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Noise where I live and wanting to move

Hope

I have mentioned this issue many times on this forum, but things are coming to a head. As you may be aware, I was having significant issues with light disturbance from the adjacent street-lamp despite having black-out blinds, thick black-out curtains and net-curtains. Anyway, while the light still shines harshly at all hours, my Dad has helped me out with a one hundred pound black-out blind/shutter, which fits right across the window, thus almost completely solving this problem. But do I now get a good night's rest on most nights? The answer is a resounding 'no'; and this is because of noise and living next to a through-road.

Because this flat is my very first experience of living independently, when I moved out I was naive enough not to consider possible noise issues from the street. This is because I previously lived  down a quiet residential road, and my parents did not mention this issue when I moved.

Anyway, this week I have been woken up by students and twice by a car revving its engine. Last night this said car woke me up at 2am, and I could not get back to sleep, therefore only managing about three hours!. I am exhausted, and this is re-occuring theme. Therefore, I want to move because I cannot put up with this for much longer, and I currently dread going to bed because I know that noise will disturb me. Even when it is quiet, I am waiting in anticipation for the next noise-intrusion and this is affecting my quality of life.

I have tried ear-plugs and they do not work.

What can I do? I have a CPN and a support-worker.

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  • I've just had the reverse. The last twenty years up to a year ago I was living on a street at the entrance to an estate, so there was always a lot of traffic and nocturnal noise, especially noisy pub homecomers, car alarms, house alarms, milk floats, early start construction work, barking dogs...... Plus a busy railway line across a small valley, and overflying planes and helicopters

    I've now moved to a cul-de-sac. What bliss, I now risk oversleeping its so quiet.

    I'm badly affected by noise, escially complex mixes of sounds rather than volume. My brain seems to try involuntarily to seperate them out, like I need to make the situation any worse.

    Have you tried sleeping with the radio on, such as a music station you like, or a CD player or ipod on repeat. This could be at a low volume, just enough to create white noise that's reassuring. You can get CDs of natural sounds. By this I mean room sound not ear plugs.

    If you can condition yourself to sleep with this as background, and I realise it may take time, it will eventually compensate periodic noise with threshold white noise.

    I don't do this myself, but I know people who do. Also if bothered by moving light from passing cars, having a low luminance light on all night can help.

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  • I've just had the reverse. The last twenty years up to a year ago I was living on a street at the entrance to an estate, so there was always a lot of traffic and nocturnal noise, especially noisy pub homecomers, car alarms, house alarms, milk floats, early start construction work, barking dogs...... Plus a busy railway line across a small valley, and overflying planes and helicopters

    I've now moved to a cul-de-sac. What bliss, I now risk oversleeping its so quiet.

    I'm badly affected by noise, escially complex mixes of sounds rather than volume. My brain seems to try involuntarily to seperate them out, like I need to make the situation any worse.

    Have you tried sleeping with the radio on, such as a music station you like, or a CD player or ipod on repeat. This could be at a low volume, just enough to create white noise that's reassuring. You can get CDs of natural sounds. By this I mean room sound not ear plugs.

    If you can condition yourself to sleep with this as background, and I realise it may take time, it will eventually compensate periodic noise with threshold white noise.

    I don't do this myself, but I know people who do. Also if bothered by moving light from passing cars, having a low luminance light on all night can help.

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