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

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Post by andai »

dopidopHN wrote: post #27
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 fo…

Thanks for the tip, this looks fantastic.

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

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Post by saltcured »

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

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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

To me, these sounds produce fatigue. When I used to travel frequently by air, I had a habit of wearing noise-cancelling headphones just to try to suppress the background, whether or not I actually played any other media over it. I didn't really like the leftover hiss, but cutting the deeper sounds seemed to reduce my fatigue anyway.

So, I am wondering how brown noise fans find the noises of travel. The different synthesizers posted in this thread overlap a lot with highway and airliner environments for me. Different vehicles had different equalization, of course.

Another sound this reminds me of is the old background rumble they put in the Star Trek Next Generation TV show to represent their shipboard environments.

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

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Post by copperx »

P_I_Staker wrote: post #221
samtho wrote: post #183

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It is only because of shit opinions like this that the stimulant medications (which many ADHD sufferers are prescribed) are still so difficult to get. Draconian laws based on racist and classist ideals by non-medical professionals created 50 years ago make these life-changing medications difficult to use uninterrupted due to the excessive amount of regulation surrounding just getting them filled at a pharmacy. These…

I'm so angry. Cut off from STIMs, maybe for life, and the psych basically just told me to give up my career. Adderall is not a very good recreational stimulant.

Why did they cut you off?

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Post by olyjohn »

marmetio wrote: post #234
k__ wrote: post #212

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I thought about getting diagnosed too, but to be frank, while I certainly wanna try those meds, I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life, let alone pay for them on a regular basis.

I took them for a few months and then stopped. It felt restorative.

There's so many different meds though... with different effects. And for some people it takes time to figure out which one works best.

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Post by muttled »

k__ wrote: post #212
Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #145

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Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these symptoms and has ADHD, and someone like me who has these symptoms but doesn't have ADHD." Then it hit me like a brick wall. Now I understand the phrase "it was like time stopped." Blinders came off and I…

I thought about getting diagnosed too, but to be frank, while I certainly wanna try those meds, I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life, let alone pay for them on a regular basis.

I'm of two minds on this. Having taken them before and quitting, I know that you definitely can. But also once you see the kind of person you can be with medication, the really low unmedicated days feel extra hard compared to the effortlessness of the best medicated days.

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Post by DenisM »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #251
Karawebnetwork wrote: post #247

The best online site for white noise (and background noises in general) in my opinion is this: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php by Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon. You can pick Brown Noise in the left column. You can also customize the sound itself. Personally, I need to shift it a little to accommodate with my tinnitus to get the relaxing effect of white noise.

I have and love the Mynoise app but it doesn't seem to have a downloadable brown noise.

It’s there, just hard to find.

Open White Noise and Co, then tap “custom noise” and select Color. Brown is on the list.

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

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Post by papascrubs »

triggercut wrote: post #110
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…

That sounds similar to me. I was diagnosed unexpectedly at 38 and it changed my life. There is a good chance your internalised coping mechanisms are adding undue stress to your nervous system, making you tired and depressed, and ironically exacerbating the conditions for symptoms to become more disruptive (when you're tired, aren't eating properly, hyperfocusing too much and wearing yourself out, working late nights…

Diagnosed at 32.

I knew beforehand even (guessed at least), but I put off doing anything about it. I didn't realize how much it was affecting me. And how many unhealthy coping mechanisms I had built up in my life.

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Post by DenisM »

conradev wrote: post #210

This is a common pattern I’ve anecdotally seen in myself and others with ADHD. It’s not just sound, but any sort of background stimulation can help me focus. You can’t play brown noise in a meeting, but you sure can play with a fidget cube in your pocket, and it helps me focus on the content of the meeting. I like taking calls on a walk because background visual noise helps me focus on the call. > With ADHD, we need…

> fidget cube in your pocket

This could be misconstrued. On the other hand a rosary is a lot less ambiguous.

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Post by sph »

k__ wrote: post #212
Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these symptoms and has ADHD, and someone like me who has these symptoms but doesn't have ADHD." Then it hit me like a brick wall. Now I understand the phrase "it was like time stopped." Blinders came off and I…

I thought about getting diagnosed too, but to be frank, while I certainly wanna try those meds, I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life, let alone pay for them on a regular basis.

> I don't wanna take them for the rest of my life

That's not the biggest worry. The largest psychological hurdle is seeing how much better your brain is with an illegal medication, and accepting the very uncomfortable truth that a pill that's often maligned, misunderstood, abused, and controlled is the difference between a fulfilling life and a slow spiral into the Abyss. Your fortune is not completely in your control.

As someone that has relied on himself all of his life, this idea still is very hard to live with.

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