{"id":7277,"date":"2022-10-05T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/it-feels-like-fresh-air-to-my-ears-can-brown-noise-really-help-you-concentrate\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T11:37:57","slug":"it-feels-like-fresh-air-to-my-ears-can-brown-noise-really-help-you-concentrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/it-feels-like-fresh-air-to-my-ears-can-brown-noise-really-help-you-concentrate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It feels like fresh air to my ears\u2019: can brown noise really help you concentrate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people use it to improve their focus while others use it to drop off to sleep. The writer Zadie Smith says she listens to it day and night. But what is brown noise? And does it work?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new buzz on TikTok \u2013 well, not a buzz exactly. It\u2019s more of a hum, maybe waves crashing, a purring fan or steady, heavy rain. To me, it sounds like an empty aeroplane, cruising peacefully at altitude. It\u2019s brown noise, a close cousin of the better-known white noise, and TikTok users, particularly the platform\u2019s ADHD community, are all over it: there are 85.3m views for the #brownnoise hashtag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One top-rated video<\/a> (1.3m views) shows user @NatalyaBubb trying brown noise. She looks initially startled, then spellbound. \u201cWhere did all the thoughts go?\u201d reads the caption over her wide-eyed face. Commenters on her and other brown-noise clips are mainly \u2013 though not exclusively \u2013 rapturous. \u201cI closed my eyes and literally thought of NOTHING \u2026 it makes my brain feel soft in the best way possible\u201d; \u201cThis felt like fresh air to my ears\u201d; \u201cLike a soft weighted blanket that I\u2019ve safely swathed my brain in,\u201d says one writer<\/a> with ADHD.<\/p>\n

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\nSome people use it to improve their focus while others use it to drop off to sleep. The writer Zadie Smith says she listens to it day and night. But what is brown noise? And does it work?
\nThere\u2019s a new buzz on TikTok \u2013 well, not a buzz exactly. It\u2019s more of a hum, maybe waves crashing, a purring fan or steady, heavy rain. To me, it sounds like an empty aeroplane, cruising peacefully at altitude. It\u2019s brown noise, a close cousin of the better-known white noise, and TikTok users, particularly the platform\u2019s ADHD community, are all over it: there are 85.3m views for the #brownnoise hashtag.
\nOne top-rated video (1.3m views) shows user @NatalyaBubb trying brown noise. She looks initially startled, then spellbound. \u201cWhere did all the thoughts go?\u201d reads the caption over her wide-eyed face. Commenters on her and other brown-noise clips are mainly \u2013 though not exclusively \u2013 rapturous. \u201cI closed my eyes and literally thought of NOTHING \u2026 it makes my brain feel soft in the best way possible\u201d; \u201cThis felt like fresh air to my ears\u201d; \u201cLike a soft weighted blanket that I\u2019ve safely swathed my brain in,\u201d says one writer with ADHD. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people use it to improve their focus while others use it to drop off to sleep. The writer Zadie Smith says she listens to it day and night. But what is brown noise? And does it work? There\u2019s a new buzz on TikTok \u2013 well, not a buzz exactly. It\u2019s more of a hum, …<\/p>\n

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