What are the most unconventional sources of white noise you use?
I have started listening to random American city council meetings lately for white noise. Since they’re all bureaucratic-flavored boredom anyway.
I have started listening to random American city council meetings lately for white noise. Since they’re all bureaucratic-flavored boredom anyway.
sentient_loom, I gave myself tinnitus
Suspiciousbrowsing, Is that bit the reason people listen to white noise? Seems counter intuitive
sentient_loom, It was a joke.
phdepressed, Tinnitus is a constant whine. Other actual noise helps prevent having to constantly be thinking and feeling the whine because the “white noise” has your ear dealing with other things.
It isn’t the reason everyone listens to white noise but people with Tinnitus could help themselves go less crazy if they listen to white noise.
PlasmaDistortion, It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
OsrsNeedsF2P, BTW - For anyone with F-Droid, I highly (highly) highly recommend Noice
It has:
- White noise
- Brown noise and pink noise
- Various background noise like cafe chatter, waves, rain, or birds
- Further improved my sleep ❤️
Back in University I used it to sleep right through a massive party my roommates threw when I had a midterm the next day. 10/10 app
itsnicodegallo, Shitty roommates. :(
OsrsNeedsF2P, On one hand, yea, on the other, #worth. They were great overall - Sometimes you gotta take some losses and some wins.
Viking_Hippie, How battery intensive is it? I tried sleeping to a brown noise audio file in a normal music player app (Music Player Go) and my phone ran out of battery before my alarm went off, causing me to oversleep 😬
Kecessa, If you’re the kind of person that plays on their phone to fall asleep, get a 10’ cable so it can be plugged in while you’re doing whatever you do before sleeping.
OsrsNeedsF2P, It used to be bad on the battery, but then it became a super big focus and now it’s great.
Viking_Hippie, Yay! Gonna try it out for sure, then!
XTL, Noice.
Deceptichum, Brown noise
Ain’t that the one that makes you shit yaself?
OsrsNeedsF2P, It’s a lower frequency noise, some people enjoy it more. As a bad analogy, it’s a bit more like hearing a “waterfall” (brown noise) than “wind” (white noise)
neidu2, I for one prefer brown noise. Could be a result of me working on a ship for a long while. I always found the deep engine hum with the sea against my porthole to be very soothing. Plus, the rocking motion didn’t exactly hurt either.
octopus_ink, Obligatory youtu.be/6ijI4HjTGkw
DarkDarkHouse, Not quite, that’s the mythical ‘brown note’.
Zoboomafoo, (edited ) Yes, it’s one of the Alarm Clock options
Viking_Hippie, It certainly was a little under a month ago when I had Legionaire’s! 😬
Deceptichum, What were the French doing to your bowels?
Viking_Hippie, Nothing good, that’s for sure!
Viking_Hippie, You’re thinking of the brown NOTE, which has not been proven to actually exist.
It goes something like this:
- White noise is a mixture of all frequencies audible to humans, which sounds quite high pitched. It’s excellent for focus, against tinnitus and just for it not to be too quiet. Helps a lot of people sleep too.
- Pink noise is the same thing except tweaked to sound lower yet still “crisp”. It’s been shown to generally be even more effective for falling asleep than white noise.
- Brown noise is the same deal yet deeper still. It’s been shown to be effective against anxiety and, at least in my own anecdotal experience, against anxiety-induced insomnia.
On top of all these benefits, a combination of all three is what headphones and earbuds use for active noise canceling, an effect you can also achieve to some degree yourself.
richieadler, Seconded.
TheGiantKorean, Just installed. This is sweet as hell.
I was kind of surprised that Office was one of the noises you could play. I would probably have work nightmares falling asleep to that.
lars, Does it include the 2000s corporate landline phone sound? shudder
TheGiantKorean, I think so yeah 😖
Resol, Does it have creamed spinach noise? (“Creamed spinach” refers to the color used in the DMG Game Boy’s screen, as Sega referred to it in one of its Game Gear commercials)
mexicancartel, This app was fully offline previously. Now with premium thing they removed it and i cannot turn of my mobile data to sleep. So this ruined the whole experience for me.
Cwilliams, That’s the beauty of Foss. Fork it!
mexicancartel, Or I might just have to find the older version 1.x and install it
Deez, Sometimes I go to sleep listening to Soft White Underbelly interviews. There’s something wrong with me.
Curdie, Meshuggah
LoganNineFingers,
- Late Night with Seth Meyers
- Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
- The Daily Show
I usually watch monologue / opening segments and pass out during the boring guest interviews.
peter, Old episodes of No More Jockeys youtube.com/
Coreidan, I like listening to crickets or cicadas when I’m falling asleep. Helps drown out my tinnitus
CryptidBestiary, Hmm that’s something that I might try out, as I have tinnitus for one of my ears
Yearly1845, deleted_by_author
Witchfire, Look up Eevee, City Girl, or Plastic Patina
lars, Old Kitbogas
lars, He’s still a superstar and the leader in his field, but it’s mostly background noise for the uncut versions I’m listening to for the fourth time
Ludrol, S-tier video with all the details
Rangus97, I didn’t want to enjoy this but it’s somehow so relaxing
SecretPancake, Good old hard disc defragmentation youtu.be/KR3TbL3Tl6M?si=LlS2vzdNkbcVx7c9
intensely_human, That’s just noise. White noise is a specific kind of noise.
My weird way of using white noise is I have a set of scripts to precisely control my volume. I turn on a video of white noise on youtube, then I run my script to slowly, steadily raise the volume up to whatever level I want.
The entire point of the script is to avoid a clear moment when the noise starts or stops. To further hide the transition from consciousness, I have delay built in, and I recently added randomized delay between volume increments.
I run the script, and an hour later brown noise is blasting in my room, but I never have to be conscious of it.
lemuria, So “background ambience” would be a better term to describe the city council meetings?
IronKrill, (edited ) I would refer to this as background noise, yes.
intensely_human, I think literal noise is a good term for it.
Well, if you’re using it to isolate yourself, then I think noise is good for it. Like if you don’t want to hear the neighbors or roommates, noise is good because noise obstructs signals.
And more generally, noise refers to sounds that are not explicitly wanted or requested. Which is also what background is.
It’s a good question. I suppose it couldn’t hurt to instruct a chatbot to write a 20000 word essay on the question of what exactly the best term is, and then pipe that into the “say” command in mac os terminal and use my volume control scripts to make it sort of softly murmur in the background as I go to sleep tonight. I don’t think that would make me a crazy person. At least not right away.
Ambiance. I like that.
Grimy, Words have more than one meaning and your use of it is completely fine imo.
White noise can also mean:
meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub, or chatter
intensely_human, I agree we get to map definitions as we see fit. I propose we use the word “noise” for what you mentioned, and when the term gets longer it should refer to something more specific.
In the term “white noise”, the “white” refers to equal energy output in each wavelength, I believe. It’s distinguished from pink noise, brown noise, etc.
Of course, it should also refer to white nationalist propaganda, because there’s no way that could cause any confusion.
“I put a little white noise so I can go so sleep easier”
😬
verity_kindle, No. There is occasional some yelling, both from and at the commissioners, I don’t want anyone to be startled out of relaxation.
Pulptastic, Brown noise always makes me think of the brown note
z00s, Lately I’ve been falling asleep to shipping reports
AgentGrimstone, Japanese weather channel
shinigamiookamiryuu, ADHD runs in parts of the family, and it’s like a “mental rinsing agent” after paying the old ADHD tax.
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