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Environment management is important, but internal relaxation skills and similar are as important. Consider doing body scans, various visualizations, breathing exercises when going to bed: I found a 20mn guided exercise I liked (it was yoga nidra) and in a few months it transformed me from a "horrible sleeper" into someone who actually enjoys sleep.
Yet, another day, yet another article hyping up AI tooling. 99.999% chance the author works for a company selling AI products. Let's see .. Click through to their blog's main page. Click their LinkedIn link, google their current employer ...... "{Company} is a company that provides a platform for real-time search, observability, security, and generative AI" Aaaaaand there it is. A person whose livelihood is tied to s…
Sidenote but still, I put ear plugs for 5 years already. It doesn't hurt, you don't feel anything, but it helps tremendously to stay asleep. Better than trying to fix your environment. I even heard of people going to sleep with airpods pro in their ear. Now that it's fixed tho my body decided I would need to pee every night about 2 hours after I went to bed... La vieillesse est un naufrage.
I'd never go to sleep with AirPods in intentionally. I had a scare in the very early days of owning AirPod Pros accidentally falling asleep with them, and waking up with tinnitus that took hours to go away. Since then with every gen I've occasionally had ANC malfunction when they come in contact with a pillow and make some deafening noises, I wouldn't be surprised if that day they had been making some horrible shriek…
I was at a festival a year back and unfortunately our camp was near a minor side stage which was running a daytime talent show. I wanted to take an afternoon nap. The sleep ear plugs + noise canceling headphones dulled the moderate noise down to almost nothing.
-- Attenuate loud noises --
Which is exactly what they ended up doing
> With actual data, I could finally act with some confidence instead of guessing:
> I added proper acoustic panels (the IKEA ones for offices to create meeting areas work surprisingly well)
> I added extra insulation around the bedroom door and the window (silicone, rubber, ...)
Many countries have trash collection in the early morning, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey, OP, consider sleeping with ear plugs. They're scientifically proven to reduce night time awakenings due to audio disturbances. [1] [1] https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/s...
AFAIK there is some inflammation potential if earplugs are used all night everyday. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-wearing-ea...
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You changing YOUR diet may not help your earwax. Changing mine does - and I can reliably show it - and I’m what was asked about. Also, cotton-swabs or a tissue aren’t a bad idea (again, anecdotally for me - what was asked about) unless one has build-up , and/or the ear opening has become smaller as a protective measure, ensuring one rifles the gunk in from the walls, instead of going past it in the center, and then p…
Just because someone has perceived that doing X leads to Y doesn’t mean there’s causation. Easy and common mistake to make though. Anyway, I’m not trying to convince you of anything. My comment was aimed at other readers; further discussion between us won’t be necessary. Good day! :)
Some people can do better.
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Cotton swabs were/are the problem. Using them can cause impacted earwax.
If there's enough earwax in there to get pushed around and compacted, then it seems like there is some other issue going on? Is having small mounds of wax per permanently living in the ear canal normal for some people? I have been wearing ear plugs every night for over a decade and cleaning my ears with cotton swabs at least every other day for my whole life and never once had ear wax build up.
Network effects at play, here.
What we consider normal is informed by the people we spend the most time around.