Does This Noise Help Make You Less Overloaded?

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While it does seem to have a calming effect on me, it's more of a mental tension-relocation effect, rather than a reduction of it. It clears out my "normal" tension, but something about the sound also shuffles that tension over to "somewhere else" in my brain, but it's still there, and I can still feel it.

That make sense to anyone else?

there was a low treble chirping mixed in with the bass rumble that i found slightly irritating.

I started turning on a sound machine in my 7 yr old son's room every night, and he sleeps so much better now than he ever did. We let him pick which sound he wants every night. Rain, waves, wind, the sound of a train going down a track, the sound of chirping crickets. He loves his sound machine now and it is part of his nighttime routine.

i find the gently rushing noise of a HEPA filter to be just the thing i need at night to fall asleep to.

I don't know what it is about this noise, but I've been having problems focusing or concentrating for more than 5 minutes for a long time. Playing this noise over my headphones at my computer, I was able to read for more than 30 minutes straight.

I wonder if everyone has their own particular "noise."

Interesting. Perhaps that explains why i cant go to sleep unless I watch my Star Trek before going to bed. I watch it to focus my mind on a single topic so I don't have my mind racing in all directions... but maybe the ambient noise of the ship has something to do with it.

i would take that noise, filter out the chirp, augment the midrange and it would be a perfect ambient background noise for sleeping.

Yeah, I was going to say the chirp bothers me too. I like this:brown noise

I like it. When I was younger, and still sometimes now, I would often cover my ears whilst in the shower or put my ears under water in a bath...and the sound would be similar. Very relaxing.

great website! it lets you choose white [equal energy per cycle], pink [equal energy per octave] or brown noise [bass-weighted with a -6db-per-octave downward curve with ascending frequency]
the white noise sounds bright, the pink noise sounds warmer at low frequencies and the brown noise sounds warmer still with a rumbly component sorta like the sound of the star ship enterprise but sans chirp.

^^^
Yeah, that site has saved me from overload many times.

It makes me feel cold and I hate being cold.

I was going to say "no effect", but it seems I've been listening to it for half an hour now, so safe to say I like it. I can't really put my finger on how it makes me feel, though. I guess it helps me focus, like music can, only more so.

You should probably have started this thread with "how does this sound make you feel?" though, to avoid suggesting things! Oh well, too late now.

Actually, the first sound made me nauseous.

I like rain falling with thunder. I have the mp3 of that and use it to calm down.

regular hifi recordings of raindrops tend to be too percussive for me, so this compressed version dulls the sharp patter of the raindrops to a therapeutic degree

Even with the pops it still relaxes most of my tension. Kudos for the find! javascript:emoticon('8)')