[AuraTodd]

I have been using foam earplugs while asleep which seem to help. The wax one's are a bit hard for the ears.

[Martin Reed]

That's interesting. Do you live in a noisy area or have trouble with a snoring partner? Just wondering what inspired you to give earplugs a try.

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[AuraTodd]

I live by a road where traffic starts at six-am, and car alarms go off at night. Also dogs with owners stagger down the road belching and farting after a night at the pub, I don't know what the owners think.

[MarinaFournier]

'AuraTodd' wrote on '16:

I have been using foam earplugs while asleep which seem to help. The wax one's are a bit hard for the ears.

It doesn't matter to my body whether the earplugs are made of wax, foam, or some other substance. They don't block the sound enough, and I can also *feel* the plugs (high skin sensitivity) as well as the sound bouncing off the plugs, which drives me battier. I don't like them under any circumstance, actually.

You have my sympathy about your living area. I can't imagine living on a main road, behind a grocery store with its after midnight unloading, or in a city centre. I live a block behind a main street, about 3 blocks from a freeway, yet for some reason, we seldom hear those sounds in weather where the windows are open.

The first night of my trip to Greater and Lesser Britains in 1987 was spent above a pub in Woking, not too far from the rail station. I woke around 4 am UK Summer Time, and went for a walk. I was surprised by how utterly quiet it was, even in town. Little did I know that it was pretty much my last peaceful night on that trip, due to my travel partner's snoring.

Now, living by non-flooding water or by a rail line have never bothered me: I find them soothing. I love water sounds–rain tends to help me sleep deeper. Then again, I'm also not sleeping under a metal roof!

[Martin Reed]

Moving from New York City to Coastal Oregon was a huge change for me. In Brooklyn you had to get used to the sound of huge trucks barreling past your door and fire trucks, police cars and helicopters zooming around at all hours.

There are no sounds here to keep us awake – apart from our cats demanding their breakfast, and the odd coyote howling through the night. Absolute bliss!

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[AuraTodd]

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and the odd coyote howling through the night

We don't get any of those here apart from hooting owl's and dogs (they don't hoot).

[Martin Reed]

Lately the chipmunks have been making a racket – luckily that's only restricted to daylight hours. To prove how unaccustomed we are to nature sounds, we wondered what the hell the noise was for days before I finally looked around over the deck to see one or two had moved into one of our bird boxes! Cheeky chipmunks!

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[MarinaFournier]

'Martin' wrote on '28:

Lately the chipmunks have been making a racket – luckily that's only restricted to daylight hours. To prove how unaccustomed we are to nature sounds, we wondered what the hell the noise was for days before I finally looked around over the deck to see one or two had moved into one of our bird boxes! Cheeky chipmunks!

Chipmunks and squirrels are bad that way.

We have had tree frogs, apparently, which my brain says are crickets and therefore to be ignored. However, for about a month, we had some birds in the crape myrtles directly outside our bedroom window (the pollen, the noise, it being a habitat of the glassy-winged sharpshooter insect, inimical to the wine grape industry–I want them GONE) that started their loud raucousness at 9 pm and finished somewhere around 4 am, in early summer. I was going to go nuts! No way available to shut out the arhythmic noise. Those trees WILL be gone by next summer.

[aimee]

I have been wearing foam earplugs to sleep every night for the past year. I would prefer not to wear them, but i'm such a light sleeper that it is easy for me to get woken up and I do not know if/when i'll fall back asleep. I wear earplugs to stay safe although I'm not sure how good that is for your ears?

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