UdoKier
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:15 PM
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Poll question: Rhythmic sounds at bedtime, soothing or maddening? |
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When you hear a rhythmic sound, like the beat from a neighbor's music, a dripping faucet, or a ticking clock, does it help you sleep or drive you nuts and keep you up?
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:17 PM
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1. I listen to Sublime's 'Lincoln Highway Dub' to go to sleep a lot. |
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it's an all instrumental song, very relaxing.
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UdoKier
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:19 PM
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2. I can't stand any kind of rhythmic sounds at bedtime. |
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I can handle traffic sounds or a train going past, but if it has a beat, it drives me bananas.
I know others who can sleep with music or the TV on - I can't stand it.
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Richardo
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:20 PM
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3. Bedsprings tend to keep me awake... |
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:25 PM
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4. There are some rythmic sounds |
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Edited on Thu Dec-09-04 01:25 PM by achtung_circus
that I look forward to. I can't say, however that they help me sleep, at least not immediately. }(
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:27 PM
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The humming of a computer I find very soothing. Music I can always drift off to. The sound of ocean waves or a running brook is nice.
The bouncing of the bed in the next motel room is very annoying, however. A dripping faucet drives me batty. The droning hum of my old refrigerator used to keep me awake often. So it depends.
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:38 PM
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6. Rhythmic sounds drive me nuts |
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BUT, I have tinnitus and I find it impossible to sleep without music or a movie going on.
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:40 PM
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7. I can't sleep with out some kind of noise |
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Thu Dec-09-04 01:46 PM
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8. rhythmic water makes me have to pee |
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bad idea altogether . if any noise at night, gimme the cicadas and spring peepers and whippoorwills....
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Thu Dec-09-04 02:08 PM
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9. I can't sleep without a fan. |
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The bigger the better. I need it summer and winter. The best provides a not of noise and gale-force wind. And it has to be blowing about a foot away from my face. I don't care if it's the middle of January and it causes me to freeze to death, I gotta have it. I don't care if it consume half the power of the Wolf Creek Power Plant, I can't live without it. You wouldn't believe how much I have to pay my wife in terms of relationship capital to keep it powered up through the night.
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Thu Dec-09-04 02:12 PM
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11. What happens if you have no fan? |
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Do you break out in sweats? You sure there's no health issue there?
I've never heard of someone needing a fan on their face in winter!
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AlanAdam
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Thu Dec-09-04 02:30 PM
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12. I take it with me when I travel. |
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Twenty five years ago, when I was a college senior I had an interview with DuPont in WV. I stayed in a hotel the night before a full day of interviewing, but w/o a fan I didn't get to sleep until about 3:00 am. During my last interview of the day, while sitting there in my three-piece suit, I dozed off in the middle of a conversation with a guy. He was telling me something one second, and the next thing I knew, he was sitting there staring at me as if he was waiting for an answer to a question. I didn't get a job offer from DuPont. Ever since I take a fan with me everywhere. If my wife gets up in the middle of the night I never hear her. But if she tries to turn off the fan, I usually wake up after a few minutes.
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Thu Dec-09-04 02:08 PM
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ringing in the ears, and if I don't have something like music or a fan it drives me nuts, no sleep for me.
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Thu Dec-09-04 04:16 PM
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13. A purring cat is the best rhythmic device out there |
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