Ever slept with white noise??

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For the first time in my life I listened to a white noise made for sleeping. Had the opposite effect and drove me insane. What is your experience with white noises?

DS sleeps with it every night - he struggles to sleep without it (unless he is extremely tired). It is a thunderstorm noise made using white noise. He also has it really loud, much louder than I have mine (I am NT but I find it really soothing).

I can't sleep in a pure quiet. I've woken up to the sound, or lack-there-of, of my room losing power. (I have four computers in my room running 24/7)

I also can't get to sleep without white noise-esque music. Shamanistic music for meditation usually does the trick. The randomness of some of those white noise tracks drives me nuts. I need low repetitive tones, or it doesn't work.

I have always slept with a fan running. I can't sleep without one.

I find it extremely relaxing in the same way that a lot of people find it relaxing to hear the sound of rain drops on their bedroom window. I guess it's just a little distraction from all the other little noises that a house makes at night when you're trying to sleep (like the dripping of a tap, or the creak of the floorboards.) I used to have a lot of problems when I was younger trying to sleep as the slightest noise would disrupt the whole process! Don't know whether anyone else relates to this.

I cannot sleep without some sort of noise or my tinnitus goes haywire. And I cannot stand the buzzing in my ear, it gets louder and louder the more I notice it.

But at the same token, it cannot be too loud or it'll be distracting. I have my radio on at nights, but it is so low I cannot understand the lyrics. If I hear the lyrics by brain starts singing along and sleep is just not going to come!

I need the sound of a fan, or the surf, or a well-behaved air conditioner. I once got a recording of a stream, which worked well until they included footsteps crunching on twigs and leaves. Same with whales singing in the ocean. You'd think they'd warn us.

I need some noise too, I have a great underwater one from itunes I use, if not that I will have to have the TV on low.

My son has to have Percy Jackson audio books playing or he will not sleep.

I don't like sound when I sleep.

I used to have TV or CD on repeat, low volume next to me when I was younger because I liked that.

It's been five years I sleep with the lights turned off, window open and I also tend more and more to sleep with the door of the room opened.

I like to be aware of things around me when I sleep, for the little I sleep.

I like this house, so I like the many sounds of it during the night...

i sleep with the sound of a 'Traditional Metronome' playing off from my iphone..
you know that *tick, tock, tick tock, tick, tock..* sound.

the app has many different sounds. I used to go with the rain sounds and nature sounds that they provided,

but this traditional metronome sound seems to be what my brain appreciates.

I also have relaxation tapes that I occasionally listen to, to relax and fall asleep to.

White noise sounds terrible to me, but pink and brown noise are nicer.

This is nice:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPoqNeR3_UA&list=FLauFt__Q-Z_-Uf337tl0yPg&index=1&feature=plpp_video[/youtube]

White noise helps me sleep. I have a white noise machine that plays different sounds of nature. I always use the sound of rain. Last night I was lying in bed thinking "hmm why am I not falling asleep even though I'm tired?" and then I realized that I had forgotten to turn my white noise machine on. I fell asleep shortly after turning it on.

I use my 8000 BTU AC as a white noise machine. I have a great deal of trouble sleeping without the sound of that thing chugging away in the background.

I need my air conditioner going when I'm sleeping, or I can't sleep at all.