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CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
edited December 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
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?
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    GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    My cats purr really loudly, and it helps me sleep
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    Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    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
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    CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    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:)
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    zacman13245zacman13245 Posts: 294
    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.
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    FifthelementFifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,911
    I find the sound of a train whistle in the distance very soothing.
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    Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    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. . .
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    TransplantedNewfTransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    Eddie Vedder's voice. :D
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    The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,265
    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?
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    lephtylephty Posts: 770
    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
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    petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    I need a fan on to sleep...all year long
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    unifiedsceneunifiedscene Posts: 462
    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.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i find even the smallest sound irritating.
    to sleep i need silence.
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    take a good look
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    i just need to say
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    eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Ah, if I hear the sounds of children being tortured, I sleep like a baby.
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    The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,265
    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
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    Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Ah, if I hear the sounds of children being tortured, I sleep like a baby.
    You sleep like a baby being tortured?
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    g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,122
    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. :)

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    monks chanting in the mountains of tibet on cd.
    sitar music.
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    pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    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.
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    WhizbangWhizbang Posts: 1,314
    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....
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    youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,574
    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.
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    roarroar Posts: 1,116
    snoring...from some sleepy squirrels.
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    LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Crows squawking in the morning.

    they wake me up. :p
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    wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    LongRd. wrote:
    Crows squawking in the morning.

    they wake me up. :p
    Sometimes I seriously want to kill the crows for that very reason! ;) They can be very, very loud. :)
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    harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I've always loved the sound of ticking clocks, when the house is silent. It sends me off to sleep. Remember when you were a kid and you heard that sound at your Gran's house? Aaaaahhh... lovely.
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