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

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Post by treeman79 »

Natsu wrote: post #34
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…

For tinnitus, try massaging the back of your head/neck. Tightness there can be the cause in some people. Reddit posted a similar trick a few years ago, but in my experience, massage seems to be just as good, so if you haven't tried it, do so and you might get some relief from that.

It could also be high cranial pressure.

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

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Post by marcusverus »

etempleton wrote: post #54

I don't know if I have ADHD, but if I do an online survey it says I most probably definitely do. I was never diagnosed as a child because I largely functioned as a kid and was quiet and non-disruptive, but looking back the signs were all there. Fast forward as an adult I have a number of coping mechanisms and one of them is to have something on in the background. I have never associated the effectiveness with the noi…

Have you tried ambient music? If not, check out Brian Eno’s “Music for airports”.

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

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Post by travisjungroth »

meltyness wrote: post #71
theGnuMe wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many people use sound machines to drown out background noise so it doesn’t wake you up. You can however train yourself on to a sound machine or off of one. Some people can’t fall asleep unless the tv is on or the radio or a podcast… same principle. But it really only makes sense if you environment is quiet in general.

Yeah, in other news many environments are badly engineered, badly outfitted, and their inhabitants are content to let their artificially occupied mind anguish with squealing refrigerators, air conditioners, notifications, sleep issues, illumination issues, blood sugar spikes and trenches, social uncertainty and misplaced conscientiousness, and so on without attributing their focus issues to anything more specific tha…

When you're stigmatizing mental health, avoid writing it as a single run-on sentence that's 63 words long. The point loses its punch.

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

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Post by wackget »

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…

Really cool command, although for some reason I find the brown noise it generates to sound harsher than the one from this website[1] for example.

The command I'm using is `play -c 5 -n synth brown vol -20dB`.

[1] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

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

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Post by Magi604 »

I work in a shared office with 3 other people and it can get quite busy in there with all kinds of noise. To combat it, I listen to this every day at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48QELwruQs And I also got a pair of cheap "gaming" headphones from Amazon that fit over my ears and are quite comfortable to wear for long periods of time. The brown noise is great because it completely blocks out every other sound without needing to be at a really high volume. I also find it quite soothing, as it sounds like I'm sitting somewhat near to a waterfall.

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

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Post by wackget »

culopatin wrote: post #79
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 tried this but the sound is too… white? Is there a way of making it deeper? I’m not familiar with Sox at all. EDIT: actually in that short time I got what I needed: play -n -n --combine merge synth brownnoise band -n 550 550 Put it in a .command file, renamed it as .app, dragged it to the dock, renamed it .command, and now I can quickly trigger it from the dock at any time. Thanks a lot!

I'm having the same problem. I found this command on a random site[1] which improves it a bit:

    play -n -n --combine merge synth '24:00:00' brownnoise band -n 750 750 tremolo 50 1
If possible I'd like to replicate the brown noise preset used on this[2] site.

If you come up with anything please let us know.

[1] https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=3145

[2] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

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

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Post by CosmicBagel »

I'm not formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I find myself able to relate with the struggles.

There's this place at the back of my university's library in the silent section, I think it's below a large HVAC fan motor or something. There's always a deep 'brrrrrrrrrr' sound going, and it is an absolutely sublime place to work. (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php?l=... this sounds pretty close to it).

Earplugs help, but for some reason the deep 'brrrrrrrrrrr' is very relaxing. A quiet environment with the 'brrrrrr' is preferable to pure silence (though I'll still take ear plugs over one of those horrific open office environments).

Moving off topic a bit, but other things I do to help focus:

- Redirect bad habit sites (like HN tbh) in the `hosts` file to 127.0.0.1 as a site blocker

- Turn off cell phone, and place well out of arms reach

- Kill & block discord, telegram, ect

(Fortunately, I'm at a place in life where no one really needs to contact me on short notice)

---> The goal being to give my brain literally nothing else to do besides the work (Not perfect since I tend to daydream a lot, but I'm almost graduated uni, so I guess it's working well enough)

If I'm really struggling to get work done, I'll set a countdown timer to create artificial external pressure.

During my internships, and side gigs, I find myself setting up "real work" periods where I (try to) block the world out, and communication periods. (I get along with people too well and chit chat too much otherwise).

In general, if the day-to-day work environment requires just a whole lot of "raw willpower" it's not going to work out. Willpower is for losers anyways, better to remove the distractions / change the environment. (Also fuck MS for constantly trying to weasel more ads into its OS, their new widgets panel in Win11 is literally useless to me for mandatory news ads)

Oh, but MS Edge's read aloud is a god send, it has the best text to speech voices I have access to, and I can use it on any html or pdf article easily. MS giveth, and MS taketh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unfortunate that zlib died. MS Edge TTS only works with html and pdf, zlib basically let me have any textbook I needed in school read aloud to me as a pdf (janky, but it gets the job done). In particular it really falls apart with math textbooks, but eh.

~ I've rambled too much, back to homework now ~

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

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Post by licyeus »

wackget wrote: post #87
culopatin wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried this but the sound is too… white? Is there a way of making it deeper? I’m not familiar with Sox at all. EDIT: actually in that short time I got what I needed: play -n -n --combine merge synth brownnoise band -n 550 550 Put it in a .command file, renamed it as .app, dragged it to the dock, renamed it .command, and now I can quickly trigger it from the dock at any time. Thanks a lot!

I'm having the same problem. I found this command on a random site[1] which improves it a bit: play -n -n --combine merge synth '24:00:00' brownnoise band -n 750 750 tremolo 50 1 If possible I'd like to replicate the brown noise preset used on this[2] site. If you come up with anything please let us know. [1] https://www.cloudacm.com/?p=3145 [2] https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

I've settled on this over the years:

    play -c 2 --null synth brownnoise reverb bass 6 treble -3
It's close to the myNoise brown preset, IMO, if a little bass heavier.
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