Posted by Roger F Stokes RHAD on May 26, 2020
“I’ve heard people say that it can help me sleep better at night, and also that it can help with Tinnitus in my ears! I have a friend who uses something to help him hear better too!”
When we’re sleeping, our brains continue to receive and process sounds and noises at a normal level. Noise can disturb or disrupt your sleep – possibly waking you up, causing you to toss and turn, meaning you have a restless or sleepless night. You could experience a change in heart rate and/or blood pressure – often so briefly that you don’t remember the next morning.
Whether sounds disturb your sleep depends on factors such as the stage of sleep you’re in, the time of night, and even your feelings about the sounds themselves.
It is most likely that noises wake you from light sleep (stages 1 and 2) than from deep sleep (stages 3 and 4), and they tend to be more disruptive in the second half of the night.
If you share a bed with someone, you will probably be aware of the variation in sensitivity to noise between the two of you. In fact, a recent study found that “sound sleepers” have characteristic brain activity that may make them more impervious to noise.
Interestingly enough, whether or not a sound disrupts your sleep depends in part on that sound’s personal meaning. Researchers have seen that people are more likely to wake when a sound is relevant or “emotionally charged”. This is why, for example, a parent could sleep soundly through her partner’s snores but wake fully when her baby fusses.
Helping babies to sleep
White noise works miraculously for babies who can’t settle down to sleep. The sound needed to turn on the “calming reflex” when a baby is crying is a rough, rumbly “whoosh” noise which is as loud as the crying itself. You can provide this sound by simply putting your mouth close to baby’s ear and making a long, loud “Ssshhhhh” sound.
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Our online shop has several white noise products which will help with your tinnitus, settle you down or anyone else who struggles to sleep.
Have a look, but read the following summary before you decide what to get.
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Recently, white noise machines have become much more popular in people’s homes and even in the workplace to mask noises and disturbances. This then allows users to get some much-needed sleep or give them more chance to focus on important work.
If you’re looking at purchasing a white noise machine, like any other purchase, we want to make sure we are getting something that is good value for money, does its job as expected and is reliable. Basically, we want to get the best device that’s on the market. It’s never fun to realise you purchased something of poor quality, or see something a few weeks later which has more features that would have been better suited to your needs.
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