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

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Post by seba_dos1 »

neltnerb wrote: post #48
xattt wrote: post #24

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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.

Honestly your solution is probably already the simplest unless you're short for disk space. Maybe someone knows a way to make Ubuntu create a special file that contains a buffer with brown noise, like one of those old tape to CD converters, so that the system sees a music file but it just keeps going. It sounds like a lot of work. Using 'play -n synth brown' is easy if it's an option. I'd probably use a sound file if…

> It sounds like a lot of work.

  mkfifo brown.wav
  sox -n brown.wav synth brown

?

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

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Post by 29athrowaway »

anshumankmr wrote: post #46
29athrowaway wrote: post #17

What about binaural beats.

Shoutout for this. Except it quite frequently makes me sleep so I usually pair this with some strong coffee.

Coffee is a diuretic, it dumps your electrolytes. You may want to add some electrolytes to the mix. And water.

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

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Post by giraffe_lady »

mxkopy wrote: post #60
giraffe_lady wrote: post #58

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You think... "people not meshing with society" is a new thing you've just discovered? That needs more awareness? Rather than like, that's approximately half of what mental healthcare is , and "people not meshing with society" is known by dozens of different specific technical names depending on the details of what "not" or "mesh" or "society" looks like in any given case? This is embarrassing. One of the worst cases…

> "people not meshing with society" is a new thing you've just discovered? > Rather than like, that's approximately half of what mental healthcare is > That needs more awareness? So you're saying mental healthcare (in the U.S., mind!) doesn't need more awareness, got it

If that's what you got from what I wrote I don't know what to tell you. Good luck out there.

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

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Post by mxkopy »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #51
mxkopy wrote: post #38

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I don't have any sources other than anecdotal, but I'm under the impression many are diagnosed with ADHD as a result of behavior shown in school. It's almost like, ADHD is the disease you have when you're "unable to do consistent & focused work". Obviously medically it's some dysfunction in dopamine regulation, but how many underpaid overworked teachers/parents have access to equipment that would actually measure tha…

That's the second D. If it's not a powerful enough effect to disorder your life, or you've developed adequate coping mechanisms, the diagnosis isn't appropriate. You can have people with the same subjective experience, same "symptoms" and one can be considered to have adhd and the other not. If you change your life in such a way that the effects you have are no long disruptive to it, don't negatively affect you, it's…

I agree, but ADHD has a purported biological mechanism that justifies its treatment. And ADHD meds aren't without effects

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Post by seba_dos1 »

Eleison23 wrote: post #47
schneems wrote: post #29

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> 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.

ADHD is a "disorder" that is predicated on "this person's behavior annoys people around him and therefore should be corrected." ADHD is only a disorder because human pegs must be pounded into the square holes of class in a sterile schoolroom behind bars, during daylight hours for much of the year, in preparation for white-collar office jobs that many of them won't achieve, but nevertheless you must sit down, pay atte…

You usually "pump yourself full of amphetamines" to be able to sleep, calm down and focus, not the other way around.

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Post by Uptrenda »

It's also amazing for people with trouble sleeping. It masks all the noises that pull you out of deep sleep. I've been using white noise for sleep now every night for years. You can get machines that play many different tones to help with that. There's even a machine that uses a physical process to generate white noise that's much more organic than playing a looped file. It's cool, would recommend / 10. Now I have to try coding with some brown noise. If this really is the same tone as a plane I get why so many people love working on planes now.

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Post by temp0826 »

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.

Check out mynoise.net (or the mynoise app- "White Noise and Co" generator on the brown noise preset)

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

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

alvarezbjm-hn wrote: post #56
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #14

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Do you mean in ear headphones with music or actual ear plugs with music on a stereo? I don’t know why but I feel a million times better with ear plugs in. I had these etymotic ear plugs that were more like sound filters for years before I lost them, and I loved them so much. I’d wear them with headphones over top while working for this oddly silent and muffled sound experience. I didn’t replace the etymotics because…

Once I lived in the worst place noise wise. The street was transited at night, there were many dogs barking in the neighborhood, and people came in and out of the nearby rooms. After one month, I managed to sleep by wearing something like these: http://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/2FLL3_AS01... and over that, thick headphones playing a recording of popcorn in a microwave. I managed to stay 4 months ther…

Haha, that sounds awful. I hope you’re somewhere peaceful now.

I do find those work (and I keep a pair in my toiletry bag which I take just about everywhere), but if I leave them in for prolonged periods I find my ears start to hurt. Almost like I could be developing some kind of inner ear skin irritation.

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