Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
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Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
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#2> Participants slept under different conditions, including being exposed to aircraft noise, pink noise, aircraft noise with pink noise and aircraft noise with earplugs
And yet the conclusion is about pink noise vs silence. We may have a new textbook example of HARKing right here!
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#3"Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
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#4Thanks for sharing. I'll have to reconsider my nightly noise setup, but good to know.
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#5This study had no controls at all, and can safely be ignored.
>The participants reported not previously using noise to help them sleep or having any sleep disorders.
All this study said was that people who didn't need noise to sleep had their sleep disrupted when noise was introduced. It has absolutely no implication for people who use noise to help them sleep.
Meaningless trash.
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#6> Participants slept under different conditions, including being exposed to aircraft noise, pink noise, aircraft noise with pink noise and aircraft noise with earplugs And yet the conclusion is about pink noise vs silence. We may have a new textbook example of HARKing right here!
The conclusion is:
> The results, the researchers said, suggest not only that earplugs—which are used by as many as 16% of Americans to sleep—are likely effective, but also that the overall health effects of pink noise and other types of broadband noise “sleep aids” need to be studied more thoroughly.
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#7"Pink noise sounds like a waterfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
Helps me quite a bit to focus when Im in noisy spaces.
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#8> Participants slept under different conditions, including being exposed to aircraft noise, pink noise, aircraft noise with pink noise and aircraft noise with earplugs And yet the conclusion is about pink noise vs silence. We may have a new textbook example of HARKing right here!
One of those least-worst choices?
What if the intensity was modulated as a function of the dB of externally sourced sounds?
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#9study aside, pink noise is awful imo - it's perfect if you're calibrating a PA system and need specific power spectral density properties, but bad for my brain. if sleeping somewhere without a fan or whatever i use brown noise, it's closer to a lower rumbling.
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#10I get how difficult a study like this is to carry out, but each participant was involved for just seven days, each night exposed to different conditions. The control environment was silence, and every other conditions did worse than controlled silence. In others they piped in fake environmental noises, pink noise, or made the participants wear earplugs with some other combination.
Eh. People condition to an environment, and someone conditioned to something like pink noise wouldn't have the acclimation issue (and they either specifically selected for people who don't use noise machines, or they just randomly got only people who don't), and it might drown out smaller environmental noises that otherwise would have disrupted their sleep. It would take a much longer study to determine this.
Or hey, maybe those insecure sleep masks tracking EEG and other things will give us some insights eventually. People just need to harvest the data from the other services.