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Staggered cadence, rhythm generator? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by 31415926535@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Problem: I'm being driven mad by voices speaking to me thru white noise. Need white noise to sleep

Psychiatrist today suggested:

normal human speech has typical rhythm, cadence
fans, white noise audio files are always looped, rhythms in it
brain is hearing those patterns as human voices
I need to introduce staggered rhythms to disrupt

Possibilities:

Willie Nelson, William Shatner speak with atypical cadence. Play at same time as white noise
phone app that vibrates atypically
machine in room that generates atypical rhythms, vibrations

Options, ideas? I'd like not to go further insane

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use TMSoft's White Noise which runs on most platforms, or stream. It has plain white noise, yes, but it also has a wide range of other sounds that you can use (brown noise, railroad, city street, stream, etc). You can also upload your own sound, get sounds/mixes from other users, or make your own mix.

My personal mix has a mild background of pink noise, with both a thunderstorm and some rain mixed in: the pink noise filters out common background, the rain helps with masking as well, and the thunder helps me sleep through bass sounds like lawn mowers and trucks.

[–] 31415926535@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Yes! Exceptional nerdy tech. Thank you