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For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by edgyquant »

treeman79 wrote: post #11
kortex wrote: post #8

I have ADHD and I straight-up don't do silence. Between restless brain and tinnitus, actual silence, or anything with a noise floor below ~15dB, just doesn't sit right with me. 20-30dB is about ideal. Especially when trying to sleep. I have some sort of fan/filter in just about every room. When I'm working, I'm almost always listening to music (unless I'm way over stimulated). It probably started when I was much youn…

Silence is horrible for me. Best is paid programming. Someone that keeps me on task. At home best I’ve found is ear plugs with music in background. Or I can take my medicine and the horrific pain of boredom goes away. I just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body.

>just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body.

What is this? I get the same experience and my docs haven’t given any explanation after multiple times bringing it to their attention.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by neltnerb »

This also helps cover up constant early morning construction and traffic.

If I can help it I just use: play -n synth brown on any linux system with sox installed... it's definitely the cleanest sound I've found.

Problem with most phone programs is that despite brown noise being comically easy to generate live, they record a clip and then loop it so there's weird artifacts.

I honestly don't know why I don't have the ability to run such a trivial command for an open source system on my phone. If I paid for a phone app to make noise it'd be inferior for money. I don't know why it's not at least equal for money.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by xattt »

neltnerb wrote: post #22

This also helps cover up constant early morning construction and traffic. If I can help it I just use: play -n synth brown on any linux system with sox installed... it's definitely the cleanest sound I've found. Problem with most phone programs is that despite brown noise being comically easy to generate live, they record a clip and then loop it so there's weird artifacts. I honestly don't know why I don't have the a…

Is there anyway to create an http stream of your output?

I have a home automation on Hubitat to play a 10-hour brown noise file, hosted on a home Ubuntu server, created in Audition to play for night time on a Sonos speaker.

Would love to get rid of the file and just get a live generated output.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by Random_Person »

I keep a brown noise generator on my phone for reading. It helps me a great deal, especially in noisy environments when my brain is trying to pay attention to something else in my surroundings. Oddly, however, it doesn't help me at work. I focus much better with music when writing code. I can't read with music because I'll catch myself listening to the music more than paying attention to what I'm supposed to be reading.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by dopidopHN »

neltnerb wrote: post #22

This also helps cover up constant early morning construction and traffic. If I can help it I just use: play -n synth brown on any linux system with sox installed... it's definitely the cleanest sound I've found. Problem with most phone programs is that despite brown noise being comically easy to generate live, they record a clip and then loop it so there's weird artifacts. I honestly don't know why I don't have the a…

I use a surprisingly complete shell on iPhone to synchronize git repo.

For some reason, that shell can go out of his own box, so he can write into obsidian files for instance.

The play command trigger the phone media player but there is a package manager and it’s akin to git-bash for instance. It ‘s provably a pain but it boils down to find the right binaries.

It’s called “a-shell”, there is others. I use this one for simple things but it can run cron for instance. It kinda changed how I use my old crappy iPhone. ( moving file around )

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by klysm »

velox_neb wrote: post #10

Who doesn't love a bit of smoothed brown noise to drown out the outside world. No need to diagnose yourself with ADHD over it.

I don't think anybody is diagnosing themselves with ADHD over this, but if you have ADHD it seems like a good thing to know. I definitely agree smoothed brown noise > brown noise though.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by schneems »

selcuka wrote: post #15

Slightly tangential but this reminds me of the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut [1]: > In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for…

> Slightly tangential

That's a little more than slightly. I've got no clue what in the article brought that up for you or how you're relating it back.

Re: For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

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Post by dopidopHN »

xattt wrote: post #24
neltnerb wrote: post #22

This also helps cover up constant early morning construction and traffic. If I can help it I just use: play -n synth brown on any linux system with sox installed... it's definitely the cleanest sound I've found. Problem with most phone programs is that despite brown noise being comically easy to generate live, they record a clip and then loop it so there's weird artifacts. I honestly don't know why I don't have the a…

Is there anyway to create an http stream of your output? I have a home automation on Hubitat to play a 10-hour brown noise file, hosted on a home Ubuntu server, created in Audition to play for night time on a Sonos speaker. Would love to get rid of the file and just get a live generated output.

You can probably pipe that to VLC Not sure it’s the most appropriate, and you might need a file for it to plug to anyway. Not that can be a stream
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