noise problem

[gusl]

I can hear absolutely everything my housemates do in the early morning (now, I'm 2 hours short of sleep). I turned on a little fan, which is helping marginally.

Ideas:
* put rugs in hallway
* get a white noise machine, such as this one

UPDATE: yes, it is a big deal

Comments

[xuande.livejournal.com]

We use a HEPA filter on high to block out a lot of neighbor noise. It's significantly louder than a fan, I guess because it has to force air through the tiny gaps between fibers in the filter.

[pluralofplural.livejournal.com]

A (software) noise machine that might be useful: http://boodler.org/

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Good idea! I guess the room won't get humid if I use a dry wick!
This probably woulda been cheaper than the white noise machine I just ordered.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I like to turn my computer off at night, though.

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

Also: don't underestimate your ability to adapt to this.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I wonder.
I thought that noise was one of the things people never adapt to.
Do you have any evidence/theories to the contrary?

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

People who learn to sleep through their alarm clocks.
People who live by train tracks.
And on and on. An inborn lack of sensitivity to these kind of stimuli seems unlikely to me.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Children who go to school near Schiphol airport score badly. There is also a hypothesis that the noise increases blood pressure in the long term.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_health_effects

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

Even without being able to understand Dutch, I might venture that the pitter-patter of roommate feet is much closer to the kind of ambient noise we have evolved to deal with than four screaming Trent 500s at takeoff thrust.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm glad I don't have to deal with it...

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

An alternative to increasing the level of noise is to wear earplugs.

[vi-z.livejournal.com]

Earplugs:
http://www.slate.com/id/2118800/
http://www.consumersearch.com/www/family/earplugs/reviews.html

I personally bought Etymotic Research ER20, should recive them in several days. But ER20 are not suited for sleeping, see the lists above.

[vi-z.livejournal.com]

Fanless computer solves the problem.
I own two.

[ruht.livejournal.com]

I use a small HEPA filter, too, (in my bedroom) for masking apartment noise.

[letters-in-sand.livejournal.com]

according to this, noise can cause annoyance!!!! *is astounded*

I didn't mind living by the airport at all. It's the little noises that drive me insane. And people slamming doors. Jagoffs. (and there's your dose of Pittsburgh for the day.)