The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog

New research indicates that listening to pink noise from a pair of computer speakers can enhance the quality of your sleep. Sound waves are still processed by the brain during a person’s sleep:

To see how pink noise would affect human sleepers, Zhang and his team recruited 50 people and exposed them to either pink noise or no noise during nighttime sleep and daytime naps while monitoring their brain activity. The results: An impressive 75% of study participants reported more restful sleep when exposed to pink noise. When it came to brain activity, the amount of “stable sleep”–the most restful kind–increased 23% among the nighttime sleepers exposed to pink noise, and more than 45% among nappers, says Zhang.

AudioNotch offers pink noise free of charge through a downloadable file on our Tinnitus Masker. Simply click on “mp3” next to the “Pink Noise” option in order to download the file. Play it on your speakers during the night and you may experience an improvement in your sleep quality!

We’ve had a lot of queries from our users about listening to Notched Sound Therapy in their sleep. While we’ve heard some anecdotal evidence that this may provide some benefit, there is no scientific evidence yet available that Notched Sound Therapy works during your sleep. That said, this study is very interesting – it has proven that sound is actively processed by the brain during sleep.

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AudioNotch