sounds that are soothing to you... but may be odd to others

CHANGEinWAVES

I sleep with the window open (all year round) and I have rediscovered a sound that soothes me... Tractor trailers on the highway...that hum they make as they speed.

I have just moved to basically where most of the highways meet outside of Philly... And the sound of this calms me at night. I assume it's because my first apartment was also next to a highway...and that was such a good time in my life.

Is there a noise that you like that possibly others find odd?

GraySaturday

My cats purr really loudly, and it helps me sleep

Black Diamond

I agree with the noise. Grew up next to a city hospital so I need noise when I sleep.

To get a good night's sleep I need my heavy duty industrial metal fan going.
So peaceful

CHANGEinWAVES

Black Diamond wrote:

I agree with the noise. Grew up next to a city hospital so I need noise when I sleep.

To get a good night's sleep I need my heavy duty industrial metal fan going.
So peaceful

Ues I have a fan going too:)
Yep, windows open and fan going...I like it cold and noisy:)

zacman13245

For me its just noise, I can sleep okay in silence, but only if its dead silence, like out in the woods or someplace barren. Otherwise I dont sleep to well. I've lived near the main road with a highway parallel to that my whole life. That and the sound of my computer fan put me to sleep.

Fifthelement

I find the sound of a train whistle in the distance very soothing.

Slip Kid

Fifthelement wrote:

I find the sound of a train whistle in the distance very soothing.

I'm the same way. I like the sound of trains.

Spent most of my life near a train station so. . .

TransplantedNewf

Eddie Vedder's voice.
Seriously. I've gotten some strange reactions when i say i could listen to him sing the phonebook.

The Juggler

i like noise. white noise especially. i sleep with one of those sound machines on all night. usually i have a big rain storm blasting.

also---how can you sleep with the window open during the winter time? do you have bronchitus?

lephty

i usually leave the TV on to sleep. even if i am not really watching it, its still background noise.

the other day i had Kings of Leon playing fairly loud while i was on a train and i was still able to nod off

petrocs

I need a fan on to sleep...all year long

unifiedscene

Fifthelement wrote:

I find the sound of a train whistle in the distance very soothing.

I grew up one block from the tracks. I'm used to the whistle and the rumble in the middle of the night.

I'm also told that growing up I had to have a vacuum running in my room for me to sleep. That's a weird one.

I sleep in silence now though.

catefrances

i find even the smallest sound irritating.
to sleep i need silence.

eyedclaar

Ah, if I hear the sounds of children being tortured, I sleep like a baby.

The Juggler

catefrances wrote:

i find even the smallest sound irritating.
to sleep i need silence.

if im sleeping in complete silence, i can manage---but complete and total silence never seems to happen. there is always some noise that wakes me up. so i always opt for a rainstorm to drown out the little irritating sounds

Black Diamond

eyedclaar wrote:

Ah, if I hear the sounds of children being tortured, I sleep like a baby.

You sleep like a baby being tortured?

g under p

zacman13245 wrote:

For me its just noise, I can sleep okay in silence, but only if its dead silence, like out in the woods or someplace barren. Otherwise I dont sleep to well. I've lived near the main road with a highway parallel to that my whole life. That and the sound of my computer fan put me to sleep.

My lady has to have dead silence with everything off lights that is. I'm the opposite I need a light to NOT stub my toe in the night and any source of sound. When we get together we find other ways to get to sleep.

Peace

chadwick

monks chanting in the mountains of tibet on cd.
sitar music.
iron butterfly, that one song they do.

the mating call of the....tasmanian devil

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=SU44KwIfBXM

pretext

Fifthelement wrote:

I find the sound of a train whistle in the distance very soothing.

Yeah, it reminds me of staying at my grandparents' house when I was a kid. They had a train track right just off the backyard. I live near a big commuter/Amtrak hub now. It may be my favorite sound in the world.

Whizbang

the sound of my dogs gently snoring...the whimper when they dream....the deep "sigh" of their contentment.

the sound of the train near my house....the bells as the gates drop....the lonesome whistle....the rumbling of the wheels on the tracks as 100 cars roll by.

I've missed barn life as of late. Miss the sounds...the sounds of the horses eating...happily munching on hay...the nicker they'd give when you'd open the door to the barn....flick of tails....

youngster

I need almost complete silence to fall asleep. A fan in the summer is fine cause it's constant. But I usually have to have the window shut all year round cause below my window is a stop sign on the street and shitbox cars idle at it when they come to a stop, then accelerate and their engines sound like jet planes to me. Other than that, I sleep like a baby.