Rhythmic sounds at bedtime, soothing or maddening?

[UdoKier]

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?

[UpsideDownFlag]

1. I listen to Sublime's 'Lincoln Highway Dub' to go to sleep a lot.

it's an all instrumental song, very relaxing.

[UdoKier]

2. I can't stand any kind of rhythmic sounds at bedtime.

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.

[Richardo]

3. Bedsprings tend to keep me awake...

:evilgrin:

[achtung_circus]

4. There are some rythmic sounds

that I look forward to. I can't say, however that they help me sleep, at least not immediately.
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[skygazer]

5. Depends on what it is

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.

[Ediacara]

6. Rhythmic sounds drive me nuts

BUT, I have tinnitus and I find it impossible to sleep without music or a movie going on.

[shinju1985]

7. I can't sleep with out some kind of noise

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

8. rhythmic water makes me have to pee

bad idea altogether . if any noise at night, gimme the cicadas and spring peepers and whippoorwills....

[AlanAdam]

9. I can't sleep without a fan.

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.

[UdoKier]

11. What happens if you have no fan?

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!

[AlanAdam]

12. I take it with me when I travel.

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.

[Mabeline]

10. I have tinitus,

ringing in the ears, and if I don't have something like music or a fan it drives me nuts, no sleep for me.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. A purring cat is the best rhythmic device out there