Published studies say the sound of chirping birds can lift
your spirits. It’s in the current issue of Consumer Reports Magazine’s
health and better living newsletter.
Sometimes CR is right on target. But remember also,
that they recommend Kenmore home appliances and certain brands of undesirable automobiles.
So take the birds with a grain of salt on their tales.
Wessays (™) conducted informal research. And there may
be something to the case for the birds. But personally, we still prefer
leaving a radio tuned to NPR which can lull anyone to sleep.
And we still like the sounds of ocean waves and tropical
rains which you can hear by using one of the many white noise machines that are
available. The machines use no bandwidth and some even work on emergency
battery backups when there’s a power outage in your aviary, your make-believe
beachfront or your imitation rainforest.
Nevertheless, there are things you can’t get with a white
noise machine. So if you have gigabytes to burn by leaving your computer
on all night, there’s plenty more to choose from.
Some recommendations: The sound of NASCAR on one of
the free music channels. You get the roar of the engines as the cars make
a turn, though sometimes they pause for a brief commercial for GEICO or Zzz-Quil.
That may sound a little off base. But YouTube has to get in those ads. If
you have sleep apnea, you can click on “skip ad” during one of your mini
awakenings.
If you’re a city dweller living in the country, you can find
the sound videos of fire trucks, police cars, subways, buses, and the pneumatic
hammers construction workers use to dig up buried broken water mains.
If you grew up in the rurals but live in a city, there are
videos of bears rummaging through garbage cans. You can even choose the type of
can. Those giant plastic trash cans make a different sound than cans made
of metal. There are reports of someone scouting for locations where cars
often hit deer on highways. We cannot confirm that.
If you grew up in the suburbs, there are no choices
available since suburbs are silent except for the sound of an occasional
speeding car or an amateur attempt at breaking into your kitchen door.
You can always make a loop of Paul Simon’s Sounds of
Silence. Or maybe you can find and capture an out of work woodpecker and put it
in a cage with a hollow log.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome
to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WR 2021
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