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

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

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Post by meltyness »

theGnuMe wrote: post #19
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…

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 than "something wrong" or, in medical terms, "disordered."

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Post by moltar »

Uptrenda wrote: post #66

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…

I’ve seen studies that found that using white noise during sleep did not give the brain proper rest. Don’t remember the study name now unfortunately.

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Post by doubled112 »

dghughes wrote: post #44
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.

I think it's consistent sound/noise that matters. My Dad worked on a ship and he said when he was trying to sleep the worst sounds were intermittent. He preferred a constant sound no matter what it was.

I think this is it. The change is what does it. Intermittent noise is constant change.

Loud music in the next room never stopped me from sleeping as a kid. I'd wake up when the music turned off, though.

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

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Post by treeman79 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #14
treeman79 wrote: post #11

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Silence is horrible for me. Best is paid programming. Someone that keeps me on task. At home best I’ve found is ear plugs with music in background. Or I can take my medicine and the horrific pain of boredom goes away. I just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body.

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…

Actual ear plugs. Dampens eveything. Eliminates most distractions. Music in background becomes more soothing.

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Post by treeman79 »

edgyquant wrote: post #21
treeman79 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Silence is horrible for me. Best is paid programming. Someone that keeps me on task. At home best I’ve found is ear plugs with music in background. Or I can take my medicine and the horrific pain of boredom goes away. I just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body.

>just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body. What is this? I get the same experience and my docs haven’t given any explanation after multiple times bringing it to their attention.

Neuropathy. Lots of damage to my nerves. Makes me hyper sensitive to many medications.

Heavy vitamin regiment has reduced issues. LDN, and getting a previously undiagnosed autoimmune condition under control has given me some tolerance.

I still avoid Medication as best I can. But Family likes having a house.

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Post by treeman79 »

colechristensen wrote: post #49
edgyquant wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body. What is this? I get the same experience and my docs haven’t given any explanation after multiple times bringing it to their attention.

Welbutrin? That sounds a lot like a common side effect of that drug.

Adderal, vyvanse, concerta. And Xarelto (blood thinner) all cause burning pain

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Post by culopatin »

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!

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Post by dlivingston »

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…

I've been diagnosed with ADHD and I have the exact same coping mechanism. Another I have is to use Pomodoro timers and todo lists religiously. What other coping mechanisms do you have?
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