On the Background Sounds page on the iPhone, you can choose from eight different sounds, including bright noise, dark noise, ocean, rain, stream, night and fire. Jim Rossman / TNS I work in a place ...

Chill out and silence the sounds of your environment with the sounds of rain, the ocean and more. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac/W.carter/Wikimedia Commons Working in an office or in the city, ...

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If you live in an urban landscape, you may be all too familiar with the sound of traffic rushing past, dogs barking or the voices of people gathering right outside your bedroom window. Even if you don ...

If you have trouble sleeping because of distracting sounds, research shows that white noise can help. White noise not only helps you fall asleep but improves the quality of your sleep. And during the ...

The dog next door is barking, someone nearby is beeping their horn, your significant other is snoring like a chainsaw, and you're staring at the ceiling in frustration rather than sleeping soundly. A ...

Lectrofan makes a small bedside noise machine that emits a variety of different "colors" to help you sleep. If you need the whirl of a fan to fall asleep, you're not alone. Many people use white noise ...

Medically reviewed by Valerie Cacho, MD Key Takeaways White noise includes all frequencies and can help with relaxation and ...

If you’re the parent of a new baby, you’ve experienced the long nights when your baby will wake at the slightest disturbance—a door closing, your dog barking, or merely the creaking of the house.

As part of your effort to get a better night’s sleep, you changed your bed sheets, you switched up your pillows and you even got a whole new mattress. Except none of those bedroom upgrades can mute ...

At some point, most of us will experience loud neighbors — the kind that stay up blasting music until 3 a.m. or rev their chainsaw at the crack of dawn. In those cases, a white noise machine can work ...