Benefit of White Noise

[SpAmRaY]

So I'm curious.

I know I've seen a few people post about having white noise generators in their offices does anyone find it hard to function without some sort of noise?

Does anyone use white noise generators at home?

Any recommended phone apps for white noise?

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

inb4 black noise racism jokes

[byker]

I will sometimes use rainymood when I am studying at home. It can help relax me or drown out background noises (I have 3 roommates).

[FrostyToast]

I use this archaic thing called music and headphones...

[byker]

I use this archaic thing called music and headphones...

This is what I use 99% of the time

[jwaz]

inb4 black noise racism jokes

Black noise matters.

[intelli78]

The brown note

[SpAmRaY]

The brown note

Wow I learned something today.

[ice31000]

I use Brown Noise if its not raining when I'm trying to sleep.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

The brown note

Wow I learned something today.

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[tp4tissue]

The concept is designed to Drown out "Other-Noise"

When you hear a loud enough consistent White-noise..  It raises the sound-level threshold of your ear.   So everything "Not" as loud as the white-noise you're using will in effect "feel muted/ or at least dimmer"..

Sudden noises, like car horns or a woman shrieking, would instantly distract you, because your brain thinks you might come under attack from that direction..

The consistent/ predictive nature of the white-noise itself will be filtered out by your auditory cortex as non-essential information.. and so you will not be distracted by white noise..

[tp4tissue]

However,  Silence is still superior to using a white noise generator, because though it's effective at drowning out other noises,  it still places a mild processing load on your brain greater than silence

[derezzed]

When I went back to college after a long hiatus, I used brown noise to drown out the sound of television and conversations in my house while I studied.   After the first semester, I had developed the ability to tune most of that stuff out and I found I functioned better without it.  Pink noise was similar to brown noise, IIRC, but a little bit harsher to my ears.  I got my wav files from these two web sites.  That was years ago.  The sites have changed since then.


Still free?
http://whitenoisemp3s.com/

It looks like this costs money now.
http://simplynoise.com/

[sidel]

I will sometimes use rainymood when I am studying at home. It can help relax me or drown out background noises (I have 3 roommates).

Same here.  I find it accompanies music nicely as well, at least some of the time.

[noisyturtle]

The brown note

Wow I learned something today.

it's been proven to not be real, although there are certain sound waves that can induce a mild feeling of sickness when played at very low and loud frequencies. The US Navy uses such technology to battle pirates along with fun things like microwave beam guns that make your skin burn.

[iri]

hope it works more effectively than the us navy's fire.

[godly_music]

White noise is great at hiding digital artifacts in audio and video. This process is called dithering and it's most easily reproduced by adding some gaussian noise before you resize a digital picture. It's also pretty groovy to add a bit of noise into your binaural brainsex patterns so they're not quite so harsh on the ears. It doesn't sound like ocean waves for nothing.