Can you sleep when it's perfectly quiet?
I can't. I've always had a fan running summer/fall/winter/spring---7 nights a week since I was 6 years old. If that fan stops, I wake up immediately. Raised 2 sons with fans running when they slept and they still use fans today.
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I got one of those sound makers
running stream, rainfall, thunder
it works great.0 -
Environmental psychologists refer to such as white noise.
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My wifes snoring makes me sleep like a baby. If she is gone for the weekend I cant sleep worth a damn. 0 -
fan every day, turn it off i will wake up before t stops turning, i even have a small one for trips 0 -
I can sleep with or without the fan noise. 0 -
I like the ceiling fans, quite but moves the air and keeps the room nice and cool. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dan55362
My wifes snoring makes me sleep like a baby. If she is gone for the weekend I cant sleep worth a damn.
Mrs. K can rattle the windows with her snoring. Our first two years of marriage were brutal, but after we bought our new home 14 years ago she got her own bedroom/office at the other end of the house and I got some sleep!0 -
Noise, no noise. Thunder, explosions, coyotes howling... as my head approaches the pillow, I go to sleep.
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I also must have a fan in order to sleep. Even when I camp, I have a battery powered one.... 0 -
When I was a kid, I had to have a radio playing to get to sleep. But, I grew out of it. 0 -
when i go to sleep, i HAVE to have a fan, radio, ipod, or TV going. if its not, it MUST be raining, or cars going by all the time 0 -
quote:Originally posted by sig232
I like the ceiling fans, quite but moves the air and keeps the room nice and cool.
+1 exactly my situation [:D]0 -
[8D]--David Letterman puts me to sleep and He's funny--
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We have to have a fan running. We got a set of those Hunter Air Purifiers, we run one in the bedroom at night. 0 -
I love the quiet, and the only sound is the sound of my hubby's breathing ....that makes me sleep like a baby...
Quite often we will have a quiet fan running when we dont have the air on....as long as its not overly noisy, can sleep just fine...0 -
Used to have to have it quiet. Went to school and 465 was my front yard. Now, I have to have noise. The only problem, my wife needs quiet. I love when the elevators are running their drying fans. Nothing like falling asleep when there is a gentle rain. 0 -
We run our ceiling fan plus a regular fan. I also have sleep apnea, and I also have a Oxygen machine and bypep machine to keep me breathing at night. All together that's a whole lot of noise going on, and that ain't even counting the times when the wife snores or farts.[:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by cubslover
We have to have a fan running. We got a set of those Hunter Air Purifiers, we run one in the bedroom at night.
We've got the same thing running every night. My wife got used to having a fan on while trying to sleep during the day for her job and now she has to have it. I can go with or without it but prefer to have it on now.
It has to be a consistant noise. Traffic doesn't bother me but snoring, noisy neighbors, barking dog, tv, radio, I can't handle at all. They all would keep me up all night. Get anxiety anticipating the next noise. Weird I guess.0 -
Normally gotta have a fan running. Worked on tow boats for several years and got used to being sung to sleep by Screaming Detroit diesels. Would shoot out of bed when the Capt. throttled back.
One place I could sleep in utter quiet was at the deer camp 13 miles into the swamp. No highway/interstate noises, boom boxes, kids, or lawn equipment. A real change of pace. Had to be colder than a well diggers ankles for me to sleep like that.0 -
It's never perfectly quiet for me. I have a steady ringing in my ears all the time. Sometimes the ringing is worse than others, but it's always there. I usually leave the TV on the automatic timer to turn off after I go to sleep. It helps to cover the ringing. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by beneteau
I can't. I've always had a fan running summer/fall/winter/spring---7 nights a week since I was 6 years old. If that fan stops, I wake up immediately. Raised 2 sons with fans running when they slept and they still use fans today.
The only place I've experienced "perfectly quietness" or total peace was hanging from a canopy after exiting a bird...0 -
No noise, nuclear blasts, it doesn't matter to me. I sleep like the dead unless thers a noise that ain't normal. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by toolmaniam
No noise, nuclear blasts, it doesn't matter to me. I sleep like the dead unless thers a noise that ain't normal.
That must be nice...0 -
quote:Originally posted by LOKO383
quote:Originally posted by sig232
I like the ceiling fans, quite but moves the air and keeps the room nice and cool.
+1 exactly my situation [:D]
I also agree, but if it weren't for the low frequency hum that it makes, I wouldn't be able to sleep worth a damn. It was great in Kuwait...the air conditioner fan ran 24/7, even though the air conditioner didn't work worth a damn.0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
It's never perfectly quiet for me. I have a steady ringing in my ears all the time. Sometimes the ringing is worse than others, but it's always there. I usually leave the TV on the automatic timer to turn off after I go to sleep. It helps to cover the ringing.
I have the same problem, if you don't mind me asking, at what age did this affect you. I'm 39, and have had it for 10+ years. I'm wondering if it will get worse over the years, I really haven't noticed it getting worse, it's just always there.0 -
Wow! I thought I was the only one who needed a fan to sleep. I've used a little Holmes air freshener for years. Can't sleep without it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by HobbyGuy
That's awful James. Do you suffer from tinnitus? If so, I would be curious if you are on aspirin therapy (ie: aspirin a day to thin your blood)? I suffered from tinnitus for about two years before my internist figured out that my cardiologist had me taking too much aspirin. Go figure?
quote:Originally posted by goldslammer
I have the same problem, if you don't mind me asking, at what age did this affect you. I'm 39, and have had it for 10+ years. I'm wondering if it will get worse over the years, I really haven't noticed it getting worse, it's just always there.
It's a fairly common occupational hazard for sailors, especially lifers. I can't exactly say when it started. At first it would be there for a while and go away. Then one day it didn't go away. it has been like that for many years. The way the medical dudes explained it to me, it can't be cured and there isn't really a treatment for it. They have some sort of buzzer about the size of a hearing aid that's supposed to neutralize the noise, but I think it's worse than the ringing.
I'm also deaf in my right ear and hearing impaired in my left ear. I didn't even know I was deaf until the corpsman and doctor told me about it. I thought I always used the phone with my left ear out of habit. [:D]
Hearing loss was so common with gunboat sailors we were supposed to get a hearing test at least once a year. Somehow I didn't get the word until I had been riding the gunboats for three years. When I came out of the booth, the corpsman was screaming at me "Can you hear me Jim?" and laughing his ass off.
Then the doctor explained to me that you have these little hair-like things in your ear that noise caused to lay down. Once you have destroyed all these little hair-like things, your deaf and nothing can be done about it.
I'm still not convinced I'm really deaf because I don't use a hearing aid and I still understand the spoken word, or at least I think I do.0 -
Quiet, what quiet? How the heck do the rest of you guys get rid of the voices? 0 -
I suspected there might be a problem when the doctor started the conversation with "I wouldn't invest a lot of money in stereo equipment." 0 -
I have to have a fan, I don't care if it is 20 deg the fan has to be on. 0
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