A few years ago, I discovered the site Simply Noise. With just a few clicks, it plays white noise and even pink or brown noise on your computer (there’s an app, too).
This website saved me many times when I was in a noisy office, or when people in the cubicles next to me were chatting and I couldn’t concentrate to save my life.
Just the other day, I was working a cafe, and the guy next to me was sniffing and snorting with a runny nose. I don’t know why he didn’t just blow his nose, but I felt like I could hear his copious snot rattling around every 10 seconds. Disgusting. A brief dirty look didn’t help, and then I remembered Simply Noise. Thank goodness!!!! I turned the volume up to the max.
If you have trouble focusing, check it out! They also have a site called Simply Rain.
Mee too 🙂
Simply noise website is great for pink noise, and also simply rain website can be very soothing for helping me to sleep.
Wow, I really hate the sound of white and pink noise, I find it so irritating.
Luckily I found the brown noise now! 🙂 Love that one!
it’s my favorite, too!
This app has been a lifesaver for me, especially bc I need white noise to sleep. If I’m staying somewhere without a fan, I just pop in my ear buds. It’s also really soothing if I just need to de-stimulate.
I’ve never tried white noise, or any of the other “colours”, but I hate the sound of fans and a/c. I’m constantly wearing noise-cancelling headphones at the office, because the ventilationsystem makes me so stressed out (and my co-workers are much too quiet to distract me from the nausiating, stressful sound of the airvents). I hate wearing the headphones, I feel like I’m in an electronic bubble, and they isolate me socially from the others, and I can’t listen to music when I need to consentrate, and I can’t consentrate when I’m listening to the ventilation. And I really wish I could just stay at home, because I feel sick to my stomach knowing I have to come here every day.
Sorry, needed to sob a bit. HR and my will listen, and make sympathetic noises but not do anything.