If you have ever found yourself in a bout of insomnia, you might have tried different ways to get yourself to sleep. I used to listen to chill music with sounds of rain in order to make me sleep, but there are some people who find listening to white noise effectively puts them to sleep. Recently, people have been saying that they have been using brown noise to make them go to sleep. But what is brown noise?
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Let’s try to compare it with white noise to give a more colorful picture. White noise is a broadband sound that includes all audible frequencies. It’s like a mishmash of different frequencies being played at an equal intensity put into one sound. Some examples include static from TV or radio, vacuum sounds, and the humming of an AC.
Brown noise, on the other hand, or Brownian noise which takes its name not from the color but from Robert Brown who discovered Brownian motion, produces a deep rumbling sound by lowering the high-frequency sounds from white noise. Some examples include rainfall, waterfall, thunder, and a shower with strong water pressure.
As of yet, there’s no research backing up the claims that brown noise aids in sleep, unlike white noise which has had studies showing that it helped newborn babies and adults fall asleep faster. Different people have different means of falling asleep, and whether brown noise is truly effective or not, there’s no harm in trying it.
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Source: neatorama