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Soft noise· 15 min

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Soft noise· 15 min

 

Sleep sounds for tinnitus.

Tinnitus gets loudest when the world gets quiet. At night the house hushes, and the ringing — which daylight crowds out without asking — suddenly has the room to itself. It isn't that the sound grows in the dark; it's that nothing else is competing. So the answer isn't more silence. It's giving the quiet something steady to stand on.

A soft, even noise under the night does exactly that. It doesn't drown the ringing; it lowers the contrast. With a steady sound filling the room, hearing stops amplifying the one thing that never moves — the way a candle stops blazing when the lights come up. It's the reason people sleep with fans, tuned on purpose.

Soft noise is the tuned version: low, warm, more low end than white noise, none of the hiss that can read as sharp against a ringing ear. It's even the whole way through and it stays put — the property that matters. Your attention can lean on it without holding on.

Press play above before you settle in, and let the sound fill the room while the dark does its work. Same time every night helps most: the ear learns a routine faster than the mind does.

It's playing above, one tap away. Low, even, and steady to its quiet end.

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Why it works

  1. Steady sound covers sudden sound.

    Your brain keeps listening for changes — a door, a car, a neighbor. A low, steady sound makes those changes smaller, so fewer of them pull you back up.

    Sound masking

  2. It stops on its own.

    Noise that plays all night can cut into dream sleep. Every session fades to silence after 15 minutes: it helps you fall asleep, then gets out of the way.

    SLEEP, 2026

  3. Slow music, slower mind.

    In controlled trials, people who listened to calm music at bedtime reported sleeping better. Soothing chords keep it simple — no melody to follow, nothing to stay awake for.

    Cochrane Review, 2022

  4. Beats that slow down with you.

    On headphones, a quiet tone pulses at the pace of drowsiness and eases from theta to delta — the same slowing your brain goes through as you drift off.

    Binaural beats

  5. The same cue, every night.

    One tap, the same sound, the screen goes dark. A short ritual repeated each night teaches your body what comes next.

    Sleep routines