Do you need absolute silence to sleep or can you sleep with loud noises in the background?

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[Jeroenuru]

Depends on what the sound is coming from, not the loudness of the noise.
The most interesting one first! I can have trouble falling asleep if i realise that i can hear my heartbeat.

I can't sleep with a door in the home thats not closed and ticking at irregular intervals.
I can't sleep with my brother and his girlfriend making almost indetectable kissing sounds.
I can't sleep with people talking in their backyards.

I can sleep when it's storming.
I can sleep when my rats are wrecking their cage (running around, gnawing at wood)
I can sleep with earphones in and music playing.

[ZenKingdom]

Absolute silence or music.
I am just as comfortable falling asleep in absolute silence as I am with earphones on and anything from classical music to Rammstein playing in my ears.
But if someone simply knocks on my doors or begins having a not so loud conversation around me, I'm up and cranky.

I don't even want to get started on people who snore

[Dashee]

For me it has to be completely quiet. Unfortunately for the people around me, I myself am a huge sleep talker. It's quite ironic, because I wake up at the slightest of movement or sound even though I stay sound asleep when I'm screaming about some irrational or illogical stuff.

[jennifer_bloom]

i've never had loud noises when I sleep other than one time in Barcelona but it depends how tired I am. If I'm tired enough - I will fall asleep no matter how much pain I'm in or how loud it is.

[shimmeryns]

Absolute silence or white noise. Loud noises give me headache.

[holograph]

I can sleep in silence or with a constant noise like from a fan. I can't sleep with irregular noise like people talking, music playing, TV on, construction noise, etc. I usually run a couple of fans mostly for the noise because their constant noise will cover most other sounds that might otherwise wake me up.

[JakeReeves]

A year ago, i couldn't sleep without absolute silence, but this year i studied so hard, because i started studying medecine in the university, so i have a lot of "sleep dept" that makes me sleep whenever i want, anytime, anywhere, the length i want, under any situation.

[AaronKrieger]

I need it to be very quiet and pitch dark. If it's noises from natural causes I don't care, but if it's sound from a TV, a person, or something of the sort I can't go to sleep unless I'm really tired. Also, if there is any lights in my room it's harder for me to go to sleep, so I make sure my room is pitch dark when I sleep with no lights. Even the small ones that don't shine much.

[itsmicaelaxo]

If I'm really tired it doesn't make a difference. I've fallen asleep with the TV on dozens of time. But there's nothing like a good ol' sleep in absolute silence

[JohnAlaska43]

It takes time but learned to sleep with trains going by, slow drips in sinks, Grand father clocks, music, tv.
certain cases its me winding down that is the hardest.

[Lauren-green]

I need absolute silence. My partner needs background noise, but I can't sleep when he's playing the radio or something for background noise..

[zoeadams3]

I can’t sleep with loud noises, music, talking. Natural sounds like wind, rain, even a thunderstorm doesn’t bother me.

[NightFlirt]

I need relative silence to fall asleep but once I am asleep my mind will continue to rest even if I get woken up momentarily by a loud noise.

[GiveitaShance]

Depends on how loud it is and when it starts. If I am already sleeping i will sleep through it however if I am trying to fall asleep it would have to be my type of music otherwise it will take s wgile for me to fall asleeep

[Hurlyburly]

I need silence... which really sucks if your boyfriends special ability is loud snoring 🙉

[Dani_dany_danee]

I like to put some music on sometimes. I can be a heavy sleeper so usually im good with noise

[Daniela1982]

I fall asleep easier in front of a TV than with silence. In fact I usually have to have some white noise to get to sleep most of the time, probably to block out traffic noises.

[Sabsies]

I can only fall asleep if I'm watching something or I have music in the background - generally soft music. I find it difficult to sleep in complete silence.

[Saarr]

I need a calm surrounding to fall asleep (I don't mind a clock tho) but when I'm asleep I don't wake up that easily... I always sleep through thunder and other loud sounds😂

[Nik1hil]

I need silence..
Unless.. It's one of my white noise

[AldoP]

I totally can sleep my beloved boyfriend is snoring like a pig by my side. 😍 Actually i sleep even better when they are snoring loud lol

[Anonymous]

It depends on the noise, and how loud. Total silence, or lots of times I've fallen asleep watching tv and it doesn't bother me.

[markscott]

I can take quite a lot of noise in the background, and still sleep. But there are limits, especially if there are sudden loud noises.

[clampfan101]

Preferably some relaxing sounds like the fan or certain types of music.