the west wing as I fell asleep. If I can't sleep now, I turn on the west wing for 30 minutes or so Yep that's what I do as well.
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Post by picotjo on Aug 7, 2014 13:27:40 GMT
I absolutely must have a fan and a white noise machine! I found a white noise machine at a garage sale and bought it as backup and for when we travel!
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Post by triplejscrapper on Aug 7, 2014 13:34:47 GMT
I'm a very light sleeper with RLS and a sleep disorder. If it was dead quiet in my room-I wouldn't be able to sleep.
I'm very cold natured so I keep a heater going in my room. The rest of the household has the air conditioning running but in my room-I have the vents closed and my heater going. The noise from the heater fan is usually enough to help me fall asleep but if not I do have a nice collection of background noise CD's that I like to listen to: murmuring brook, rain forest, seagulls and coastline and my favorite-whale song!! They are just cheapo CD's I got from ABC distributing or LTD commodities years and years ago but they work...most of the time.
I miss my teenage years when I could sleep for hours and hours wherever I laid my head.
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~Susan~
Pearl Clutcher
You need to check your boobs, mine tried to kill me!!!
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Jul 6, 2014 17:25:32 GMT
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Post by ~Susan~ on Aug 7, 2014 13:45:49 GMT
My ceiling fan has to be on warp speed and DH has a CPAP that is also relaxing to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 14:11:41 GMT
I finally found a small fan that makes a very loud, consistent noise. It's heavenly.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 7, 2014 14:13:45 GMT
There is no hope of absolute silence where I live, with traffic and outside noise always present, so I like to have some white noise, like a small fan running when I sleep.
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