Status: in a hotel room where I unplugged the fridge to catch some sleep and waking up again because a TV runs in the room next to mine since midnight. It is blaring for an hour now and soon the garbage trucks start and I am afraid that I can no longer live in a city.
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Replying to @Plinz
https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Sound-Technologies-LectroFan-Non-Looping/dp/B00JU8P8VY/?th=1 … This helps me. It is small enough to travel with.
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Replying to @_jonyoung_
I have not made friends with white noise generators yet. I find them to be noisy. I just want quiet, though nature sounds tend to be ok.
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Replying to @Plinz
I agree. I just want quiet too. Controllable, constant noise brings me enough peace to sleep when quiet isn't an option. Some of the fan sounds on this model are less invasive than other white noise generators I've tried.
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Replying to @_jonyoung_
I was once exposed to artificially generated nature sounds, and I got freaked out by the sensation of 8 equidistantly spaced frogs making exactly the same noise in nonsensical intervals. There was no way for me to make sense of the kind of universe suggested by this.
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Replying to @Plinz
Dont have much experience with artificial nature sounds, but suspect the regularity of sound (and distance) and irregularity of interval might be comforting over time if one can convince oneself (imagine) that they are robot frogs :)
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Replying to @_jonyoung_
The idea that I am the kind of organism that somehow feels comforted by robotic frogs is disturbing. When I opened the window to let in the sounds of the city, reality began to make sense again. But I would have preferred to let in the sounds of an actual forest.
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Replying to @Plinz
Only comforted when one must, or chooses to, adapt to a situation. You can choose to not be comforted. This is disturbing, but maybe what is disturbing is the malleability of our reality--what is comforting or disturbing. I want a forest on my rooftop. I much prefer that reality.
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I want to be comfortable in the experience that best captures the reality around me. Creating artificial frog sounds to gaslight me into thinking that I am in a swamp, and my brain somehow thinking that I'd be better off in a swamp should be a concerning degree of delusion, no?
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