FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Last year, a Gallup survey of over 3,000 adults in the U.S. reported that only 32% of us get “excellent” sleep;
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AuthorTopicDeanna McElveen
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi
AskWoody PlusBetween my ages of 8 to 15 (quite long ago), during their yearly vacation my parents slept in their caravan while I had a makeshift bed in their automobile. I distinctly remember the pitter-patter of soothing rain gently hitting the car’s roof (but a scary sound when it didn’t rain).
I may be in error (often) but I’m convinced that, for 3 decades or more, totally silent scenes in movies and TV shows (for example a burglar browsing inside a house, at night in the dark, inhabitants asleep) still have some very faint background noise in their silent sound track. Try it out with a pair of really good headphones.
I think everybody needs some constant background noise, while studying, working, watching a movie, even while falling asleep. Most of us need only very soft meaningless sound, but apparently you, Deanna, need more volume.
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AskWoody MVPThe program can only run when run as administrator (right-click on .exe-file and ‘Run as administrator’), at least on my Windows 10 pc.
Strange, I don’t have any problem running it as normal, as opposed to having to use ‘Run as administrator’). Do you get an error or does it just not open (and thus showing in Task Manager)?
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AskWoody PlusI can sleep anywhere at almost any time.
However, I do prefer absolute quiet, so I wear earplugs to bed. The best ones are the orange childrens silicone ones, like the Mack brand, used for swimming. These generally run $4-$5 for a package of 8 pair in Target, Walgreens, CVS, etc. However, I found 4×8 pair on Amazon for $10 a while back!
They don’t completely block all sound but muffle sounds significantly, like others in the house opening and closing doors, flushing toilets, cars/motorcycles going by, etc. But you can still hear a morning alarm.
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