Sleep Well BlogSleep Advice From Sleep Experts

Have you ever noticed how different people can tolerate different levels of noise when they’re asleep? Some people can sleep through a train running through their bedrooms, and others are woken by the slightest creaking floorboard. Your tolerance level for noise when you’re sleeping probably changes throughout your life, too. A young college girl might find that she can sleep through a party in the next dorm room over, but when she becomes a mother for the first time, she might wake up to the tiniest breath from her baby.

At any rate, it’s not fun to be woken up in the middle of the night by various noises. If you want to avoid this, you have several options. You can move to the middle of nowhere and deal only with the noises that come with occasional storms, or you can take these less drastic steps.

One idea that works for many people is earplugs. You can get soft foam plugs that expand to fit into your ears perfectly. However, even through earplugs you can hear certain pitches of noise, especially, and these may fall out halfway through the night.

If earplugs don’t help you stay asleep because they fall out, you need an all-night noise fighting option. One idea is to use a noise machine or sound machine. This type of machine creates white noise in the background so that you don’t hear the other noises going on around you. Some of these machines create an all-frequency noise that sort of catches background noises and melds them into the white noise. Other machines will play soft, calming music or even nature noises like rain on the roof or the ocean surf. Any of these noises can be a great way to break free from the problem of staying awake or waking up because of noises in your home.

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