How do you cope with noise >.<

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If you really have no control over the source of the noise, I'd say you use earplugs and noise-canceling headphones.

Using good earplugs on their own is quite effective if you put them in your ears properly. I like the silicone ones.

Using noise-canceling headphones on their own is not really effective. This is the case for me because I don't want any music but I just want silence. That means noises around are more noticeable. If you can tolerate music coming from your noise-canceling headphones, that may help make other noises less noticeable. Bose Quiet Comfort 15 is the most popular. And that's the one I use.

The combination of earplugs and noise-canceling headphones makes them far more effective. I recommend it to anyone. You may have to get used to the discomfort of having something in your ears and around your ears.

Im surprised there isnt some technnology to actually prevent vibrations being transmitted to the eardrum and through the inner ear etc in the first place.

Good quality noise isolating headphones to deal with the noise that surrounds me.

They used to sell ones that blocked out 100% of the noise but took them off the market because they were unsafe. At least that's what I was told by electronic store reps.

If you need to focus on work and don't care about annoying the other loud people around you , covering your ears or wearing ear plugs and then reading our-loud to yourself loudly might work. It sometimes worked for me when I had to block out the noise my sister made. It seems like you wouldn't be able to actually read or study and take in information that way but eventually I was able to. However, it did lead to a LOT of conflict between me and my sister and she eventually moved out of the house so if you care about your room-mates I would not suggest trying this.

How do you cope with noise >.<

- With earplugs.

Buzzing noises just irritate me to no end. I also had this alarm clock that i would wake up before it went off just so i wouldn't not have to deal with the sound of it going off.

if are able to cope with listening to sound thrugh headphones, get a good pair on and download the back catelogue of binaural beats, give it a search on wikipedia if woud like to get a good description of it,its sound that triggers certain brain waves and these make people feel certain moods, it does work as am only just starting to listen to sound again with a pair of sony mdrv55s and have been using binaural beats to help cope with living in a noisy hospital.

Avoidance. Ear plugs. Industrial ear muffs; sometimes called 'ear defenders', they are the headphone shaped things construction workers use to protect their hearing when using power tools. Good foam plugs block about 30 decibels, the ear muffs do about 20 decibels. They can be worn at the same time for maximum noise blocking but unfortunately i haven't found anything that blocks everything totally. At a certain point the issue is less sound waves as it is vibrations.

Hands, earplugs, ear-muffs. I would like a pair of plugs made for traffic. My musician plugs block too much. I´d like to be able to hear bicyckles behind me.